Operating systems: Internals & design principles (6^th Ed.)

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles is a comprehensive and unified introduction to operating systems. By using several innovative tools, Stallings makes it possible to understand critical core concepts that can be fundamentally challenging. The new edition includes the implementation of web based animations to aid visual learners. At key points in the book, students are directed to view an animation and then are provided with assignments to alter the animation input and analyze the results. The concepts are then enhanced and supported by end-of-chapter case studies of UNIX, Linux and Windows Vista. These provide students with a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of modern operating systems and the types of design tradeoffs and decisions involved in OS design. Because they are embedded into the text as end of chapter material, students are able to apply them right at the point of discussion. This approach is equally useful as a basic reference and as an up-to-date survey of the state of the art.

WEB SITE FOR OPERATING SYSTEMS, INTERNALS AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES

PREFACE

CHAPTER 0 READER'S GUIDE

0.1 Outline of the Book

0.2 Topic Ordering

0.3 Internet and Web Resources

PART ONE BACKGROUND

Chapter 1 Computer System Overview

1.1 Basic Elements

1.2 Processor Registers

1.3 Instruction Execution

1.4 Interrupts

1.5 The Memory Hierarchy

1.6 Cache Memory

1.7 I/O Communication Techniques

1.8 Recommended Reading and Web Sites

1.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Appendix 1A Performance Characteristics of Two-Level Memory

Appendix 1B Procedure Control

Chapter 2 Operating System Overview

2.1 Operating System Objectives and Functions

2.2 The Evolution of Operating Systems

2.3 Major Achievements

2.4 Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems

2.5 Windows Vista Overview

2.6 Traditional UNIX Systems

2.7 Modern UNIX Systems

2.8 Linux

2.9 Recommended Reading and Web Sites

2.10 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

PART TWO PROCESSES

Chapter 3 Process Description and Control

3.1 What is a Process?

3.2 Process States

3.3 Process Description

3.4 Process Control

3.5 UNIX FreeBSD Process Management

3.6 Summary

3.7 Recommended Reading

3.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Programming Project 1 Developing a Shell Chapter 4 Threads, SMP, and Microkernels

4.1 Processes and Threads

4.2 Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

4.3 Microkernels

4.4 Windows Vista Thread and SMP Management

4.5 Solaris Thread and SMP Management

4.6 Linux Process and Thread Management

4.7 Summary

4.8 Recommended Reading

4.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems

Chapter 5 Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion...