Deadlock Prevention

Restrain the ways request can be made.

• Mutual Exclusion – not required for sharable resources; must hold for nonsharable resources.
• Hold and Wait – must guarantee that whenever a process requests a resource, it does not hold any other resources.

1. Require process to request and be allocated all its resources before it begins execution, or allow process to request resources only when the process has none.
2. Low resource utilization; starvation possible.

• No Preemption – 

1. If a process that is holding some resources requests another resource that cannot be immediately allocated to it, then all resources currently being held are released.
2. Preempted resources are added to the list of resources for which the process is waiting.
3. Process will be restarted only when it can regain its old resources, as well as the new ones that it is requesting.

• Circular Wait – impose a total ordering of all resource types, and require that each process requests resources in an increasing order of enumeration.

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