| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 5 Labor Day |
sep 6 Reg Day |
sep 7 LEC 1 (rtm): Introduction and examples (handouts: xv6 book) Preparation: Read chapter 1 (for your amusement: Unix) Homework 1 due: Question Assignment: Lab util: Unix utilities |
sep 8 | sep 9 |
| sep 12 LEC 2 (fk): C in xv6 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 13 | sep 14 LEC 3 (fk): 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 2 due: Question Assignment: Lab syscall: System calls |
sep 15 DUE: Lab util |
sep 16 |
| sep 19 LEC 4 (fk): page tables Preparation: Read Chapter 3 and kernel/memlayout.h, kernel/vm.c, kernel/kalloc.c, kernel/riscv.h, and kernel/exec.c Homework 3 due: Question |
sep 20 | sep 21 LEC 5 (TAs): GDB Calling conventions Preparation: Read Calling Convention Assignment: Lab pgtbl: Page tables |
sep 22 DUE: Lab syscall |
sep 23 |
| sep 26 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 4 due: Question |
sep 27 | sep 28 LEC 7 (fk): Page faults Preparation: Read Section 4.6 Homework 5 due: Question Assignment: Lab traps: Traps |
sep 29 DUE: Lab pgtbl |
sep 30 |
| oct 3 LEC 8 (fk): Q&A labs Homework 6 due: Question |
oct 4 | oct 5 LEC 9 (fk): Device drivers Preparation: Read Chapter 5 and kernel/kernelvec.S, kernel/plic.c, kernel/console.c, kernel/uart.c, kernel/printf.c Homework 7 due: Question Assignment: Lab cow: Copy-on-write fork |
oct 6 DUE: Lab traps |
oct 7 ADD DATE |
| oct 10 Indigenous Peoples Day |
oct 11 | oct 12 LEC 10 (fk): Locking Preparation: Read "Locking" with kernel/spinlock.h and kernel/spinlock.c Homework 8 due: Question |
oct 13 | oct 14 |
| oct 17 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
oct 18 | oct 19 LEC 11 (rtm): Scheduling 1 Preparation: Read "Scheduling" through Section 7.4, and kernel/proc.c, kernel/swtch.S Homework 9 due: Question Assignment: Lab thread: Multithreading |
oct 20 DUE: Lab cow |
oct 21 |
| oct 24 LEC 12 (rtm): Scheduling 2 (2020: notes, code, video) Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling", and corresponding parts of kernel/proc.c, kernel/sleeplock.c Homework 10 due: Question |
oct 25 | oct 26 LEC 13 (rtm): Q&A labs Homework 11 due: Question Assignment: Lab net: Network driver |
oct 27 DUE: Lab thread |
oct 28 |
| oct 31 LEC 14 (fk): File systems Preparation: Read kernel/bio.c, kernel/fs.c, kernel/sysfile.c, kernel/file.c and "File system" (except for the logging sections) Homework 12 due: Question |
nov 1 | nov 2 LEC 15 (fk): Crash recovery Preparation: Read kernel/log.c and the logging sections of the "File system" chapter Homework 13 due: Question |
nov 3 | nov 4 |
| nov 7 LEC 16 (rtm): File system performance and fast crash recovery Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) Homework 14 due: Question |
nov 8 DUE: Lab net |
nov 9 LEC 17 (fk): Virtual memory for applications (baker example) Preparation: Read Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs (1991) Homework 15 due: Question Assignment: Lab lock: Parallelism/locking |
nov 10 | nov 11 Veteran's Day |
| nov 14 LEC 18 (rtm): OS Organization Preparation: Read The Performance of micro-Kernel-Based Systems (1997) Homework 16 due: Question |
nov 15 | nov 16 LEC 19 (rtm): Virtual Machines Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 17 due: Question Assignment: Lab fs: File system |
nov 17 DUE: Lab lock |
nov 18 |
| nov 21 LEC 20 (fk): Kernels and HLL Preparation: Read the Biscuit paper (2018), FAQ Homework 18 due: Question |
nov 22 | nov 23 DROP DATE Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
nov 24 - nov 25 Thanksgiving |
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| nov 28 LEC 21 (rtm): Networking Preparation: Read Receive Livelock (1996) Homework 19 due: Question |
nov 29 | nov 30 LEC 22 (rtm): Meltdown Preparation: Read Meltdown (2018) Homework 20 due: Question DUE: Lab fs Assignment: Lab mmap: Mmap |
dec 1 | dec 2 |
| dec 5 LEC 23 (rtm): Multi-Core scalability and RCU Preparation: Read RCU paper (2013), FAQ Homework 21 due: Question |
dec 6 | dec 7 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
dec 8 | dec 9 |
| dec 12 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
dec 13 DUE: Lab mmap |
dec 14 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 24 (TAs): Current Research: SigmaOS |
dec 15 | dec 16 |
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