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Chapter 6: Synchronization Tools: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2018 Operating System Concepts - 10 Edition
Chapter 6: Synchronization Tools: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2018 Operating System Concepts - 10 Edition
Tools
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.2 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Objectives
Describe the critical-section problem and
illustrate a race condition
Illustrate hardware solutions to the
critical-section problem using memory
barriers, compare-and-swap operations,
and atomic variables
Demonstrate how mutex locks,
semaphores, monitors, and condition
variables can be used to solve the critical
section problem
Evaluate tools that solve the critical-
section problem in low-, Moderate-, and
high-contention scenarios
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.3 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Background
Processes can execute concurrently
• May be interrupted at any time, partially
completing execution
Concurrent access to shared data may result in data
inconsistency
Maintaining data consistency requires mechanisms
to ensure the orderly execution of cooperating
processes
We illustrated in chapter 4 the problem when we
considered the Bounded Buffer problem with use of a
counter that is updated concurrently by the producer
and consumer,. Which lead to race condition.
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.4 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Race Condition
Processes P0 and P1 are creating child processes using
the fork() system call
Race condition on kernel variable next_available_pid
which represents the next available process identifier
(pid)
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.5 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Critical Section Problem
Consider system of n processes {p0, p1, … pn-1}
Each process has critical section segment of code
• Process may be changing common variables,
updating table, writing file, etc.
• When one process in critical section, no other may
be in its critical section
Critical section problem is to design protocol to solve
this
Each process must ask permission to enter critical
section in entry section, may follow critical section
with exit section, then remainder section
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.6 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Critical Section
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.7 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Critical-Section Problem (Cont.)
Requirements for solution to critical-section problem
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.9 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Software Solution 1
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.10 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Algorithm for Process Pi
while (true){
turn = i;
while (turn = = j)
;
/* critical section */
turn = j;
/* remainder section */
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.11 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Correctness of the Software Solution
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.12 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Peterson’s Solution
Two process solution
Assume that the load and store machine-
language instructions are atomic; that is, cannot
be interrupted
The two processes share two variables:
• int turn;
• boolean flag[2]
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.13 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Algorithm for Process Pi
while (true){
flag[i] = true;
turn = j;
while (flag[j] && turn = = j)
;
/* critical section */
flag[i] = false;
/* remainder section */
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.14 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Correctness of Peterson’s Solution
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.15 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Peterson’s Solution and Modern Architecture
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.16 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Modern Architecture Example
100
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.17 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Modern Architecture Example (Cont.)
flag = true;
x = 100;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.18 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Peterson’s Solution Revisited
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.19 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Memory Barrier
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.20 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Memory Barrier Instructions
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.21 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Memory Barrier Example
Returning to the example of slides 6.17 - 6.18
We could add a memory barrier to the following
instructions to ensure Thread 1 outputs 100:
Thread 1 now performs
while (!flag)
memory_barrier();
print x
Thread 2 now performs
x = 100;
memory_barrier();
flag = true
For Thread 1 we are guaranteed that that the
value of flag is loaded before the value of x.
For Thread 2 we ensure that the assignment to x
occurs before the assignment flag.
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.22 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Synchronization Hardware
Many systems provide hardware support for
implementing the critical section code.
Uniprocessors – could disable interrupts
• Currently running code would execute without
preemption
• Generally too inefficient on multiprocessor systems
Operating systems using this not broadly
scalable
We will look at three forms of hardware support:
1. Hardware instructions
2. Atomic variables
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.23 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Hardware Instructions
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.24 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
The test_and_set Instruction
Definition
boolean test_and_set (boolean
*target)
{
boolean rv = *target;
*target = true;
return rv:
}
Properties
• Executed atomically
• Returns the original value of passed
parameter
• Set the new value of passed parameter to
true
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.25 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Solution Using test_and_set()
Shared boolean variable lock, initialized to false
Solution:
do {
while (test_and_set(&lock))
; /* do nothing */
/* critical section */
lock = false;
/* remainder section */
} while (true);
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.26 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
The compare_and_swap Instruction
Definition
int compare_and_swap(int *value, int expected, int new_value)
{
int temp = *value;
if (*value == expected)
*value = new_value;
return temp;
}
Properties
• Executed atomically
• Returns the original value of passed parameter value
• Set the variable value the value of the passed
parameter new_value but only if *value == expected is
true. That is, the swap takes place only under this
condition.
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.27 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Solution using compare_and_swap
Shared integer lock initialized to 0;
Solution:
while (true){
while (compare_and_swap(&lock, 0, 1) != 0)
; /* do nothing */
/* critical section */
lock = 0;
/* remainder section */
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.28 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Bounded-waiting with compare-and-swap
while (true) {
waiting[i] = true;
key = 1;
while (waiting[i] && key == 1)
key = compare_and_swap(&lock,0,1);
waiting[i] = false;
/* critical section */
j = (i + 1) % n;
while ((j != i) && !waiting[j])
j = (j + 1) % n;
if (j == i)
lock = 0;
else
waiting[j] = false;
/* remainder section */
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.29 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Atomic Variables
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.30 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Atomic Variables
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.31 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Mutex Locks
Previous solutions are complicated and generally
inaccessible to application programmers
OS designers build software tools to solve critical
section problem
Simplest is mutex lock
• Boolean variable indicating if lock is available or not
Protect a critical section by
• First acquire() a lock
• Then release() the lock
Calls to acquire() and release() must be atomic
• Usually implemented via hardware atomic
instructions such as compare-and-swap.
