3.2 Describe the actions taken by a kernel to context-switch between pro­cesses.

Answer: In general, the operating system  must save the state of the currently running process and restore the state of the process sched­uled to be run next. Saving the state of a process typically includes the values of all the CPU registers in addition to memory allocation. Con­text switches must also perform many architecture-specific operations, including flushing data and instruction caches.

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