CSCE 351: Operating System Kernels (Fall 2009) *

Lectures: MF 3:30-4:45pm

Avery Hall 19

Name Office Office Hours

Instructor Prof. Ying Lu Schorr Center 106 Mon 1:30-3:20pm or by appointment

TA Dongyuan Zhan Schorr Center 114AB Wed 3:30-5:20pm at Avery 19

Announcements:

· Project 1 is due on November 15.

· Final is scheduled in class on November 23.

Syllabus

Class Roster

Project Groups

Lecture Notes	Reading List
1. Administrivia
2. Introduction	Chap 1
3. OS overview	Chap 2
4. Processes Description and Control	Chap 3
5. Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization	Chap 5
6. Threads	Chap 4
7. Deadlock	Chap 6
8. Exception Handling in Nios II
9. Memory Management	Chap 7
10. Virtual Memory	Chap 8
11. Uniprocessor Scheduling	Chap 9
12. Disk Scheduling	Chap 11

Assignments

On-line Help

Web Handin

1. Homework Assignment1 (Due September 23 on or before 11:59pm)

Files for question 3

2. Homework Assignment2 (Due October 5 on or before 11:59pm)

3. Homework Assignment3 (Due October 16 on or before 11:59pm)

4. Lab1: sigsetjmp and siglongjmp (Due October 30 at the beginning of the class)

Lab1 (SPARC/Solaris version)

5. Lab 2: Nios IDE Tutorial (work on your own time)

Description (PDF)
Preconfigured Processor File

6. Project 1: User-Level Thread Manager (two members per team) (Due November 15 on or before 11:59pm)

sample context switch file from Altera

7. Project 2: Semaphore Implementation (two members per team) (Due December 9 on or before 11:59pm)

* Giving credit where it is due: some of the course materials are borrowed from Dr. Witawas Srisa-an who have taught this course for 6 years.