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6.828: Operating System

EngineeringFall 2011

Home

Overview

General Administrivia

Schedule

Tools

xv6

Reference Materials

Related classes

2010 Class Materials

Links to notes etc. on future days are copies of materials from2010 to give you an idea what the future will bring. We will update

the notes as the course progresses.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

sep 5 sep 6

Reg Day

sep 7

LEC 1: Operating

systems

(handouts: xv6

source, xv6 book)

Preparation:

Read The

Evolution of the

Unix Time-SharingSystem

Assignment: Lab

1: C, Assembly,

Tools, and

Bootstrapping

Videos: 1 2 3 4 5

sep 8 sep 9

sep 12

LEC 2: PC

hardware and

x86

programmingPreparation:

Read

Bootstrap/PC

hardware

appendices and

the related xv6

source files; do

Homework 1

Videos: 1 2

sep 13 sep 14

LEC 3: Virtual

Memory(handout:

page table

translation andregisters)

Preparation:

Read "The first

process" up to

"Exec" and the

related xv6 source

files; do

Homework 2

Assignment: Lab

2: Memory

management

Videos: 1 2

sep 15

DUE: Lab

1

sep 16

sep 19

LEC 4: JOS

memory layout

(handouts: JOS

memory layout)

sep 20 sep 21

Student holiday

sep 22 sep 23

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Preparation:

Finish reading

"The first

process"; do

Homework 3

Videos: 1 2

sep 26

LEC 5: Process

Creation System

call, Interrupt,

and Exception

Handling

(handouts: IDT)

Preparation:

Read "Traps,

interrupts, and

drivers" and the

related xv6

source files; do

Homework 4

Videos: 1 2 3 4

sep 27 sep 28

LEC 6: Virtual

Memory

Multiprocessors

and locking

Preparation:

Read "Locking"

with spinlock.c

and skim mp.c; do

Homework 5

Assignment: Lab

3: User-Level

Environments

sep 29

DUE: Lab

2

sep 30

oct 3

LEC 7: Process

scheduling

Preparation:

Read

"Scheduling"up

to "Sleep and

wakeup" with

proc.c, setjmp.S,

and sys_fork (in

sysproc.c); do

Homework 6

Videos: 1 2

oct 4 oct 5

LEC 8: Processes

and coordination

Preparation:

Read remainder

of "Scheduling";

read remainder of

proc.c and

sys_wait,

sys_exit, sys_kill;

do Homework 7

Videos: 1 2 3 4 5

oct 6

DUE: Lab

3 (Part A)

oct 7

ADD DATE

oct 10 - oct 11

Columbus Day

oct 12

LEC 9: File

systems

Preparation:

Read bio.c, fs.c,

sysfile.c, file.c and

"File system"

except for the

logging sections;

do Homework 8

Assignment: Lab

oct 13

DUE: Lab

3 (Part B)

oct 14

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

4: Preemptive

Multitasking

Videos: 1 2

oct 17LEC 10: Crash

recovery

Preparation:

Read log.c and

the logging

sections of "File

system"; do

Homework 9

Videos: 1 2

oct 18 oct 19QUIZ #1:

Mid-term quiz

during lecture time

open book and

notes

scope: Lectures

1-10, xv6, and

labs

practice: previous

years' quizzes.

oct 20DUE: Lab

4 (Part A)

oct 21

oct 24Hacking day

oct 25 oct 26Hacking day

oct 27DUE: Lab

4 (Part B)

oct 28

oct 31

LEC 11: File

system

performance and

fast crash

recovery

Preparation:

Read Journalingthe Linux ext2fs

Filesystem; do

Homework 10

Videos: 1 2

nov 1 nov 2

LEC 12:

Performance and

durability

Preparation:

Read Rethink the

sync; no

homeworkAssignment: Lab

5: File system and

Spawn

Videos: 1

nov 3

DUE: Lab

4 (Part C)

nov 4

nov 7

LEC 13:

Scheduling

Preparation:

Read Eliminating

Receive

Livelock; doHomework 12

Videos: 1 2

nov 8 nov 9

LEC 14: OS

Organization

Preparation:

Read Exokernel;

do Homework 13

Videos: 1

nov 10 nov 11

Veteran's

Day

nov 14

LEC 15:

Language/OS

nov 15 nov 16

LEC 16: Scalable

locks(code)

nov 17

DUE: Lab

5

nov 18

Assignment:

Lab 7: Final

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

scope: Lectures

11-22, labs 4-7

practice:

previous years'

quizzes.

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