Mon 15 Jun 2015 15:15 - 15:40 at PLDI Main BLUE (Portland 254-255) - Verification Chair(s): Zachary Tatlock
Read-Copy-Update (RCU) is a technique for letting multiple readers safely access a data structure while a writer concurrently modifies it. It is used heavily in the Linux kernel in situations where fast reads are important and writes are infrequent. Optimized implementations rely only on the weaker memory orderings provided by modern hardware, avoiding the need for expensive synchronization instructions (such as memory barriers) as much as possible.
Using GPS, a recently developed program logic for the C11 weak memory model, we verify an implementation of RCU for a singly-linked list assuming “release-acquire” semantics. This is, to our knowledge, the first formal proof of an RCU implementation in a weak-memory setting.
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14:00 - 15:40: VerificationResearch Papers at PLDI Main BLUE (Portland 254-255) Chair(s): Zachary TatlockUniversity of Washington, Seattle | |||
14:00 - 14:25 Talk | Mechanized Verification of Fine-grained Concurrent Programs Research Papers Ilya SergeyIMDEA Software Institute, Aleksandar NanevskiIMDEA Software Institute, Anindya BanerjeeIMDEA Software Institute Link to publication Media Attached | ||
14:25 - 14:50 Talk | Verification of Producer-Consumer Synchronization in GPU Programs Research Papers Media Attached | ||
14:50 - 15:15 Talk | Relaxing Safely: Verified On-the-Fly Garbage Collection for x86-TSO Research Papers Peter GammieNICTA, Tony HoskingAustralian National University, Data61, and Purdue University, Kai EngelhardtUNSW and NICTA Link to publication Media Attached | ||
15:15 - 15:40 Talk | Verifying Read-Copy-Update in a Logic for Weak Memory Research Papers Media Attached |