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Solaris 10 Operating System Internals (SI-365-S10) |
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The Solaris 10 Operating System Internals course
provides students with information about the various kernel
subsystems, routines, and structures that make up the Solaris
10 Operating System. Students will use Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) to step through
process creation, execution, signal delivery, and scheduling,
correlating observations with source code available through
OpenSolaris. The labs make extensive use of dtrace,kmdb,
and mdb commands to examine the system structures on live systems.
The labs also make use of OpenSolaris web access to
facilitate understanding how the Operating System works.
The kernel subsystems covered include the multithreaded
architecture, virtual memory, scheduling, process lifetime,
signal management, the vnode layer, and file systems such
as UFS, ZFS and swapfs. |
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Skills Gained |
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Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
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Explain step-by-step how a lock is acquiredDiscuss the reason for priority inheritance and its implementationIdentify the steps performed in a virtual to physical memory address translationList the process structures and routines needed to implement a scheduling classList the process structures used to implement multiple scheduling classes and the fields in the time-sharing and real-time dispatch parameter tables
| | Describe the paging and swapping algorithms that manage physical memory as a cacheDescribe process creation, execution, and terminationDiscuss kernel thread scheduling and preemptionUse kmdb, mdb, and DTrace to locate and display the system structures for an open file in a given process, such as the file descriptor, file structure, vnode structure, inode structure, page structure, and superblockDescribe the placement policies that the UNIX® file system (UFS) uses to place inodes and blocks of data
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Who Can Benefit |
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Students who can benefit from this course are programmers, system engineers, advanced system administrators, and support personnel. |
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Prerequisites |
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To get the most value from this course, students should be able to:
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Read C programs and explain the meaning of a = (struct foo *) b and int func(int)
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SI-365-S10 |
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Instructor-Led Classroom |
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5 days |
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Sun Microsystems |
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Solaris 10 Operating System Internals (SI-365-S10) Content Details |
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| Introducing the Solaris 10 Operating System | - Define the purpose of the operating system and explain the
concept of kernel layering
- Explain and diagram the segments that make up the process
address space
- Explain the trap mechanism
- Differentiate between hardware and software interrupts
- List the new features in recent releases of the Solaris 10 OS
- Start using tools such as mdb, kmdb, and DTrace to examine
kernel data structures
- Start using http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/ to examine the
source code
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- Explain the difference between symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP)
and asymmetrical multiprocessing (ASMP)
- Define an application and a kernel thread
- Define a lightweight process (LWP)
- Explain the difference between a thread and an LWP
- List the structures that describe the state of a kernel thread,
an LWP, and a process
- Explain how a mutex lock works
- Define a condition variable
- Describe how a counting semaphore is implemented
- Explain how a multiple-reader, single-writer lock works
- Explain the advantages of multiple LWPs for a given process
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| Hardware Memory Management | - Describe how the MMU tables are used to perform virtual-to-
physical address translation
- List the differences between the x86/x64 memory management
unit (MMU) and the SFMMU
- Describe types of cache implemented on Sun systems
- Explain the purpose of the hardware address translation
(HAT) layer
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| Software Memory Management | - List the layers of the SunOS 5.x software virtual memory
(VM) system and define the role of each layer
- List the mapping structures that make up process address space
- Locate the page structures and process address space structures
in mdb or dtrace and identify the fields within the structures
- Explain how the memory mapping and memory control system calls
can be used by an application programmer to effectively manage
process memory needs
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- Explain the layered approach to page-fault handling
- List the conditions under which the page daemon runs
- List the functions of the page daemon
- List the conditions under which the swapper runs
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- List the shortcomings of SunOS 4.x swap management
- Describe the changes that were made to the anonymous memory
layer to accommodate the implementation of the swapfs
file system
- List two advantages obtained by adding the swapfs file
system to the SunOS 5.x
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- List at least two major barriers to real-time processing
in the traditional UNIX architectures, such as System V
Release 3 (SVR3), the 4.3 Berkeley Software Design version
of UNIX (BSD), and SunOS 4.x software
- Explain the difference between a fully preemptible kernel and
a kernel with preemption points
- List a routine used to place a thread on a dispatch queue
- Describe when a thread is placed at the head of a dispatch queue
- Describe how the sleep queues are ordered
- Define a user-level preemption
- Define a kernel-level preemption
- Define deterministic dispatch latency
- Define priority inversion
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- Explain the differences among the system calls used to create
a new process
- Describe the kernel routines used to implement process creation
- List the different types of executables supported in the
Solaris 10 OS
- Explain the routines used to implement executable and linking
format (ELF) executables
- List the advantages of the ELF executable format
- Describe the actions taken by a process when it exits
- Explain the waitid(2) system call and how it is implemented
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- List the different types of signals that can be delivered
to a process or thread
- Explain the difference between a trap signal and an interrupt
signal
- List the signal management routines and describe their
functions
- Describe what the signal facility is for, and how a signal
is delivered
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- Describe the vnode interface layer to a file system
- List the four fields in a directory entry
- Explain the advantages of the 4.3 BSD file system
- Describe the function of the superblock and cylinder group
structures
- List the fields in the disk inode structure and explain how
they are used
- Name the routines involved in determining the global
placement policies
- Explain the allocation routines using the flowcharts and describe
how the fragments are located quickly
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