Syllabus

• What is an Operating System?
• Four Fundamental OS Concepts
• Abstractions
  • Threads, Processes
  • Files, IO
  • IPC, Pipes, Sockets
• Synchronization
  • Concurrency, Context Switching
  • Atomic Instructions, Mutual Exclusion, Critical Section
  • Locks, Semaphores, Monitors
  • Lock Implementation, Readers/Writers
• Scheduling
  • Concepts
  • Classic Policies and Case Studies
  • Fairness, Real Time
  • Starvation, Deadlock
• Memory
  • Address Translation, Virtual Memory
  • Caching, TLB
  • Demand Paging
• IO
  • IO Device Types, IO Controllers, IO Buses
  • HDD, SSD
• File System
  • Files, Directories, Naming
  • File System Case Studies
  • Buffering, Reliability, Transactions