Advanced Operating Systems

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Unit I

S No. Course Content:
0 Advanced Operating Systems
1 Overview of UNIX system calls
2 The anatomy of a system call and x86 mechanisms for system call implementation
3 How the MMU/memory translation segmentation, and hardware traps interact to create kernel–user context separation
4 What makes virtualization work? The kernel execution and programming context
5 Live debugging and tracing
6 Hardware and software support for debugging

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