A shared variable x, initialized to zero, is operated on by four concurrent…

GATE · 2013 · CS · Computer Science & ITBARC · Computer Science · 2013

A shared variable x, initialized to zero, is operated on by four concurrent processes W, X, Y, Z as follows. Each of the processes W and X reads x from memory, increments by one, stores it to memory, and then terminates. Each of the processes Y and Z reads x from memory, decrements by two, stores it to memory, and then terminates. Each process before reading x invokes the P operation (i.e., wait) on a counting semaphore S and invokes the V operation (i.e., signal) on the semaphore S after storing x to memory. Semaphore S is initialized to two. What is the maximum possible value of x after all processes complete execution?

  1. A.

    -2

  2. B.

    -1

  3. C.

    1

  4. D.

    2

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