Semaphores are supported at hardware level by the TM4C123GH6PM. Provide the suggested steps your program should follow to use semaphores on this MCU.
Answer :- Software can use the synchronization primitives to implement a semaphore as follows:
1. Use a Load-Exclusive instruction to read from the semaphore
address to check whether the
semaphore is free.
2. If the semaphore is free, use a Store-Exclusive to write the
claim value to the semaphore
address.
3. If the returned status bit from step 2 indicates that the
Store-Exclusive succeeded, then the
software has claimed the semaphore. However, if the Store-Exclusive
failed, another process
might have claimed the semaphore after the software performed step
1.
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