This note explains the
following topics: Computer system, Hardware basics, Nachos overview, Process concept and state, Process description
and control, Threads, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization,
Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion
and Synchronization, Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation, Memory Management,
Virtual Memory, Virual Memory, Uniprocessor Scheduling, I/O Management.
This book contains below topics, Operating system interfaces, Operating system organization, Page tables, Traps and system calls, Page faults, Interrupts and device drivers, Locks, Scheduling, Sleep and wakeup, File system.
Author(s): Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris, MIT CSAIL
The Notes by Bighnaraj Naik hence, provide a directed discussion of operating systems, beginning with their history, and various types. The paper deals with critical services to an operating system in connection with management of processes, the idea of process synchronization, indepth process management and scheduling, tools and constructs used in processing concurrency, detection of deadlocks, and prevention techniques. The paging technique and virtual memory management form the base of dynamic resource allocation techniques. File systems have also been discussed, they classified into logical and physical file systems with differences in their allocation strategies, so it has provided a profound insight into the theoretical and practical sides of the operating system.