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Deadlock Prevention

and Avoidance
Strategies
Deadlock Prevention

Deadlock prevention aims to


ensure that at least one of the
four necessary conditions for a
deadlock (mutual exclusion, hold
and wait, no preemption, and
circular wait) does not occur. This
is typically done by using the
following strategies:
1. Mutual Exclusion: This condition is unavoidable for non-shareable
resources. But if resources can be made shareable, deadlocks can be
prevented.

2. Hold and Wait: Processes should not hold onto resources while waiting
for others. This can be prevented by:

Requiring processes to request all required resources at once.

Ensuring a process releases all held resources before requesting more.


3. No Preemption: Allowing
preemption of resources can prevent
deadlock. This means if a process
holding some resources requests
another resource that is not
immediately available, all held
resources are released.

4. Circular Wait: Imposing an order on


resource acquisition can break circular
wait. Each process must request
resources in a predefined order,
ensurno circular chain of processes.
Deadlock Avoidance

Deadlock avoidance requires additional


information about processes and their
future resource requests. It dynamically
checks whether granting a resource
request will keep the system in a safe
state (where no deadlock can occur). The
most famous algorithm for deadlock
avoidance is the Banker’s Algorithm,
which works as follows:
1. Processes must declare maximum
resource needs in advance

2. The system checks if resource


allocation would lead to a safe state,
meaning there is a sequence of resource
allocations that ensures all processes can
complete without causing a deadlock.

3. If the system cannot ensure this, the


request is denied to avoid a potential
deadlock.
Key Difference:

Prevention: Tries to structurally


eliminate the possibility of
deadlock by breaking one of the
necessary conditions.

Avoidance: Dynamically checks


each resource request to ensure it
won't lead to a deadlock.
Any doubts?

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