João Lourenço
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Computer Science Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, P-2829-516 CAPARICA, Portugal — joao.lourenco [AT] fct [DOT] unl [DOT] pt (email)
Hardware Approach for Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Atomicity Violations
- Citation:
- Orosa, L., and J. M. Lourenço, "Hardware Approach for Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Atomicity Violations", Proceedings of Joint Euro-TM/MEDIAN Workshop on Dependable Multicore and Transactional Memory Systems, Vienna, Austria, jan, 2014.
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janAbstract:
In this paper we address a solution for detecting and tolerating one of the most typical concurrency bugs: atomicity violations. More specifically, we address High-Level Atomicity Violations (HLAV). High-level atomicity violations result from the misspecification of the scope of an atomic block, by splitting it in two or more atomic blocks which may be interleaved with other atomic blocks. Figure 1 shows an example of this type of atomicity violation. The intuitive idea behind HLAV is that if two shared data items (e.g., memory locations) were both accessed inside an atomic block, they are interrelated and probably the programmer intention is that there shall be no interleavings between these two accesses. Therefore, if (in the same program) this two addresses are accessed separately in different atomic blocks, an unfortunate interleaving may cause an atomicity violation.
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