[linuxkernelnewbies] OSUNIX - Best of OpenSolaris Technology : Free kernel training day

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.osunix.org/docs/DOC-1035 Up to Documents in OSUNIX Currently Being Moderated Free kernel training day VERSION 8 Created on: Apr 2, 2009 5:30 AM by codestr0m - Last Modified:  Apr 3, 2009 2:12 PM by codestr0m Bruning Systems and OSUNIX free kernel internals training day either April 18th or 19th   Max Bruning from Bruning Systems has graciously offered to do a one day free training course for the entire OpenSolaris community.  For added convenience it will be entirely web based so no need to travel anywhere.  He'll cover two topics from his popular five day course.  We plan to treat this like a real classroom so space is limited to 12-15 students this time.**  Everyone will be able to watch online, but only selected students will get the chance to ask questions and see the live demonstrations.  Please look below for the topics to choose from and let us know what you find most interesting!   This course is highly regarded as one of the best in the industry and a great chance to jump start your kernel programming.   Please register here >>   Join the discussion on the training day >>   To make sure you get the most from this we'll give you a small quiz before and after the course to test how much you've learned.  If you've always wanted to learn more about zfs or how to fix some nagging problem with a driver here's your chance.   Proposed topics   Note : This is some of the same material Bruning Systems will be teaching on May 4th-8th in Poland.   It's not possible to put all the course details here , but please feel free to ask a question and we'll answer it.  (irc, mailing list and forum support options at the bottom)   Thread Synchronization Purpose API How they work Problems Deadlock, Race Conditions, Livelock Measurement Example debugging a problem with mutexes Memory Management Pmap output explained Building an address space What happens on a page fault Data structure walk with mdb An Overview of mdb The 5% of mdb you need to do 95% of the work Lots of small examples Debugging a Kernel Panic Students install a kernel module that causes their machine to panic Then we go through a debugging session Debugging a System Hang This will be shown by demo.  (I (Max) set up a tip session to the "hung" machine and students watch how I analyze it.  Of course, if students have the necessary equipment (2 machines with serial connections over a null-modem cable), they can follow along.) (Virtualbox is also possible) ZFS File System Walk-Through Basically, the talk I gave at the OpenSolaris Developers Conference last summer To follow along, students will be provided with customer versions of mdb, zdb, and a mdb dmod This course will only include advanced topics, but show your support for future training days and suggest a topic.  We need your help so spread the word and tell a friend.   Please register first >>   Join the training day discussion >>   **Note: If more people keep expressing interest it will happen again, but it's a lot of work to arrange and we want to know it's useful.   Support & Questions   Forum http://www.osunix.org/community/osunix/training   IRC irc: #osunix irc.freenode.net   Don't know what irc is?   Mailing list http://sl.osunix.org/osunix-dev