Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
sep 5 | sep 6 Reg Day |
sep 7 LEC 1: Operating systems (html) (handouts: xv6 source, xv6 book) Preparation: Unix intro Assignment: HW: Boot xv6 Assignment: HW: shell Assignment: Lab 1: C, Assembly, Tools, and Bootstrapping |
sep 8 | sep 9 |
sep 12 LEC 2: PC hardware and x86 programming slides, notes Preparation: Read Bootstrap/PC hardware appendices and the related xv6 source files |
sep 13 | sep 14 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 15 DUE: Lab 1 |
sep 16 |
sep 19 LEC 4: Shell & OS organization Preparation: Read chapter 0 of the xv6 book. Homework 2 due: shell |
sep 20 | sep 21 LEC 5: Isolation mechanisms Preparation: Read "Chapter 1: The first process" and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: system calls |
sep 22 | sep 23 Student holiday |
sep 26 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 27 | sep 28 LEC 7: Using virtual memory (handout: JOS virtual memory layout) Homework 4 due: HW lazy page allocation Assignment: HW xv6 CPU alarm Assignment: Lab 3: User-Level Environments |
sep 29 DUE: Lab 2 |
sep 30 |
oct 3 LEC 8: System calls, interrupts, exceptions (handouts: IDT) Preparation: Read "Traps, interrupts, and drivers" and the related xv6 source files Homework 5 due: HW xv6 CPU alarm |
oct 4 | oct 5 Hacking day Assignment: HW multithreaded programming |
oct 6 DUE: Lab 3 (Part A) |
oct 7 ADD DATE |
oct 10 - oct 11 Columbus Day |
oct 12 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 13 DUE: Lab 3 (Part B) |
oct 14 | |
oct 17 LEC 10: Processes and switching Preparation: Read "Scheduling" up to "Sleep and wakeup" with proc.c, swtch.S, and sys_fork (in sysproc.c) Homework 7 due: HW xv6 locks Assignment: HW uthreads |
oct 18 | oct 19 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 20 DUE: Lab 4 (Part A) |
oct 21 |
oct 24 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 |
oct 25 | oct 26 LEC 13: Crash recovery Preparation: Read log.c and the logging sections of "File system" Homework 10 due: HW big files Assignment: HW crash Assignment: Lab 6: Networking Assignment: Lab 7: Final project |
oct 27 DUE: Lab 4 (Part B) |
oct 28 |
oct 31 QUIZ #1 location&time: walker (1-2:30p) open book and notes scope: Lectures 1 through 13, HW 1 through 10, labs 1 through 3 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
nov 1 | nov 2 Hacking day Assignment: Lab 5: File system, spawn, and sh |
nov 3 DUE: Lab 4 (Part C) |
nov 4 DUE: Piazza discussion final project |
nov 7 LEC 14: File system performance and fast crash recovery Homework 11 due: HW crash Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) |
nov 8 | nov 9 LEC 15: OS Organization Preparation: Read Exokernel (1995) Homework 12 due: HW exokernel question |
nov 10 DUE: Final project proposal (if doing project) |
nov 11 Veteran's Day |
nov 14 LEC 16: Language/OS co-design Preparation: Read Singularity (2007) Homework 13 due: Singularity question |
nov 15 | nov 16 Hacking day |
nov 17 DUE: Lab 5 |
nov 18 |
nov 21 LEC 17: Scalable locks (code) Preparation: Read Non-scalable locks paper (2012) Homework 14 due: ticket lock question |
nov 22 | nov 23 DROP DATE Hacking day |
nov 24 - nov 25 Thanksgiving |
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nov 28 LEC 18: Scaling OSes Preparation: Read RadixVM (2013) Homework 15 due: refcache question DUE: Email us a status update on your final project (a paragraph) |
nov 29 | nov 30 LEC 19: Virtual Machines Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 16 due: Dune question |
dec 1 | dec 2 |
dec 5 LEC 20: High-performance networking Preparation: Read IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (2014) Homework 17 due: IX question |
dec 6 | dec 7 Hacking day |
dec 8 DUE: Lab 6 (networking) or lab 7 (Final project) |
dec 9 |
dec 12 LEC 21: Certified systems (nodup.v, slides) Preparation: Read Using Crash Hoare Logic for Certifying the FSCQ File System (2015) Homework 18 due: FSCQ question |
dec 13 | dec 14 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 22: demos in class Project sign-offs |
dec 15 | dec 16 |
dec 19 | dec 20 | dec 21 Finals Period QUIZ #2 Time: 1:30-4:30p Location: Johnson Track (W35) open book and notes scope: Lectures 14 through last lecture, labs 4 and 5 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
dec 22 | dec 23 |
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