Advanced Operating Systems

Topics overview

• Multiplexing the CPU and address translation
  • Threads, processes and scheduling, concurrency
  • Memory virtualisation
  • System virtualisation
• Interfacing and persistence
  • I/O, disks
  • Booting
• System-level programming
  • 80% CPU Linux kernel programming (C)
  • 20% MCU OS programming (C++)

Advanced concepts

• Scheduling policies (not only Linux's CFS)
• Virtual machines (hypervisors)
• Memory management (e.g., segmentation, buddy algorithm, Linux PFRA)
• Advanced kernel synchronization primitives (Linux's RCU and MCS)
• Modern C/C++ concurrency and design patterns
• Memory consistency models
• Booting and configuring a system (UEFI, UBoot, PCI, ACPI)