Modern Operating Systems 3rd Edition Problem Solutions
OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION Third Edition ANDREW S. TANENBAUM ALBERT S. WOODHULL Chapter 2 Processes Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Process Model (1) Figure 2 -1 (a) Multiprogramming of four programs. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Process Model (2) Figure 2 -1 (b) Conceptual model of four independent, sequential processes. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Process Model (3) Figure 2 -1 (c) Only one program is active at any instant. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process Creation Principal events that cause processes to be created: 1. System initialization. 2. Execution of a process creation system call by a running process. 3. A user request to create a new process. 4. Initiation of a batch job. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process Termination Conditions that cause a process to terminate: 1. Normal exit (voluntary). 2. Error exit (voluntary). 3. Fatal error (involuntary). 4. Killed by another process (involuntary). Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process States (1) Possible process states: 1. Running (actually using the CPU at that instant). 2. Ready (runnable; temporarily stopped to let another process run). 3. Blocked (unable to run until some external event happens). Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process States (2) Figure 2 -2 A process can be in running, blocked, or ready state. Transitions between these states are as shown. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process States (3) Figure 2 -3 The lowest layer of a process-structured operating system handles interrupts and scheduling. Above that layer are sequential processes. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Implementation of Processes Figure 2 -4. Some of the fields of the MINIX 3 process table. The fields are distributed over the kernel, the process manager, and the file system. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Interrupts Figure 2 -5 Skeleton of what the lowest level of the operating system does when an interrupt occurs. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Threads (1) Figure 2 -6 (a) Three processes each with one thread. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Threads (2) Figure 2 -6 (b) One process with three threads. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Threads (3) Figure 2 -7. The first column lists some items shared by all threads in a process. The second one lists some items private to each thread. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Race Conditions Figure 2 -8 Two processes want to access shared memory at the same time. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Critical Sections Necessary to avoid race conditions: 1. No two processes may be simultaneously inside their critical regions. 2. No assumptions may be made about speeds or the number of CPUs. 3. No process running outside its critical region may block other processes. 4. No process should have to wait forever to enter its critical region. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Mutual Exclusion with Busy Waiting Figure 2 -9 Mutual exclusion using critical regions. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Strict Alternation Figure 2 -10. A proposed solution to the critical region problem. (a) Process 0. (b) Process 1. In both cases, be sure to note the semicolons terminating the while statements. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Peterson's Solution (1) {. . . Figure 2 -11 Peterson's solution for achieving mutual exclusion. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Peterson's Solution (2) Figure 2 -11 Peterson's solution for achieving mutual exclusion. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The TSL Instruction Figure 2 -12. Entering and leaving a critical region using the TSL instruction. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Producer-Consumer Problem (1) . . . Figure 2 -13. The producer-consumer problem with a fatal race condition. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Producer-Consumer Problem (2). . . Figure 2 -13. The producer-consumer problem with a fatal race condition Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Producer-Consumer Problem (3) . . . Figure 2 -14. The producer-consumer problem using semaphores. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Producer-Consumer Problem (4). . . Figure 2 -14. The producer-consumer problem using semaphores. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Monitors (1) Figure 2 -15. A monitor. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Monitors (2) Figure 2 -16. An outline of the producer-consumer problem with monitors. Only one monitor procedure at a time is active. The buffer has N slots Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Monitors (3) Figure 2 -16. An outline of the producer-consumer problem with monitors. Only one monitor procedure at a time is active. The buffer has N slots Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Message Passing (1) . . . Figure 2 -17. The producer-consumer problem with N messages. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Message Passing (2). . . Figure 2 -17. The producer-consumer problem with N messages. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Dining Philosophers Problem (1) Figure 2 -18. Lunch time in the Philosophy Department. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Dining Philosophers Problem (2) Figure 2 -19. A nonsolution to the dining philosophers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Dining Philosophers Problem (3) . . . Figure 2 -20. A solution to the dining philosophers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Dining Philosophers Problem (4). . . Figure 2 -20. A solution to the dining philosophers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Dining Philosophers Problem (5). . . Figure 2 -20. A solution to the dining philosophers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Readers and Writers Problem (1) . . . Figure 2 -21. A solution to the readers and writers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Readers and Writers Problem (2). . . Figure 2 -21. A solution to the readers and writers problem. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Process Behavior (1) Figure 2 -22. Bursts of CPU usage alternate with periods of waiting for I/O. (a) A CPU-bound process. (b) An I/O-bound process. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
