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Process Description and Control
B.Ramamurthy
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 2
Introduction
 The fundamental task of any operating system is
process management.
 OS must allocate resources to processes, enable
sharing of information, protect resources, and
enable synchronization among processes.
 In many modern OS the problems of process
management is compounded by introduction of
threads.
 We will process management in this chapter and
threads in the next.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 3
Topics for discussion
Requirement of process
Process states
Creation, termination and suspension
Five State Model
Process Control Block (PCB)
Process control
Unix System V
Summary
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 4
What is a process?
 A process is simply a program in execution: an instance of a
program execution.
 Unit of work individually schedulable by an operating system.
 OS keeps track of all the active processes and allocates system
resources to them according to policies devised to meet design
performance objectives.
 To meet process requirements OS must maintain many data
structures efficiently.
 The process abstraction is a fundamental OS means for
management of concurrent program execution. Example:
instances of process co-existing.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 5
Major requirements
 OS must interleave the execution of a number of
processes to maximize processor use while
providing reasonable response time.
 OS must allocate resources to processes in
conformance with a specific policy. Example: (i)
higher priority, (ii) avoid deadlock.
 Support user creation of processes and IPC both of
which may aid in the structuring of applications.
 Reading assignment: pages 101-105 including
“two state process model”
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 6
Process creation
 Four common events that lead to a process
creation are:
1) When a new batch-job is presented for execution.
2) When an interactive user logs in.
3) When OS needs to perform an operation (usually
IO) on behalf of a user process, concurrently with
that process.
4) To exploit parallelism an user process can spawn a
number of processes.
==> concept of parent and child processes.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 7
Termination of a process
 Normal completion, time limit exceeded, memory
unavailable
 Bounds violation, protection error, arithmetic error, invalid
instruction
 IO failure, Operator intervention, parent termination,
parent request
 A number of other conditions are possible.
 Segmentation fault : usually happens when you try
write/read into/from a non-existent array/structure/object
component. Or access a pointer to a dynamic data before
creating it. (new etc.)
 Bus error: Related to function call and return. You have
messed up the stack where the return address or parameters
are stored.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 8
A five-state process model
 Five states: New, Ready, Running, Blocked, Exit
 New : A process has been created but has not yet been
admitted to the pool of executable processes.
 Ready : Processes that are prepared to run if given an
opportunity. That is, they are not waiting on anything
except the CPU availability.
 Running: The process that is currently being executed.
(Assume single processor for simplicity.)
 Blocked : A process that cannot execute until a specified
event such as an IO completion occurs.
 Exit: A process that has been released by OS either after
normal termination or after abnormal termination (error).
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 9
State Transition Diagram
NEW READY RUNNING
BLOCKED
EXIT
Admit
Dispatch
Time-out
Release
Event
Wait
Event
Occurs
Think of the conditions under which state transitions may take place.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 10
Queuing model
Event1 Wait
Admit
Ready queue
Dispatch
CPU
Release
Time-out
Event1
Occurs
Event2 Wait
Event2
Occurs
Eventn Wait
Event n
occurs
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 11
Process suspension
 Many OS are built around (Ready, Running,
Blocked) states. But there is one more state that
may aid in the operation of an OS - suspended
state.
 When none of the processes occupying the main
memory is in a Ready state, OS swaps one of the
blocked processes out onto to the Suspend queue.
 When a Suspended process is ready to run it
moves into “Ready, Suspend” queue. Thus we
have two more state: Blocked_Suspend,
Ready_Suspend.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 12
Process suspension (contd.)
 Blocked_suspend : The process is in the secondary
memory and awaiting an event.
 Ready_suspend : The process is in the secondary
memory but is available for execution as soon as it is
loaded into the main memory.
 State transition diagram Fig.3.7
 Observe on what condition does a state transition take
place? What are the possible state transitions?
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 13
State Transition Diagram (take 2)
NEW READY RUNNING
BLOCKED
EXIT
Admit
Dispatch
Time-out
Release
Event
Wait
Event
Occurs
Think of the conditions under which state transitions may take place.
Activate
Suspend
Event occurs
Activate
Suspend
Blocked
Suspend
Ready
Suspend
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 14
Process description
 OS constructs and maintains tables of information
about each entity that it is managing : memory
tables, IO tables, file tables, process tables.
