CSE 306: Schedule

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All material covered in the lectures, labs, and required readings may appear on the exams.

Optional readings provide additional explanation of material covered in class that can be useful in preparing for the exams.

Papers are only accessible to hosts in the stonybrook.edu domain, although most are available elsewhere online.

Date Topics Notes Required Readings Optional Readings
Part 1: Operating System Overview
Tue 01/26 Administrative and Introduction
Guest lecture by Bill Jannen.
Slides. Printer friendly slides.
Thu 01/28 History of Operating Systems
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 2.
  1. The UNIX Timesharing System (Ritchie and Thompson, SOSP, 1974).
  2. The Linux Edge (Linus Torvalds, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution 1999).
  3. Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate Summary
  4. Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate: Part II (Tanenbaum 06).
  5. Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development (Accetta, Baron, Bolosky, Golub, Rashid, Tevanian, and Young, USENIX Summer '86).
Tue 02/02 C Programming, Introduction to xv6
Slides. Printer friendly slides.
Thu 02/04 Interrupts and system calls
Slides Printer Friendly Slides Chapter 6. Chapter 4 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
Tue 02/09 x86 Assembly, Processes and OS Abstractions
  1. Assembly Slides. Printer friendly slides.
  2. Processes Slides Printer Friendly Slides
 Chapter 4.
  1. Chapter 3 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
Part 2: Virtual Memory
Thu 02/11 Address Spaces and Loading
Slides. Printer friendly slides.
Academic Honesty Homework Due.		 Chapter 13.
  1. Chapter 9 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
  2. The ELF Object File Format: Introduction (Youngdale, Linux Journal 1995)
  3. The ELF Object File Format by Dissection (Youngdale, Linux Journal 1995)
Tue 02/16 Virtual Memory
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 15.
Thu 02/18 Virtual Memory
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 16.
Tue 02/23 Virtual Memory
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 18.
Part 3: Scheduling
Thu 02/25 CPU Scheduling
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 7. Chapter 7 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
Fri 02/26
Lab 1 Due. 11:59PM.
Tue 03/01 CPU Scheduling
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 8.
  1. The Design and Implementation of an Operating System to Support Distributed Multimedia Applications (Leslie, McAuley, Black, Roscoe, Barham, Evers, Fairbarns, and Hyden, JSAC 1997).
  2. Exploiting Unix File-System Races via Algorithmic Complexity Attacks (Cai, Gui, and Johnson, IEEE Security & Privacy 2009).
Part 4: Threads and Synchronization
Thu 03/03 Threads
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 26.
  1. The Native POSIX Thread Library for Linux (Drepper and Molnar, 2005)
  2. Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism (Anderson, Bershad, Lazowska, and Levy, SOSP 1991)
Tue 03/08 Concurrent Programming
  1. Overiew Slides. Printer friendly slides.
  2. Too Much Milk Slides. Printer friendly slides.
  1. Programming with Threads (Birrell 1996).
  2. Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (for most purposes) (Ousterhout, USENIX, 1996).
Thu 03/10 Locking
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 28.
  1. Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared Memory Multiprocessors (Mellor-Crummey and Scott, TOCS 1991)
  2. Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking in Linux (Franke, Russel, and Kirkwood, OLS 2002)
Tue 03/15 Spring Recess, Class Canceled
Thu 03/17 Spring Recess, Class Canceled
Fri 03/18
Lab 2 Due. 11:59PM
Tue 03/22 Condition Variables
Slides. Printer friendly slides.
  1. Experiences with Processes and Monitors in Mesa (Lampson and Redell, Communications of the ACM 23, 2, 1980).
  2. Chapter 5 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
  3. Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures (Herlihy and Moss, ISCA 1993)
Thu 03/24 Midterm
Part 5: File Systems
Tue 03/29 Disk Scheduling
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 37.
  1. An introduction to Disk Drive Modeling (Ruemmler and Wilkes, IEEE Computer 1994)
  2. Disk from the perspective of a file system (McKusick, CACM 2012)
  3. Chapter 18 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
Thu 03/31 File Systems Basics
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 39.
Tue 04/05 File System Consistency Issues
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 42.
  1. EXT3, Journaling Filesystem (Tweedie, OLS 2000)
  2. The new ext4 filesystem: Current status and future plans (Mathur, Cao, Bhattacharya, Dilger, Tomas, Vivier, OLS 2007)
Thu 04/07 Linux Virtual File System Layer (VFS)
Slides. Printer friendly slides. Chapter 12, 16 and 18 of "Understanding the Linux Kernel."
Thu 04/07 Fast File System
Chapter 41. A Fast File System for UNIX (McKusick, Joy, Leffler, and Fabry, TOCS 1984)
Part 6: Security
Tue 04/12 Computer Security Techniques
Slides. Printer friendly slides.
Thu 04/14 Integrated example: Microsoft Xbox
Don's Notes 17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System (Steil 2005)
Fri 04/15
Lab 3 Due. 11:59PM
Tue 04/19 Slack time
Part 6: Virtual Machines
Thu 04/21 Slack time
Tue 04/26 Slack time
Thu 04/28 Slack time
Part 7: Virtual Machines
Tue 05/03 VMware workstation (not on exam)
Don's Notes Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation (Bugnion, Devine, Rosenblum, Sugerman, and Wang, TOCS, 2012)
Thu 05/05 VMware workstation, continued (not on exam)
Appendix B.
Fri 05/06
Lab 4 Due. 11:59PM
Fri 05/13 Final Exam
11:15 am - 1:45pm. CS 2120

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Donald Porter, Stony Brook University

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