How I Learn Operating Systems

2025-03-24   blogpage programming howilearn sketch

• Watch live coding session from kernel developers
  

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSs0v2Fmnhc
    

• Read Best books
  

  • Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum
    

  • Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces by Arpaci Dusseau
    

• Read Linux Kernel
  

  • Download latest linux version from https://kernel.org and investigate with cursor
    

    • github.com/torvalds/linux
      

  • Steven Rostedt - Learning the Linux Kernel with tracing (archived)
    

    • tracing tools
      

      • dmesg > view kernel logs
        

      • strace > trace system calls of a process (strace -p <pid> )
        

      • ltrace > trace dynamic library calls (ltrace -p <pid>)
        

      • perf > performance profiling (CPU, memory, I/O) perf top
        

      • ftrace > built-in kernel function tracer
        

  • do source code analysis
    

    • https://github.com/cgag/loc
      

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      • https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
        

    • Source Code Analysis
      

• Read Linus Torvalds master thesis
  

  • https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kutvonen/index_files/linus.pdf