Chapter 0 Guide for Readers and Instructors
0.1 Outline of the Book
0.2 A Roadmap for Readers and Instructors
0.3 0Internet and Web Resources
PART ONE BACKGROUND
Chapter 1 Computer System Overview
1.1 Basic Elements
1.2 Evolution of the Microprocessor
1.3 Instruction Execution
1.4 Interrupts
1.5 The Memory Hierarchy
1.6 Cache Memory
1.7 Direct Memory Access
1.8 Multiprocessor and Multicore Organization
1.9 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
1.10 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems Appendix
1A Performance Characteristics of Two-Level Memory
Chapter 2 Operating System Overview
2.1 Operating System Objectives and Function
2.2 The Evolution of Operating Systems
2.3 Major Achievements
2.4 Developments Leading to Modern Operating Systems
2.5 Virtual Machines
2.6 OS Design Considerations for Multiprocessor and Multicore
2.7 Microsoft Windows Overview
2.8 Traditional UNIX Systems
2.9 Modern UNIX Systems
2.10 Linux
2.11 Android
2.12 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
2.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
PART TWO PROCESSES
Chapter 3 Process Description and Control
3.1 What Is a Process?
3.2 Process States
3.3 Process Description
3.4 Process Control
3.5 Execution of the Operating System
3.6 UNIX SVR4 Process Management
3.7 Summary
3.8 Recommended Reading and Animations
3.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 4 Threads
4.1 Processes and Threads
4.2 Types of Threads
4.3 Multicore and Multithreading
4.4 Windows 8 Process and Thread Management
4.5 Solaris Thread and SMP Management
4.6 Linux Process and Thread Management
4.7 Android Process and Thread Management
4.8 Mac OS X Grand Central Dispatch
4.9 Summary
4.10 Recommended Reading
4.11 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 5 Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization
5.1 Principles of Concurrency
5.2 Mutual Exclusion: Hardware Support
5.3 Semaphores
5.4 Monitors
5.5 Message Passing
5.6 Readers/Writers Problem
5.7 Summary
5.8 Recommended Reading and Animations
5.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 6 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
6.1 Principles of Deadlock
6.2 Deadlock Prevention
6.3 Deadlock Avoidance
6.4 Deadlock Detection
6.5 An Integrated Deadlock Strategy
6.6 Dining Philosophers Problem
6.7 UNIX Concurrency Mechanisms
6.8 Linux Kernel Concurrency Mechanisms
6.9 Solaris Thread Synchronization Primitives
6.10 Windows Concurrency Mechanisms
6.11 Android Interprocess Communications
6.12 Summary
6.13 Recommended Reading
6.14 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
PART THREE MEMORY
Chapter 7 Memory Management
7.1 Memory Management Requirements
7.2 Memory Partitioning
7.3 Paging
7.4 Segmentation
7.5 Summary
7.6 Recommended Reading and Animations
7.7 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems Appendix
7A Loading and Linking
Chapter 8 Virtual Memory
8.1 Hardware and Control Structures
8.2 Operating System Software
8.3 UNIX and Solaris Memory Management
8.4 Linux Memory Management
8.5 Windows Memory Management
8.6 Android Memory Management
8.7 Summary
8.8 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
8.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
PART FOUR SCHEDULING
Chapter 9 Uniprocessor Scheduling
9.1 Types of Scheduling
9.2 Scheduling Algorithms
9.3 Traditional UNIX Scheduling
9.4 Summary
9.5 Recommended Reading and Animations
9.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 10 Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling
10.1 Multiprocessor and Multicore Scheduling
10.2 Real-Time Scheduling
10.3 Linux Scheduling
10.4 UNIX SVR4 Scheduling
10.5 UNIX FreeBSD Scheduling
10.6 Windows Scheduling
10.7 Summary
10.8 Recommended Reading
10.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
PART FIVE INPUT/OUTPUT AND FILES
Chapter 11 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
11.1 I/O Devices
11.2 Organization of the I/O Function
11.3 Operating System Design Issues
11.4 I/O Buffering
11.5 Disk Scheduling
11.6 RAID
11.7 Disk Cache
11.8 UNIX I/O
11.9 Linux I/O
11.10 Windows I/O
11.11 Summary
11.12 Recommended Reading
11.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 12 File Management
12.1 Overview
12.2 File Organization and Access
12.3 B-Trees
12.4 File Directories
12.5 File Sharing
12.6 Record Blocking
12.7 Secondary Storage Management
12.8 UNIX File Management
12.9 Linux Virtual File System
12.10 Windows File System
12.11 Android File Management
12.12 Summary
12.13 Recommended Reading
12.14 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
PART SIX ADVANCED TOPICS
Chapter 13 Embedded Operating Systems
13.1 Embedded Systems
13.2 Characteristics of Embedded Operating Systems
13.3 Embedded Linux
13.4 TinyOS
13.5 Embedded Linux
13.5 Recommended Reading
13.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 14 Virtual Machines
14.1 Approaches to Virtualization
14.2 Processor Issues
14.3 Memory Management
14.4 I/O Management
14.5 VMware ESXi
14.6 Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen Variants
14.7 Java VM
14.8 Linux VServer Virtual Machine Architecture
14.9 Android Virtual Machine
14.10 Recommended Reading
14.11 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 15 Operating System Security
15.1 Intruders and Malicious Software
15.2 Buffer Overflow
15.3 Access Control
15.4 UNIX Access Control
15.5 Operating Systems Hardening
15.6 Security Maintenance
15.7 Windows Security
15.8 Recommended Reading
15.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 16 Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters
16.1 Client/Server Computing
16.2 Distributed Message Passing
16.3 Remote Procedure Calls
16.4 Clusters
16.5 Windows Cluster Server
16.6 Beowulf and Linux Clusters
16.7 Summary
16.8 Recommended Reading
16.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
