Dive Into Systems

Dive Into Systems

    • Dive Into Systems
      • Authors
      • Copyright
      • Acknowledgements
      • Preface
    • 0. Introduction
    • 1. By the C, the Beautiful C
      • 1.1. Getting Started Programming in C
      • 1.2. Input/Output (printf and scanf)
      • 1.3. Conditionals and Loops
      • 1.4. Functions
      • 1.5. Arrays and Strings
      • 1.6. Structs
      • 1.7. Summary
      • 1.8. Exercises
    • 2. A Deeper Dive Into C
      • 2.1. Parts of Program Memory and Scope
      • 2.2. C Pointer Variables
      • 2.3. Pointers and Functions
      • 2.4. Dynamic Memory Allocation
      • 2.5. Arrays in C
      • 2.6. Strings and the String Library
      • 2.7. Structs
      • 2.8. Input / Output in C
      • 2.9. Advanced C Features
        • 2.9.1. Constants, switch, enum, and typedef
        • 2.9.2. Command Line Arguments
        • 2.9.3. The void* Type
        • 2.9.4. Pointer Arithmetic
        • 2.9.5. C Libraries: Using, Compiling and Linking
        • 2.9.6. Writing and using your own C libraries (and compiling multiple .c and .h files)
        • 2.9.7. Compiling C to Assembly and Compiling Assembly Code
      • 2.10. Summary
      • 2.11. Exercises
    • 3. C Debugging Tools
      • 3.1. Debugging with GDB
      • 3.2. GDB Commands in Detail
      • 3.3. Debugging Memory with Valgrind
      • 3.4. Advanced GDB Features
      • 3.5. Debugging Assembly Code
      • 3.6. Debugging Multi-threaded Programs
      • 3.7. Summary
    • 4. Binary and Data Representation
      • 4.1. Number Bases and Unsigned Integers
      • 4.2. Converting Between Bases
      • 4.3. Signed Binary Integers
      • 4.4. Binary Integer Arithmetic
        • 4.4.1. Addition
        • 4.4.2. Subtraction
        • 4.4.3. Multiplication & Division
      • 4.5. Overflow
      • 4.6. Bitwise Operators
      • 4.7. Integer Byte Order
      • 4.8. Real Numbers in Binary
      • 4.9. Summary
      • 4.10. Exercises
    • 5. What von Neumann Knew: Computer Architecture
      • 5.1. The Origins of Modern Computing
      • 5.2. The von Neumann Architecture
      • 5.3. Logic Gates
      • 5.4. Circuits
        • 5.4.1. Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
        • 5.4.2. Control Circuits
        • 5.4.3. Storage Circuits
      • 5.5. Building a Processor
      • 5.6. The Processor’s Execution of Program Instructions
      • 5.7. Pipelining Instruction Execution
      • 5.8. Advanced Pipelining Considerations
      • 5.9. Looking Ahead: CPUs Today
      • 5.10. Summary
      • 5.11. Exercises
    • 6. Under the C: Dive into Assembly
    • 7. 64-bit x86 Assembly
      • 7.1. Assembly Basics
      • 7.2. Common Instructions
      • 7.3. Additional Arithmetic Instructions
      • 7.4. Conditional Control and Loops
        • 7.4.1. Preliminaries
        • 7.4.2. If Statements
        • 7.4.3. Loops
      • 7.5. Functions in Assembly
      • 7.6. Recursion
      • 7.7. Arrays in Assembly
      • 7.8. Matrices in Assembly
      • 7.9. Structs in Assembly
      • 7.10. Buffer Overflows
    • 8. 32-bit x86 Assembly
      • 8.1. Assembly Basics
      • 8.2. Common Instructions
      • 8.3. Additional Arithmetic Instructions
      • 8.4. Conditional Control and Loops
        • 8.4.1. Preliminaries
        • 8.4.2. If Statements
        • 8.4.3. Loops
      • 8.5. Functions in Assembly
      • 8.6. Recursion
      • 8.7. Arrays in Assembly
      • 8.8. Matrices in Assembly
      • 8.9. Structs in Assembly
      • 8.10. Buffer Overflows
    • 9. ARMv8 Assembly
      • 9.1. Assembly Basics
      • 9.2. Common Instructions
      • 9.3. Arithmetic Instructions
      • 9.4. Conditional Control and Loops
        • 9.4.1. Preliminaries
        • 9.4.2. If Statements
        • 9.4.3. Loops
      • 9.5. Functions in Assembly
      • 9.6. Recursion
      • 9.7. Arrays in Assembly
      • 9.8. Matrices in Assembly
      • 9.9. Structs in Assembly
      • 9.10. Buffer Overflows
    • 10. Key Assembly Takeaways
    • 11. Storage and the Memory Hierarchy
      • 11.1. The Memory Hierarchy
      • 11.2. Storage Devices
      • 11.3. Locality
      • 11.4. Caching
      • 11.5. Cache Analysis and Cachegrind
      • 11.6. Looking Ahead: Caching on Multicore Processors
      • 11.7. Summary
      • 11.8. Exercises
    • 12. Code Optimization
      • 12.1. First Steps
      • 12.2. Other Compiler Optimizations
      • 12.3. Memory Considerations
      • 12.4. Summary
    • 13. The Operating System
      • 13.1. Booting and Running
      • 13.2. Processes
      • 13.3. Virtual Memory
      • 13.4. Interprocess Communication
        • 13.4.1. Signals
        • 13.4.2. Message Passing
        • 13.4.3. Shared Memory
      • 13.5. Summary and Other OS Functionality
      • 13.6. Exercises
    • 14. Leveraging Shared Memory in the Multicore Era
      • 14.1. Programming Multicore Systems
      • 14.2. POSIX Threads
      • 14.3. Synchronizing Threads
        • 14.3.1. Mutual Exclusion
        • 14.3.2. Semaphores
        • 14.3.3. Other Synchronization Constructs
      • 14.4. Measuring Parallel Performance
        • 14.4.1. Parallel Performance Basics
        • 14.4.2. Advanced Topics
      • 14.5. Cache Coherence
      • 14.6. Thread Safety
      • 14.7. Implicit Threading with OpenMP
      • 14.8. Summary
      • 14.9. Exercises
    • 15. Looking Ahead: Other Parallel Systems
      • 15.1. Hardware Acceleration and CUDA
      • 15.2. Distributed Memory Systems
      • 15.3. To Exascale and Beyond
    • 16. Appendix 1: Chapter 1 for Java Programmers
      • 16.1. Getting Started Programming in C
      • 16.2. Input/Output (printf and scanf)
      • 16.3. Conditionals and Loops
      • 16.4. Functions
      • 16.5. Arrays and Strings
      • 16.6. Structs
      • 16.7. Summary
      • 16.8. Exercises
    • 17. Appendix 2: Using Unix
      • 17.1. Unix Command Line and the Unix File System
      • 17.2. Man and the Unix Manual
      • 17.3. Remote Access
      • 17.4. Unix Editors
      • 17.5. make and Makefiles
      • 17.6 Searching: grep and find
      • 17.7 File Permissions
      • 17.8 Archiving and Compressing Files
      • 17.9 Process Control
      • 17.10 Timing
      • 17.11 Command History
      • 17.12 I/0 Redirection
      • 17.13 Pipes
      • 17.14 Dot Files and .bashrc
      • 17.15 Shell Programming
      • 17.16 Getting System Information
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  • Dive Into Systems
  • 11. Storage and the Memory Hierarchy
  • 11.8. Exercises

11.8. Exercises

  1. Early Access Caching Questions

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