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An Integrated Specification and Verification Technique for Highly Concurrent Data Structures

HOLÍK, L. ABDULLA, P. HAZIZA, F. JONSSON, B. REZINE, A.

Originální název

An Integrated Specification and Verification Technique for Highly Concurrent Data Structures

Typ

článek ve sborníku mimo WoS a Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

We present a technique for automatically verifying safety properties of concurrent programs, in particular programs which rely on subtle dependencies of local states of different threads, such as lock-free implementations of stacks and queues in an environment without garbage collection. Our technique addresses the joint challenges of infinite-state specifications, an unbounded number of threads, and an unbounded heap managed by explicit memory allocation. Our technique builds on the automata-theoretic approach to model checking, in which a  specification is given by an automaton that observes the execution of a  program and accepts executions that violate the intended specification. We extend this approach by allowing specifications to be given by a  class of infinite-state automata. We show how such automata can be used to specify queues, stacks, and other data structures, by extending a  data-independence argument. For verification, we develop a shape analysis, which tracks correlations between pairs of threads, and a  novel abstraction to make the analysis practical. We have implemented our method and used it to verify programs, some of which have not been verified by any other automatic method before.

Klíčová slova

verification, specification, concurrency, parallelism, lock-free data structures, automata, data independence, thread modular, precision

Autoři

HOLÍK, L.; ABDULLA, P.; HAZIZA, F.; JONSSON, B.; REZINE, A.

Rok RIV

2013

Vydáno

3. 10. 2013

Nakladatel

Springer Verlag

Místo

Berlin Heidelberg

ISBN

978-3-642-36742-7

Kniha

19th International Conference, TACAS 2013

Edice

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISSN

0302-9743

Periodikum

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Ročník

7795

Číslo

0000

Stát

Spolková republika Německo

Strany od

324

Strany do

338

Strany počet

15

URL

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36742-7_23

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT103444,
  author="Lukáš {Holík} and Parosh {Abdulla} and Frédéric {Haziza} and Bengt {Jonsson} and Ahmed {Rezine}",
  title="An Integrated Specification and Verification Technique for Highly Concurrent Data Structures",
  booktitle="19th International Conference, TACAS 2013",
  year="2013",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  journal="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="7795",
  number="0000",
  pages="324--338",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin Heidelberg",
  isbn="978-3-642-36742-7",
  issn="0302-9743",
  url="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36742-7_23"
}