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Asia Pacific University Relation
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Windows Core Teaching Resource Kit (TRK)
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Introduction
Under
the Windows Core theme project, MSRA University Relations has been
working with the faculties across China in the past
several years for curriculum development by leveraging the Windows Core
technologies, aiming to help universities across the country developing
advanced operating system (OS) curriculum, and to enhance the OS course
quality, by bring in real-world OS source code and examples that Windows
Core (WRK/CRK) offers.
From 2006 to 2007, a group of leading OS professors across China were
sponsored by the MSRA UR Windows Core theme project funding, as the
pioneering professors to blaze the trails of this effort. Lead by
professor CHEN Xiangqun of Peking University, they joined effort
together in a close research collaboration to study and exam the
technology features and resources offered by WRK/CRK in the Windows
Academic Program, and experimented in bringing the resources to the OS
curriculum they have been teaching. Their researches in the Windows Core
technology for OS curriculum development, lead to many insights and
suggestions on how to enhancing the OS course by leveraging WRK/CRK.
In early 2008, MSRA University Relations worked with these pioneering
professors to package their research results together, and produced the
following Windows Core Teaching Resource Kit (TRK).
The TRK is a set of documents and sample source code, to help OS
professors everywhere to better leverage the Windows Core WRK/CRK, by
offering guidelines of system setup for building custom OS, OS source
code tracing, system property data observing, and runtime analysis
tools. Together, the TRK offers an unique resources to assist other OS
professors in bringing real-world examples and hands-on experiments into
the OS courses, to help elevating the OS course teaching quality and
content diversity.
As the sponsor for this project, MSRA University Relations hereby
present and share the results from the China Windows Core pioneering
professors with the academic community.
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The
Pioneering Professors Who Contributed to TRK
Prof. Chen Xiangqun
Peking University
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Associate Prof. Lei Wang
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Associate Prof. Shi Guangshun
NanKai University
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Associate Prof. Chen Yu
Tsinghua University
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Associate Prof. Xiang Yong
Tsinghua University
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Prof. Meng Xiangwu
Beijing University of Posts and telecommunications
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Teaching Resource Kit
(TRK) Content Summary
WRK (Windows Research Kernel) is part of
Windows kernel codes that Microsoft discloses to universities. Based on
the WRK source code analysis, we will give the specific instruction of
OS experiments based on WRK, which includes the requirements of
experiments, format of students report, experiments guideline, reference
solutions and suggestion for the experiment further development. The
experiments cover process management, processor scheduling, and memory
management. Students can grasp how system configuration parameters have
influence on system behavior and performance from the demos. Each
experiment has difficulties tiers, the teacher and students can follow
these experiments along their own time and competence .These hand-on
labs to guide students to practice after class. Students are also
encouraged to replace some algorithms in Windows by their own code.
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TRK Cases & Resources
TRK Case 1: Working Set
By Associate Professor WANG Lei, Beihang University
Introduction:
Working set is a very important concept in memory management. Windows
system often divides the working sets into process working set and
kernel working set, respectively used to trace the physical memory usage
of each process and kernel.
Three experiments are set in this section: analysis experiment on page
replacement algorithm of working set, algorithm modification experiment,
and experiment on writing application verification algorithm.
- Experiment 1: Reading Codes - Page Replacement
Algorithm Analysis
- Experiment 2: Modification of Page Replacement
Algorithm
- Experiment 3: Verification of Page Replacement
Algorithm
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TRK Case 2: Processor Scheduling
By Associate Professor XIANG Yong and Associate Professor CHEN Yu, Tsinghua
University
Introduction:
In this experiment, our tasks are to understand data structures related
to processes and threads in Windows operating system kernel by analyzing
WRK source code; get user-defined tracing information from kernel by
modifying some system call interface; obtain processor scheduling
information by adding debugging code in WRK; design applications for
testing, trace the state change of its runtime, and explain the cause
for state change.
Download PDF document
Download source code
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TRK Case 3: Inter-Process Communication
(IPC)
By Associate Professor SHI Guangshun, Nankai University
Introduction:
Inter-Process Communication plays an important role in the process
management of time-sharing operating systems. It is especially important
for Windows, which is the tightly coupled operating system which
supports symmetrical multi-processing (SMP). In Windows, the kernel
provides various schemes to avoid modification of the same data
structure by two threads at the same time. The following 4 practice
projects are designed for the purpose of better understanding the
solutions for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) problems in Windows
operating systems.
- Requirement 1: Reading Code – Synchronization/Mutex
Object Management in WRK
- Requirement 2:
Online Debug – Check the Wait Queue in WRK
- Requirement 3:
Implementation and Debug of the Producer-Consumer Problem on WRK
Platform
- Requirement 4:
Implementation and Debug of the Reader-Writer Problem on a WRK
Platform
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Download source code
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TRK Case 4: Process and Thread
management
By Professor MENG Xiangwu, Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications
Introduction:
In order to analyze the process and thread management, we must deep
understand their data structures. This analysis aims at understanding
the internal working of the NTOS kernel on process management. Through
the experiment, the students will master the debug environment of the
WRK and the management of the process and the thread of the kernel of
the Windows operating system. During the experiment, students can master
some useful debug techniques and knowledge about the process and the
thread.
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