Course Schedule

Introduction, OS Basics

• Lecture 1
• Recording

• Reading: xv6 Ch. 1
• xv6 book
• xv6 source code
• Working Remotely
• Example vim & tmux configs

Exploring the OS, Remembering How to C

• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Recording

Booting Up

• Lecture 4
• Recording

• R1 Due ⋅ August 25

• L1 Due ⋅ August 25

• Quick C Tutorial
• TL;DR Pages
• git Commands
• boot.asm
• mini-os

Monday: Labor Day

Misc announcements, libc

• Lecture 5
• Recording

• Debugging with GDB
• Beej’s Debugging Guide
• logger.h
• Creating a Shell Alias

Processes and Daemons

• Lecture 6
• Recording (1st half)

System Calls

• Lecture 7
• Recording (2nd half)

• R2 Due ⋅ September 8

• L2 Due ⋅ September 8

• Quiz 1 ⋅ September 10

• Reading: OSTEP Ch 4, Ch 5, Ch 6
• fork.c
• readdir.c
• RISC-V Privilege Levels

Program Loader, Scripting

• init.c, exec.c, sh.c
• Recording

Inter-Process Communication

• Lecture 8
• Recording

• R3 Due ⋅ September 15

• L3 Due ⋅ September 15

• P1 Proposal Due ⋅ September 15

• Reading: IPC, Signals
• Signals
  • SIGKILL
  • signal.c
  • unkillable.c

Strace Discussion

• Recording

Pipes

• Lecture 9
• Recording

• P1 Implementation Due ⋅ September 26

• Reading: Review xv6 Ch. 1.3, Pipes

• Code Review Guidelines

• Signals

  • SIGKILL
  • signal.c
  • unkillable.c

• Pipes

  • AT&T Archives: UNIX (Video)
  • Julia Evans: Pipes
  • io-redir.c
  • pipe.c

Building a Shell

• Quiz 2 ⋅ October 1

• P1 Code Review Due ⋅ October 3

CPU Scheduling

Multi-Level Feedback Queues

Monday: Fall Break

Memory Allocation

• Quiz 3 ⋅ October 22

Segmentation

Enhancing our Allocator

Paging

Addressing

File Systems

• Quiz 4 ⋅ November 12

Files and Disks

Disk Scheduling & SSDs

• Quiz 5 ⋅ December 3