 Process control block: Associated with each
process are a number of attributes used by OS for
process control. This collection is known as PCB.
 Process image: Collection of program, data, stack,
and PCB together is known as Process image.
 For more details on PCB see Table 3.6
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 15
Process control block
Contains three categories of information:
1) Process identification
2) Process state information
3) Process control information
Process identification:
– numeric identifier for the process (pid)
– identifier of the parent (ppid)
– user identifier (uid) - id of the usr responsible
for the process.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 16
Process control block (contd.)
Process state information:
– User visible registers
– Control and status registers : PC, IR, PSW,
interrupt related bits, execution mode.
– Stack pointers
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 17
Process control block (contd.)
Process control information:
– Scheduling and state information : Process
state, priority, scheduling-related info., event
awaited.
– Data structuring : pointers to other processes
(PCBs): belong to the same queue, parent of
process, child of process or some other
relationship.
– Interprocess comm: Various flags, signals,
messages may be maintained in PCBs.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 18
Process control block (contd.)
 Process control information (contd.)
– Process privileges: access privileges to certain
memory area, critical structures etc.
– Memory management: pointer to the various
memory management data structures.
– Resource ownership : Pointer to resources such
as opened files. Info may be used by scheduler.
 PCBs need to be protected from inadvertent
destruction by any routine. So protection of PCBs
is a critical issue in the design of an OS.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 19
OS Functions related to
Processes
 Process management: Process creation,
termination, scheduling, dispatching, switching,
synchronization, IPC support, management of
PCBs
 Memory management: Allocation of address space
to processes, swapping, page and segment
management.
 IO management: Buffer management, allocation
of IO channels and devices to processes.
 Support functions: Interrupt handling, accounting,
monitoring.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 20
Modes of execution
 Two modes : user mode and a privileged mode called the
kernel mode.
 Why? It is necessary to protect the OS and key OS tables
such as PCBs from interference by user programs.
 In the kernel mode, the software has complete control of
the processor and all its hardware.
 When a user makes a system call or when an interrupt
transfers control to a system routine, an instruction to
change mode is executed. This mode change will result in
an error unless permitted by OS.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 21
Creation of a process
Assign a unique pid to the new process.
Allocate space for all the elements of the
process image. How much?
The process control block is initialized.
Borrow info from parent.
The appropriate linkages are set: for
scheduling, state queues..
Create and initialize other data structures.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 22
Process Interruption
 Two kinds of process interruptions: interrupt and
trap.
 Interrupt: Caused by some event external to and
asynchronous to the currently running process,
such as completion of IO.
 Trap : Error or exception condition generated
within the currently running process. Ex: illegal
access to a file, arithmetic exception.
 (supervisor call) : explicit interruption.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 23
Process and Context Switching
 Clock interrupt: The OS determines if the time
slice of the currently running process is over, then
switches it to Ready state, and dispatches another
from Ready queue. “Process switch”
 Memory fault: (Page fault) A page fault occurs
when the requested program page is not in the
main memory. OS (page fault handler) brings in
the page requested, resumes faulted process.
 IO Interrupt : OS determines what IO action
occurred and takes appropriate action.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 24
Process and Context Switching
(contd.)
 Process switch: A transition between two memory-
resident processes in a multiprogramming
environment. Study the 7 steps involved in a
process switch.
 Context switch: Changing context from a
executing program to an Interrupt Service Routine
(ISR). Part of the context that will be modified by
the ISR needs to be saved. This required context is
saved and restored by hardware as specified by the
ISR.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 25
Process and Context Switching
(contd.)
How many context switch occurs per
process switch?
Typically 1Process switch : 100 context
switches
Process switch of more expensive than
context switch.
Read more on this.
This factor is very important for many
system design projects.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 26
Unix system V
 All user processes in the system have as root ancestor
a process called init. When a new interactive user logs
onto the system, init creates a user process,
subsequently this user process can create child
processes and so on. init is created at the boot-time.
 Process states : User running , kernel running, Ready
in memory, sleeping in memory (blocked), Ready
swapped (ready-suspended), sleeping swapped
(blocked-suspended), created (new), zombie ,
preempted (used in real-time scheduling).
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 27
Unix system V (contd.)
Reading assignment: Fig. 3.15 and
description, Table 3.10, 3.11, 3.12and 3.13.
What does unix process image contain?
What does process table entry contain? proc
What is unix U (user) area? u area
Function of each of these components.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 28
Process and kernel context
User mode
mode
kernel
process context
kernel context
Application pgms system calls
kernel tasks
interrupt services
Kernel acts on behalf of user
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 29
Process Context
User address space,
Control information : u area (accessed only
by the running process) and process table
entry (or proc area, accessed by the kernel)
Credentials : UID, GID etc.
Environment variables : inherited from the
parent
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 30
U area
Process control block
Pointer to proc structure
Signal handlers related information
Memory management information
Open file descriptor
Vnodes of the current directory
CPU usage stats
Per process kernel stack
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 31
Process control
 Process creation in unix is by means of the system
call fork().
 OS in response to a fork() call:
– Allocate slot in the process table for new
process.
– Assigns unique pid.
– Makes a copy of the process image, except for
the shared memory.
– Move child process to Ready queue.
– it returns pid of the child to the parent, and
a zero value to the child.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 32
Process control (contd.)
 All the above are done in the kernel mode in the process
context. When the kernel completes these it does one of the
following as a part of the dispatcher:
– Stay in the parent process. Control returns to the user
mode at the point of the fork call of the parent.
– Transfer control to the child process. The child process
begins executing at the same point in the code as the
parent, at the return from the fork call.
– Transfer control another process leaving both parent
and child in the Ready state.
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 33
Process creation - Example
main () {
int pid;
cout << “ just one process so far”<<endl;
pid = fork();
if (pid == 0)
cout <<“im the child “<< endl;
else if (pid > 0)
cout <<“im the parent”<< endl;
else
cout << “fork failed”<< endl;}
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 34
fork and exec
 Child process may choose to execute some other
program than the parent by using exec call.
 Exec overlays a new program on the existing
process.
 Child will not return to the old program unless
exec fails. This is an important point to remember.
 Why do we need to separate fork and exec? Why
can’t we have a single call that fork a new
program?
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 35
Example
if (( result = fork()) == 0 ) {
// child code
if (execv (“new program”,..) < 0)
perror (“execv failed “);
exit(1);
}
else if (result < 0 ) perror (“fork”); …}
/* parent code */
B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 36
Version of exec
Many versions of exec are offered by C
library
exece
execve
execvp
execl, execle, execlp
This will be explained to you with examples
in this week’s recitation.

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process control block ppt in operating system

  • 1. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 1 Process Description and Control B.Ramamurthy
  • 2. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 2 Introduction  The fundamental task of any operating system is process management.  OS must allocate resources to processes, enable sharing of information, protect resources, and enable synchronization among processes.  In many modern OS the problems of process management is compounded by introduction of threads.  We will process management in this chapter and threads in the next.
  • 3. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 3 Topics for discussion Requirement of process Process states Creation, termination and suspension Five State Model Process Control Block (PCB) Process control Unix System V Summary
  • 4. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 4 What is a process?  A process is simply a program in execution: an instance of a program execution.  Unit of work individually schedulable by an operating system.  OS keeps track of all the active processes and allocates system resources to them according to policies devised to meet design performance objectives.  To meet process requirements OS must maintain many data structures efficiently.  The process abstraction is a fundamental OS means for management of concurrent program execution. Example: instances of process co-existing.
  • 5. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 5 Major requirements  OS must interleave the execution of a number of processes to maximize processor use while providing reasonable response time.  OS must allocate resources to processes in conformance with a specific policy. Example: (i) higher priority, (ii) avoid deadlock.  Support user creation of processes and IPC both of which may aid in the structuring of applications.  Reading assignment: pages 101-105 including “two state process model”
  • 6. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 6 Process creation  Four common events that lead to a process creation are: 1) When a new batch-job is presented for execution. 2) When an interactive user logs in. 3) When OS needs to perform an operation (usually IO) on behalf of a user process, concurrently with that process. 4) To exploit parallelism an user process can spawn a number of processes. ==> concept of parent and child processes.
  • 7. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 7 Termination of a process  Normal completion, time limit exceeded, memory unavailable  Bounds violation, protection error, arithmetic error, invalid instruction  IO failure, Operator intervention, parent termination, parent request  A number of other conditions are possible.  Segmentation fault : usually happens when you try write/read into/from a non-existent array/structure/object component. Or access a pointer to a dynamic data before creating it. (new etc.)  Bus error: Related to function call and return. You have messed up the stack where the return address or parameters are stored.
