Catalog Description: Basic concepts of operating systems and system programming. Utility programs, subsystems, multiple-program systems. Processes, interprocess communication, and synchronization. Memory allocation, segmentation, paging. Loading and linking, libraries. Resource allocation, scheduling, performance evaluation. File systems, storage devices, I/O systems. Protection, security, and privacy.

Units: 4

Prerequisites: COMPSCI 61B, COMPSCI 61C, and COMPSCI 70.

Formats:
Spring: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week
Summer: 6.0 hours of lecture and 2.0 hours of discussion per week
Fall: 3.0 hours of lecture and 1.0 hours of discussion per week

Grading basis: letter

Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period

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Class Schedule (Fall 2024):
CS 162 – TuTh 18:30-19:59, Dwinelle 155 – Ion Stoica

Class Schedule (Spring 2025):
CS 162 – TuTh 12:30-13:59, Valley Life Sciences 2050 – Matei Zaharia, Natacha Crooks

Class homepage on inst.eecs

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Department Notes:

Course objectives: The purpose of this course is to teach the design of operating systems and system programming.

Topics covered:

• Hardware and Operating System Structures
• Concurrency: Processes and Threads
• Thread Dispatching
• Cooperating Threads
• Synchronization
• Implementing Mutual Exclusion
• Semaphores, Monitors, and Condition Variables
• Readers/Writers, Language Support for Synchronization
• Cooperating Processes and Deadlock
• CPU Scheduling
• Protection: Kernel and Address Spaces
• Address Translation, memory allocation, and segmentation
• Caching and TLBs
• Caching and Demand paging
• Survey of I/O systems and storage devices
• File system and disk management
• Naming and directories
• Inter-process communication
• Loading and linking
• Resource allocation
• Performance evaluation
• Basic networking and protocols
• Distributed file systems
• Security and privacy

Related Areas:

• Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
• Security (SEC)