In operating systems, a giant lock, also known as a big-lock or kernel-lock, is a lock that may be used in the kernel to provide concurrency control required...

mean: Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, Ohio, United States Big Kernel Lock, a Linux kernel mechanism Berik, by ISO 639-3 language code - see ISO 639:b...

The Linux kernel is a free and open source,: 4  Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...

Before Linux 2.6.33, ReiserFS heavily used the big kernel lock (BKL)—a global kernel-wide lock—which does not scale well for systems with multiple cores...

to include Activation Lock. It is also the last version of macOS to have the major version number be 10.x; its successor, Big Sur, released on November...

the giant lock approach. During the development cycle of the NetBSD 5 release, major work was done to improve SMP support; most of the kernel subsystems...

journaling v5 Redundant lock manager v6.1 (2005) Distributed lock manager Linux 2.6.19 - GFS2 and DLM merged into Linux kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

and some of the locking primitives. The BSD code present in XNU has been most recently synchronised with that from the FreeBSD kernel. Although much of...

open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux...

mapper framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. Most modern Linux distributions are LVM-aware to the point of being able...

the Solaris ON kernel, allowing Illumos to evolve into a kernel of its own. As of 2010[update], efforts focused on libc, the NFS lock manager, the crypto...

the 64-bit kernel, and not all 64-bit computers that can run the 64-bit kernel will do so by default. The 64-bit kernel, like the 32-bit kernel, supports...

have kernel extensions (kexts) in the file system, even if they are actually present. The kernel cache can be decompressed to show the correct kernel, along...

eventually became the basis for Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was based on the Mach kernel developed at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) and BSD, an implementation...

implementing both lock-based and non-blocking concurrent data structures. The atomic counter and atomic bitmask operations in the Linux kernel typically use...

kernel. Transactions provide a concurrency control abstraction for the OS, and can be used to prevent TOCTOU races. While no production Unix kernel has...

UK and not Ireland. It is the first public cloud service built on Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (rather than Xen), and it has an API that has been...

2.0, released in March 2004, worked on Linux kernel 2.6, and had a "size glimpse" feature to avoid lock revocation on files undergoing write, and client...

new installations of Windows 10 on systems with Secure Boot enabled, all kernel-mode drivers issued after July 29, 2015, must be digitally signed with an...

Linux kernel. The "cloud wars" also caused Big Tech companies to invest in data centers and undersea cables. The operational efficiency of Big Tech technology...

relating to macOS and iOS. The kernel of Darwin is XNU, a hybrid kernel which uses OSFMK 7.3 (Open Software Foundation Mach Kernel) from the OSF, various elements...

back to John Rushby, who defined it as the combination of operating system kernel and trusted processes. The latter refers to processes which are allowed...

compatibility between Android and iOS devices. Android 15 is based on Linux kernel version 6.6, although some devices still run earlier versions underneath...

the exec() service read the executable file header (meta) data into a kernel space buffer, but read the executable image into user space, thereby not...

3.0 AmigaOS 2.0 BeOS (v1) DOS/V Genera 8.0 iS-DOS LOCK – TCSEC A1-class secure system with kernel and hardware support for type enforcement MVS/ESA SP...

and iOS-based operating systems. It is typically done through a series of kernel patches. A jailbroken device typically permits root access within the operating...

Axel Rietschin, who is a kernel engineer at Microsoft, claimed that he recognized some specific bits in the ReactOS kernel that are unlikely to result...

cooperation. Support in Linux is merged in kernel 5.18 but this alone is not sufficient until the kernel gets hints from userspace in order to schedule...

into the Linux kernel mainline on 18 January 2012 and released as part of version 3.3 of the Linux kernel on 19 March 2012. Linux kernel supports NVMe...

makes the kernel and command interpreter cross-buildable from operating systems other than DOS. The kernel can be built as a single binary KERNEL.SYS to...