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E.1 Partitions
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The partitions of a distributed program are classified
as either active or passive.
Post-Compilation Rules
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An
active
partition is a partition as defined in
10.2.
A
passive partition is a partition that has no thread of control
of its own, whose library units are all preelaborated, and whose data
and subprograms are accessible to one or more active partitions.
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A passive partition shall include only
library_items
that either are declared pure or are shared passive (see
10.2.1
and
E.2.1).
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An active partition shall be configured on a processing
node. A passive partition shall be configured either on a storage node
or on a processing node.
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The configuration of the partitions of a program
onto a distributed system shall be consistent with the possibility for
data references or calls between the partitions implied by their semantic
dependences.
Any reference to data or call of a subprogram
across partitions is called a
remote access.
Dynamic Semantics
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A
library_item
is elaborated as part of the elaboration of each partition that includes
it. If a normal library unit (see
E.2) has
state, then a separate copy of the state exists in each active partition
that elaborates it. The state evolves independently in each such partition.
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An
active partition
terminates when its environment task terminates.
A partition becomes
inaccessible if it terminates or if it is
aborted. An active partition is aborted when its environment task
is aborted. In addition, if a partition fails during its elaboration,
it becomes inaccessible to other partitions. Other implementation-defined
events can also result in a partition becoming inaccessible.
8/1
For a prefix
D that denotes a library-level declaration, excepting a declaration of
or within a declared-pure library unit, the following attribute is defined:
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- D'Partition_ID
-
Denotes a value of the type universal_integer
that identifies the partition in which D was elaborated. If D denotes
the declaration of a remote call interface library unit (see E.2.3)
the given partition is the one where the body of D was elaborated.
Bounded (Run-Time) Errors
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It is a bounded error for
there to be cyclic elaboration dependences between the active partitions
of a single distributed program.
The possible effects
are deadlock during elaboration, or the raising of Program_Error in one
or all of the active partitions involved.
Implementation Permissions
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An implementation may allow multiple active or
passive partitions to be configured on a single processing node, and
multiple passive partitions to be configured on a single storage node.
In these cases, the scheduling policies, treatment of priorities, and
management of shared resources between these partitions are implementation
defined.
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An implementation may allow separate copies of
an active partition to be configured on different processing nodes, and
to provide appropriate interactions between the copies to present a consistent
state of the partition to other active partitions.
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In an implementation, the partitions of a distributed
program need not be loaded and elaborated all at the same time; they
may be loaded and elaborated one at a time over an extended period of
time. An implementation may provide facilities to abort and reload a
partition during the execution of a distributed program.
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An implementation may allow the state of some
of the partitions of a distributed program to persist while other partitions
of the program terminate and are later reinvoked.
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3 Library units are grouped
into partitions after compile time, but before run time. At compile time,
only the relevant library unit properties are identified using categorization
pragmas.
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4 The value returned by
the Partition_ID attribute can be used as a parameter to implementation-provided
subprograms in order to query information about the partition.
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