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CS3841/Examples/concurrency/con2.c
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/*
* con2.c - Concurrency using flag array - version 1
* Allows threads to specify desire for critical secgion
* Due to race conditions with the flag array, it cannot guarentee mutual exclusion
*/
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
// shared global
static int counter1 = 0;
static int counter2 = 0;
// start flag
volatile int start = 0;
// flag array
volatile int flag[2] = {0, 0};
void *thread_routine(void *args)
{
int me = *((int *)args);
int you = me ? 0 : 1;
printf("Worker thread: %d ready, you are %d\n", me, you);
// wait for start from master thread
while (!start)
;
for (int j = 0; j < 100000000; j++)
{
while (flag[you])
{
/* do nothing */
}
flag[me] = 1;
// this is the critical section
counter1++;
counter2++;
// leaving critical section
flag[me] = 0;
}
printf("Worker thread: %d done\n", me);
return NULL;
}
int main()
{
int val1 = 0;
int val2 = 1;
pthread_t thr1;
pthread_t thr2;
if (pthread_create(&thr1, NULL, thread_routine, (void *)&val1) == -1)
{
printf("COULD NOT CREATE A THREAD\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if (pthread_create(&thr2, NULL, thread_routine, (void *)&val2) == -1)
{
printf("COULD NOT CREATE A THREAD\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
start = 1;
pthread_join(thr1, NULL);
pthread_join(thr2, NULL);
printf("counter1: %d\n", counter1);
printf("counter2: %d\n", counter2);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}