Introduction to Exclusive Operations in ARMv8 (Part 1)

Introduction to Exclusive Operations in ARMv8 (Part 1)

In the ARMv8 architecture for A64, several exclusive instructions are provided to support exclusive operations. So why did ARM introduce exclusive instructions? The main purpose of this addition is to solve the problem of lock contention in multi-core situations. At the software level, access to shared resources is controlled by a lock. Only the program … Read more