-@node Introduction, Pintos Tour, Top, Top
+@node Introduction
@chapter Introduction
Welcome to Pintos. Pintos is a simple operating system framework for
Object file for the entire kernel. This is the result of linking
object files compiled from each individual kernel source file into a
single object file. It contains debug information, so you can run
-@command{gdb} or @command{backtrace} (@pxref{Backtraces}) on it.
+GDB (@pxref{GDB}) or @command{backtrace} (@pxref{Backtraces}) on it.
@item kernel.bin
Memory image of the kernel. These are the exact bytes loaded into
from them by @option{--}, so that the whole command looks like
@code{pintos @var{option}@dots{} -- @var{argument}@dots{}}. Invoke
@code{pintos} without any arguments to see a list of available options.
-Options can select a simulator to use: the default is Bochs, but on the
-Linux machines @option{--qemu} selects qemu. You can run the simulator
-with a debugger (@pxref{gdb}). You can set the amount of memory to give
+Options can select a simulator to use: the default is Bochs, but
+@option{--qemu} selects qemu. You can run the simulator
+with a debugger (@pxref{GDB}). You can set the amount of memory to give
the VM. Finally, you can select how you want VM output to be displayed:
use @option{-v} to turn off the VGA display, @option{-t} to use your
terminal window as the VGA display instead of opening a new window
@node Debugging versus Testing
@subsection Debugging versus Testing
-When you're debugging code, it's useful to be able to be able to run a
+When you're debugging code, it's useful to be able to run a
program twice and have it do exactly the same thing. On second and
later runs, you can make new observations without having to discard or
verify your old observations. This property is called
-``reproducibility.'' The simulator we use by default, Bochs, can be set
-up for
+``reproducibility.'' One of the simulators that Pintos supports, Bochs,
+can be set up for
reproducibility, and that's the way that @command{pintos} invokes it
by default.
second of real time. Simulation in real-time mode is not reproducible,
and options @option{-j} and @option{-r} are mutually exclusive.
-On the Linux machines only, the qemu simulator is available as an
+The qemu simulator is available as an
alternative to Bochs (use @option{--qemu} when invoking
@command{pintos}). The qemu simulator is much faster than Bochs, but it
only supports real-time simulation and does not have a reproducible
of the test results.
For project 1, the tests will probably run faster in Bochs. For the
-rest of the projects, they will probably run faster in qemu.
+rest of the projects, they will run much faster in qemu.
+@command{make check} will select the faster simulator by default, but
+you can override its choice by specifying @option{SIMULATOR=--bochs} or
+@option{SIMULATOR=--qemu} on the @command{make} command line.
You can also run individual tests one at a time. A given test @var{t}
writes its output to @file{@var{t}.output}, then a script scores the
specifying @option{VERBOSE=1} on the @command{make} command line, as in
@code{make check VERBOSE=1}. You can also provide arbitrary options to the
@command{pintos} run by the tests with @option{PINTOSOPTS='@dots{}'},
-e.g.@: @code{make check PINTOSOPTS='--qemu'} to run the tests under
-qemu.
+e.g.@: @code{make check PINTOSOPTS='-j 1'} to select a jitter value of 1
+(@pxref{Debugging Versus Testing}).
All of the tests and related files are in @file{pintos/src/tests}.
Before we test your submission, we will replace the contents of that
Pintos and this documentation were written by Ben Pfaff
@email{blp@@cs.stanford.edu}.
+The GDB macros supplied with Pintos were written by Godmar Back
+@email{gback@@cs.vt.edu}, and their documentation is adapted from his
+work.
+
The original structure and form of Pintos was inspired by the Nachos
instructional operating system from the University of California,
-Berkeley. A few of the source files were originally more-or-less
-literal translations of the Nachos C++ code into C. These files bear
-the original UCB license notice.
+Berkeley.
A few of the Pintos source files are derived from code used in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 6.828 advanced operating systems
course. These files bear the original MIT license notice.
The Pintos projects and documentation originated with those designed for
-Nachos by current and former CS140 teaching assistants at Stanford
+Nachos by current and former CS 140 teaching assistants at Stanford
University, including at least Yu Ping, Greg Hutchins, Kelly Shaw, Paul
-Twohey, Sameer Qureshi, and John Rector. If you're not on this list but
-should be, please let me know.
+Twohey, Sameer Qureshi, and John Rector.
-Example code for condition variables (@pxref{Condition Variables}) is
+Example code for monitors (@pxref{Monitors}) is
from classroom slides originally by Dawson Engler and updated by Mendel
Rosenblum.
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