Chapter 1

System Calls

Processes

medium • 1 min read

Threads

medium • 2 min read

Inter-process communication

medium • 3 min read

Context switching

medium • 4 min read

System boot

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 2

CPU Scheduling

FCFS

medium • 1 min read

SJF

medium • 2 min read

Round robin

medium • 3 min read

Priority scheduling

medium • 4 min read

Multi-level queues

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 3

Deadlock

Characterization

medium • 1 min read

Prevention

medium • 2 min read

Avoidance

medium • 3 min read

Detection

medium • 4 min read

Recovery

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 4

Memory Management

Paging

medium • 1 min read

Segmentation

medium • 2 min read

Virtual memory

medium • 3 min read

Page replacement

medium • 4 min read

Thrashing

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 5

File Systems

Allocation methods

medium • 1 min read

Free space management

medium • 2 min read

Directory structure

medium • 3 min read

File protection

medium • 4 min read

Disk mapping

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 6

Concurrency

Critical section

medium • 1 min read

Semaphores

medium • 2 min read

Monitors

medium • 3 min read

Peterson's solution

medium • 4 min read

Readers-writers

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 7

Disk Scheduling

SSTF

medium • 1 min read

SCAN

medium • 2 min read

C-SCAN

medium • 3 min read

LOOK

medium • 4 min read

C-LOOK

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 8

Kernel and Protection

User vs Kernel mode

medium • 1 min read

Privileged instructions

medium • 2 min read

Access control lists

medium • 3 min read

Capability lists

medium • 4 min read

Authentication

medium • 5 min read