| Lecture weeks | Lecture Content | Slides | Reading | Additional material and HW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/01 - 13/01 | Course logistics and Introduction | fch introduction | OSTEP Ch4-6, Ch13-15 | HW 1: slide #9 kernel-6.1.4 |
| 15/01 - 20/01 | User contexts | slides: 1 2 quiz1: manipulate user state | Ch8 (System Calls) Intel Architecture SDM3 Ch6.15 (IDT, Exceptions) kernel stack | HW 2: Solve part II of the quiz |
| 22/01 - 27/01 | Clone syscall handler | slides: 1 quiz2: working of clone | kernel/fork.c | HW 3: Solve part II of the quiz3 |
| 29/01 - 03/02 | Exec system call handle, Project topics | slides: 1 quiz3: clone/exec | fs/exec.c fs/clone.c | HW: Project scope and milestone |
| 05/02 - 10/02 | VM, Kernel Address Space, PTI, Kernel threads | slides: 1 2 | OSTEP Ch12-24 Intel Architecture SDM3 Ch4 (Paging) Documentation/x86/pti.rst Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst | SRC: arch/x86/mm/fault.c, mm/memory.c Meltdown |
| 12/02 - 17/02 | Filesystem, VFS, Ext4 FS | quiz 4+5: Dirty tracking slides: 1 | ext4specs Kernel documentation: Documentation/filesystems/ext4 | SRC: fs/ext4/* |
| 19/02 - 24/02 | *** Midsem *** | *** Midsem *** | *** Midsem *** | *** Midsem *** |
| 26/02 - 02/03 | Ext4 FS in Linux | Midsem discussion slides: 1 | ext4specs Kernel documentation: Documentation/filesystems/ext4 | SRC: fs/ext4/* |
| 04/03 - 09/03 | Ext4: Cache and journaling | slides: 1 | ext4specs Kernel documentation: Documentation/core-api/xarray, Documentation/filesystem/journaling OSTEP Ch42 | SRC: fs/ext4/*, fs/jbd2/*, fs/namei.c and functions mentioned in slides |
| 11/03 - 15/03 | Ext4 contd., Quiz, I/O devices | slides: 1 2 | LDD Ch9, Ch15 | Kernel documentation: Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst Documentation/x86/iommu.rst |
| 18/03 - 23/03 | I/O addressing, PCI devices | slides: 1 | LDD Ch10, Ch12, Ch15 | Kernel documentation: Documentation/PCI/pci.rst |
| 25/02 - 30/02 | *** Midsem Break *** | *** Midsem Break *** | *** Midsem Break *** | *** Midsem Break *** |
| 01/04 - 06/04 | Concurrency and Locking | slides: 1 | OSTEP ch26-32 | Kernel documentation: Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst |
| 08/04 - 13/04 | Scheduling | slides: 1 | ULK Ch4, Ch7 Kernel documentation: https://docs.kernel.org/x86/kernel-stacks.html | Source: kernel/sched/*, __switch_to_asm and ret_from_fork in entry_64.S |
| 15/04 - 19/04 | Scheduling Policies | slide | OSTEP Ch7, Ch8 ULK Ch7 | Source: kernel/sched/* Kernel Documentation: Documentation/scheduler |