| Class | Lecture Content | Links |
|---|---|---|
| (1) 02-Aug | course overview, introduction | Getting ready |
| todo before next class | ||
| (2) 04-Aug | kernel modification, loadable modules, | tldp archlinux ex-1 |
| (3) 09-Aug | user-kernel communication | |
| (4) 11-Aug | Kernel execution contexts | README |
| (5) 16-Aug | Kernel execution contexts | useful links |
| (5) 18-Aug | procfs, sysfs, char devices | useful links Ex.2 |
| (6,7) 21-Aug*, 23-Aug | Ex-2 (lab) | yet another sysfs ioctl-example |
| (8,9,10) 30-Aug, 1-Sep, 6-Sep | Quiz-1, Synchronization | notes RCU |
| (11) 8-Sep | Synchronization, memory management | (futex) Hubertus et. al. mmap /proc/pid/maps homework |
| (12,13) 13-Sep,15-sep | Memory management (slides-1) | tldp intel-manual-3A durate-blog |
| 20-Sep | No classes | Midsem week |
| 22-Sep / 23-Sep | Quiz paper distribution, Assignment II | *Extra |
| 27-Sep, 29-Sep | No classes | Post mid-sem break |
| (14) 04-Oct | Kernel virtual address, Project topics | (linuxmm) |
| (15) 06-Oct | File systems (VFS) (slides) | sosp15 apsys16 |
| (16) 11-Oct | File systems (page cache, block layer) (slides) | lwn-blog |
| (17, 18) 13-Oct, 18-Oct | File systems (ext2/3/4 case study) (slides) | ext4-layout ext2 journaling |
| (19) 20-Oct | Process management Asg #3 (slides) | how to read a paper(keshav) writing reviews (Timothy) |
| (20) 25-Oct | Quiz-II, Answer discussion | No class on 27-Oct |
| (21) 01-Nov | Process management | slides elf format |
| (22) 03-Nov | Ex-3: kprobes, modified fork using jprobes | ex-3 kprobes |
| (23,24) 08-Nov, 10-Nov | Process scheduling | slides CFS A decade of... (Lozi et. al) |
| (25,26) 12-Nov (I and II) | Quiz-III, I/O and device drivers | slides ldd ch9, ch10, ch12 |
| (27) 15-Nov | Summary, whats next? | |