Operating Systems: Principles and Practice

Over the past two decades, there has been a huge amount of innovation in both the principles and practice of operating systems Over the same period, the core ideas in a modern operating system – protection, concurrency, virtualization, resource allocation, and reliable storage – have become widely applied throughout computer science. Whether you get a job at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or any other leading-edge technology company, it is impossible to build resilient, secure, and flexible computer systems without the ability to apply operating systems concepts in a variety of settings. This book examines the both the principles and practice of modern operating systems, taking important, high-level concepts all the way down to the level of working code. Because operating systems concepts are among the most difficult in computer science, this top to bottom approach is the only way to really understand and master this important material.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I Kernels and Processes
Chapter 2. The Kernel Abstraction
Chapter 3. The Programming Interface

Part II Concurrency
Chapter 4. Concurrency and Threads
Chapter 5. Synchronizing Access to Shared Objects
Chapter 6. Advanced Synchronization
Chapter 7. Scheduling

Part III Memory Management
Chapter 8. Address Translation
Chapter 9. Caching and Virtual Memory
Chapter 10. Applications of Memory Management

Part IV Persistent Storage
Chapter 11. File Systems: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 12. Storage Devices
Chapter 13. Files and Directories
Chapter 14. Reliable Storage

Part V Index