| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 4 Labor Day |
sep 5 Reg Day |
sep 6 LEC 1 (rtm): Introduction and examples (handouts: xv6 book) Preparation: Read chapter 1 (for your amusement: Unix) Assignment: Lab util: Unix utilities |
sep 7 | sep 8 |
| sep 11 LEC 2 (ab): C in xv6, slides, and examples Preparation: 2.9 (Bitwise operators) and 5.1 (Pointers and addresses) through 5.6 (Pointer arrays) and 6.4 (pointers to structures) by Kernighan and Ritchie (K&R) |
sep 12 | sep 13 LEC 3 (rtm): OS design Preparation: Read chapter 2 and xv6 code: kernel/proc.h, kernel/defs.h, kernel/entry.S, kernel/main.c, user/initcode.S, user/init.c, and skim kernel/proc.c and kernel/exec.c Homework 1 due: Question Assignment: Lab syscall: System calls |
sep 14 DUE: Lab util |
sep 15 |
| sep 18 LEC 4 (rtm): page tables Preparation: Read Chapter 3 and kernel/memlayout.h, kernel/vm.c, kernel/kalloc.c, kernel/riscv.h, and kernel/exec.c Homework 2 due: Question |
sep 19 | sep 20 LEC 5 (TAs): GDB Calling conventions Preparation: Read Calling Convention Assignment: Lab pgtbl: Page tables |
sep 21 DUE: Lab syscall |
sep 22 |
| sep 25 LEC 6 (rtm): System call entry/exit Preparation: Read Chapter 4, except 4.6 and kernel/riscv.h, kernel/trampoline.S, and kernel/trap.c Homework 3 due: Question |
sep 26 | sep 27 LEC 7 (ab): Page faults (slides) Preparation: Read Section 4.6 Homework 4 due: Question Assignment: Lab traps: Traps |
sep 28 DUE: Lab pgtbl |
sep 29 |
| oct 2 LEC 8 (ab): Q&A labs (slides) Homework 5 due: Question |
oct 3 | oct 4 LEC 9 (rtm): Device drivers Preparation: Read Chapter 5 and kernel/kernelvec.S, kernel/plic.c, kernel/console.c, kernel/uart.c, kernel/printf.c Homework 6 due: Question Assignment: Lab cow: Copy-on-write fork |
oct 5 DUE: Lab traps |
oct 6 ADD DATE |
| oct 9 Indigenous Peoples Day |
oct 10 | oct 11 LEC 10 (ab): Locking Preparation: Read "Locking" with kernel/spinlock.h and kernel/spinlock.c Homework 7 due: Question |
oct 12 | oct 13 |
| oct 16 LEC 11 (rtm): Scheduling 1 Preparation: Read "Scheduling" through Section 7.4, and kernel/proc.c, kernel/swtch.S Homework 8 due: Question |
oct 17 | oct 18 LEC 12 (rtm): Coordination, code Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling", and corresponding parts of kernel/proc.c, kernel/sleeplock.c Homework 9 due: Question Assignment: Lab thread: Multithreading |
oct 19 DUE: Lab cow |
oct 20 |
| oct 23 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
oct 24 | oct 25 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab Assignment: Lab net: Network driver |
oct 26 DUE: Lab thread |
oct 27 |
| oct 30 Class is canceled Homework 10 due: Question |
oct 31 | nov 1 LEC 13 (ab): File systems (slides) Preparation: Read kernel/bio.c, kernel/fs.c, kernel/sysfile.c, kernel/file.c and "File system" (except for the logging sections) Homework 11 due: Question |
nov 2 | nov 3 |
| nov 6 LEC 14 (ab): Crash recovery (slides) Preparation: Read kernel/log.c and the logging sections of the "File system" chapter Homework 12 due: Question |
nov 7 DUE: Lab net |
nov 8 LEC 15 (rtm): File system performance and fast crash recovery Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) Homework 13 due: Question Assignment: Lab lock: Parallelism/locking |
nov 9 | nov 10 Veteran's Day |
| nov 13 LEC 16 (ab): Virtual memory for applications (baker example) (slides) Preparation: Read Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs (1991) Homework 14 due: Question |
nov 14 | nov 15 LEC 17 (rtm): OS Organization Preparation: Read The Performance of micro-Kernel-Based Systems (1997) Homework 15 due: Question Assignment: Lab fs: File system |
nov 16 DUE: Lab lock |
nov 17 |
| nov 20 LEC 18 (ab): Virtual Machines Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 16 due: Question |
nov 21 | nov 22 DROP DATE Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
nov 23 - nov 24 Thanksgiving |
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| nov 27 LEC 19 (ab): Kernels and HLL Preparation: Read the Biscuit paper (2018), FAQ Homework 17 due: Question |
nov 28 | nov 29 LEC 20 (ab): Networking Preparation: Read Receive Livelock (1996) Homework 18 due: Question DUE: Lab fs Assignment: Lab mmap: Mmap |
nov 30 | dec 1 |
| dec 4 LEC 21 (ab): Meltdown Preparation: Read Meltdown (2018) Homework 19 due: Question |
dec 5 | dec 6 LEC 22 (rtm): Multi-Core scalability and RCU Preparation: Read RCU paper (2013), FAQ Homework 20 due: Question |
dec 7 | dec 8 |
| dec 11 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
dec 12 DUE: Lab mmap |
dec 13 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 23 (Sanjit): Kernel extensibility Preparation: Read Intro to eBPF (LWN) |
dec 14 | dec 15 |
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