Finding linearization violations in lock-free concurrent data structures
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Author(s)
Dabdoub, Sebastien Alberto
Advisor(s)
Frans Kaashoek and Nickolai Zeldovich.
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Finding bugs in lock-free concurrent programs is hard. This is due in part to the difficulty of reasoning about the correctness of concurrent algorithms and the timing-sensitive nature of concurrent programs. One of the most widely used tools for reasoning about the correctness of concurrent algorithms is the linearization property. This thesis presents a tool for automatic dynamic checking of concurrent programs under the Total-Store-Order (TSO) memory model and a methodology for finding linearization violations automatically with the tool.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 31).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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