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Chapter 6 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation

Chapter 6 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation. Deadlock. Permanent blocking of a set of processes that either compete for system resources or communicate with each other Involves conflicting needs for resources by two or more processes There is no satisfactory solution in the general case.

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Chapter 6 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation

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  1. Chapter 6Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation

  2. Deadlock • Permanent blocking of a set of processes that either compete for system resources or communicate with each other • Involves conflicting needs for resources by two or more processes • There is no satisfactory solution in the general case

  3. Example where deadlock can occur

  4. Example where deadlock cannot occur

  5. The Conditions for Deadlock • These 3 conditions of policy must be present for a deadlock to be possible: • 1: Mutual exclusion • only one process may use a resource at a time • 2: Hold-and-wait • a process may hold allocated resources while awaiting assignment of others • 3: No preemption • no resource can be forcibly removed from a process holding it

  6. The Conditions for Deadlock • We also need the occurrence of a particular sequence of events that result in: • 4: Circular wait • a closed chain of processes exists, such that each process holds at least one resource needed by the next process in the chain

  7. The Conditions for Deadlock • The first 3 conditions are necessary, but not sufficient • Deadlock occurs if and only if the circular wait condition is unresolvable. • The circular wait condition is unresolvable when the first 3 policy conditions hold • Thus the 4 conditions taken together constitute necessary and sufficient conditions for deadlock

  8. Methods for handling deadlocks • Deadlock prevention • disallow 1 of the 4 conditions of deadlock occurrence • Deadlock avoidance • do not grant a resource request if this allocation might lead to deadlock • Deadlock detection • always grant resource request when possible. But periodically check for the presence of deadlock and then recover from it

  9. Deadlock Prevention • The OS is design in such a way as to exclude a priori the possibility of deadlock • Indirect methods of deadlock prevention: • to disallow one of the 3 policy conditions • Direct methods of deadlock prevention: • to prevent the occurrence of circular wait

  10. Indirect methods of deadlock prevention • Mutual Exclusion • cannot be disallowed • ex: only 1 process at a time can print to a printer

  11. Indirect methods of deadlock prevention • Hold-and-Wait • can be disallowed by requiring that a process request all its required resources at one time • block the process until all requests can be granted simultaneously • A process may be held up for a long time waiting for all its requests • an application would need to be aware of all the resources that will be needed

  12. Indirect methods of deadlock prevention • No preemption • Can be prevented in several ways: • Process making a resource request must release its original resources if the request is denied • If the requested resource is held by another process, it may be preempted to release it • But whenever a process must release a resource whose usage is in progress, the state of this resource must be saved for later resumption. • Hence: practical only when the state of a resource can be easily saved and restored later, such as the processor.

  13. Direct methods of deadlock prevention • A protocol to prevent circular wait: • define a strictly increasing linear ordering O() for resource types. Ex: • R1: tape drives: O(R1) = 2 • R2: disk drives: O(R2) = 4 • R3: printers: O(R3) = 7 • Assume a process has been allocated resources of type Ri • After that, the process can request resources of type Rj if and only if O(Rj) > O(Ri)

  14. Prevention of circular wait • Circular wait cannot hold under this protocol. • Proof: suppose processes P1 and P2 are deadlocked because • P1 has control of Ri and requested Rj and • P2 has control of Rj and requested Ri • This is impossible because it implies O(Ri) < O(Rj) and O(Rj) < O(Ri) • Inefficient: may deny resources unnecessarily because of ordering imposed on requests

  15. Deadlock Prevention: Summary • We disallow one of the 3 policy conditions or use a protocol that prevents circular wait • This leads to inefficient use of resources and slowing down of processes

  16. Deadlock Avoidance • We allow the 3 policy conditions but make judicious choices to assure that the deadlock point is never reached • Allows more concurrency than prevention • Two approaches: • do not start a process if its demand might lead to deadlock • do not grant an incremental resource request if this allocation might lead to deadlock • In both cases: maximum requirements of each resource must be stated in advance

  17. Resource types • Resources in a system are partitioned into resources types • Each resource type in a system exists with a certain amount. Let R(i) be the total amount of resource type i present in the system. Ex: • R(main memory) = 128 MB • R(disk drives) = 8 • R(printers) = 5 • The partition is system specific (ex: printers may be further partitioned...)

