SPRUI30H November 2015 – May 2024 DRA745 , DRA746 , DRA750 , DRA756
The Spinlock module provides hardware assistance for synchronizing the processes running on multiple processors in the device:
The Spinlock module implements 256 spinlocks (or hardware semaphores), which provide an efficient way to perform a lock operation of a device resource using a single read-access, avoiding the need of a read-modify-write bus transfer that the programmable cores are not capable of.
Figure 21-1 shows an overview of the Spinlock module.