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An integrated specification and verification technique for highly concurrent data structures 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 for highly concurrent data structures

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

We present a technique for automatically verifying safety properties of concurrent programs, in particular programs that 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, linearisability, pointers 

Autoři

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

Vydáno

28. 9. 2017

ISSN

1433-2779

Periodikum

International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer

Ročník

5

Číslo

19

Stát

Spolková republika Německo

Strany od

549

Strany do

563

Strany počet

15

URL

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10009-016-0415-4

BibTex

@article{BUT144479,
  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 for highly concurrent data structures",
  journal="International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer",
  year="2017",
  volume="5",
  number="19",
  pages="549--563",
  doi="10.1007/s10009-016-0415-4",
  issn="1433-2779",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10009-016-0415-4"
}