Trace-Based symbolic analysis for atomicity violations

Authors:
Chao Wang;Rhishikesh Limaye;Malay Ganai;Aarti Gupta
Affiliations:
NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ;University of California, Berkeley, CA;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ
Venue:
TACAS'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We propose a symbolic algorithm to accurately predict atomicity violations by analyzing a concrete execution trace of a concurrent program. We use both the execution trace and the program source code to construct a symbolic predictive model, which captures a large set of alternative interleavings of the events of the given trace. We use precise symbolic reasoning with a satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) solver to check the feasible interleavings for atomicity violations. Our algorithm differs from the existing methods in that all reported atomicity violations can appear in the actual program execution; and at the same time the feasible interleavings analyzed by our model are significantly more than other predictive models that guarantee the absence of false alarms.