Deadlocks

[nwallaq]

hi,

i am a new user of this SUSE OS and have been asked to prepare a report on how does this operating system handle and avoid deadlocks?

i m familiar with theoretical documentation of deadlocks

can any one please provide some links to documentation of this OS which relates to how/which methods are practically used by SUSE to handle and avoid deadlocks

please note google does not help, as there is so much material that it gets really really confusing, (there is too much for what and how is deadlock but nothing which say SUSE IMPLEMENTS THESE METHODS for DEADLOCK avoidance...)

any help will be really appreciated

thanking all of you in advance

[linuxaria]

IMO, you should not just search for Suse, i don't think Suse has some special about deadlocks.

Just check the net for Linux and deadlocks, and you'll find some documentation about the kernel (is this that are you searching ?)

Something like that ?
Deadlock management in Linux | KernelTrap

[nwallaq]

yes, but problem is have to select a varient of linux, like suse or something else...

yes am aware that all use linux kernal but does any implementation of linux have any special feature for managing deadlocks which is only "KNOWN/WELL KNOWN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION"?

[gogalthorp]

Suse does nothing that the basic kernel does or does not do with deadlocks.

All distros tweak the kernel but deadlock would not be be something I'd expect them to do If they did it would be contributed back to the main tree and all distros would use it.

This smacks of some IT Windows dead heads trying to invent some reason not to use Linux.

Is there a real reason to even question this? ie why do they care? If you want a Suse specific answer contact Novell. They are the only ones that can answer this definitively. Or you could do a comparison of the source of the main Linux kernel code and Suse kernel code and see if any changes are made to how Suse works versus how the main kernel works in this regard. Both source codes are freely available.