Operating Systems Assignment 3 Kernel
As you have seen in homework assignment 2, the kernel maintains the state for each process and records that state in the state field of the task_struct of the process. The state indicates whether the process is runnable or running (TASK_RUNNING), sleeping (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE), stopped (__TASK_STOPPED), dead (TASK_DEAD), etc. When a process is dead, the …