This document discusses deadlock prevention by invalidating one of the four conditions necessary for deadlock: mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait. It describes strategies to prevent each condition, such as not requiring mutual exclusion for sharable resources, requesting all resources before execution or only when a process has none to prevent hold and wait, allowing preemption of held resources to prevent no preemption, and imposing a total ordering of resource requests to prevent circular wait. These techniques aim to ensure deadlock is excluded from the beginning.