Lecture # 10-11 for deadlock operating system.ppt

7.2 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2005
Operating System Concepts - 7th Edition, Feb 14, 2005
The Deadlock Problem
 A deadlock consists of a set of blocked processes, each
holding a resource and waiting to acquire a resource held by
another process in the set
 Example #1
 A system has 2 disk drives
 P1 and P2 each hold one disk drive and each needs the other one
 Example #2
 Semaphores A and B, initialized to 1
P0 P1
wait (A); wait(B)
wait (B); wait(A)

Bridge Crossing Example
 Traffic only in one direction
 The resource is a one-lane bridge
 If a deadlock occurs, it can be resolved if one car backs up
(preempt resources and rollback)
 Several cars may have to be backed up if a deadlock
occurs
 Starvation is possible

System Model
 Resource types R1, R2, . . ., Rm
CPU cycles, memory space, I/O devices
 Each resource type Ri has 1 or more instances
 Each process utilizes a resource as follows:
 request
 use
 release

Deadlock Characterization
 Mutual exclusion: only one process at a time can use a
resource
 Hold and wait: a process holding at least one resource is
waiting to acquire additional resources held by other
processes
 No preemption: a resource can be released only
voluntarily by the process holding it after that process has
completed its task
 Circular wait: there exists a set {P0, P1, …, P0} of waiting
processes such that P0 is waiting for a resource that is held
by P1, P1 is waiting for a resource that is held by
P2, …, Pn–1 is waiting for a resource that is held by
Pn, and Pn is waiting for a resource that is held by P0
Deadlock can arise if four conditions hold simultaneously.

Resource-Allocation Graph
 V is partitioned into two types:
 P = {P1, P2, …, Pn}, the set consisting of all
the processes in the system
 R = {R1, R2, …, Rm}, the set consisting of all
resource types in the system
 request edge – directed edge P1  Rj
 assignment edge – directed edge Rj  Pi
A set of vertices V and a set of edges E.

Resource-Allocation Graph (Cont.)
 Process
 Resource Type with 4 instances
 Pi requests instance of Rj
 Pi is holding an instance of Rj
Pi
Pi
Rj
Rj

Resource Allocation Graph With A Deadlock
Before P3 requested an
instance of R2
After P3 requested an
instance of R2

Graph With A Cycle But No Deadlock
Process P4 may release its instance of resource type R2. That
resource can then be allocated to P3, thereby breaking the cycle.

Relationship of cycles to deadlocks
 If a resource allocation graph contains no cycles  no deadlock
 If a resource allocation graph contains a cycle and if only one instance exists
per resource type  deadlock
 If a resource allocation graph contains a cycle and and if several instances
exists per resource type  possibility of deadlock

Methods for Handling Deadlocks
 Prevention
 Ensure that the system will never enter a
deadlock state
 Avoidance
 Ensure that the system will never enter an unsafe
state
 Detection
 Allow the system to enter a deadlock state and
then recover
 Do Nothing
 Ignore the problem and let the user or system
administrator respond to the problem; used by
most operating systems, including Windows and
UNIX

Deadlock Prevention
 Mutual Exclusion – The mutual-exclusion condition must
hold for non-sharable resources
 Hold and Wait – we must guarantee that whenever a
process requests a resource, it does not hold any other
resources
 Require a process to request and be allocated all its resources
before it begins execution, or allow a process to request
resources only when the process has none
 Result: Low resource utilization; starvation possible
To prevent deadlock, we can restrain the ways that a request can be made

Deadlock Prevention (Cont.)
 No Preemption –
 If a process that is holding some resources requests another
resource that cannot be immediately allocated to it, then all
resources currently being held are released
 Preempted resources are added to the list of resources for which
the process is waiting
 A process will be restarted only when it can regain its old
resources, as well as the new ones that it is requesting
 Circular Wait – impose a total ordering of all resource types, and
require that each process requests resources in an increasing order
of enumeration. For example:
F(tape drive) = 1
F(disk drive) = 5
F(printer) = 12

Deadlock Avoidance
 Simplest and most useful model requires that each process declare
the maximum number of resources of each type that it may need
 The deadlock-avoidance algorithm dynamically examines the
resource-allocation state to ensure that there can never be a
circular-wait condition
 A resource-allocation state is defined by the number of available
and allocated resources, and the maximum demands of the
processes
Requires that the system has some additional a priori information
available.
a priori: formed or conceived beforehand

Safe State
 That is:
 If the Pi resource needs are not immediately available, then Pi can
wait until all Pj have finished
 When Pj is finished, Pi can obtain needed resources, execute, return
allocated resources, and terminate
 When Pi terminates, Pi +1 can obtain its needed resources, and so on

Deadlock Detection
 For deadlock detection, the system must provide
 An algorithm that examines the state of the system to detect whether a
deadlock has occurred
 And an algorithm to recover from the deadlock
 A detection-and-recovery scheme requires various kinds of overhead
 Run-time costs of maintaining necessary information and executing the
detection algorithm
 Potential losses inherent in recovering from a deadlock

Recovery from Deadlock
 Two Approaches
 Process termination
 Resource preemption

Recovery from Deadlock: Process Termination
 Abort all deadlocked processes
 This approach will break the deadlock, but at great expense
 Abort one process at a time until the deadlock cycle is eliminated
 This approach incurs considerable overhead, since, after each process is
aborted, a deadlock-detection algorithm must be re-invoked to determine
whether any processes are still deadlocked
 Many factors may affect which process is chosen for termination
 What is the priority of the process?
 How long has the process run so far and how much longer will the process
need to run before completing its task?
 How many and what type of resources has the process used?
 How many more resources does the process need in order to finish its task?
 How many processes will need to be terminated?
 Is the process interactive or batch?

Recovery from Deadlock: Resource Preemption
 With this approach, we successively preempt some resources from
processes and give these resources to other processes until the
deadlock cycle is broken
 When preemption is required to deal with deadlocks, then three
issues need to be addressed:
 Selecting a victim – Which resources and which processes are to be
preempted?
 Rollback – If we preempt a resource from a process, what should be
done with that process?
 Starvation – How do we ensure that starvation will not occur? That is,
how can we guarantee that resources will not always be preempted
from the same process?

Data Structures used to implement
Banker’s Algorithm
 Available: It is a 1-D array that tells the number of each resource type
(instance of resource type) currently available. Example:
Available[R1]= A, means that there are A instances of R1 resources
are currently available.
 Max: It is a 2-D array that tells the maximum number of each resource
type required by a process for successful execution. Example:
Max[P1][R1] = A, specifies that the process P1 needs a maximum of A
instances of resource R1 for complete execution.
 Allocation: It is a 2-D array that tells the number of types of each
resource type that has been allocated to the process. Example:
Allocation[P1][R1] = A, means that A instances of resource type R1
have been allocated to the process P1.
 Need: It is a 2-D array that tells the number of remaining instances of
each resource type required for execution. Example: Need[P1][R1]= A
tells that A instances of R1 resource type are required for the execution
of process P1.
 Need[i][j]= Max[i][j] - Allocation[i][j], where i corresponds any
process P(i) and j corresponds to any resouce type R(j)

Implementation Types of Bankers
Algorithms
 Resource Request Algorithm
 Safety Algorithm
 Resource- Request Algorithm
Whenever a process makes a request of the resources then this
algorithm checks that if the resource can be allocated or not.
 Safety Algorithm
The safety algorithm is applied to check whether a state is in a safe
state or not.

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