Lectures related to Process States: Lifecycle and Management

Forking Processes: Practical Examples and Execution Flow

Covers the fork system call in operating systems through three practical examples, illustrating process management and execution flow.

Process Protection and Efficient Execution

Explores process execution, protection, and efficient OS mechanisms for secure and reliable multi-program environments.

Shell Redirection: Understanding Process Management

Covers how the shell manages processes and demonstrates output redirection in UNIX-like systems.

Scheduling Mechanisms: Context Switching and Policies

Explains the mechanisms and policies of operating system scheduling, focusing on context switching and preemption.

Rethinking OSes for Datacenters

Explores Junction, a new approach combining kernel bypass with resource multiplexing for improved datacenter OS performance.

Introduction to Operating Systems

Covers the fundamentals of operating systems, including core services, system calls, design goals, and challenges.

Interrupts and System Calls

Explores interrupts, exception handling, and system calls in operating systems, focusing on CPU behavior and interrupt handling mechanisms.

Device Management in Operating Systems: Chaperones and Persistence

Discusses device management in operating systems, focusing on device drivers, persistence, and performance optimization techniques.

Shell and OS organization

Covers system calls, kernel space, process management, file descriptors, pipes, and hardware isolation in OS organization.

Processes: Overview and Management

Covers the basics of processes in operating systems, including creation, memory layout, state transitions, virtualization, APIs, and program execution.

Isolation mechanisms

Explores isolation mechanisms in operating systems, focusing on process separation and hardware isolation in x86 architecture.

Traps and Interrupts: Mechanisms for Operating System Control

Explains traps, interrupts, and exceptions, detailing their roles in operating system control and process management.

Threads: Concurrency and Parallelism in Computer Systems

Covers the thread abstraction in computer systems, focusing on concurrency, parallelism, and the management of threads using the POSIX API.

Scheduling Internals: Metrics and Policies

Discusses scheduling internals, metrics, and policies in computer systems, emphasizing efficiency and the complexities of modern multi-core architectures.

Isolation and Protection: Ensuring Process Security

Covers the concepts of isolation and protection in computer systems, focusing on process security and resource management techniques.

Device Drivers: Managing Hardware Complexity in Operating Systems

Explains the function of device drivers in managing hardware complexity within operating systems.

Operating Systems: The Illusion of Resources

Explains how operating systems create the illusion of dedicated and infinite resources through virtualization and process abstraction.

Introduction to UNIX and C Programming Concepts

Covers UNIX fundamentals and introduces C programming concepts, including variables, data types, and basic operations.

CPU and I/O Scheduling: Multi-Level Feedback Queues

Covers the integration of I/O operations into CPU scheduling using Multi-Level Feedback Queues.

Memory Management: Address Space Abstraction

Explains address space abstraction, focusing on memory management, stack and heap structures, and their roles in dynamic memory allocation.