Reading Assignments

This page summarizes reading assignments in Silberschatz & Galvin and Stallings you only need to have read the assignments in one of these books.

Operating Systems Concepts, fifth edition.

Abraham Silberschatz and Peter Baer Galvin

Assigned	Chapter	Name
Part IOverview
X	1	Introduction
X	2	Computer-System Structures
X	3	Operating-System Structures
Part IIProcess Management
X	4	Processes
X	5	CPU Scheduling
X	6	Process Synchronization
X	7	Deadlocks
Part IIIStorage Management
X	8	Memory Management
X	9	Virtual Memory
	10	File-System Interface
	11	File-System Implementation
Part IVI/O Systems
	12	I/O Systems
	13	Secondary-Storage Structure
	14	Tertiary-Storage Structure
Part VDistributed Systems
	15	Network Structures
	16	Distributed-System Structures
	17	Distributed-File Systems
	18	Distributed Coordination
Part VIProtection and Security
	19	Protection
	20	Security
Part VIICase Studies
	21	The UNIX System
	22	The Linux System
	23	Windows/NT
	24	Historical Perspective
Appendices
	A	The Mach System
	B	The Nachos System

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, third edition.

William Stallings

Assigned	Chapter	Name
Part IBackground
X	1	Computer System Overview
X	2	Operating System Overview
Part IIProcesses
X	3	Process Description and Control
X	4	Threads, SMP, and Microkernels
X	5	Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization
X	6	Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
Part IIIMemory
X	7	Memory Management
X	8	Virtual Memory
Part IVScheduling
X	9	Uniprocessor Scheduling
	10	Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling
Part VInput/Output and Files
	11	I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
	12	File Management
Part VIDistributed Systems
	13	Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters
	14	Distributed Process Management
Part VIISecurity
	15	Security
Appendices
	A	Queuing Analysis
	B	Object-Oriented Design
	C	Programming and Operating System Projects
	D	OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects
	E	BACI: The Ben-Ari Concurrent Programming System