Operating Systems

This course deals with the design and implementation of operating systems. The topics include the bootup sequence, memory management, processes, interrupt handling, file systems, synchronization, inter process communication, device drivers, and security issues in modern operating systems. The course is built on the xv6 operating system for a RISC-V microprocessor.

Instructor

Chester Rebeiro

TAs

• Krishnakumar Gnanambikai (RISE Lab)

• Nikhilesh K. Singh (RISE Lab)

• Keerthi K (RISE Lab)

• Prithwish Basu Roy (RISE Lab)

• Vikash Kumar (RISE Lab)

• Sai Venkata Krishnan (RISE Lab)

• Ayalur Vedpuriswar Lakshmy (RISE Lab)

• Nipam Basumatary

• Saurav Chakraborty

• Ankit Singh

Prerequisites

computer organization, assembly language programming for x86, advanced programming in C, data structures and algorithms

Logistics

Theory Classes

Classes will be held from 3/Aug/2020 in Slot D.

• Monday : 11:00 - 11:50 AM

• Tuesday : 10:00 - 10:50 AM

• Wednesday : 9:00 - 9:50 AM

• Friday: 14:00 - 16:45 PM (will be used for Lab and Tutorials)

Schedule

Slides

• Course Handout

• Introduction to the course and a historic perspective

• Overview of Operating Systems

• Hardware and Booting

• Memory Management

• Processes

• Interrupts, Exceptions, System Calls, and Context Switching

• Scheduling

• Threads

• Synchronization

• File Systems