
Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos
- ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
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State
associated with execution environments
and threads
Execution
environment
Thread
Address space
tables
Saved
processor registers
Communication
interfaces, open files
Priority and
execution state (such as
BLOCKED)
Semaphores, other synchronization objects
Software
interrupt handling information
List of thread
identifiers
Execution
environment identifier
Pages of
address space resident in memory; hardware cache entries