Course detail

Advanced Operating Systems

FIT-POSAcad. year: 2014/2015

Basic concepts, operating system kernel, kernel structure. Parallel programming and synchronization with a view to kernel synchronization. Deadlock, deadlock detection and prevention. Scheduling algorithms for uni-processor systems. Memory management, virtual memory, paging, virtual memory implementation. Input/Output, synchronous and asynchronous I/O, drivers, optimization of disk operations, File systems, disk space allocation, metadata structures, failure recovery, file system examples. Security and protection.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Petr Lampa

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students are acquainted with the parallel programming using POSIX threads, usage of synchronization primitives, virtual memory and file system.

A deeper understanding of computer systems and system programming.

Prerequisites

C language programming in Unix environment, computer architecture, Intel x86 assembler, basic principles of operating systems.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Course curriculum

    Syllabus of lectures:
    1. Kernel structure, interface, system calls, context switch, interrupts, system interface, Unix systems interface, standardization, SVID, XPG.
    2. Processes and POSIX threads, creating processes and threads, threads implementation.
    3. Parallel programming, synchronization, synchronization basics, mutual exclusion using memory read&write.
    4. Synchronization using special instructions on uni-processor and multiprocessor systems with shared memory, priority inversion and solution.
    5. Synchronization tools and programming languages frameworks, classical synchronization tasks and their solutions.
    6. Processor scheduling, strategy, implementation, scheduling algorithms for uni-processor systems.
    7. Resource allocation, deadlock, deadlock avoidance, solutions for CR and SR systems.
    8. Memory architecture, paging, page tables and TLB.
    9. Virtual memory, paging algorithm, page replacement algorithms.
    10. Practical aspects of virtual memory - code sharing, memory sharing, locking, dynamic libraries, file mapping, kernel memory.
    11. Input and output, drivers, synchronous and asynchronous operations, disk I/O optimization.
    12. Files systems, organization, space allocation, free space allocation, failure recovery, Unix file systems, BSD FFS and log based file systems.
    13. Security and protection, system access, data protection, security risks.

    Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students:
    • Threads and synchronization.
    • Message passing in Unix.
    • Signals and signal handling.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The goal is to acquaint students with the principles and concepts that are used as a basis of modern operating system kernels.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The knowledge of students is examined by the projects and by the final exam.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Andrews, G.R.: Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-35752-6 Bic, L., Shaw, A.C.: Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-026611-6 Nutt, G.J.: Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61251-8 Vahalia, U.: Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Prentice-Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-101908-2 Schimmel, K.: UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63338-8 McKusick, M.K., Neville-Neil, G.V.: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-201-70245-2 Stevens, W.,R.: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, 0-201-43307-9

Recommended reading

Bic, L., Shaw, A.C.: Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-026611-6 Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly, 1999, ISBN 1-56592-582-3 Love, R.: Linux Kernel Development, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005, ISBN 0-672-32720-1

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's

    branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MIN , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MIS , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch MMI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MPV , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MSK , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MGM , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective