Lecture 8 review

1
Lecture 8 review

• Give three different types of elements in the
  process context?
• Where is process context stored?
• What is context switching?
• What is in the dispatching loop?

2

• How does the OS regain control after a process
  starts running?
• What kind of information should a process save
  (to maintain its context)?
• What are typical process states?