Kishore Kumar Pusukuri

I was a Teaching Assistant for

• Spring 2009: CS 153 - Design of Operating Systems
• Winter 2009: CS 153 - Design of Operating Systems
• Fall 2008: CS 005 - Introduction to Programming
• Spring 2008: CS 153 - Design of Operating Systems
• Winter 2008: CS 153 - Design of Operating Systems
• Fall 2007: CS 008 - Introduction to Computing

Spring 2009

• CS153 - Design of Operating Systems
  Office hours: Thursday 11:10 AM to 12:10 PM. (Room no:465, EBUII)
  Lab hours: Tuesday 8:10 AM to 11:00 AM.

  Recommended books for the lab projects:

  • Linux Device Drivers, Jonathan Corbat et al., O'REILLY Third Edition.
  • Kernel Projects for Linux, Gary Nutt.
  • Understanding the LINUX KERNEL, Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Richard Stevens.
  • Practice of Programming, Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike.

  Projects and Lab Notes:

  • Lab Policies and Submitting Projects
  • Project -1: Observing Linux Behaviour
    • Problem statement
    • Notes
    • Resources:
      • Proc filesystem documentation
      • Red Hat notes on /proc
      • Input/Output on Streams - Documentation
      • Low-Level Input/Output - Documentation
      • Best practices for programming in C
      • C Traps and Pitfalls
  • Project -2: Shell Implementation Specifications
    • Problem statement
    • Shell Notes-1
    • Wait and Signals
    • Shell-Lab1-code
    • Shell-Lab2-code
    • Resources
      • GNU C Library
      • Duplicating Descriptors,   sample code
      • Signals,   sample code
      • fork.c (Linux kernel 2.6)
  • Project-3: Notes for threads assignment

Winter 2009:

• CS153 - Design of Operating Systems
  Office hours: Tuesday and Friday 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM. (Room no:465, EBUII)
  Lab hours: Tuesday and Friday 8:10 AM to 11:00 AM.

  Recommended books for the lab projects

  • Linux Device Drivers, Jonathan Corbat et al., O'REILLY Third Edition.
  • Kernel Projects for Linux, Gary Nutt.
  • Understanding the LINUX KERNEL, Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Richard Stevens.
  • Practice of Programming, Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike.
  • The Unix Programming Environment, B. Kernighan and R. Pike.

  Projects and Lab Notes

  • Kernel Modules
    • Kernel Modules with /proc interface
      • Problem statement
      • Code
      • Resources
        • The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
        • proc_dir_entry structure
  • Multi-threaded Sorting
    • Problem statement
    • Code
    • Input files
    • Testing: million numbers file (small-m.txt.bz2)
    • What really happend on Mars?
  • System Calls
    • Problem statement
    • Linux Kernel Compilation
    • How to add a system call?
    • Testing the system call: mycall()
    • Kernel command using Linux system call by M. Tim Jones
    • How to compile a custom kernel for Ubuntu Intrepid?

Fall 2008

• CS 005 - Introduction to Programming
  Office hours: Tuesday 11:05 AM to 12:05 PM (Room no:465, EBUII).
  Lab hours: Tuesday and Thursday 8:10 AM to 11:00 AM.

  Recommended books for the lab projects

  Learning to Program with Alice, by Wanda Dann, Stephen Cooper, and Randy Pausch, Prentice Hall Publication.

  Resources:

  • What is Alice?
  • A good collection of papers on Alice
  • A good collection of Alice notes
  • Alice: Lessons Learned from Building a 3D system for Novices, Matthew Canway et al., CHI2000.
  • Alice Faq
  • How to import 3D worlds into Alice?
  • Effective Alice Models
  • Hawaiian Models
  • Alice Gallary
  • Story telling alice

  Lab Notes

  • Lab-1
  • Lab-2
  • Lab-3
  • Guest Lecture - 1

Spring 2008:

• CS153 - Design of Operating Systems
  Office hours: Thursday 12:30PM to 1:30PM (Room no:465, EBUII).
  Lab hours: Wednesday 6:10PM to 9:00PM.

  Recommended books for the lab projects

  • Linux Device Drivers, Jonathan Corbat et al., O'REILLY Third Edition.
  • Kernel Projects for Linux, Gary Nutt.
  • Understanding the LINUX KERNEL, Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Richard Stevens.
  • Practice of Programming, Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike.
  • The Unix Programming Environment, B. Kernighan and R. Pike.

  Lab Notes

  • How to submit projects?
  • Lab1 - Introduction to Linux
    • Project -1: Observing Linux Behaviour
    • Problem statement
    • Notes
    • Resources
    • Proc filesystem documentation
    • Red Hat notes on /proc
    • Input/Output on Streams - Documentation
    • Low-Level Input/Output - Documentation
    
    
  • Lab2 - Kernel Modules
    • Project -2: Kernel Modules with /proc interface
      • Problem statement
      • Code
      • Resources
        • The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
        • proc_dir_entry structure
        • module.h
        • kernel.h
        • proc_fs.h
  
  
  • Lab3 - Process Management
    • Project - 3: Shell Implementation
      • Problem statement
      • Code
      • Resources
        • GNU C Library
        • Duplicating Descriptors,   sample code
        • Signals,   sample code
        • fork.c (Linux kernel 2.6)
  
  
  • Lab4 - Multithreaded sorting with your own Pthread Library
    • Project - 4: Implementation of a Thread package
      • Problem statement
      • Input files
      • Resources
        • Linux Tutorial: Posix Threads

  Linux/Unix resources

  • User Mode Linux
  • Documentation of UNIX standard system calls
  • Kernel Newbies
  • Kernel Hacking
  • Linux Tutorial: Posix Threads
  • Inside the Linux Scheduler
  • Reboot Linux Faster
  • Another method to boot linux faster
  • The latest debate between Tanenbaum and Torvalds about microkernels
  • Inside Memory Management
  • Is Linux Obsolete - debate between Tanenbaum and Torvalds and others (old but...)
  • The Linux Documentation Project
  • The Linux On-Line Documentation
  • Bossa Scheduler Framework for Linux
  • Linux Security
  • Linux IP Networking
  • Five pitfalls of Linux Socket Programming
  • ucLinux (an embedded Linux): If there is no virtual memory management, then....

  C, Unix, and Debugging
  

  • C programming standards
  • Volatile variables in C
  • Learn 10 good Unix Usage Habits
  • A GDB tutorial

Winter 2008:

• CS153 - Design of Operating Systems

  Office hours: Thursday 11:30AM to 12:30PM (Room no:465, EBUII).
  Lab hours: Thursday 8:10AM to 11:00AM.

  Recommended books for the lab

  • Kernel Projects for Linux, Gary Nutt.
  • The Unix Programming Environment, B. Kernighan and R. Pike.
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Richard Stevens.
  • Practice of Programming, Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike.

  Lab Notes

  • Lab1 - 10 JAN 2008
  • Lab2 - 17 JAN 2008,   Lab2-code
  • Lab3 - 24 JAN 2008,   Lab3-code
  • Lab4 & 5 - 7 FEB 2008,   Lab4 & 5 - code
  • Lab6 - 14 FEB 2008,   Lab6 - code
  • Project-1: Implementing Shell
    • Some hints
    • Redirecting operators,   sample code
    • Signals,   sample code
  • Project-2: Multithreaded Sort
  • Project description
  • Supporting files
  • Project-3: File Manager
  • Project description - Gary Nutt book, Page: 190 to 191.
  • Resources

Fall 2007

• CS008 - Introduction to Computing