Please be sure to read the course information sheet. It contains information about the course objectives and grading policies.
| Class Discussions: Tutorials: |
Mon, 9-11 @ IB250 Wed, 9-10 and 10-11 @ DH2020 |
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| Discussion Board: | Discussion Board |
| Instructor Availability: (DH3096) |
Priority for 369: Mon/Wed, 11-12 Priority for 108: Mon/Wed/Fri, 4-5 or by open door policy |
| Email: | click for email@utoronto.ca or Send Feedback |
Most readings come from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, an online textbook by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau.
| Week | Readings | For Credit | Reference Materials |
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| Sep 8-12 (1) |
Intro to Operating Systems, Single-threaded Processes Intro Processes For reference: 258 Webpage (for function calls) |
Monday: In-class exercises Wednesday: In-class exercise about function/system calls |
Administrative and Intro Slides Mon Discussion Questions Wed Discussion Questions Function Call Diagram (credit: Andrei Moraru) |
| Sep 15-19 (2) |
System Calls and Address Spaces Process API Direct Execution Address Spaces |
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: In-class work on A1 Assignment 1 Posted |
Processes (pdf) Mon Discussion Question OS/161 Syscall code (tgz) |
| Sep 22-26 (3) |
Threads and Intro to Concurrency Concurrency Intro Thread API Locks Locked Data Structures |
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: Concurrency exercise due Sunday @ 10:00 |
Threads (pdf) |
| Sep 29-Oct 3 (4) | Synchronization Condition Variables Semaphores Concurrency Bugs Event-based Concurrency |
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: In-class sample midterm Assignment 1 phase 1 due by midnight on Wednesday |
Semaphores and CVs (pdf) CV-based synchro solution |
| Oct 6-10 (5) | Scheduling Scheduling MLFQ Lottery Scheduling Multiprocessor Scheduling |
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: Malloc Rodeo Assignment 1 phase 2 due by midnight on Wednesday |
Scheduling (pdf) Problem #1 (pdf) Problem #2 (pdf) |
| Oct 13-17 (6) | None |
Monday: No Class! (Thanksgiving) Wednesday: Sample Midterm |
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| Oct 20-24 (7) | Intro to Virtual Memory Before Memory was Virtual (Denning) Address Translation |
Monday: Midterm in lecture Wednesday: Eviction heuristics exercise Assignment 2 Posted |
Administrivia |
| Oct 27-31 (8) | Paging and Faults Segmentation Intro to Paging TLBs |
Monday: Address Exercise in class Wednesday: TLB Questions in class |
VM Slides |
| Nov 3-7 (9) | Efficient Page Tables and Swapping Advanced Page Tables Swapping Mechanisms Swapping Policy |
Monday: TLB and Paging exercises in class Wednesday: Assignment work time (no exercise) |
Pagetable slides Comparison of Page Table Implementations |
| Nov 10-14 (10) | Intro to Filesystems Files and Directories File System Implementation A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata (Agrawal et al) |
Assignment 2 due by midnight on Monday
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: Virtual Disks Assignment 3 Posted |
Directory Slides (pdf) File Writing Code (.c) |
| Nov 17-21 (11) | Filesystem Examples FFS Journaling Log Structured |
Monday: In-class exercise Wednesday: Path Traversal |
Inodes Path traversal exercise Video of disk seeking (external link) |
| Nov 24-28 (12) | Disk I/O and Security I/O Devices Hard Drives File Integrity Extra: Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory (Gutmann) |
Monday: Mapped Files (due in lab Wed) Wednesday: A3 "Office Hours" in lab |
Filesystem Errors |
| Dec 1-5 (13) | Wrap-up |
Monday: Sample exam (with real exam cover sheet) Assignment 3 due by midnight Monday |