  • 8. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 8 A five-state process model  Five states: New, Ready, Running, Blocked, Exit  New : A process has been created but has not yet been admitted to the pool of executable processes.  Ready : Processes that are prepared to run if given an opportunity. That is, they are not waiting on anything except the CPU availability.  Running: The process that is currently being executed. (Assume single processor for simplicity.)  Blocked : A process that cannot execute until a specified event such as an IO completion occurs.  Exit: A process that has been released by OS either after normal termination or after abnormal termination (error).
  • 9. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 9 State Transition Diagram NEW READY RUNNING BLOCKED EXIT Admit Dispatch Time-out Release Event Wait Event Occurs Think of the conditions under which state transitions may take place.
  • 10. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 10 Queuing model Event1 Wait Admit Ready queue Dispatch CPU Release Time-out Event1 Occurs Event2 Wait Event2 Occurs Eventn Wait Event n occurs
  • 11. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 11 Process suspension  Many OS are built around (Ready, Running, Blocked) states. But there is one more state that may aid in the operation of an OS - suspended state.  When none of the processes occupying the main memory is in a Ready state, OS swaps one of the blocked processes out onto to the Suspend queue.  When a Suspended process is ready to run it moves into “Ready, Suspend” queue. Thus we have two more state: Blocked_Suspend, Ready_Suspend.
  • 12. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 12 Process suspension (contd.)  Blocked_suspend : The process is in the secondary memory and awaiting an event.  Ready_suspend : The process is in the secondary memory but is available for execution as soon as it is loaded into the main memory.  State transition diagram Fig.3.7  Observe on what condition does a state transition take place? What are the possible state transitions?
  • 13. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 13 State Transition Diagram (take 2) NEW READY RUNNING BLOCKED EXIT Admit Dispatch Time-out Release Event Wait Event Occurs Think of the conditions under which state transitions may take place. Activate Suspend Event occurs Activate Suspend Blocked Suspend Ready Suspend
  • 14. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 14 Process description  OS constructs and maintains tables of information about each entity that it is managing : memory tables, IO tables, file tables, process tables.  Process control block: Associated with each process are a number of attributes used by OS for process control. This collection is known as PCB.  Process image: Collection of program, data, stack, and PCB together is known as Process image.  For more details on PCB see Table 3.6
  • 15. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 15 Process control block Contains three categories of information: 1) Process identification 2) Process state information 3) Process control information Process identification: – numeric identifier for the process (pid) – identifier of the parent (ppid) – user identifier (uid) - id of the usr responsible for the process.
  • 16. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 16 Process control block (contd.) Process state information: – User visible registers – Control and status registers : PC, IR, PSW, interrupt related bits, execution mode. – Stack pointers
  • 17. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 17 Process control block (contd.) Process control information: – Scheduling and state information : Process state, priority, scheduling-related info., event awaited. – Data structuring : pointers to other processes (PCBs): belong to the same queue, parent of process, child of process or some other relationship. – Interprocess comm: Various flags, signals, messages may be maintained in PCBs.
  • 18. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 18 Process control block (contd.)  Process control information (contd.) – Process privileges: access privileges to certain memory area, critical structures etc. – Memory management: pointer to the various memory management data structures. – Resource ownership : Pointer to resources such as opened files. Info may be used by scheduler.  PCBs need to be protected from inadvertent destruction by any routine. So protection of PCBs is a critical issue in the design of an OS.
  • 19. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 19 OS Functions related to Processes  Process management: Process creation, termination, scheduling, dispatching, switching, synchronization, IPC support, management of PCBs  Memory management: Allocation of address space to processes, swapping, page and segment management.  IO management: Buffer management, allocation of IO channels and devices to processes.  Support functions: Interrupt handling, accounting, monitoring.
  • 20. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 20 Modes of execution  Two modes : user mode and a privileged mode called the kernel mode.  Why? It is necessary to protect the OS and key OS tables such as PCBs from interference by user programs.  In the kernel mode, the software has complete control of the processor and all its hardware.  When a user makes a system call or when an interrupt transfers control to a system routine, an instruction to change mode is executed. This mode change will result in an error unless permitted by OS.
