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Process Control

Block
Process Management

 Process management involves tasks related to


processing like creation, scheduling,
termination, deadlock, etc.

 The operating systems allocate resources that


allow the process to exchange information.

 It synchronizes among processes and


safeguards the resources of other processes.
Process Control Block
Process Control Block-

 Process Control Block (PCB) is a data structure that


stores information about a particular process.

 This information is required by the CPU while executing


the process.

 Each process is identified by its own process control


block (PCB).
 It is also called as context of the process.
Diagrammatic
Representation
1. Process Id-
 Process Id s a unique Id that identifies each
process of the system uniquely.

 A process Id is assigned to each process during


its creation.
2. Program Counter-
 Program counter specifies the address of the instruction to
be executed next.

 Before execution, program counter is initialized with the


address of the first instruction of the program.

 After executing an instruction, value of program counter is


automatically incremented to point to the next instruction.

 This process repeats till the end of the program.


3. Process State-

•Each process goes through different states during its lifetime.


•Process state specifies the current state of the process.

4. Priority-
•Priority specifies how urgent is to execute the process.
•Process with the highest priority is allocated the CPU first
among all the processes.
5. General Purpose Registers-

 General purpose registers are used to hold the data of


process generated during its execution.

 Each process has its own set of registers which are


maintained by its PCB.
6. List of Open Files-

 Each process requires some files which must be present


in the main memory during its execution.
 PCB maintains a list of files used by the process during
its execution.

7. List of Open Devices-

 PCB maintains a list of open devices used by the process


during its execution.

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