| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 1 | sep 2 Reg Day |
sep 3 LEC 1: Operating systems (handouts: xv6 source, xv6 book) Preparation: Unix intro Assignment: HW: shell Assignment: Lab 1: C, Assembly, Tools, and Bootstrapping |
sep 4 | sep 5 |
| sep 8 LEC 2: PC hardware and x86 programming slides, notes Preparation: Read Bootstrap/PC hardware appendices and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: Boot xv6 |
sep 9 | sep 10 LEC 3: C and gdb (pointers example) Homework 1 due: Boot xv6 Preparation: Read 2.9 (Bitwise operators), 5.1 (Pointers and Addresses) through 5.5(Character Pointers and Functions) and 6.4 (pointers to structures) in K&R Assignment: Lab 2: Memory management |
sep 11 DUE: Lab 1 |
sep 12 |
| sep 15 LEC 4: Shell & OS organization Preparation: Read chapter 0 of the xv6 book. Homework 2 due: shell |
sep 16 | sep 17 LEC 5: Isolation mechanisms Preparation: Read "Chapter 1: The first process" and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: system calls |
sep 18 | sep 19 Student holiday |
| sep 22 LEC 6: Virtual memory (handouts: page table translation and registers) Preparation: Read "Chapter 2: Page Tables" Homework 3 due: systems calls Assignment: HW lazy page allocation |
sep 23 | sep 24 LEC 7: Using virtual memory (handout: JOS virtual memory layout) Homework 4 due: HW lazy page allocation Assignment: Lab 3: User-Level Environments |
sep 25 DUE: Lab 2 |
sep 26 |
| sep 29 LEC 8: System calls, interrupts, exceptions (handouts: IDT) Preparation: Read "Traps, interrupts, and drivers" and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW xv6 CPU alarm |
sep 30 | oct 1 Hacking day Homework 5 due: HW xv6 CPU alarm Assignment: HW multithreaded programming |
oct 2 DUE: Lab 3 (Part A) |
oct 3 ADD DATE |
| oct 6 Hacking day |
oct 7 | oct 8 LEC 9: Multiprocessors and locking Preparation: Read "Locking" with spinlock.c and skim mp.c Homework 6 due: HW multithreaded programming Assignment: HW xv6 locks Assignment: Lab 4: Preemptive Multitasking |
oct 9 DUE: Lab 3 (Part B) |
oct 10 |
| oct 13 Columbus Day |
oct 14 | oct 15 LEC 10: Processes and switching Preparation: Read "Scheduling" up to "Sleep and wakeup" with proc.c, setjmp.S, and sys_fork (in sysproc.c) Homework 7 due: HW xv6 locks Assignment: HW uthreads |
oct 16 DUE: Lab 4 (Part A) |
oct 17 |
| oct 20 LEC 11: sleep&wakeup Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling"; read remainder of proc.c and sys_wait, sys_exit, sys_kill Homework 8 due: HW uthreads Assignment: HW barrier |
oct 21 | oct 22 LEC 12: File systems Preparation: Read bio.c, fs.c, sysfile.c, file.c and "File system" except for the logging sections Homework 9 due: HW barrier Assignment: HW big files Assignment: Lab 7: Final Project |
oct 23 DUE: Lab 4 (Part B) |
oct 24 |
| oct 27 LEC 13: Crash recovery Preparation: Read log.c and the logging sections of "File system" Homework 10 due: HW big files Assignment: HW crash |
oct 28 | oct 29 Hacking day Assignment: Lab 5: File system, spawn, and sh |
oct 30 DUE: Lab 4 (Part C) |
oct 31 DUE: Piazza discussion final project |
| nov 3 QUIZ #1 open book and notes scope: Lectures 1 through 13, labs 1 through 3 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
nov 4 | nov 5 LEC 14: File system performance and fast crash recovery Homework 11 due: HW crash Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998); do Homework 14 |
nov 6 | nov 7 DUE: final project proposal |
| nov 10 - nov 11 Veteran's Day |
nov 12 LEC 15: OS Organization Preparation: Read Exokernel (1995) Homework 12 due: HW exokernel question |
nov 13 DUE: Lab 5 |
nov 14 | |
| nov 17 LEC 16: Language/OS co-design Preparation: Read Singularity (2007) |
nov 18 | nov 19 DROP DATE LEC 17: Scalable locks (code) Preparation: Read Non-scalable locks paper (2012) Homework 13 due: ticket lock question |
nov 20 | nov 21 |
| nov 24 LEC 18: Scaling OSes Preparation: Read RadixVM (2013) Homework 14 due: refcache question DUE: Email us a status update on your final project (a paragraph) |
nov 25 | nov 26 Hacking day |
nov 27 - nov 28 Thanksgiving |
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| dec 1 LEC 19: Virtual Machines Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 15 due: Dune question |
dec 2 | dec 3 Hacking day |
dec 4 | dec 5 DUE: Lab 6 or 7 |
| dec 8 LEC 20: High-performance networking Preparation: Read IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (2014) Homework 16 due: IX question Project sign-offs |
dec 9 | dec 10 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 21: demos in class Project sign-offs |
dec 11 | dec 12 |
| dec 15 | dec 16 | dec 17 Finals Period QUIZ #2 9:00-12:00 DUPONT open book and notes scope: Lectures 14 through last lecture, labs 4 and 5 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
dec 18 | dec 19 |
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