Advanced Operating Systems 2025/2026: Labs Materials

Contents:

• Class notes
  • Class 1: BPF
  • Class 2: LIBBPF
  • Class 3: Kernel Interfaces
  • Class 4: kernel compilation
  • Class 5: Internal Kernel Interfaces, part I
  • Class 6: Kernel interfaces part II and schedext
  • Class 7: Kernel Debugging
  • Class 8: Internal Kernel Interfaces, part III
  • Class 9: Kernel modules
  • Class 10: Character Devices
  • Class 11: The PCI Bus
    • Example PCI Device
  • Class 12: io_uring: I/O and Beyond
  • Class 13: ELF
  • Class 14: Rust in the kernel
  • Class 15: Memory barriers
• Large Assignments
  • Assignment 1: BPF OOM Killer
  • Assignment 2: Scheduler CPU bidding
  • Assignment 3: Tape Device
    • Tape device

Links

Course

• The main site: https://students.mimuw.edu.pl/ZSO/

• Labs: https://students.mimuw.edu.pl/ZSO/PUBLIC-SO/2025-2026/

• Moodle: https://moodle.mimuw.edu.pl/course/view.php?id=2819

• Slack: https://zso.slack.com (you should get an invitation)

Other

The Linux version fixed for the labs is 6.18.5

• The main Linux Kernel website: https://www.kernel.org/

• Kernel documentation for our version: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.18/

• LXR for our version: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18.5/source