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Practical verification of high-level dataraces in transactional memory programs

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Vasco Pessanha,

Ricardo J. Dias,

João M. Lourenço,

Diogo SousaAuthors Info & Claims

PADTAD '11: Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging

Pages 26 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/2002962.2002968

Published: 17 July 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present MoTh, a tool that uses static analysis to enable the automatic verification of concurrency anomalies in Transactional Memory Java programs. Currently MoTh detects high-level dataraces and stale-value errors, but it is extendable by plugging-in sensors, each sensor implementing an anomaly detecting algorithm. We validate and benchmark MoTh by applying it to a set of well known concurrent buggy programs and by close comparison of the results with other similar tools. The results achieved so far are very promising, yielding good accuracy while triggering only a very limited number of false warnings.

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Farchi ESegall ILourenço JSousa DBradbury JSouza S(2012)Using program closures to make an application programming interface (API) implementation thread safeProceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging10.1145/2338967.2336810(18-24)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2338967.2336810
Lee BKang MPark KYi JYang SJun Y(2011)Program Conversion for Detecting Data Races in Concurrent Interrupt HandlersSoftware Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_45(407-415)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_45

Index Terms

Practical verification of high-level dataraces in transactional memory programs
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Parallel programming languages

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PADTAD '11: Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging

July 2011

66 pages

ISBN:9781450308090

DOI:10.1145/2002962

General Chair:
João Lourenço
CITI - FCT/UNL, Portugal
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Eitan Farchi
IBM HRL, Israel

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Demeyer RVanhoof W(2013)Static Application-Level Race Detection in STM Haskell using ContractsElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science10.4204/EPTCS.137.10137(115-134)Online publication date: 8-Dec-2013
https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.137.10
Farchi ESegall ILourenço JSousa DBradbury JSouza S(2012)Using program closures to make an application programming interface (API) implementation thread safeProceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging10.1145/2338967.2336810(18-24)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2338967.2336810
Lee BKang MPark KYi JYang SJun Y(2011)Program Conversion for Detecting Data Races in Concurrent Interrupt HandlersSoftware Engineering, Business Continuity, and Education10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_45(407-415)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27207-3_45

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