Operative Systems

Lecture 03 - Calling Conventions

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Functions_and_Stack_Frames
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14666665/trying-to-understand-gcc-option-fomit-frame-pointer
• Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems by Agner Fog.
• Assembly's Perspective of C.

Lecture 04 - Linking and Loading

• Position Independent Code (PIC) in shared libraries
• Position Independent Code (PIC) in shared libraries on x64
• Notes on Linking.
• ELF Tutorial (good for relocation)
• The ELF format - how programs look from the inside
• Executable and Linkable Format 101 Part 3: Relocations

C Language

• A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C by Ted Jensen.

Git

• Git Flight Rules

Assembly Language

• x86 Assembly Guide
• PCAssemblyLanguage. Paul A. Carter.
• Useful assembly links from Agner Fog

Boot

• Linux Boot from Linux Inside by 0xAX.

Performance

• Optimizing subroutines in assembly language. An optimization guide for x86 platform. by Agner Fog.
• Instruction tables: Lists of instruction latencies, throughputs and micro-operation breakdowns for Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs by Agner Fog.
• Software optimization resources from Agner Fog.

Anatomy of a process

• Anatomy of a Program in Memory
• Understanding the x64 code models

PC Hardware

• Cache Coherence Protocol and Memory Performance of the Intel Haswell-EP Architecture. link
• Intel SGX Explained pdf
• DC Express: Shortest Latency Protocol for Reading Phase Change Memory over PCI Express pdf