อบรมหลักสูตร "Linux Internal"

ศูนย์เทคโนโลยีอิเล็กทรอนิกส์และคอมพิวเตอร์แห่งชาติ ร่วมกับ บริษัทไอบีเอ็ม จัดอบรมหลักสูตร Linux Intenal ในวันที่ 23-27 มิถุนายน 2551 นี้ ที่ห้อง

กำแพงเพชร โรงแรมโซฟิเทลเซ็นทารา ลาดพร้าว โดยมีเนื้อหาหลักสูตรดังนี้

สำหรับผู้สนใจสามารถส่งเมล์มาสมัครที่ผม (krich.nasingkun@nectec.or.th) โดยมีข้อมูลที่ต้องการดังนี้ครับ
- ชื่อ-สกุล
- พื้นฐานความเชี่ยวชาญที่เกี่ยวข้อง
- เบอร์ติดต่อ,อีเมล์

โดยผู้เข้าอบรมจะต้องสามารถเข้าร่วมการอบรมได้ทั้งวัน ครบทุกวันรับจำกัดเพียง 15 ท่าน ครับ

Instructor : IBM
Conduct in Englist

Course name : Linux Internal

Objective :
Train students on essentials of Linux internals, debugging, development tools and performance analysis.

Prerequisites:
Its expected that all participants will have:
- Basic knowledge of Operating Systems
- Good working knowledge of C
- Hands-on experience desirable
- Kernel programming experience is a bonus
- Basic scripting knowledge (ex: shell scripts)
- Working knowledge of Linux. Ex:
- booting a Linux system
- basis system administration (adding/removing users etc)
- basic commands (ls, ps, chmod, mkdir, vi, etc)

Schedule
Day 1
- Basics of Linux programming and tools
- Use of GCC/LD with simple C programs
- Simple threaded programs
- Programs making use of system calls
- Using GDB to debug programs [EXERCISE]
- Other analysis/debugging tools: strace, ltrace, objdump, nm [EXERCISE]
- Simple Makefiles
- Quick overview of a typical hardware on which Linux runs (CPU, Memory, Interrupt controller, IO Bus etc) – Kernel's view of hardware
- Overview of the Linux Kernel
- Kernel layout
- Important subsystems
- Kernel architecture
- Configuring, Building and Booting a new kernel [EXERCISE]
- Generating patches – quick overview of quilt [EXERCISE]
- Linux kernel modules
- Simple "Hello World" module [EXERCISE]
- EXPORT_SYMBOL and the like

Day 2
- Linux kernel internals – An overview (with focus on interfaces used by device drivers)
- Processes and threads
- Scheduler and scheduling
- policy, multi-tasking, timeslice allocation
- Memory management
- virtual memory, page tables, memory allocation
- process address space, copy-on-write
- Filesystems
- VFS, inode, dentry, file_ops
- pseudo filesystems: /proc, sysfs, debugfs
- Interrupts and exceptions
- System Calls
- Locking and synchronization
- Concurrency and need for synchronization
- Semaphores, mutexes, spinlocks, waitqueues
- Lock-free algorithms
- Demo/Exercise on:
- Creating kernel threads and synchronizing them
- Adding a system call to kernel
- Adding a psuedo file to kernel (/proc and debugfs)
- More EXERCISES on various kernel subsystems to be identified

Day3
- Device drivers
- Character drivers
- Advanced character driver operations: ioctl, poll, select, async notification, seek
- Deferred work
- Timers (EXERCISE)
- Tasklets
- Work queues (EXERCISE)
- Allocating memory and IO ports
- Interrupt handling
- Installing a handler
- Top and bottom halves
- Linux driver model
- Kobjects, Ksets and Subsystems
- Sysfs
- Hotplug
- udev
- More EXERCISES to be identified
Day 4
- Device driver hands-on (Morning session)
- Developing a complete character and a block device driver for a pseudo device.
(This exercise starts on Day 3 and would terminate on Day 4)
- Debugging exercises (Afternoon session)
- printk [EXERCISE]
- dynamic instrumentation techniques
- SystemTap [EXERCISE]
- kexec [EXERCISE]
- kdump: crash dump and analysis [EXERCISE]
Day 5
- Performance analysis
- System performance monitoring
- CPU, Memory, IO, Network Utilization
- Measurement techniques
- Tools available for measurement
- top, iostat,vmstat, systemtap, delay accounting, oprofile, perfmon etc
- Benchmarks for performance evaluation
- Configuring Linux for high performance
- Partitioning
- Choice of filesystems and fileystem tuning.
- Kernel tunables
- Scheduler tunables
- VM tunables
- Network tunables
- IO tunables
- Permormance tuning case studies
- Filesystem, Scheduler, Network performance
- Specific case studies of application tuning (yet to be identified)