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+// Copyright (c) 2023 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#ifndef BITCOIN_KERNEL_CS_MAIN_H
+#define BITCOIN_KERNEL_CS_MAIN_H
+
+#include <sync.h>
+
+/**
+ * Mutex to guard access to validation specific variables, such as reading
+ * or changing the chainstate.
+ *
+ * This may also need to be locked when updating the transaction pool, e.g. on
+ * AcceptToMemoryPool. See CTxMemPool::cs comment for details.
+ *
+ * The transaction pool has a separate lock to allow reading from it and the
+ * chainstate at the same time.
+ */
+extern RecursiveMutex cs_main;
+
+#endif // BITCOIN_KERNEL_CS_MAIN_H