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<book>
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<book>
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  <title>HelenOS Design Documentation</title>
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  <title>HelenOS Design Documentation</title>
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  <title>Introduction</title>
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  <title>Introduction</title>
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      <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable,
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      <para>The HelenOS project is an effort to develop an easily portable,
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      light but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking
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      light but durable operating system. HelenOS supports SMP, multitasking
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      become our beta testers.</para>
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      become our beta testers.</para>
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    <title>Architecture overview</title>
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    <title>Architecture overview</title>
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    <para></para>
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    <para>Couple of words about microkernel concept etc </para>
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    <title>Scheduling</title>
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    <title>Scheduling</title>
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        <title>Basic terms</title>
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        <para>Explain Task, Thread etc</para>
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      <title>Context switching</title>
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      <para>Something about context. Probably arch specific context notes.</para>
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        <title>Kernel clock</title>
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        <para>timer interrupt handling, slices, timeouts, delays</para>
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        <title>Scheduler</title>
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        <para>How scheduler designed and how it works.</para>
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    <title>Synchronization</title>
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    <title>Synchronization</title>
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      <title>Introduction. Concept.</title>
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        <title>Active kernel synchronization. Spinlock.</title>
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    <para>Spinlocks explanation. Arch specific notes.</para>
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        <title>Passive kernel synchronization</title>
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          <title>Mutex</title>
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          <para>Mutex explanations</para>
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          <title>Semaphore</title>
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          <para>Semaphore explanations</para>
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          <para>RWLocks explanation</para>
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          <title>Conditional variables</title>
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      <title>Userspace synchronization. Futex.</title>
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      <para>Idea. Futex explanation.</para>
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    <title>Memory management</title>
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    <title>Memory management</title>
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