CS4411 Reading List: Week 2

Course Material

Slides used in class are available in the common directory with filenames 02-Kernel.pdf.

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Programming Material

None for this week

Homework Assignment

Answer the following questions: Answers to these questions can be found in the above mentioned slides.

What are the all activities when an interrupt occurs.
What are the user mode and supervior/kernel mode? How does the CPU know which mode it is executing?
Understand the base+bound memory protection without relocation.
What are logical, virtual and physical addresses?
What is a hardware timer? How is it used?
Understand interrupt vector, interrupt stack and interrupt masking.
Understand how MIPS and x86 handle interrupts.
Understand how Unix upcalls aka signals are handled.
Understand the differences between Unix upcall and interrupts.
Understand the concept of user-level virtual machines.

We do not collect your practice work; but, similar problems will appear in quizzes and exams in the future. Note that I will not make any announcement in class for these short quizzes. In other word, short quizzes may take place at any time as long as I see it is appropriate.