Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
sep 4 | sep 5 Reg Day |
sep 6 LEC 1: Operating systems (handouts: xv6 source, xv6 book) Preparation: Unix intro Assignment: Lab 1: C, Assembly, Tools, and Bootstrapping |
sep 7 | sep 8 |
sep 11 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 12 | sep 13 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: HW: shell Assignment: Lab 2: Memory management |
sep 14 DUE: Lab 1 |
sep 15 |
sep 18 LEC 4: Shell & OS organization Preparation: Read chapter 0 of the xv6 book. Homework 2 due: shell |
sep 19 | sep 20 LEC 5: Isolation mechanisms Preparation: Read "Chapter 1: Operating system organization" and the related xv6 source files Assignment: HW: system calls |
sep 21 | sep 22 |
sep 25 LEC 6: Virtual memory (handouts: page table translation and registers) (slides) Preparation: Read "Chapter 2: Page Tables" Homework 3 due: system calls Assignment: HW lazy page allocation |
sep 26 | sep 27 LEC 7: Using virtual memory (handout: JOS virtual memory layout) (slides) Homework 4 due: HW lazy page allocation Assignment: HW xv6 CPU alarm Assignment: Lab 3: User-Level Environments |
sep 28 DUE: Lab 2 |
sep 29 Student holiday |
oct 2 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 Assignment: HW multithreaded programming |
oct 3 | oct 4 LEC 9: Multiprocessors and locking (slides) Preparation: Read "Locking" with spinlock.c and skim mp.c Homework 6 due: HW multithreaded programming Assignment: HW xv6 locks |
oct 5 DUE: Lab 3 (Part A) |
oct 6 ADD DATE |
oct 9 - oct 10 Columbus Day |
oct 11 LEC 10: Processes and switching Preparation: Read "Scheduling" up to "Sleep and wakeup" and proc.c, swtch.S Homework 7 due: HW xv6 locks Assignment: HW uthreads Assignment: Lab 4: Preemptive Multitasking |
oct 12 DUE: Lab 3 (Part B) |
oct 13 | |
oct 16 LEC 11: sleep&wakeup Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling", and corresponding parts of proc.c Homework 8 due: HW uthreads Assignment: HW barrier |
oct 17 | oct 18 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 19 DUE: Lab 4 (Part A) |
oct 20 |
oct 23 Exam #1 open book and notes scope: Lectures 1 through 11, HW 1 through 8, labs 1 through 3 practice: previous years' quizzes. |
oct 24 | oct 25 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 26 DUE: Lab 4 (Part B) |
oct 27 |
oct 30 Hacking day |
oct 31 | nov 1 Hacking day Assignment: Lab 5: File system, spawn, and sh |
nov 2 DUE: Lab 4 (Part C) |
nov 3 DUE: Piazza discussion final project |
nov 6 LEC 14: File system performance and fast crash recovery Homework 11 due: HW crash Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) Assignment: mmap() |
nov 7 | nov 8 LEC 15: Virtual Memory (2) (slides) Preparation: Read Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs (1991) Homework 12 due: mmap |
nov 9 DUE: Final project proposal (if doing project) |
nov 10 Veteran's Day |
nov 13 LEC 16: OS Organization Preparation: Read Exokernel (1995) Homework 13 due: HW exokernel question |
nov 14 | nov 15 LEC 17: Language/OS co-design (slides) Preparation: Read Singularity (2007) Homework 14 due: Singularity question |
nov 16 DUE: Lab 5 |
nov 17 |
nov 20 LEC 18: Scalable locks (slides) (code) Preparation: Read Non-scalable locks paper (2012) Homework 15 due: ticket lock question |
nov 21 | nov 22 DROP DATE Hacking day |
nov 23 - nov 24 Thanksgiving |
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nov 27 LEC 19: Scaling OSes slides Preparation: Read RCU (2013) Homework 16 due: RCU question DUE: Email us a status update on your final project (a paragraph) |
nov 28 | nov 29 LEC 20: Virtual Machines (1) (slides) Preparation: Read Software vs Hardware Virtualization (2006) Homework 17 due: VM question |
nov 30 | dec 1 |
dec 4 LEC 21: Virtual Machines (2) Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 18 due: Dune question |
dec 5 | dec 6 Hacking day |
dec 7 DUE: Lab 6 (networking) or lab 7 (Final project) |
dec 8 |
dec 11 LEC 22: High-performance networking Preparation: Read IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (2014) Homework 19 due: IX question |
dec 12 | dec 13 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 23: demos in class; guest lecture by Dan Cross of Google: Akaros: Operating Systems, Research, and Industrial Applications Project sign-offs |
dec 14 | dec 15 |
dec 18 | dec 19 Exam #2 1:30-3:30p, Walker Gym. open book, notes, and papers. scope: Lectures 12 through last lecture, labs 4 and 5. practice: previous years' quizzes. |
dec 20 | dec 21 | dec 22 |
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