Pop Quiz 1 on Process, Interrupt

Tuesday, September 25

11. What are different states of a process?¶

• Created/New, Ready/Idle, Running, Blocked, Terminated
• Process for Virtual Memory: Swapped out and waiting, Swapped out and blocked

1.12. What are the major methods for a process to pass parameters of system call to OS? and how are they implemented?¶

• save parameters to registers
• save parameters to stack
• save parameters to block/table and have a register to point to block (store the address of the table)

1.1.13. Draw the timeline of interrupt processing¶