  • 21. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 21 Creation of a process Assign a unique pid to the new process. Allocate space for all the elements of the process image. How much? The process control block is initialized. Borrow info from parent. The appropriate linkages are set: for scheduling, state queues.. Create and initialize other data structures.
  • 22. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 22 Process Interruption  Two kinds of process interruptions: interrupt and trap.  Interrupt: Caused by some event external to and asynchronous to the currently running process, such as completion of IO.  Trap : Error or exception condition generated within the currently running process. Ex: illegal access to a file, arithmetic exception.  (supervisor call) : explicit interruption.
  • 23. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 23 Process and Context Switching  Clock interrupt: The OS determines if the time slice of the currently running process is over, then switches it to Ready state, and dispatches another from Ready queue. “Process switch”  Memory fault: (Page fault) A page fault occurs when the requested program page is not in the main memory. OS (page fault handler) brings in the page requested, resumes faulted process.  IO Interrupt : OS determines what IO action occurred and takes appropriate action.
  • 24. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 24 Process and Context Switching (contd.)  Process switch: A transition between two memory- resident processes in a multiprogramming environment. Study the 7 steps involved in a process switch.  Context switch: Changing context from a executing program to an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR). Part of the context that will be modified by the ISR needs to be saved. This required context is saved and restored by hardware as specified by the ISR.
  • 25. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 25 Process and Context Switching (contd.) How many context switch occurs per process switch? Typically 1Process switch : 100 context switches Process switch of more expensive than context switch. Read more on this. This factor is very important for many system design projects.
  • 26. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 26 Unix system V  All user processes in the system have as root ancestor a process called init. When a new interactive user logs onto the system, init creates a user process, subsequently this user process can create child processes and so on. init is created at the boot-time.  Process states : User running , kernel running, Ready in memory, sleeping in memory (blocked), Ready swapped (ready-suspended), sleeping swapped (blocked-suspended), created (new), zombie , preempted (used in real-time scheduling).
  • 27. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 27 Unix system V (contd.) Reading assignment: Fig. 3.15 and description, Table 3.10, 3.11, 3.12and 3.13. What does unix process image contain? What does process table entry contain? proc What is unix U (user) area? u area Function of each of these components.
  • 28. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 28 Process and kernel context User mode mode kernel process context kernel context Application pgms system calls kernel tasks interrupt services Kernel acts on behalf of user
  • 29. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 29 Process Context User address space, Control information : u area (accessed only by the running process) and process table entry (or proc area, accessed by the kernel) Credentials : UID, GID etc. Environment variables : inherited from the parent
  • 30. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 30 U area Process control block Pointer to proc structure Signal handlers related information Memory management information Open file descriptor Vnodes of the current directory CPU usage stats Per process kernel stack
  • 31. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 31 Process control  Process creation in unix is by means of the system call fork().  OS in response to a fork() call: – Allocate slot in the process table for new process. – Assigns unique pid. – Makes a copy of the process image, except for the shared memory. – Move child process to Ready queue. – it returns pid of the child to the parent, and a zero value to the child.
  • 32. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 32 Process control (contd.)  All the above are done in the kernel mode in the process context. When the kernel completes these it does one of the following as a part of the dispatcher: – Stay in the parent process. Control returns to the user mode at the point of the fork call of the parent. – Transfer control to the child process. The child process begins executing at the same point in the code as the parent, at the return from the fork call. – Transfer control another process leaving both parent and child in the Ready state.
  • 33. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 33 Process creation - Example main () { int pid; cout << “ just one process so far”<<endl; pid = fork(); if (pid == 0) cout <<“im the child “<< endl; else if (pid > 0) cout <<“im the parent”<< endl; else cout << “fork failed”<< endl;}
  • 34. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 34 fork and exec  Child process may choose to execute some other program than the parent by using exec call.  Exec overlays a new program on the existing process.  Child will not return to the old program unless exec fails. This is an important point to remember.  Why do we need to separate fork and exec? Why can’t we have a single call that fork a new program?
  • 35. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 35 Example if (( result = fork()) == 0 ) { // child code if (execv (“new program”,..) < 0) perror (“execv failed “); exit(1); } else if (result < 0 ) perror (“fork”); …} /* parent code */
  • 36. B.Ramamurthy 1/11/2024 36 Version of exec Many versions of exec are offered by C library exece execve execvp execl, execle, execlp This will be explained to you with examples in this week’s recitation.