  18. Process initiation denial • Let C(k,i) be the amount of resource type i claimed by process k. • C(k,i) is the maximum value of resource type i permitted for process k. • Let U(i) be the total amount of resource type i unclaimed in the system running n processes: • U(i) = R(i) – SUM[C(1:n,i)] • New process is not started if its resource requirements might lead to deadlock • New process started only if • U(i) >= C(n+1,i) for all i • Far from optimal because it assumes the worst: all processes make their maximum claims together

  19. Resource Allocation Denial • Referred to as the banker’s algorithm • State of the system is the current allocation of resources to process • Safe state is where there is at least one sequence that does not result in deadlock • Unsafe state is a state that is not safe

  20. Determination of a Safe StateInitial State

  21. Determination of a Safe StateP2 Runs to Completion

  22. Determination of a Safe StateP1 Runs to Completion

  23. Determination of a Safe StateP3 Runs to Completion

  24. Determination of an Unsafe State • If P2 requests one additional unit of R1 and one unit of R3 the resulting state is safe (already discussed)

  25. Determination of an Unsafe State • This state is unsafe because each process needs at least one unit of R1 • To avoid deadlock, request by P1 should be denied and P1 should be blocked

  26. Unsafe State • Unsafe state is NOT a deadlock state. It merely has the potential for deadlock • Ex: if P1 releases one unit of R1 and one unit of R3 when run, the system would return to a safe state. • Deadlock avoidance strategy merely predicts the possibility of deadlock and assures that there is never such a possibility

  27. Deadlock Avoidance • Restrictions on use: • Maximum resource requirement must be stated in advance • Processes under consideration must be independent; no synchronization requirements constrain order of execution • There must be a fixed number of resources to allocate • No process may exit while holding resources • Advantage: less restrictive than deadlock prevention; not necessary to preempt and roll back processes as in deadlock detection.

  28. Deadlock Detection • Resource access are granted to processes whenever possible. The OS needs: • an algorithm to check if deadlock is present • an algorithm to recover from deadlock • The deadlock check can be performed at every resource request • Such frequent checks consume CPU time

  29. A deadlock detection algorithm • Makes use of the following resource-allocation matrices and vectors: • Allocation matrix – A(j,i) • Number of units of resource type i allocated to process j • Available vector – V(i) • Number of units of resource type i available • Request matrix – Q(j,i) • Number of units of resource type i requested by process j • Temporary work vector – W(i)

  30. A deadlock detection algorithm • Marks each process not deadlocked. Initially all processes are unmarked. Then perform: • Mark each process j for which: A(j,i) = 0 for all resource type i. (since these are not deadlocked) • Initialize work vector: W(i) = V(i) for all i • REPEAT: Find a unmarked process j such that Q(j,i) <= W(i) for all i. Stop if such j does not exists. • If such j exists: mark process j and set W(i) = W(i) + A(j,i) for all i. Goto REPEAT • At the end: each unmarked process is deadlocked

  31. Deadlock detection: comments • Process j is not deadlocked when Q(j,i) <= W(i) for all i. • Then we are optimistic and assume that process j will require no more resources to complete its task • It will thus soon return all of its allocated resources. Thus: W(i) = W(i) + A(j,i) for all i • If this assumption is incorrect, a deadlock may occur later • This deadlock will be detected the next time the deadlock detection algorithm is invoked

  32. Deadlock detection: example Request Allocated Available • Mark P4 since it has no allocated resources • Set W = (0,0,0,0,1) • P3’s request <= W. So mark P3 and set W = W + (0,0,0,1,0) = (0,0,0,1,1) • Algorithm terminates. P1 and P2 are deadlocked R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 P1 P2 P3 P4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

  33. Deadlock Recovery • Needed when deadlock is detected. The following approaches are possible: • Abort all deadlocked processes (one of the most common solution adopted in OS!!) • Rollback each deadlocked process to some previously defined checkpoint and restart them (original deadlock may reoccur) • Successively abort deadlocked processes until deadlock no longer exists (each time we need to invoke the deadlock detection algorithm)

  34. Deadlock Recovery (cont.) • Successively preempt some resources from processes and give them to other processes until deadlock no longer exists • a process that has a resource preempted must be rolled back prior to its acquisition • Reinvocation of detection algorithm required. • For the 2 last approaches: a victim process needs to be selected according to one of the following: • least amount of CPU time consumed so far • least total resources allocated so far • least amount of “work” produced so far • Lowest priority, etc.

  35. An integrated deadlock strategy • Table 6.1, page 272. • Each deadlock strategy has its strengths and weaknesses • Using a single strategy may be inefficient • We can combine the previous approaches into the following way: • Group resources into a number of different classes and order them. Ex: • Swappable space (secondary memory) • Process resources (I/O devices, files...) • Main memory, etc.

  36. An integrated deadlock strategy (cont’d) • Use prevention of circular wait strategy to prevent deadlock between resource classes • Use the most appropriate approach for deadlocks within each class • Swappable space: hold-and-wait prevention, deadlock avoidance • Process resources: avoidance, prevention by resource ordering • Main memory: prevention by preemption

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