Week
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Notes* |
| Week 1 (1/20) |
Introduction -- course overview, refresher on OS basics (OS structure: monoliths, microkernels, virtual machines, syscalls, kernel services, etc) | |
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Quest-V SDKPart 1 -- Overview of the Quest
RTOS and Quest-V partitioning hypervisor |
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| Week 2 (1/27) |
Quest-V SDK Part 2 -- including assignment
discussion |
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| Walkthrough of markdown documents, code
examples, toolchain, example demos |
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| Week 3 (2/3) |
System structure -- monoliths,
microkernels, virtual machines |
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| Virtualization -- VT-x basics, including
VMCS details |
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| Week 4 (2/10) |
Virtualization -- guest address
translation: shadow page tables/EPTs |
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| Virtualization -- Quest-V control flow |
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| Week 5 (2/17) |
Substitute Monday Schedule for Presidents' Day Holiday |
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| x86 Architecture -- ISA, inline assembly, 32- vs 64-bit, switching into 64-bit mode, 2- vs 4/5-level paging |
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| Week 6 (2/24) |
No class -- Snow Closure |
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| Quest walkthrough Part 1 - features, code structure, bootstrapping, memory layout, address spaces, code wakthrough (for, exec, exit) |
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| Week 7 (3/3) |
Quest walkthrough Part 2 - threads, interrupts, syscalls, user-kernel control flow | ||
| Quest walkthrough Part 3 - per-CPU data structures, modules, driver subsystem, serial debugging,... | |||
| Week 8 (3/10) |
Spring Recess |
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| Spring Recess |
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| Week 9 (3/17) |
Symmetric multiprocessing -- initialization (INIT/SIPI/SIPI, etc), synchronization basics (semaphores, spinlocks) |
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| Batched Priority Locking (BPL) -- explanation and comparison with alternative approaches |
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| Week 10 (3/24) |
Scheduling -- Quest VCPU design, sporadic servers, theory vs code walkthrough |
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| Scheduling -- Linux SCHED_DEADLINE, CBS, PREEMPT-RT concepts |
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| Week 11 (3/31) |
Memory Management -- TLSF, Pow2 memory allocator, Quest code walkthough of memory management |
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| Input/Output -- IDT, device enumeration, PCI configuration space, LAPIC/IOAPIC, MSI |
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| Week 12 (4/7) |
USB Parts 1 & 2 -- (1) Overview of USB concepts (focus on xHCI, (2) Communication, xDBC, xDCI |
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| No class -- PI Meeting |
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| Week 13 (4/14) |
Power Management -- ACPI (power states and table structures), ACPICA documentation |
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| Differentiated Services -- interrupters work with MSI, Quest IOVCPUs |
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| Week 14 (4/21) | Quest-V advanced concepts -- shmcomm, tuned pipes, power management, DriveOS & ModelMap |
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| Security -- system compartmentalization basic concepts, capability systems | Basic Concepts:
Capability Systems:
Capability-aware Hardware:
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| Week 15 (4/28) |
Security -- vmfunc instructions, CET (control flow enforcement technology), VT-rp (HLAT concepts), CACHE approach: sentry code concepts, examples, comparison with related work |
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| Class Project Presentations | |
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Poster Session |
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