CS452 Lecture slides

The instructor may update the slides during the on-going semester. Some of the PDF copies below may be slightly different from the contents presented in lecture.

• Chapter 1: Introduction, CPU cycles, Interrupts

• Chapter 2: OS Services, system calls

• Chapter 3

  • Part 1: Unix Process Syscalls
  • Part 2: Inter Process Communication

• Chapter 4: Multi Threading

• Chapter 5

  • Part 1: Process Synchronization, Race conditions
  • Part 2: Software Solution using Semaphores
  • Part 3: Deadlock
  • Optional Part 4: Monitors

• Chapter 6: CPU Scheduling

• Chapter 7

  • Part 1: Memory layout
  • Part 2: Fixed and Dynamic Partitions
  • Part 3: Segmentation
  • Part 4: Paging
  • Part 5: Page Table Management

• Chapter 8

  • Part 1
  • Part 2: Page Fault
  • Part 3: Page Replacement Algorithms
  • Part 4: Implementation of Page Replacement Algorithms
  • Part 5: Working Set
  • Part 6: Kernel memory management

• Chapter 10

  • Part 1: Overview
  • Part 2: Disk partitions, directory structures

• Chapter 11

  • Part 1: Disk partitions, FS formats
  • Part 2: Disk block allocation techniques
  • Part 3: Unix inode and DOS FAT (File Allocation Table)
  • Part 4: Free space management & filesystem journals