Operating System Labs

Dept. of Computer Science, ECNU, Fall 2019

Basic

Time and Venue

• Lectures:   Monday 8:00am - 9:40am @ 教书院 219
• Labs:   Monday 10:00am - 11:40am @ 理科楼 B517, B519

Stuff

Instructor:   Yuanbin Wu
Email:   ybwu[at]cs.ecnu.edu.cn
Office:   911 Science Building B

TA1:   Xiaozhen Zhao
Email:   51184506053[at]std.ecnu.edu.cn

TA2:   Yufang Liu
Email:   yfliu.antnlp[at]gmail.com

Projects

Name Your Projects

StudentNumber_Name_LabX.zip (e.g., 10175110001_李明_Lab0.zip)

Submit Your Projects

Class 1:   oslab2019_class1[at]163.com
Class 2:   oslab2019_class2[at]163.com

Topics

• Project 0:
  • 0a Get familiar with Linux
  • 0b Sorting
• Project 1:
  • 1a A Unix Shell
  • 1b xv6 System Call
• Project 2:
  • 2a Dynamic Memory Allocation
  • 2b xv6 Scheduling
• Project 3:
  • 3a Locks and Threads
  • 3b xv6 VM Layout
• Project 4:
  • 4a File Defragmentation
  • 4b xv6 Kernel Thread

Downloads

• xv6
• qemu
• Notes: For all xv6 projects, we start from a clean version of xv6 kernel (i.e., projects are independet with each other).
• install instrucions (lab machines)

Lecture Slides

• Lecture 1, Intro Part1 Part2
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7

Timeline (tentative)

Plagiarism Policy

ALL participants will loss ALL credits of the project if any improper code/doc sharing is discovered.

Late Policy

• For P0, P1, late handins will NOT be accepted.
• For P2, P3, P4:
  • Your group will have 3 “late days”.
  • You need to email TA at least 1 hour before the deadline.
    
  • If all your 3 “late days” are used, late handins will not be accepted.

Readings

Main

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces,
  Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau

Unix Programming

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment,
  W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

C Programming

• The C Programming Language,
  Brian W Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Linux Kernel

• Linux Kernel Development,
  Robert Love