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Today’s class

Learn about mutual exclusion and synchronization techniques in computer systems, including hardware support, semaphores, and solving producer/consumer and readers/writers problems.

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Today’s class

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  1. Today’s class • Mutual exclusion and synchronization • Hardware support • Semaphores • Producer/Consumer problem • Readers/Writers problem Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  2. Mutual Exclusion:Hardware Support • Interrupt Disabling • A process runs until it invokes an operating system service or until it is interrupted • Disabling interrupts guarantees mutual exclusion • Processor is limited in its ability to interleave programs • Multiprocessing - disabling interrupts on one processor will not guarantee mutual exclusion Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  3. Mutual Exclusion:Hardware Support while (true) { /* disable interrupts */ /* critical section */ /* enable interrupts */ /* remainder */ } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  4. Mutual Exclusion:Hardware Support • Special Machine Instructions • Performed in a single instruction cycle • Access to the memory location is blocked for any other instructions Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  5. Mutual Exclusion:Hardware Support • Test and Set Instruction boolean testset (int i) { if (i == 0) { i = 1; return true; } else { return false; } } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  6. Mutual Exclusion Based on Test and Set Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  7. Mutual Exclusion:Hardware Support • Exchange Instruction void exchange(int register, int memory) { int temp; temp = memory; memory = register; register = temp; } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  8. Mutual Exclusion Based on Exchange Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  9. Mutual Exclusion Machine Instructions • Advantages • Applicable to any number of processes on either a single processor or multiple processors sharing main memory • It is simple and therefore easy to verify • It can be used to support multiple critical sections Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  10. Mutual Exclusion Machine Instructions • Disadvantages • Busy-waiting consumes processor time • Starvation is possible when a process leaves a critical section and more than one process is waiting. • Deadlock • If a low priority process has the critical region and a higher priority process needs it, the higher priority process will obtain the processor to wait for the critical region Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  11. Semaphores • Special variable called a semaphore is used for signaling • If a process is waiting for a signal, it is suspended until that signal is sent • semSignal(s) transmits a signal via semaphore s • semWait(s) receives a signal via semaphore s; if the signal has not yet been sent, the process is suspended until the transmission takes place Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  12. Semaphores • Semaphore is a variable that has an integer value • May be initialized to a nonnegative number • semWait operation decrements the semaphore value; if it becomes negative then the process executing semWait is blocked, otherwise the process continues execution • semSignal operation increments the semaphore value; if the value is less than or equal to 0 then a process blocked by semWait is unblocked Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  13. Semaphore Primitives Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  14. Binary Semaphore Primitives Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  15. Mutual Exclusion Using Semaphores Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

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  17. Producer/Consumer Problem • One or more producers are generating data and placing these in a buffer • A single consumer is taking items out of the buffer one at time • Only one producer or consumer may access the buffer at any one time Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  18. Producer producer: while (true) { /* produce item v */ b[in] = v; in++; } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  19. Consumer consumer: while (true) { while (in <= out) /*do nothing */; w = b[out]; out++; /* consume item w */ } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  20. Producer/Consumer Problem Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  21. Producer with Circular Buffer producer: while (true) { /* produce item v */ while ((in + 1) % n == out) /* do nothing */; b[in] = v; in = (in + 1) % n } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  22. Consumer with Circular Buffer consumer: while (true) { while (in == out) /* do nothing */; w = b[out]; out = (out + 1) % n; /* consume item w */ } Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

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  28. Monitors • Monitor is a software module • Chief characteristics • Local data variables are accessible only by the monitor • Process enters monitor by invoking one of its procedures • Only one process may be executing in the monitor at a time Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

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  32. Message Passing • Enforce mutual exclusion • Exchange information send (destination, message) receive (source, message) Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  33. Synchronization • Message communication requires some level of synchronization – a message cannot be received before it is sent • Sender and receiver may or may not be blocking (waiting for message) • Blocking send, blocking receive • Both sender and receiver are blocked until message is delivered • Called a rendezvous Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  34. Synchronization • Nonblocking send, blocking receive • Sender continues on • Receiver is blocked until the requested message arrives • Nonblocking send, nonblocking receive • Neither party is required to wait Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  35. Addressing • Direct addressing • Send primitive includes a specific identifier of the destination process • Receive primitive could know ahead of time which process a message is expected • Receive primitive could use source parameter to return a value when the receive operation has been performed Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  36. Addressing • Indirect addressing • Messages are sent to a shared data structure consisting of queues • Queues are called mailboxes • One process sends a message to the mailbox and the other process picks up the message from the mailbox Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  37. Message Format Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

  38. Readers/Writers Problem • Any number of readers may simultaneously read the file • Only one writer at a time may write to the file • If a writer is writing to the file, no reader may read it Computer Systems/Operating Systems - Class 9

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