Discussion
Sleeping while holding a spinlock is forbidden because
Answer: C
Correct answer: another processor or the same one may spin for ever waiting for it
A spinlock is held while the holder sleeps, and anything else wanting it spins with interrupts disabled rather than yielding. On the same processor that is an immediate deadlock; on another it wastes the processor until the holder wakes, which it may never be scheduled to do.
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