Learning Resources

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface

• Open learner-facing unit
• Curriculum path: content/curriculum/systems/semester-05-os-networking/module-03-concurrency-synchronization/resources.md
• App: systems
• Semester: semester-05-os-networking
• Module: module-03-concurrency-synchronization
• Unit kind: resource
• Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

• Explain Learning Resources in terms of interleavings, invariants, and failure modes rather than prose alone.
• Use Learning Resources to predict what can go wrong in shared-state code before reaching for an implementation fix.
• Use operating-system-concepts, ostep, unix-network-programming to connect the learner page to real synchronization APIs, scheduling effects, and recovery strategies.

Prerequisites

• Comfort with threads, process state, and interleaving from earlier operating-systems concepts.

Source books

• operating-system-concepts
• ostep
• unix-network-programming

Source routes

Operating System Concepts

• /books/operating-system-concepts/chapter-06-exercises-part-2 via OSC 6.2: The Critical-Section Problem, OSC 6.7.1: Monitor Usage, OSC 7.4.1: Java Monitors, OSC 7.4.4: Condition Variables
• /books/operating-system-concepts/chapter-08-deadlocks via OSC 8.3.1: Necessary Conditions, OSC 8.4: Methods for Handling Deadlocks, OSC Chapter 8: Deadlocks

Ostep

• /books/ostep/aside-keyconcurrencyterms via OSTEP: Key Concurrency Terms
• /books/ostep/chapter-26-an-example-thread-creation via OSTEP 26.1: An Example, Thread Creation, OSTEP 26.2: Why It Gets Worse - Shared Data, OSTEP 26.3: The Heart of the Problem, OSTEP 26: Concurrency - An Introduction
• /books/ostep/chapter-27-thread-creation via OSTEP 27.3: Locks, OSTEP 27.4: Condition Variables
• /books/ostep/chapter-28-locks-the-basic-idea via OSTEP 28.10: Load-Linked / Store-Conditional, OSTEP 28.11: Fetch-and-Add, OSTEP 28.14: Using Queues - Sleeping Instead of Spinning, OSTEP 28.16: Two-Phase Locks, OSTEP 28.1: Locks - The Basic Idea, OSTEP 28.6: Test-And-Set (Atomic Exchange), OSTEP 28.6: Test-and-Set, OSTEP 28.7: Building a Working Spin Lock
• /books/ostep/chapter-29-concurrent-counters via OSTEP 29.1: Concurrent Counters, OSTEP 29.2: Concurrent Linked Lists, OSTEP 29.4: Concurrent Hash Table
• /books/ostep/chapter-30-definition-and-routines via OSTEP 30.1: Definition and Routines, OSTEP 30.2: Producer-Consumer (Part 1), OSTEP 30.2: Producer-Consumer (Part 2), OSTEP 30.3: Covering Conditions
• /books/ostep/chapter-31-semaphores-as-condition-variables via OSTEP 31.1 Figure, OSTEP 31.3, OSTEP 31.4, OSTEP 31.5: Reader-Writer Locks, OSTEP 31.6: The Dining Philosophers, OSTEP 31.8: Summary
• /books/ostep/chapter-32-common-concurrency-problems via OSTEP 32.2: Non-Deadlock Bugs, OSTEP 32.3: Deadlock Bugs, OSTEP 32: Common Concurrency Problems
• /books/ostep/chapter-33-using-select via OSTEP 33.3: Using select, OSTEP 33.7: State Management
• /books/ostep/conditions-for-deadlock via OSTEP: Conditions for Deadlock

Unix Network Programming

• /books/unix-network-programming via UNP: Condition Variables, UNP: Mutexes - Mutual Exclusion, UNP: Race Conditions (Part 1)

Supporting curriculum routes

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment

• man 3 pthread_mutex_lock (official_docs_companion) - Grounds lock and critical-section concepts in the semantics of a real API learners will encounter.
• Linux Kernel Documentation: Locking (optional_deep_dive) - Useful after the learner understands the basics and wants to see how locking issues scale in real systems.

AI companion modes

• Explain simply
• Diagnose my confusion
• Revision mode
• Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Learning Resources, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.