Course Description: This course is concerned with the
principles and practice of modern Operating Systems. We will study core
operating system principles: kernel design, processes and threads,
concurrency and synchronization, deadlock, resource management, memory
management and virtual memory, I/O and file systems, distributed file
systems, protection and security. We will examine the design and
implementation of different Operating Systems features across a
wide-variety of systems including UNIX - Linux, Solaris, Windows, and a
teaching Operating System called Nachos. We will learn about the inner
workings of the Operating System as well as the exposed systems
programming interface. Several programming projects will be used to gain
hands-on experience with real Operating Systems issues.
Course Objectives: Demystify the inner workings of
Operating System, To gain a firm grounding in the conceptual issues
surrounding good OS design, To understand the different roles played by
the Operating System, To understand the tradeoffs involved in the design
and implementation of Operating Systems, To understand OS abstractions
from the outside through systems programming interfaces.
Course Outline by Topical Areas:
- Course overview and introduction
- System structure
- OS structures
- Thread basics and models
- Thread implementation
- Synchronization basics
- Locks, CVs, examples
- Barriers, monitors, RW
- Synchronization implementation
- Process basics
- Process communication
- Advanced IPC: RPC
- Process scheduling
- Process deadlock
- Memory management basics
- Paging, segmentation
- Virtual memory
- I/O architecture
- Advanced storage architecture
- File system interface
- File system implementation
- Distributed file systems
- Protection
- Security
- Linux case study
- OS design principles
