what are the rules u follow when u r writing critical
section of code?
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Answer / teja
1.The operation must be atomic
2.The atomicity is ensured by disabling the interrupts and
immediately after crictical section enabling the
interrupts..here slight precausion has to be taken i.e do
not forget the enabling of interrupts ....
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Answer / bb
Always keep your execution code as minimal as possible in
the critical section.
Never use blocking calls in the critical section.
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Answer / vinod
a) Use Atomic Instructions
b) Remember to enable interrupts
c) Make the critical section code as small as possible.
(Prefer not more than 20 instructions)
d) Prefer not to call other functions from the critical
section. if u r calling, see that there is no critical
section in the other function too. Critical section is
bounded by Disable Interrupt and Enable Interrupt.
Check the example below.
fnA()
{
/* Critical Section Start */
Disable_Interrupt();
Some Instructions A ....
Call FnB();
/* do Something B */
Some Instructions B ....
/* Critical Section End */
}
fnB()
{
/* Critical Section Start */
Disable_Interrupt();
Some Instructions ..
Enable_Interrupts();
/* Critical Section End */
}
Now the Enable_Interrupts in fnB() will enable the
interrupts and hence "Some Instructions B .." in fnA()
which should have been in critical section will no more be
in critical section because the interrupts are already
enabled!!
Please check if this condition is handled by the Enable and
Disable functions. If you want suggestions on how to solve
this problem, do revert back
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Answer / vineesh mca@tkm
1. Operation Must be Atomic
2. The process which are not currently executing its
rtemainder section are only allowed to make request to
execute its critical section
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Answer / rk
1.The operation must be atomic
2.The atomicity is ensured by disabling the interrupts and
immediately after crictical section enabling the
interrupts..here slight precausion has to be taken i.e do
not forget the enabling of interrupts ....
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
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