Courses/Computer Science/CPSC 457.F2014/Assignments
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Submission Instructions
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2013/CPSC457/SUBMIT-HOWTO
Assignment 1: instruction tracing, ELF surgery, and process state
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2014/CPSC457/hw1-cpsc457-f2014.txt
Released: Sept 24
Due: Oct 14 at 11:59pm MDT via SVN
NB: Before you start work on HW1, you may wish to read these chapters in Love's Linux Kernel Development book:
- Chapter 2 ("Getting Started With The Kernel")
- Chapter 6 ("Kernel Data Structures")
- Chapter 18 ("Debugging")
Also, for disassembly as a library see: http://udis86.sourceforge.net/
Assignment 2: Commenting Source Code, Adding System Calls, Modifying task_struct, Scripting
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2014/CPSC457/hw2-cpsc457-f2014.txt
Released: 8 Oct.
Due: 9 Nov, 11:59pm
Hints
Kernel data structures (for problem 3.C)
- read Love, Chapter 6.
Producing and applying patches:
- http://lxr.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/lxr/linux+*/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
- http://lxr.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/lxr/#linux/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
Assignment 3: TBD
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~locasto/teaching/2014/CPSC457/hw3-cpsc457-f2014.txt
Released: 26 Oct
Due: 1 Dec
