Advanced Operating Systems Course

Week 1: Intro To Operating Systems -> Done

• OS Introduction and Demo Examples
• Program Execution and Von Neumann Machine
• Concurrency
• CPU Virtualization
• File Systems
• Memory Virtualization
• Persistence
• Security

Week 2: Process Abstraction -> Done

Topics covered:

• Process Abstraction and CPU Virtualization Overview
• Memory Layout of a Process
• Process Resources
• Practical Demos:
  • Memory Areas
  • Process Creation and Management

Week 3: Process API -> Done

Topics covered:

• Fork-Exec Process Model
• GDB Usage with Fork
• Observing Fork and Wait System Calls
• Exec System Call Demo
• I/O Redirection
• Pipe Communication
• Practical Demos:
  • Fork, Exec, and Wait System Calls

Week 4: Limited Direct Execution -> Done

Topics covered:

• Introduction to System Calls
• System Call as Privileged Operation
• Context Switching between Processes
• Bidirectional IPC using Pipes
• CPU Pinning
• Measuring Syscall and Context Switch Performance
• Practical Demos:
  • Simple System Call Implementation
  • System Call Assembly Code
  • System Call Functions without Standard Headers

Week5: Intro to Scheduling