OPERATING SYSTEMS DEADLOCKS

Reshmi P Rajan

OPERATING SYSTEM Deadlocks

Lecture Outline What is a deadlock? Preventing and Avoiding Deadlocks

Detection and Recovery of Deadlocks

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EXAMPLES:
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BACKGROUND:
The cause of deadlocks: Each process needing what another process has. This results from sharing resources such as memory, devices, links. Under normal operations, a resource allocation proceeds like this:: 1. 2. 3. Request a resource (suspend until available if necessary ). Use the resource. Release the resource.
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Bridge Crossing Example

Each section of a bridge can be viewed as a resource. If a deadlock occurs, it can be resolved if one car backs up (pre empt resources and rollback). Several cars may have to be backed up if a deadlock occurs. Starvation is possible.

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DEADLOCK CHARACTERISATION

NECESSARY CONDITIONS ALL of these four must happen simultaneously for a deadlock to occur: Mutual exclusion One or more than one resource must be held by a process in a non-sharable (exclusive) mode.

Hold and Wait A process holds a resource while waiting for another resource.
No Preemption There is only voluntary release of a resource - nobody else can make a process give up a resource. Circular Wait Process A waits for Process B waits for Process C .... waits for Process A.
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RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRAPH

A visual ( mathematical ) way to determine if a deadlock has, or may occur.

G = ( V, E ) The graph contains nodes and edges.

V Nodes consist of processes = { P1, P2, P3, ...} and resource types { R1, R2, ...}

Edges are ( Pi, Rj ) or ( Ri, Pj )

An arrow from the process to resource indicates the process is requesting the resource. An arrow from resource to process shows an instance of the resource has been allocated to the process. Process is a circle, resource type is square; dots represent number of instances of resource in type. Request points to square, assignment comes from dot. Pi

Pi
Rj

Pi
Rj

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RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRAPH

If the graph contains no cycles, then no process is deadlocked. If there is a cycle, then: a) If resource types have multiple instances, then deadlock MAY exist. b) If each resource type has 1 instance, then deadlock has occurred.
R3 Assigned to P3

Resource allocation graph

P2 Requests P3

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Resource allocation graph with a deadlock.

RESOURCE ALLOCATION GRAPH

Resource allocation graph with a cycle but no deadlock.

Strategy DEADLOCKS HOW TO HANDLE DEADLOCKS GENERAL STRATEGIES

There are three methods: Ignore Deadlocks: Ensure deadlock never occurs using either Prevention Prevent any one of the 4 conditions from happening.

Avoidance

Allow all deadlock conditions, but calculate cycles about to happen and stop dangerous operations..

Allow deadlock to happen. This requires using both: Detection Recovery Know a deadlock has occurred. Regain the resources.
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Do not allow one of the four conditions to occur.

Deadlock Prevention

Mutual exclusion: a) Automatically holds for printers and other non-sharables. b) Shared entities (read only files) don't need mutual exclusion (and arent susceptible to deadlock.) c) Prevention not possible, since some devices are intrinsically non-sharable. Hold and wait: a) Collect all resources before execution. b) A particular resource can only be requested when no others are being held. A sequence of resources is always collected beginning with the same one. c) Utilization is low, starvation possible.
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Do not allow one of the four conditions to occur. No preemption: a)

Deadlock Prevention

Release any resource already being held if the process can't get an additional resource. b) Allow preemption - if a needed resource is held by another process, which is also waiting on some resource, steal it. Otherwise wait. Circular wait: a) Number resources and only request in ascending order.

EACH of these prevention techniques may cause a decrease in utilization and/or resources. For this reason, prevention isn't necessarily the best technique. Prevention is generally the easiest to implement.
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Deadlock Avoidance

If we have prior knowledge of how resources will be requested, it's possible to determine if we are entering an "unsafe" state.

Possible states are:

Deadlock Unsafe state Safe state No forward progress can be made. A state that may allow deadlock. A state is safe if a sequence of processes exist such that there are enough resources for the first to finish, and as each finishes and releases its resources there are enough for the next to finish.

The rule is simple: If a request allocation would cause an unsafe state, do not honor that request.
NOTE: All deadlocks are unsafe, but all unsafes are NOT deadlocks.
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Deadlock Avoidance

NOTE: All deadlocks are unsafe, but all unsafe s are NOT deadlocks.

UNSAFE
SAFE DEADLOCK
Only with luck will processes avoid deadlock. O.S. can avoid deadlock.

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Deadlock Avoidance

Let's assume a very simple model: each process declares its maximum needs. In this case, algorithms exist that will ensure that no unsafe state is reached. Maximum needs does NOT mean it must use that many resources simply that it might do so under some circumstances. EXAMPLE: There exists a total of 12 resources. Each resource is used exclusively by a process. The current state looks like this:
Process Max Needs Allocated 5 2 3 Current Needs 5 2 7 14 There are multiple instances of the resource in these examples.

In this example, < p1, p0, p2 > is a workable sequence. Suppose p2 requests and is given one more resource. What happens then?

