What is Priority inheritance?

Temporarily raising a low-priority task holding a resource to the priority of the high-priority task waiting for it, preventing priority inversion.

Field: Embedded Systems & Firmware

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  1. Which describes priority inheritance, used to prevent priority inversion?

Related terms

Priority inversion Mutex Real-time operating system (RTOS) Baud rate Bootloader Brown-out detection Contact bounce Debouncing Duty cycle GPIO

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