Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

I don't think so, lock freedom guarantees global progress. If our threads are executing and we're a lock free algorithm, we will get work done. It may be the least preferred work, it may get done more slowly than preferred, but some of the work we had gets done. I think mutexes can't promise that, you might spend all of your execution resources on the mechanics and get no work done.

And one step harder is wait freedom, a guarantee of local progress - if our threads are executing specific work will get done, if thread A is squawking a goose, that goose gets squawked, it may not get squawked quickly but it definitely gets squawked, whereas a lock free algorithm is allowed to leave thread A starving forever until some day squawking that goose is globally the only work left to do.