Consider a computer system with multiple shared resource types, with one instance per resource type. Each instance can be owned by only one process at a time. Owning and freeing of resources are done by holding a global lock (L). The following scheme is used to own a resource instance:
function OWNRESOURCES(Resource R)
Acquire lock L / / a global lock
if R is available then
Acquire R
Release lock L
else
if R is owned by another process P then
Terminate P, after releasing all resources owned by P
Acquire R
Restart P
Release lock L
end if
end if
end function
Which of the following choice(s) about the above scheme is/are correct?
Consider the following multi-threaded code segment (in a mix of C and pseudocode), invoked by two processes P1 and P2, and each of the processes spawns two threads T1 and T2:
int x = 0; // global
Lock L1; // global
main() {
create a thread to execute foo(); // Thread T1
create a thread to execute foo(); // Thread T2
wait for the two threads to finish execution;
print (x);}
foo() {
int y = 0;
Acquire L1;
x = x + 1;
y = y + 1;
Release L1;
print (y); }
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct ?
Consider a three-level page table to translate a 39-bit virtual address to a physical address as shown below.
The page size is 4 KB (1 KB = 210 bytes) and page table entry size at every level is 8 bytes. A process P is currently using 2 GB (1 GB = 230 bytes) virtual memory which is mapped to 2 GB of physical memory. The minimum amount of memory required for the page table of P across all levels is _______ KB.