| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| sep 2 Labor Day |
sep 3 Reg Day |
sep 4 LEC 1 (rtm): Introduction and examples (handouts: xv6 book) Preparation: Read chapter 1 (for your amusement: Unix) Assignment: Lab util: Unix utilities |
sep 5 | sep 6 |
| sep 9 LEC 2 (fk): C in xv6, slides, and examples Preparation: 2.9 (Bitwise operators) and 5.1 (Pointers and addresses) through 5.6 (Pointer arrays) and 6.4 (pointers to structures) by Kernighan and Ritchie (K&R) |
sep 10 | sep 11 LEC 3 (fk): OS design Preparation: Read chapter 2 and xv6 code: kernel/proc.h, kernel/defs.h, kernel/entry.S, kernel/main.c, user/initcode.S, user/init.c, and skim kernel/proc.c and kernel/exec.c Homework 1 due: Question Assignment: Lab syscall: System calls |
sep 12 DUE: Lab util |
sep 13 |
| sep 16 LEC 4 (fk): page tables Preparation: Read Chapter 3 and kernel/memlayout.h, kernel/vm.c, kernel/kalloc.c, kernel/riscv.h, and kernel/exec.c Homework 2 due: Question |
sep 17 | sep 18 LEC 5 (rtm): System call entry/exit Preparation: Read Chapter 4, except 4.6 and kernel/riscv.h, kernel/trampoline.S, and kernel/trap.c Homework 3 due: Question Assignment: Lab pgtbl: Page tables |
sep 19 DUE: Lab syscall |
sep 20 |
| sep 23 LEC 6 (TAs): GDB Calling conventions (slides) Preparation: Read Calling Convention |
sep 24 | sep 25 LEC 7 (fk): Page faults (slides) Preparation: Read Section 4.6 Homework 4 due: Question Assignment: Lab traps: Traps |
sep 26 DUE: Lab pgtbl |
sep 27 |
| sep 30 LEC 8 (fk): Q&A labs (slides) Homework 5 due: Question |
oct 1 | oct 2 LEC 9 (fk): Device drivers Preparation: Read Chapter 5 and kernel/kernelvec.S, kernel/plic.c, kernel/console.c, kernel/uart.c, kernel/printf.c Homework 6 due: Question Assignment: Lab cow: Copy-on-write fork |
oct 3 DUE: Lab traps |
oct 4 ADD DATE |
| oct 7 LEC 10 (fk): Locking Preparation: Read "Locking" with kernel/spinlock.h and kernel/spinlock.c Homework 7 due: Question |
oct 8 | oct 9 LEC 11 (rtm): Scheduling 1 Preparation: Read "Scheduling" through Section 7.4, and kernel/proc.c, kernel/swtch.S Homework 8 due: Question |
oct 10 | oct 11 |
| oct 14 Indigenous Peoples Day |
oct 15 | oct 16 LEC 12 (rtm): Coordination, code Preparation: Read remainder of "Scheduling", and corresponding parts of kernel/proc.c, kernel/sleeplock.c Homework 9 due: Question |
oct 17 DUE: Lab cow |
oct 18 |
| oct 21 LEC 13 (fk): File systems (slides) Preparation: Read kernel/bio.c, kernel/fs.c, kernel/sysfile.c, kernel/file.c and "File system" (except for the logging sections) Homework 10 due: Question |
oct 22 | oct 23 Midterm open book and notes scope: Lectures 1 through 12, labs through lab cow practice: previous quizzes. Assignment: Lab net: Network driver |
oct 24 | oct 25 |
| oct 28 LEC 14 (fk): Crash recovery (slides) Preparation: Read kernel/log.c and the logging sections of the "File system" chapter Homework 11 due: Question |
oct 29 | oct 30 LEC 15 (rtm): File system performance and fast crash recovery Preparation: Read Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem (1998) Homework 12 due: Question |
oct 31 | nov 1 |
| nov 4 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab Assignment: Lab lock: Parallelism/locking |
nov 5 DUE: Lab net |
nov 6 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
nov 7 | nov 8 |
| nov 11 Veteran's Day |
nov 12 | nov 13 LEC 16 (fk): Virtual memory for applications (baker example) (slides) Preparation: Read Virtual Memory Primitives for User Programs (1991) Homework 13 due: Question Assignment: Lab fs: File system |
nov 14 DUE: Lab lock |
nov 15 |
| nov 18 LEC 17 (rtm): OS Organization Preparation: Read The Performance of micro-Kernel-Based Systems (1997) Homework 14 due: Question |
nov 19 | nov 20 DROP DATE LEC 18 (rtm): Virtual Machines Preparation: Read Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (2012) Homework 15 due: Question Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab Assignment: Lab mmap: Mmap |
nov 21 DUE: Lab fs |
nov 22 |
| nov 25 LEC 19 (fk): Kernels and HLL Preparation: Read the Biscuit paper (2018), FAQ Homework 16 due: Question |
nov 26 | nov 27 LEC 20 (rtm): Networking Preparation: Read Receive Livelock (1996) Homework 17 due: Question |
nov 28 - nov 29 Thanksgiving |
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| dec 2 LEC 21 (rtm): Meltdown Preparation: Read Meltdown (2018) Homework 18 due: Question |
dec 3 | dec 4 Hacking day: no class meeting; work on the lab |
dec 5 | dec 6 DUE: Lab mmap |
| dec 9 LEC 22 (rtm): Multi-Core scalability and RCU Preparation: Read RCU paper (2013), FAQ Homework 19 due: Question |
dec 10 | dec 11 LAST DAY OF CLASSES LEC 23 (tbd): Current Research |
dec 12 | dec 13 |
| dec 16 - dec 20 Final in finals week |
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