Design and Implementation of the MTX Operating System

✍ Scribed by K. C. Wang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 551
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This course-tested textbook describes the design and implementation of operating systems, and applies it to the MTX operating system, a Unix-like system designed for Intel x86 based PCs. Written in an evolutional style, theoretical and practical aspects of operating systems are presented as the design and implementation of a complete operating system is demonstrated. Throughout the text, complete source code and working sample systems are used to exhibit the techniques discussed. The book contains many new materials on the design and use of parallel algorithms in SMP. Complete coverage on booting an operating system is included, as well as, extending the process model to implement threads support in the MTX kernel, an init program for system startup and a sh program for executing user commands.

Intended for technically oriented operating systems courses that emphasize both theory and practice, the book is also suitable for self-study.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Foundations and Background....Pages 11-42
Booting Operating Systems....Pages 43-95
A Simple Operating System Kernel....Pages 97-132
User Mode and System Calls....Pages 133-173
Process Synchronization....Pages 175-214
Memory Management....Pages 215-234
Interrupt Processing and Process Scheduling....Pages 235-255
Signals and Signal Processing....Pages 257-271
Device Drivers....Pages 273-314
File System....Pages 315-343
Block Device I/O and Buffer Management....Pages 345-358
User Interface....Pages 359-386
MTX in 32-bit Protected Mode....Pages 387-447
Symmetric Multiprocessing MTX....Pages 449-524
Hybrid Operating Systems....Pages 525-530
Back Matter....Pages 531-539

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters