Operating Systems 2015F Lecture 7

Video

The video from the lecture given on September 30, 2015 is now available.

Notes

The project

Modify the linux kernel
Document what you did and explain why you did it
Evaluate what you did

You will submit:

code
a report

Suggested scope: make a "feedback loop"

measure something
change something

Don't limit yoursef to doing things that are "useful"

Entertaining is also good Educational is also good

Feedback loops give systems personality Go with it

Constraint: the system should still be "usable" (But it may be annoying to use)

Hard part

debugging can get weird

Groups are allowed

but contribution of every group member should be clear, significant, and documented

Treat the "oral" portion (interview) as a proposal

Project should be "appropriate" for kernel implementation.

Project may include a userspace portion however.

kernel source code

During the lecture we looked a lot at the The Linux kernel cross reference, http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ . Here are some of the pages that we looked at: