[linuxkernelnewbies] Operating System Fundamental

[Peter Teoh]

http://195.113.20.55/~ceres/sch/osy/slides/index.php Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Basic Concepts 1.1.1. Hardware Building Blocks 1.1.2. Basic Computer Architecture 1.1.3. Advances In Bus Architecture 1.1.4. Operating System Structure 2. Process Management 2.1. Process Alone 2.1.1. Starting A Process 2.1.2. What Is The Interface 2.2. Achieving Parallelism 2.2.1. Multiprocessing On Uniprocessors 2.2.2. How To Decide Who Runs 2.2.3. What Is The Interface 2.3. Process Communication 2.3.1. Shared Memory 2.3.2. Message Passing 2.4. Process Synchronization 2.4.1. Means For Synchronization 2.4.2. What Is The Interface 3. Memory Management 3.1. Management Among Processes 3.1.1. Separating Multiple Processes 3.2. Allocation Within A Process 3.2.1. Heap 4. Device Management 4.1. Device Drivers 4.1.1. Asynchronous Requests 4.1.2. Synchronous Requests 4.2. Devices 4.2.1. Busses 4.2.2. Disk Storage Devices 5. File Subsystem 5.1. File Subsystem 5.2. Abstractions And Operations 5.2.1. Stream File Operations 5.2.2. Example: Windows Stream File Operations 5.2.3. Mapped File Operations 5.2.4. Whole File Operations 5.2.5. Directory Operations 5.2.6. Sharing Support 5.2.7. Consistency Support 5.3. File Subsystem Internals 5.3.1. Disk Layout 5.3.2. Integration Of Multiple File Subsystems 6. Network Subsystem 6.1. Abstractions And Operations 6.1.1. Sockets 6.2. Network Subsystem Internals 6.2.1. Queuing Architecture 6.2.2. Packet Filtering 6.2.3. Example: Linux Packet Scheduling 6.3. Network Subsystem Applications 6.3.1. File Systems 7. Security Subsystem 7.1. Authentication 7.1.1. Linux PAM Example