Alglave, J;
Kroening, D;
Nimal, V;
Poetzl, D;
(2017)
Don't Sit on the Fence: A Static Analysis Approach to Automatic Fence Insertion.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
, 39
(2)
, Article 6. 10.1145/2994593.
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Abstract
Modern architectures rely on memory fences to prevent undesired weakenings of memory consistency. As the fences’ semantics may be subtle, the automation of their placement is highly desirable. But precise methods for restoring consistency do not scale to deployed systems’ code. We choose to trade some precision for genuine scalability: our technique is suitable for large code bases. We implement it in our new musketeer tool and report experiments on more than 700 executables from packages found in Debian GNU/Linux 7.1, including memcached with about 10,000 LoC.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Don't Sit on the Fence: A Static Analysis Approach to Automatic Fence Insertion |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2994593 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/2994593 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Theory of computation, Program analysis, Parallel computing models, Static analysis, weak memory, program synthesis, concurrency |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1568617 |
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