OSTEP Ch. 28 homework: lock implementations in an interleaving simulator

Step through interleavings of flag-based, test-and-set, Peterson and ticket locks to see exactly why each one works or fails.

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Supports: Builds the instruction-level intuition behind mutual exclusion and fairness arguments.

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