RELAY: static race detection on millions of lines of code

Authors:
Jan Wen Voung;Ranjit Jhala;Sorin Lerner
Affiliations:
UC San Diego, San Diego, CA;UC San Diego, San Diego, CA;UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Data races occur when multiple threads are about to access the same piece of memory, and at least one of those accesses is a write. Such races can lead to hard-to-reproduce bugs that are time consuming to debug and fix. We present RELAY, a static and scalable race detection analysis in which unsoundness is modularized to a few sources. We describe the analysis and results from our experiments using RELAY to find data races in the Linux kernel, which includes about 4.5 million lines of code.