When to Schedule When scheduling is absolutely required: 1. When a process exits. 2. When a process blocks on I/O, or a semaphore. When scheduling usually done (though not absolutely required) 1. When a new process is created. 2. When an I/O interrupt occurs. 3. When a clock interrupt occurs. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Scheduling Algorithms (2) Figure 2 -23. Some goals of the scheduling algorithm under different circumstances. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Scheduling Algorithms (2) Figure 2 -24. An example of shortest job first scheduling. (a) Running four jobs in the original order. (b) Running them in shortest job first order. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Three Level Scheduling (1) Figure 2 -25. Three-level scheduling. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Three Level Scheduling (2) Criteria for deciding which process to choose: • How long has it been since the process was swapped in or out? • How much CPU time has the process had recently? • How big is the process? (Small ones do not get in the way. ) • How important is the process? Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Round-Robin Scheduling Figure 2 -26. Round-robin scheduling. (a) The list of runnable processes. (b) The list of runnable processes after B uses up its quantum. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Priority Scheduling Figure 2 -27. A scheduling algorithm with four priority classes. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Thread Scheduling (1) (a) Figure 2 -28. (a) Possible scheduling of user-level threads with a 50 -msec process quantum and threads that run 5 msec per CPU burst. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Thread Scheduling (2) (b) Figure 2 -28. (b) Possible scheduling of kernel-level threads with the same characteristics as (a). Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Internal Structure of MINIX Figure 2 -29. MINIX 3 is structured in four layers. Only processes in the bottom layer may use privileged (kernel mode) instructions. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
MINIX 3 Startup Figure 2 -30. Some important MINIX 3 system components. Others such as an Ethernet driver and the inet server may also be present. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
MINIX Memory (1) top half Figure 2 -31. Memory layout after MINIX 3 has been loaded from the disk into memory. The kernel, servers, and drivers are independently compiled and linked programs, listed on the left. Sizes are approximate and not to scale. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
MINIX Memory (2) Figure 2 -31. Memory layout after MINIX 3 has been loaded from the disk into memory. The kernel, servers, and drivers are independently compiled and linked programs, listed on the left. Sizes are approximate and not to scale. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
MINIX Header File Figure 2 -32. Part of a master header which ensures inclusion of header files needed by all C source files. Note that two const. h files, one from the include/ tree and one from the local directory, are referenced. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Sizes of Types in MINIX Figure 2 -33. The size, in bits, of some types on 16 -bit and 32 -bit systems. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
MINIX Message Types Figure 2 -34. The seven message types used in MINIX 3. The sizes of message elements will vary, depending upon the architecture of the machine; this diagram illustrates sizes on CPUs with 32 -bit pointers, such as those of Pentium family members. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Debug Dump Figure 2 -35. Part of a debug dump of the privilege table. The clock task, file server, tty, and init processes privileges are typical of tasks, servers, device drivers, and user processes, respectively. The bitmap is truncated to 16 bits. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Bootstrapping MINIX (1) Figure 2 -36. Disk structures used for bootstrapping. (a) Unpartitioned disk. The first sector is the bootblock. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Bootstrapping MINIX (2) Figure 2 -36. Disk structures used for bootstrapping. (b) Partitioned disk. The first sector is the master boot record, also called masterboot. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Boot Time in MINIX Figure 2 -37. Boot parameters passed to the kernel at boot time in a typical MINIX 3 system. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
System Initialization in MINIX Figure 2 -38. How alternative assembly language source files are selected. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Interrupt Handling in MINIX (1) Figure 2 -39. Interrupt processing hardware on a 32 -bit Intel PC. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Interrupt Handling in MINIX (2) Figure 2 -40. (a) How a hardware interrupt is processed. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Interrupt Handling in MINIX (3) Figure 2 -40. (b) How a system call is made. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Restart Figure 2 -41. Restart is the common point reached after system startup, interrupts, or system calls. The most deserving process (which may be and often is a different process from the last one interrupted) runs next. Not shown in this diagram are interrupts that occur while the kernel itself is running. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Queueing Figure 2 -42. Queueing of processes trying to send to process 0. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Scheduling in MINIX Figure 2 -43. The scheduler maintains sixteen queues, one per priority level. Shown here is the initial queuing process as MINIX 3 starts up. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Hardware-Dependent Kernel Support Figure 2 -44. The format of an Intel segment descriptor. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Overview of System Task (1) Figure 2 -45. The message types accepted by the system task. "Any" means any system process; user processes cannot call the system task directly Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Overview of System Task (2) Figure 2 -45. The message types accepted by the system task. "Any" means any system process; user processes cannot call the system task directly Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
The Clock Task in MINIX 3 Figure 2 -46. (a) Worst case for reading a block requires seven messages. (b) Best case for reading a block requires four messages. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Clock Hardware Figure 4 -47. A programmable clock. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Clock Software (1) Typical duties of a clock driver. 1. Maintain time of day 2. Prevent processes from running longer than allowed 3. Accounting for CPU usage 4. Handling alarm system call by user processes 5. Providing watchdog timers for parts of system itself 6. Doing profiling, monitoring, and statistics gathering Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Clock Software (2) Figure 2 -48. Three ways to maintain the time of day. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Clock Software (3) Figure 2 -49. Simulating multiple timers with a single clock. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Summary of Clock Services Figure 2 -50. The time-related services supported by the clock driver. Tanenbaum & Woodhull, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (c) 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. 0 -13 -142938 -8
Modern Operating Systems 3rd Edition Problem Solutions
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