NDLI: A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks

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Author	Kidd, Nicholas Lammich, Peter Touili, Tayssir Reps, Thomas
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The problem of interest is to verify data consistency of a concurrent Java program. In particular, we present a new decision procedure for verifying that a class of data races caused by inconsistent accesses on multiple fields of an object cannot occur (so-called atomic-set serializability). Atomic-set serializability generalizes the ordinary notion of a data race (i.e., inconsistent coordination of accesses on a single memory location) to a broader class of races that involve accesses on multiple memory locations. Previous work by some of the authors presented a technique to abstract a concurrent Java program into an EML program, a modeling language based on pushdown systems and a finite set of reentrant locks. Our previous work used only a semi-decision procedure, and hence provides a definite answer only some of the time. In this paper, we rectify this shortcoming by developing a decision procedure for verifying data consistency, i.e., atomic-set serializability, of an EML program. When coupled with the previous work, it provides a decision procedure for verifying data consistency of a concurrent Java program. We implemented the decision procedure, and applied it to detect both single-location and multi-location data races in models of concurrent Java programs. Compared with the prior method based on a semi-decision procedure, not only was the decision procedure 34 times faster overall, but the semi-decision procedure timed out on about 50% of the queries, whereas the decision procedure timed out on none of the queries.
Starting Page	37
Ending Page	60
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14332779
Journal	International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14332787
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2010-05-21
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Pushdown model checking Atomic sets Serializability Decision procedure Atomicity Theory of Computation Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Software Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Software

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