[Day one]

Introduction

• Linux and Real-Time
• User Space, Kernel Space
• System calls
• Licenses

Installing, Compiling and Booting the Linux kernel

• Kernel Configuration
• Kernel Build
• Kernel Images
• The Bootline
• The Root Filesystem
• Starting an Application after the Kernel Boot

Debugging

• gdb, remote gdb
• /proc directory
• Tracing Tools

Basic shell commands

• Files commands
• Process commands

Labs

• Configuring and compiling the kernel
• Booting the kernel on the target platform
• Launching an application at boot
• Using a root filesystem in RAM and a NFS mounted root filesystem
• Debugging an application

[Day two]

Process and Thread

• Process and thread definition
• Process creation
• Process scheduling
• Thread creation
• Thread scheduling
• Posix APIs (1003.1b, 1003.1c, 1003.1d)
• System V API (IPC System V)
• System calls error management
• Exception Management

Memory Management

• Memory map of a process
• Shared memory, local memory (for process and for threads)
• System V API for shared memory management
• Memory lock
• Mapping of a file descriptor in memory (mmap, ...)
• Dynamic allocation of memory

Labs

• Creating a multi-process application
• Sharing variables between process through shared memory
• Creating a multi-thread application
• Writing a reentrant procedure
• Allocating memory

[Day three]

Signals and Timing Management

• Posix and BSD signals
• Asynchronous and synchronous signal
• Masking signals
• The BSD Timer
• Waiting for a Delay
• Performance measurements
• Date and Time management

Synchronization and mutual exclusion

• The synchronization problem
• The mutual exclusion problem
• The Posix 1003.1b counting semaphore
• The Posix 1003.1c mutex
• The Posix 1003.1c condition variable
• Priority inversion
• Deadlock
• Priority ceiling protocol

Message passing

• Shared memory
• The System V message queue
• The pipes

Labs

• Writing a periodic process
• Starting an asynchronous routine in a process with a signal
• Synchronizing tasks with semaphores
• Protecting a shared data structure with a Mutex
• Writing a client server mechanism with a message queue

[Day four]

Input / Output

• The Posix standard layer
• The open, read, write, close, ioctl calls
• Locking files
• Asynchronous I/O
• The select call
• The ANSI stream (stdio) layer

TCP/IP Networking

• Generalities on TCP/IP
• UDP sockets
• TCP sockets
• IP (RAW) sockets
• Sockets options

Labs