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preemption and thread migration during times when preemption is
possible.</para>
 
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<caption>Transitions among thread states.</caption>
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<para>HelenOS userspace layer knows even smaller units of execution. Each
userspace thread can make use of an arbitrary number of pseudo threads.
These pseudo threads have their own synchronous register context,