This page is under construction and will be updated with more links and papers soon. Titles without links designate topics that need papers. If you have any suggestions please email babylon@csua.berkeley.edu

MIPS

• R3000 Reference
• Patterson and Hennesy Textbook
• MIPS ABI
• VMIPS Home Page

Scheduling

• Scheduler Activations : Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism (1992)
• Description FreeBSD 5.0 Scheduling System
• Context Switch overhead paper
• Real Time Scheduling paper

Concurrency

• Paper describing basic synchronization
• Paper describing uses of concurrency in the kernel

File systems

• Paper describing basic file systems (BeOS book)?
• Phase tree file systems: overview and more detailed information
• Journaling file system paper
• Soft Updates : A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast File system (1999)
• Journaling versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems (2000)

Virtual Memory

• Design and Implementation of the UVM Virtual Memory System
• The UVM Virtual Memory System
• UBC: An Efficient Unified I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD
• Paper describing virtual memory
• Paper describing virtual memory performance
• Description of the new VM in Linux 2.4.10
• Generic Virtual Memory Management for Operating System Kernels

Security

• Keberos Authentication and Authorization System
• Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO

USB

• USB Specification

Software Engineering

• Peter Dibble's thoughts on how to program an operating system
• Linux kernel hacking HOWTO