Why cant we have lock mechanism working here. Assign a lock to the address

if one of the critical section code (linked list) is under
ISR & another one in kernel thread ? How you will
synchronize for this critical section code ?

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Answer Posted / suhas

Why cant we have lock mechanism working here. Assign a lock
to the address space pointed to by the data structure.
Something like monitors or semaphores, why wouldn't that
work fine...instead of disabling interrupts and stuff...

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