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>    Synchronization with ISRs. This normally means disabling
    interrupts to prevent the ISR running during a critical
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    a spinlock to synchronize with ISRs, DSRs or threads running on
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>    Synchronization with DSRs. This will be implemented in the kernel
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    implemented by non-kernel code. This is implemented by the
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    DSRs and threads may use this synchronization mechanism, ISRs are
    not allowed to do this.
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>    Synchronization with threads. This is implemented with mutexes
    and condition variables. Only threads may lock the mutexes and
    wait on the condition variables, although DSRs may signal
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136			`condition variables.`
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