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    Cmpt-300, Summer 2012, Assignment 1 Due Date May 25 2012

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    This document provides instructions for Assignment 1 of Cmpt-300, which is due on May 25, 2012. It lists 5 questions related to kernel mode, user space threads, thread scheduling, and interrupt handling. Students are asked to identify which instructions should only be allowed in kernel mode, discuss advantages and disadvantages of user space threads, explain why threads voluntarily give up the CPU, discuss if threads can be preempted by interrupts and why interrupt handlers use assembly language.

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    This document provides instructions for Assignment 1 of Cmpt-300, which is due on May 25, 2012. It lists 5 questions related to kernel mode, user space threads, thread scheduling, and interrupt handling. Students are asked to identify which instructions should only be allowed in kernel mode, discuss advantages and disadvantages of user space threads, explain why threads voluntarily give up the CPU, discuss if threads can be preempted by interrupts and why interrupt handlers use assembly language.

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    This document provides instructions for Assignment 1 of Cmpt-300, which is due on May 25, 2012. It lists 5 questions related to kernel mode, user space threads, thread scheduling, and interrupt handling. Students are asked to identify which instructions should only be allowed in kernel mode, discuss advantages and disadvantages of user space threads, explain why threads voluntarily give up the CPU, discuss if threads can be preempted by interrupts and why interrupt handlers use assembly language.

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    Cmpt-300, Summer 2012, Assignment 1 Due Date May 25 2012

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    Cmpt-300, Summer 2012, Assignment 1 Due date May 25 2012.

    Petra Berenbrink

    Question 1 Which of the following instructions should only be allowed in kernel mode? 1. Disable all interrupts. 2. Read the time-of-the-day clock. 3. Change the memory map. Question 2 What is the biggest advantage of implementing threads in user space? What is the biggest disadvantage? Question 3 Why would a thread ever voluntarily give up the CPU? Question 4 Can a thread be preempted by a clock interrupt? If so, under which conditions? If not, why not? Question 5 On all current computers, at least a part of the interrupt handlers are written in assembly language. Why?

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