X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=38836157fc052fe3a07b91d5d03bea94c64ac104;hb=aa011d22098dbaac8e496652a65eb6fae37e901e;hp=c493bce93f5fa9031f818c8f82cfa77b0afe573a;hpb=a8a5900e8c0ec5ca7f71a82e0aca042168f7be9f;p=pintos-anon diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index c493bce..3883615 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -21,22 +21,6 @@ Add a system call "get_kernel_memory_information". User programs could engage in a variety of activities and notice leaks by checking the kernel memory statistics. -From: "Godmar Back" -Subject: set_priority & donation - a TODO item -To: "Ben Pfaff" -Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:20:26 -0500 - -Ben, - -it seems that there are currently no tests that check the proper -behavior of thread_set_priority() when called by a thread that is -running under priority donation. The proper behavior, I assume, is to -temporarily drop the donation if the set priority is higher, and to -reassume the donation should the thread subsequently set its own -priority again to a level that's lower than a still active donation. - - - Godmar - From: Godmar Back Subject: on caching in project 4 To: Ben Pfaff @@ -71,13 +55,6 @@ the same performance, which raises the suspicion that the test workload might not force any cache replacement, so the eviction strategy doesn't matter.) -Godmar Back writes: - -> in your sample solution to P4, dir_reopen does not take any locks when -> changing a directory's open_cnt. This looks like a race condition to -> me, considering that dir_reopen is called from execute_process without -> any filesystem locks held. - * Get rid of rox--causes more trouble than it's worth * Reconsider command line arg style--confuses everyone. @@ -97,20 +74,6 @@ via Godmar Back: * Internal tests. -* Improve automatic interpretation of exception messages. - -* Userprog project: - - - Mark read-only pages as actually read-only in the page table. Or, - since this was consistently rated as the easiest project by the - students, require them to do it. - - - Don't provide per-process pagedir implementation but only - single-process implementation and require students to implement - the separation? This project was rated as the easiest after all. - Alternately we could just remove the synchronization on pid - selection and check that students fix it. - * Filesys project: - Need a better way to measure performance improvement of buffer @@ -130,14 +93,10 @@ via Godmar Back: - Add extra credit: - . Low-level x86 stuff, like paged page tables. - . Specifics on how to implement sbrk, malloc. . Other good ideas. - . opendir/readdir/closedir - . everything needed for getcwd() To add partition support: