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3.6 Exclusive monitor
The Cortex-M3 processor implements a local exclusive monitor. For more information about 
semaphores and the local exclusive monitor, see the ARMv7M ARM Architecture Reference 
Manual.
The local monitor within the processor has been constructed so that it does not hold any physical 
address, but instead treats any access as matching the address of the previous LDREX. This 
means that the implemented exclusives reservation granule is the entire memory address range.
The Cortex-M3 processor does not support exclusive accesses to bit-band regions. 










