Operating System

Contents

1. Introduction to Operating System

1. Introduction

2. Services Provided by OS

3. Types of Operating System

4. Operating System Structure

5. Virtual Machines

2. System Structure

1. User Operating System Interface

2. System Calls

3. System Programs and Attributes of System Programming

4. Operating System Structure

3. Process Management

1. Process Concept

2. Process State

3. Process Control Block

4. Process Scheduling

5. Operation on Process

6. Inter process Communication

4. CPU Scheduling

1. Introduction

2. Scheduling Concepts

3. Scheduling Criteria

4. Scheduling Algorithm

5. Operation System Examples

5. Process Synchronization

1. Introduction

2. Interprocess Communication

3. Critical Section Problem

4. Semaphores

5. Monitors

6. Classical Problems of Synchronization

6. Deadlock

1. Introduction

2. Deadlock Characterization

3. Necessary Conditions for Deadlock

5. Deadlock Handling Technique

6. Banker’s Algorithm for a Single Resource

7. Banker’s Algorithm for Multiple Resources

8. Process Termination

9. Resource Preemption

7. Memory Management

1. Background

2. Swapping

3. Contiguous Memory Allocation

4. Paging

5. Segmentation

6. Virtual Memory Management

8. File System

1. Introduction and File Concepts

2. Access Methods

3. File/Directory Structure

4. File Allocation Methods

5. File System Structure

6. Free Space Management

9. I/O System

1. Introduction

2. I/O Hardware

3. Application of I/O Interface

4. Direct Memory Access (DMA)

5. Kernel I/O Subsystem

6. Dual Mode Operation

7. Disk Scheduling

8. Polling

9. Interrupts