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Title: Admit your weakness: Verifying correctness on TSO architectures
Authors: Smith, G
Derrick, J
Dongol, B
Keywords: Linearizability;Concurrent algorithms;Weak memory model;Total Store Order memory model
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Citation: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8997: 364 - 383, (January 2015)
Abstract: Linearizability has become the standard correctness criterion for fine-grained non-atomic concurrent algorithms, however, most approaches assume a sequentially consistent memory model, which is not always realised in practice. In this paper we study the correctness of concurrent algorithms on a weak memory model: the TSO (Total Store Order) memory model, which is commonly implemented by multicore architectures. Here, linearizability is often too strict, and hence, we prove a weaker criterion, quiescent consistency instead. Like linearizability, quiescent consistency is compositional making it an ideal correctness criterion in a component-based context. We demonstrate how to model a typical concurrent algorithm, seqlock, and prove it quiescent consistent using a simulation-based approach. Previous approaches to proving correctness on TSO architectures have been based on linearizabilty which makes it necessary to modify the algorithm’s high-level requirements. Our approach is the first, to our knowledge, for proving correctness without the need for such a modification.
Description: “The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-15317-9_22 ”.
URI: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-15317-9_22
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10313
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15317-9_22
ISBN: 978-3-319-15316-2
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