ECS 150: Operating Systems
Spring 2011

Administrative Details

Instructor

• Raju Pandey (pandey@cs.ucdavis.edu)
• Office: 3041 Kemper Hall
• Office hours: T/Th: 1:40-3:00 PM

TA

• Jesus Pulido (jpulido@ucdavis.edu)  
• Office:  55 Kemper Hall (basement)
• Office hours: Mon/Wed 1:30-3:30
• Discussion Room: Wellman 119 (Note the change)

Final Grades

• Final grades (pdf)

Text book and references

• Primary Text Book: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating Systems  by Marshall Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil
  Addison Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN 0-201-70245-2
• Others:
• Operating System Concepts. Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne.
• Modern Operating Systems. Tanenbaum.
• Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principals. Stallings.
• Operating Systems. Nutt.
• Operating Systems. Deitel, Deitel and Choffenes.
  

Lecture Notes

• Introduction (pdf)
• OS Structure (pdf)
• Process and Threads:
• Processes (pdf)
• Threads (pdf)
• Synchronization (pdf)
• Scheduling (pdf)
• Memory Management (pdf)
• File System (pdf)

Homeworks

• Synchornization (pdf)
• Due: 5/5/2011 (In class)
• Scheduling (pdf)
• Due: 5/12/2011 (In class)
• Memory Management (pdf)
• Due 5/31/2011 (In class)

Examinations

• Midterm: 
• Date: 5/5/2011 (In class).
• Scope (pdf)

Projects

• Project 1 (pdf)
• Resources:
• VMWare Player 
• Binary Downloads for Linux and Windows Machines
• How to use it.
• VMWare Image for 5.4 FreeBSD
• How to change root password
• Building and Installing a Custom kernel
• Submission Process:
•  Log into smartsite and open the ECS 150 tab. 
• On the left-hand side, select "Assignments"
• Choose the project (Ex: Project 1)
• To attach files, select "Add attachment" and upload any necessary files required for the project 
• Choose "Submit" to turn in the project.
• Project 2  (pdf)
• Simple Hello World Kernel Module for FreeBSD
• Dynamic Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial
• Fun and Games with FreeBSD Kernel Modules by Stephanie Wehner
• Debugging FreeBSD kernel by Greg Lehey
• *Deadline extension: The project deadline has been extended to Tueday 5/3/2011, 11:59 PM **
• Project 3 (pdf)
• Lottery Scheduling Algorithm
• *Deadline extension: The project deadline has been extended to Tuesday, 5/24/2011, 11:59 PM **

Tools

FreeBSD Resources

• The main FreeBSD site: http://www.freebsd.org
• The complete FreeBSD book
• Browse Source Code Repository (http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/?v=FREEBSD54)
• Developer's handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html
• The FreeBSD Architecture Handbook
• If you want to know how FreeBSD project is organized: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/book.html
• Reading the FreeBSD source code
• OnLamp.com article on debugging FreeBSD kernels (part 1, part 2)
• Silberschatz Text Book's chapter on FreeBSD 

Announcements

• (4/5/2011): 
• Project 1 is out.
• Handouts for next two lectures are available.
• Please use the smart-site chat room for discussions
• ***** Discussion Room has been changed to Wellman 119, effective 4/8 *****
• (4/10/2011):
• The deadline for Project 1 has been extended. It is now due on:  4/14/2011: 11:59 PM.
• (4/12/2011):
• Added submission process
• (4/18/2011): Project 2 is out..
• (4/21):
• Added handout for schedulin
• (4/25)
• Added synchronization homework
• (5/1)
• Added Project 3 specification
• Added midterm scope
• (5/13)
• Added extension to Project 3
• 5/24)
• Added homework for memory management