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Design of Operating Systems

Description

An in-depth study of operating systems with a focus on the design and construction of a modern OS kernel. Fundamental operating system concepts such as booting, system calls, process and thread abstractions, scheduling, synchronization, interprocess communication, memory management (allocation, paging, mapping), file systems, device drivers, and networking.

Textbook(s)

Bovet and Cesati, Understanding the Linux Kernel (2.2, 2.4), O’Reilly 2001
Rubini and Corbet, Linux Device Drivers 2e (2.4), O’Reilly 2001
Welsh, Dalheimer, Kaufman, Running Linux 3e, O’Reilly 1999

Topics	Notes
OS, Kernel Intro Booting, Kernel Inititalization System Calls Modules and /proc Character Drivers Memory Addressing Processes Interrupts and Exceptions iPAQ/ARM Architecture Timers and Timing Memory, Page Allocator, SLAB Allocator mmap Process Address Space Page Fault Handler Signals Scheduling Kernel Sync/SMP Virtual File System Managing I/O Devices Disk Caches (block & page) Ext2 Filesystem Linux Networking	Overview.pdf Booting.pdf Syscalls.pdf CharDrivers.pdf MemoryAddressing.pdf Processes.pdf Other notes...

Topics

Notes

OS, Kernel Intro
Booting, Kernel Inititalization
System Calls
Modules and /proc
Character Drivers
Memory Addressing
Processes
Interrupts and Exceptions
iPAQ/ARM Architecture
Timers and Timing
Memory, Page Allocator, SLAB Allocator
mmap
Process Address Space
Page Fault Handler
Signals
Scheduling
Kernel Sync/SMP
Virtual File System
Managing I/O Devices
Disk Caches (block & page)
Ext2 Filesystem
Linux Networking

Overview.pdf
Booting.pdf
Syscalls.pdf
CharDrivers.pdf
MemoryAddressing.pdf
Processes.pdf
Other notes...

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Last Modified On: September 11, 2008