Advanced Operating Systems

Part II, Part III, and ACS Advanced Operating Systems teaches OS internals, experimental methodology, and systems-research topics through a hands-on, lab-based course based on the FreeBSD operating system, the Raspberry Pi 4 board, and JupyterLab.

Course Slack

If you need to reach the instructors, or to chat with other students in the course, please join the Advanced Operating Systems course Slack:

• http://advopsys.slack.com

Course handouts

These course handouts provide more detailed information about the module and laboratory environment.

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Schedule (PDF)
• Readings (PDF)
• DTrace Quick Start (PDF)
• Lab Reports Guide (PDF) (L41 only)
• Lab Setup (PDF)
• Hardware Performance Counters (PDF)
• Lab Report Template (LaTeX) (L41 only)

Lecture slides

Lecture slides will be posted here as the module proceeds.

Lecture 1 - Advanced Operating Systems (in person)

• Advanced Operating Systems Lecture: Through tracing, analysis, and experimentation

Lecture 2 - Kernels and Tracing (prerecorded)

• Lecture 2, Part 1: DTrace (PDF)
• Lecture 2, Part 2: The probe effect (PDF)
• Lecture 2, Part 3: Our lab environment (PDF)

Lecture 3 - The Process Model (1)

• Lecture 3, Part 1: The Process Model (PDF)
• Lecture 3, Part 2: Processes in Practice (PDF)

Lecture 4 - The Process Model (2)

• Lecture 4, Part 1: Traps and System Calls (PDF)
• Lecture 4, Part 2: Traps and Syscalls in Practice (PDF)
• Lecture 4, Part 3: More on VM (PDF)

Lecture 5 - The Network Stack (1) (previous year recording due to strike)

• Lecture 5, Part 1: Network Stacks (PDF)
• Lecture 5, Part 2: Network Stack Implementation (PDF)
• Lecture 5, Part 3: Network Stack Research Taster (PDF)

Lecture 6 - The Network Stack (2) (previous year recording due to strike)

• Lecture 6, Part 1: TCP (PDF)
• Lecture 6, Part 2: TCP Implementation (PDF)
• Lecture 6, Part 3: Wrapping Up (PDF)

Lab lecturelet slides

Lab lecturelet slides will be posted here as the module proceeds.

• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 1 – Getting started with kernel tracing
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 2 - IPC
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 3 - TCP

Lab handouts

Lab handouts will be posted here as the module proceeds.

Lab 1 - Kernel tracing

• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 1 – Getting Started with Kernel Tracing

Lab 2 - IPC

• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 2 - IPC - General Information (UPDATED)
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 2 - IPC - Part II Assignment
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 2 - IPC - L41 Assignment

Lab 3 - TCP

• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 3 - TCP - General Information (UPDATED)
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 3 - TCP - Part II Assignment
• Advanced Operating Systems: Lab 3 - TCP - L41 Assignment

Useful reference material

• FreeBSD operating system
• Raspberry Pi 4 - Broadcom 2711 (BCM2711)

Lab 3

• ARM® Cortex®-A72 MPCore Processor - see section 11.8
• Arm Architecture Reference Manual Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile - see sections D7.10 and Appendix K3