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Download your digital copy today and immerse yourself in the complexities, principles, and real-world applications of operating systems in the ever-evolving landscape of computing. 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1 What Operating Systems Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Computer-System Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.3 Computer-System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1.4 Operating-System Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 2 Operating-System Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 2.1 User and Operating-System Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 2.2 System Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 2.3 Boot Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 2.4 Windows Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 3 Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 3.1 Process Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 3.2 Process Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 3.3 Interprocess Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 3.4 Client Server Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 4 Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 4.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 4.2 Multicore Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 4.3 high performance computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 4.4 Thread Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 5 Process Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 5.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 5.2 The Critical-Section Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 6 CPU Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 6.1 Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 6.2 Scheduling Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 7 Deadlocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 7.1 System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 7.2 Deadlock Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 7.3 Deadlock Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 7.4 Deadlock Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 8 Main Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 8.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 8.2 Contiguous Memory Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 8.3 Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 8.4 Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 9 Virtual Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 9.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 9.2 Page Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 10 Mass-Storage Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 10.1 Overview of Mass-Storage Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 10.2 Disk Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 10.3 Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 10.4 RAID Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 11 File-System Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 11.1 File Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 11.2 Directory and Disk Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 11.3 File systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 12 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 12.1 PROTECTION AND SECURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
