# giant lock

> lock used in the kernel to provide concurrency control required by symmetric multiprocessing systems

**Wikidata**: [Q858977](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q858977)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_lock)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/giant-lock


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013