Operating Systems

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@mcs.kent.edu MSB 351, 672-4004 ext. 351 Office hours = Tu 1-3pm, Th 1-3pm	Teaching Assistant: Ms. JunLi Li jli@mcs.kent.edu MSB 209, 672-4004 ext. 209 Office hours = Mon Fri 10am-noon
Syllabus & Announcements Syllabus (9/3/97) Updated Schedule (12/5/97) How to view the lectures How to view/print on a Mac or PC Easier PC setup	Miscellaneous Spring 1997 OS web page Errata for Operating Systems Concepts, 4th edition "An Introduction to Programming with Threads", Andrew Birrell, DEC "UNIX Implemenation", Ken Thompson, AT&T, 1978. "A Fast File System for UNIX", McKusick, Joy, Leffler, Fabry, UC Berkeley, 1985.
Exams Exam 1 (10/10/97) Solution Mean = 81.6, Standard Deviation = 14.7 Exam 2 (11/10/97) Solution Mean = 80.4, Standard Deviation = 14.1 Exam 3 (12/10/97) Solution Mean = 89.9, Standard Deviation = 9.7 Final Exam (12/17/97) Solution Mean = 78.1, Standard Deviation = 17.0	Homework Assignments Homework 1 (due in class 9/22/97) Solution Homework 2 (due in class 10/15/97) Solution Homework 3 (due in class 11/3/97) Solution Homework 4 (due in class 12/8/97) Solution
Lecture Notes 9/3/97 Lecture 01 -- Introduction 9/5/97 Lecture 02 -- OS History 9/8/97 Lecture 03 -- Computer System Structures 9/10/97 Lecture 04 -- Operating System Structures 9/12/97 Lecture 05 -- Processes, Part I 9/15/97 Lecture 06 -- Processes, Part II 9/17/97 Lecture 07 -- Interprocess Communication 9/19/97 Lecture 08 -- Threads 9/22/97 Lecture 09 -- Intro to Nachos 9/24/97 Lecture 10 -- Mutual Exclusion 9/26/97 Lecture 11 -- Semaphores 9/29/97 Lecture 12 -- Semaphore Implementation 10/1/97 Lecture 13 -- Locks and CVs, Part I 10/3/97 Lecture 14 -- Locks and CVs, Part II 10/6/97 Lecture 15 -- Readers/Writers Problem 10/8/97 Lecture 16 -- Non-Preemptive Scheduling 10/13/97 Lecture 17 -- Preemptive Scheduling 10/15/97 Lecture 18 -- Complex CPU Scheduling For some reason, this doesn't work with ghostview Here's a full-size version that does 10/17/97 Lecture 19 -- Deadlock & Prevention 10/20/97 Lecture 20 -- Deadlock Detection 10/22/97 Lecture 21 -- Deadlock Avoidance 10/24/97 Lecture 22 -- Simple Memory Management 10/27/97 Lecture 23 -- Dynamic Memory Allocation 10/29/97 Lecture 24 -- Partitioning & Swapping 10/31/97 Lecture 25 -- Segmentation 11/3/97 Lecture 26 -- Paging 11/5/97 Lecture N1 -- Networks I (Prof. Peyravi) 11/7/97 Lecture 27 -- Demand Paging 11/12/97 Lecture N2 -- Networks II (Prof. Peyravi) 11/14/97 Lecture 28 -- Page Replacement 11/17/97 Lecture 29 -- File System Operations 11/19/97 Lecture 30 -- File System Data Structs 11/21/97 Lecture 31 -- File System Implem., Part I 11/24/97 Lecture 32 -- File System Implem., Part II 12/1/97 Lecture 33 -- Disk Management 12/3/97 Lecture 34 -- Distributed Systems 12/5/97 Lecture 35 -- Distributed File Systems 12/8/97 Lecture 36 -- Distributed Synchronization 12/12/97 Lecture 37 -- Last Class	Project Information Project 1: (due via email on 10/3/97) How to get an early start The assignment Frequently-asked questions Important Announcement Solution (note: prob 2.8 is worth 8 points) Project 2: (due via email on 10/24/97) The assignment Frequently-asked questions Project 3: (due via email on 11/21/97) The assignment Frequently-asked questions Project 4: (due via email on 12/5/97) The assignment Extra Credit Nachos Information Overview paper, Tom Anderson, UC Berkeley (similar to Appendix A) "A Road Map Through Nachos", Thomas Narten, Duke Univ "Salsa -- An Operating Systems Tutorial", Archna Kalra, UMass Amherst "Reading Nachos Source Code", Michael O'Donnell, U Chicago Nachos Home Page, UC Berkeley C++, Debugging, etc. "A Quick Introduction to C++", Anderson/Christopher, UC Berkeley "Debugging with GDB", Stallman & Pesch GNU Debugger (gdb) reference card