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TSS
TSS may refer to: Organizations * Tanglin Secondary School, a government secondary school in Clementi, Singapore * The Southport School, Anglican day and boarding school on Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia * Tinana State School, a public primary school in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia * Thornhill Secondary School, in Canada * Tideway Scullers School, a rowing club in London, England * Telangana Sports School, a sports school in Hyderabad, India * Times Square Stores, a US retail department store chain * Technical Services Staff, a component of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency * TV Shinhiroshima, a TV station in Japan * Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE symbol) * Ton Steine Scherben, a German rock band * TSS (band), The Sunday Sadness, a French rock band * The Smart Solutions, a Multi National Exhibition and Advertising Company operating in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Oman, Bahrain. Retail * Times Square Stores, a defunct American department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Task State Segment
The task state segment (TSS) is a structure on x86-based computers which holds information about a Task (computing), task. It is used by the operating system Kernel (operating system), kernel for task management. Specifically, the following information is stored in the TSS: * Processor register state * I/O port permissions * Protection ring, Inner-privilege level stack pointers * Previous TSS link * Debug state * Shadow stack pointer All this information should be stored at specific locations within the TSS as specified in Volume 3(a), Chapter 8 of the IA-32 manuals. Location of the TSS The TSS may reside anywhere in computer memory, memory. A segment register called the task register (TR) holds a x86 memory segmentation, segment selector that points to a valid TSS segment descriptor which resides in the Global Descriptor Table, GDT (a TSS descriptor may not reside in the Local Descriptor Table, LDT). Therefore, to use a TSS the following must be done by the operating system ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |