Operating Systems Lectures

• Lecture 1: Introduction to UNIX System Calls Part 1
  
• Lecture 2: Introduction to UNIX System Calls Part 2
  
• Lecture 3: Threads, Address Spaces, Filesystem, Devices
  
• Lecture 4: PC Architecture
  
• Lecture 5: x86 Instruction Set, GCC Calling Conventions
  
• Lecture 6: Physical Memory Map, I/O, Segmentation
  
• Lecture 7: Segmentation, Trap Handling
  
• Lecture 8: Traps, Trap Handlers
  
• Lecture 9: Kernel data structures, Memory Management
  
• Lecture 10: Segmentation Review, Introduction to Paging
  
• Lecture 11: Paging
  
• Lecture 12: Process Address Spaces using Paging
  
• Lecture 13: Translation Lookaside Buffer, Large Pages, Boot Sector
  
• Lecture 14: Loading the Kernel, Initializing the Page Table
  
• Lecture 15: Setting up page table for user processes
  
• Lecture 16: Processes in action
  
• Lecture 17: Process structure, Context switching
  
• Lecture 18: Process kernel stack, Scheduler, Fork, Context-switch, Process Control Block, Trap entry and return
  
• Lecture 19: Creating the first process
  
• Lecture 20: Handling User Pointers, Concurrency
  
• Lecture 21: Locking
  
• Lecture 22: Fine-grained locking and its challenges
  
• Lecture 23: Locking variations
  
• Lecture 24: Condition Variables
  
• Lecture 25: Multiple producer-multiple consumer queue, Semaphores, Monitors
  
• Lecture 26: Transactions and lock-free primitives, Read/write locks
  
• Lecture 27: Synchronization in xv6: acquire/release, sleep/wakeup, exit/wait
  
• Lecture 28: More sychronization in xv6: kill, IDE device driver; Introduction to Demand Paging
  
• Lecture 29: Demand Paging; Introduction to Page Replacement
  
• Lecture 30: Page Replacement, Thrashing
  
• Lecture 31: Storage devices, Filesystem interfaces
  
• Lecture 32: Filesystem Implementation
  
• Lecture 33: Filesystem Operations
  
• Lecture 34: Crash Recovery and Logging
  
• Lecture 35: Logging in Linux ext3 filesystem
  
• Lecture 36: Protection and Security
  
• Lecture 37: Scheduling Policies
  
• Lecture 38: Lock-free multiprocessor coordination, Read-Copy-Update
  
• Lecture 39: Microkernel, Exokernel, Multikernel
  
• Lecture 40: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Technology Trends
  

HoH Lab help sessions

• Lab 2 help session [ PDF of slides ]
  

Practice Questions (incomplete)

• Some practice questions by topic (incomplete)

Links

• A nice panel discussion on the joys of systems research
• Nice to see: University of Manitoba' OS Course borrows from our OS course material.