| January 5 |
Introduction; What is an Operating System?
Read What is an Operating System? and Operating System Evaluation
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| January 7 |
The Process Model
Read OSTEP Chapter 4 (p. 27–36)
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| January 10 |
The Kernel Abstraction
Read The Kernel Abstraction
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| January 12 |
Interrupts and System Calls
Read OSTEP Chapter 6
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| January 14 |
Unix Process API
Read Process API
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| January 17 |
Race Conditions and Locks
Read OSTEP Chapter 28 (general concurrency refresher: OSTEP Chapter 26)
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| January 19 |
Condition Variables
Read OSTEP Chapter 30, section 30.2
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| January 21 |
Lab 2 WORK DAY in Olin 310
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| January 24 |
Threads
Read OSTEP Chapter 27
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| January 26 |
Semaphores and Advanced Locks
Read OSTEP Chapter 31, sections 31.1-5, 31.8
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| January 28 |
Writing Concurrent Software
Read OSTEP Chapter 29
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| January 31 |
Other Approaches to Concurrency
Read OSTEP Chapter 33
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| February 2 |
Caches and Address Translation
Read OSTEP Chapter 15
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| February 4 |
Segmentation and Paging
Read OSTEP Chapter 18
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| February 9 |
Paging: Smaller Tables
Read OSTEP Chapter 20
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| February 11 |
Paging: Faster Translations (TLBs)
Read OSTEP Chapter 19
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| February 14 |
Beyond Physical Memory
Read OSTEP Chapter 21 and (optionally) Chapter 22
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| February 16 |
Deadlock
Read OSTEP Section 31.6 and OSTEP Chapter 32.3
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| February 18 |
Uniprocessor Scheduling
Read OSTEP Chapter 8
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| February 21 |
Advanced Scheduling
No reading
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| February 23 |
Files and Directories
Read File System Introduction
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| February 25 |
File System Implementation
Read File System Implementation
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| February 28 |
File System Reliability
Read OSTEP Chapter 42
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| March 2 |
Software Protection and Virtual Machines
(optional) Xen and the Art of Virtualization
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| March 4 |
Meltdown
(optional) Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
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| March 7 |
Final Project WORK DAY in Olin 310
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| March 9 |
Microkernels and Unikernels
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| March 11 |
Final Project WORK DAY in Olin 310
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