15-213/18-243 Introduction to Computer Systems
Lecture 11: Exceptions

• Reading: Ch 8.1-8.4
• Slides:
• Code:
• Concepts:
  • Hardware and software exceptions
  • Synchronous and asynchronous exceptions
  • Traps, faults, aborts, and interrupts
  • Processes
  • Concurrent execution
  • Context switch
  • User mode and kernel mode
  • fork, exit
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