Reading Materials

Course Readings

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
This is not a required text but it is a good source for readings on material covered in class. The parts of this book are available online for free, you can get an e-copy for about $10 or hard copies for a good price. The links included below point to the individual chapters.
NOTE: Some of the API's used in this text are different from those used in our class but it should usually be pretty easy to translate between the two.
Operating System Concepts, 8th edition
Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne (John Wiley and Sons)

Lecture slides can be found in Learn. Solutions to the in-class exercises will only be provided in lecture.

Subject	Silberschatz	Three Easy Pieces
Introduction	Chapters 1-2	Intro
Processes and System Calls	Chapters 2 (2.3, 2.4) and 3 (3.1-3.3)	Dialogue Processes Process API Context Switch & Sys Calls
Threads	Chapter 4	Dialogue Intro Threads
Synchronization	Chapters 3 (3.4.1), 6 and 7	Locks Lock Use CV's Semaphores Bugs Summary Dialogue
Virtual Memory	Chapters 8,9	Address Spaces Memory API Address Translation Segmentation Free Space Mgmt Paging TLBs Smaller Page Tables Replacement/Swapping Replacement Algorithms
File Systems	Chapters 10 and 11 (excluding 11.8, 11.9)	Files and Directories File System Implementation FSCK & Journaling
Devices and I/O	Chapters 12 and 13	I/O Devices Hard Disk Drives
Scheduling	Chapter 5	Scheduling MLFQ Multiple CPUs

Note: The columns "Silberschatz" and "Three Easy Pieces" in the table above refer to chapters from the suggested textbooks.