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Thread Interleaving and Race Conditions

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Thread Interleaving and Race Conditions

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Lin Cong
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I opened the file [Link] and searched for thread interleaving patterns.

For example, in my
run I saw:

Thread: 50, new value of count: 444053


Thread: 40, new value of count: 443981
Thread: 50, new value of count: 444058

Here the execution switched from Thread 50 → Thread 40 → Thread 50. This shows a
context switch, since the CPU stopped running one thread, scheduled another, and then went
back to the first one.

When I checked the values of count, I noticed that the numbers are not always sequential. For
example, it jumped backward (444053 → 443981) which indicates that two threads were
updating the shared variable shared_counter without mutual exclusion, leading to
inconsistent results. This confirms that the race condition happened and count was not updated
correctly.

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