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Introduction to Operating Systems

Preface

Getting started

1. Introduction
2. Purpose of operating systems
3. Operating System Structure & Unix/Linux
4. Operating System Abstractions
5. What you should know

Virtual Processor

6. Introduction
7. The Process: A virtual Computer
8. Virtualizing the CPU
9. The Thread: A Virtual CPU
10. Scheduling
11. Review Questions

Virtual Memory

12. Introduction
13. Memory management before paged virtual memory
14. Paged Virtual memory
15. Buffer Cache
16. Memory management in the real world
17. Conclusion
18. Review

File Systems

19. Introduction
20. File System Abstraction
21. A bit about Disks
22. Implementation
23. Review

Concurrency

24. Introduction
25. Basic Synchronization
26. Common Concurrency Bugs
27. Advanced Synchronization
28. Review

Other Topics

29. Input and Output
30. More on Disks
31. Virtualization
32. Security

Appendices

33. How to read this book
34. Contributing
35. Bibliography

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Locking in the Linux Kernel

27.3. Locking in the Linux Kernel#

Deep dive into synchronization primitives used in the Linux kernel.

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