P0 P1 P2

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Safety Algorithm

Deadlock Avoidance

A method used to determine if a particular state is safe. It's safe if there exists a sequence of processes such that for all the processes, theres a way to avoid deadlock: The algorithm uses these variables: Need[I] the remaining resource needs of each process. Work - Temporary variable how many of the resource are currently available. Finish[I] flag for each process showing weve analyzed that process or not. need <= available + allocated[0] + .. + allocated[I-1] Sign of success Let work and finish be vectors of length m and n respectively.
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Safety Algorithm
1. Initialize work Initialize finish[i]

Deadlock Avoidance
= available = false, for i = 1,2,3,..n

2.

Find an i such that: finish[i] == false and need[i] <= work If no such i exists, go to step 4.

3.

work finish[i] goto step 2

= work + allocation[i] = true

4.

if finish[i] == true for all i,

then the system is in a safe state.

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Safety Algorithm

Deadlock Avoidance

Do these examples: Consider a system with: five processes, P0 P4, three resource types, A, B, C. Type A has 10 instances, B has 5 instances, C has 7 instances. At time T0 the following snapshot of the system is taken. Max Needs = allocated + can-be-requested Is the system in a safe state? A P0 0 Alloc B 1 C 0 A 7
Req

C 3

A 3

Avail B 3

C 2

B 4

P1
P2 P3 P4

2
3 2 0

0
0 1 0

0
2 1 2

0
6 0 4

2
0 1 3

0
0 1 1

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Safety Algorithm

Deadlock Avoidance

Do these examples: Now try it again with only a slight change in the request by P1. P1 requests one additional resource of type A, and two more of type C. Request1 = (1,0,2). Is Request1 < available?
Produce the state chart as if the request is Granted and see if its safe. (Weve drawn the chart as if its granted.

A P0 P1 P2 P3 0 3# 3 2

Alloc B 1 0 0 1 C 0 2# 2 1

A 7 0 6 0

Req

C 3 0 0 1

A 1#

Avail B 3

C 0#

B 4 2 0 1

Can the request be granted?

P4

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Need an algorithm that determines if deadlock occurred. Also need a means of recovering from that deadlock.

Deadlock Detection
SINGLE INSTANCE OF A RESOURCE TYPE Wait-for graph == remove the resources from the usual graph and collapse edges. An edge from p(j) to p(i) implies that p(j) is waiting for p(i) to release.

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SEVERAL INSTANCES OF A RESOURCE TYPE Complexity is of order m * n * n. We need to keep track of: available allocation request

Deadlock Detection

- records how many resources of each type are available. - number of resources of type m allocated to process n. - number of resources of type m requested by process n.

Let work and finish be vectors of length m and n respectively.

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Deadlock Detection

1. Initialize work[ ] = available[ ] For i = 1,2,...n, if allocation[i] != 0 then // For all n processes finish[i] = false; otherwise, finish[i] = true; 2. Find an i process such that: finish[i] == false and request[i] <= work If no such i exists, go to step 4. 3. work = work + allocation[i] finish[i] = true goto step 2

4. if finish[i] == false for some i, then the system is in deadlock state. IF finish[i] == false, then process p[i] is deadlocked.

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Deadlock Detection

EXAMPLE We have three resources, A, B, and C. A has 7 instances, B has 2 instances, and C has 6 instances. At this time, the allocation, etc. looks like this:

Is there a sequence that will allow deadlock to be avoided? Is there more than one sequence that will work?

Alloc B C

Req

Avail B

P0
P1 P2 P3 P4

0
2 3 2 0

1
0 0 1 0

0
0 3 1 2

0
2 0 1 0

0
0 0 0 0

0
2 0 0 2

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Deadlock Detection

EXAMPLE Suppose the Request matrix is changed like this. In other words, the maximum amounts to be allocated are initially declared so that this request matrix results. Is there now a sequence that will allow deadlock to be avoided?

Alloc B C

Req

Avail B

P0
USAGE OF THIS DETECTION ALGORITHM

0
2 3 2 0

1
0 0 1 0

0
0 3 1 2

0
2 0 1 0

0
0 0 0 0

0
2 1# 0 2

P1 P2 P3 P4

Frequency of check depends on how often a deadlock occurs and how many processes will be affected.

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Deadlock Recovery

So, the deadlock has occurred. Now, how do we get the resources back and gain forward progress? PROCESS TERMINATION: Could delete all the processes in the deadlock -- this is expensive. Delete one at a time until deadlock is broken ( time consuming ). Select who to terminate based on priority, time executed, time to completion, needs for completion, or depth of rollback In general, it's easier to preempt the resource, than to terminate the process. RESOURCE PREEMPTION:

Select a victim - which process and which resource to preempt. Rollback to previously defined "safe" state. Prevent one process from always being the one preempted ( starvation ).

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Deadlock Recovery

COMBINED APPROACH TO DEADLOCK HANDLING:

Type of resource may dictate best deadlock handling. Look at ease of implementation, and effect on performance.
In other words, there is no one best technique.

Cases include:
Preemption for memory, Preallocation for swap space,

Avoidance for devices ( can extract Needs from process. )

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In this lecture we have: Looked at necessary conditions for a deadlock to occur. Determined how to prevent, avoid, detect and recover from deadlocks.

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