NDLI: Static analysis for concurrent programs with applications to data race detection

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Author	Kahlon, Vineet Sankaranarayanan, Sriram Gupta, Aarti
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	We propose a general framework for static analysis of concurrent multi-threaded programs in the presence of various types of synchronization primitives such as locks and pairwise rendezvous. In order to capture interference between threads, we use the notion of a transaction, i.e., a sequence of statements in a thread that can be executed atomically, without sacrificing the soundness of the analysis while yielding precise results. These transactions are delineated automatically, and are captured in the form of a transaction graph over the global control state space of the program. Starting from a coarse transaction graph, constructed by exploiting scheduling constraints related to synchronizations and partial order reduction, we iteratively refine the graph by removing statically unreachable nodes using the results of various analyses. Specifically, we use abstract interpretation to automatically derive program invariants, based on abstract domains of increasing precision. Progressive refinement of the transaction graph enhances scalability of the static analyses, yielding more precise invariants. We demonstrate the benefits of this framework in an application to find data race bugs in concurrent programs, where our static analyses serve to reduce the number of false warnings captured by an initial lockset analysis. This framework also facilitates use of model checking on the remaining warnings to generate concrete error traces, where we leverage the preceding static analyses to generate small program slices and the derived invariants to improve performance. We describe our experimental results on a suite of Linux device drivers.
Starting Page	321
Ending Page	336
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14332779
Journal	International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	14332787
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-04-11
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Static analysis Multi-threaded programs Transaction graphs Data race detection Abstract interpretation Software Engineering Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Theory of Computation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Software

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