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CS 235 Advanced Operating Systems, Fall 2006

Schedule (subject to change)

MonTueWedThuFri

Oct 2

L1 Operating systems

Oct 3

Oct 4

L2 x86 assembly language
Read: PC Assembly Language, Brennan's Guide

Oct 5

Oct 6

Oct 9

L3 Virtual memory
Read: Appel & Li

Oct 10

Oct 11

L4 Virtual memory II
Read: Memory mgmt in VMware

Oct 12

Oct 13

Lab 1: Booting a PC due at 11:59pm

Oct 16

L5 Steroidal copy-on-write
Read: Potemkin

Oct 17

Oct 18

L6 Kernel structure I
Read: L3

Oct 19

Oct 20

Oct 23

L7 Kernel structure II
Read: Exokernel

Oct 24

Oct 25

L8 Kernel structure III: Bugs
Read: OS bugs
(Background: Bugs as deviance)

Oct 26

Oct 27

Oct 30

L9 In-kernel isolation
Read: Nooks

Lab 2: memory management and exceptions due at 11:59pm

Oct 31

Nov 1

L10 Waking up user programs
Read: kqueue

Nov 2

Nov 3

Nov 6

Quiz 1 in class hours

Nov 7

Nov 8

No class

Nov 9

Nov 10

Holiday

Nov 13

L11 Scheduling I
Read: BVT

Lab 3: user environments due at 11:59pm

Nov 14

Nov 15

L12 Scheduling II
Read: Eliminating receive livelock

Nov 16

Nov 17

Nov 20

L13 File systems I
Read: Soft updates
Soft updates journal

Nov 21

Nov 22

L14 File systems II
Read: Rethink the sync

Nov 23

Thanksgiving

Nov 24

Nov 27

L15 Synchronization
Read: RCU
Please note that we may use a different paper; none of the RCU papers are perfect.
The following talk provides a good overview: Abstraction, Reality Checks and RCU

Lab 4: preemptive scheduling due at 11:59pm

Nov 28

Nov 29

No class

Nov 30

Dec 1

L16 Security and kernel structure I
Location: Moore 1003
Read: VMM security kernel

Dec 4

L17 Security and kernel structure II
Read: HiStar

Dec 5

Dec 6

Quiz 2 in class hours

Dec 7

Dec 8

Dec 11

Dec 12

Dec 13

Dec 14

Dec 15

OS bakeoff, 9-11a

Lab 5: file system & shell due at 11:59pm

Dec 15