But this solution requires busy waiting
• This lock therefore called a spinlock
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.32 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Solution to CS Problem Using Mutex Locks
while (true) {
acquire lock
critical section
release lock
remainder section
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.33 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Semaphore
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.34 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Semaphore (Cont.)
Counting semaphore – integer value can range
over an unrestricted domain
Binary semaphore – integer value can range
only between 0 and 1
• Same as a mutex lock
Can implement a counting semaphore S as a
binary semaphore
With semaphores we can solve various
synchronization problems
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.35 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Semaphore Usage Example
Solution to the CS Problem
• Create a semaphore “mutex” initialized to 1
wait(mutex);
CS
signal(mutex);
Consider P1 and P2 that with two statements S1
and S2 and the requirement that S1 to happen
before S2
• Create a semaphore “synch” initialized to 0
P1:
S1;
signal(synch);
P2:
wait(synch);
S2;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.36 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Semaphore Implementation
Must guarantee that no two processes can execute
the wait() and signal() on the same semaphore at
the same time
Thus, the implementation becomes the critical
section problem where the wait and signal code are
placed in the critical section
Could now have busy waiting in critical section
implementation
• But implementation code is short
• Little busy waiting if critical section rarely
occupied
Note that applications may spend lots of time in
critical sections and therefore this is not a good
solution
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.37 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Semaphore Implementation with no Busy waiting
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.38 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Implementation with no Busy waiting (Cont.)
Waiting queue
typedef struct {
int value;
struct process *list;
} semaphore;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.39 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Implementation with no Busy waiting (Cont.)
wait(semaphore *S) {
S->value--;
if (S->value < 0) {
add this process to S->list;
block();
}
}
signal(semaphore *S) {
S->value++;
if (S->value <= 0) {
remove a process P from S->list;
wakeup(P);
}
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.40 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Problems with Semaphores
• signal(mutex) …. wait(mutex)
• wait(mutex) … wait(mutex)
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.41 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Monitors
A high-level abstraction that provides a convenient and
effective mechanism for process synchronization
Abstract data type, internal variables only accessible by
code within the procedure
Only one process may be active within the monitor at a
time
Pseudocode syntax of a monitor:
monitor monitor-name
{
// shared variable declarations
procedure P1 (…) { …. }
procedure P2 (…) { …. }
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.42 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Schematic view of a Monitor
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.43 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Monitor Implementation Using Semaphores
Variables
semaphore mutex
mutex = 1
wait(mutex);
…
body of P;
…
signal(mutex);
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.44 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Condition Variables
condition x, y;
Two operations are allowed on a condition variable:
• x.wait() – a process that invokes the operation is
suspended until x.signal()
• x.signal() – resumes one of processes (if any) that
invoked x.wait()
If no x.wait() on the variable, then it has no
effect on the variable
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.45 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Monitor with Condition Variables
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.46 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Usage of Condition Variable Example
Consider P1 and P2 that that need to execute two
statements S1 and S2 and the requirement that S1 to
happen before S2
• Create a monitor with two procedures F1 and F2
that are invoked by P1 and P2 respectively
• One condition variable “x” initialized to 0
• One Boolean variable “done”
• F1:
S1;
done = true;
x.signal();
• F2:
if done = false
x.wait()
S2;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.47 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Monitor Implementation Using Semaphores
Variables
wait(mutex);
…
body of P;
…
if (next_count > 0)
signal(next)
else
signal(mutex);
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.48 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Implementation – Condition Variables
For each condition variable x, we have:
x_count++;
if (next_count > 0)
signal(next);
else
signal(mutex);
wait(x_sem);
x_count--;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.49 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Implementation (Cont.)
if (x_count > 0) {
next_count++;
signal(x_sem);
wait(next);
next_count--;
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.50 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Resuming Processes within a Monitor
x.wait(c)
where:
• c is an integer (called the priority
number)
• The process with lowest number (highest
priority) is scheduled next
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.51 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Single Resource allocation
R.acquire(t);
...
access the resurce;
...
R.release;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.52 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Single Resource allocation
R.acquire(t);
...
access the resurce;
...
R.release;
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.53 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
A Monitor to Allocate Single Resource
monitor ResourceAllocator
{
boolean busy;
condition x;
void acquire(int time) {
if (busy)
x.wait(time);
busy = true;
}
void release() {
busy = false;
x.signal();
}
initialization code() {
busy = false;
}
}
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.54 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Single Resource Monitor (Cont.)
Usage:
acquire
...
release
Incorrect use of monitor operations
• release() … acquire()
• acquire() … acquire())
• Omitting of acquire() and/or release()
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.55 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Liveness
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.56 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Liveness
Deadlock – two or more processes are waiting
indefinitely for an event that can be caused by only one
of the waiting processes
Let S and Q be two semaphores initialized to 1
P0 P1
wait(S); wait(Q);
wait(Q); wait(S);
... ...
signal(S); signal(Q);
signal(Q); signal(S);
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.57 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Liveness
Other forms of deadlock:
Starvation – indefinite blocking
• A process may never be removed from the
semaphore queue in which it is suspended
Priority Inversion – Scheduling problem when lower-
priority process holds a lock needed by higher-priority
process
• Solved via priority-inheritance protocol
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.58 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
End of Chapter 6
Operating System Concepts – 10th Edition 6.61 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne