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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Leak pruning
Managed languages improve programmer productivity with type safety and garbage collection, which eliminate memory errors such as dangling pointers, double frees, and buffer overfl...
Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
TwinDrivers: semi-automatic derivation of fast and safe hypervisor network drivers from guest OS drivers
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering...
Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert, Willy Zwaenepoel
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Anomaly-based bug prediction, isolation, and validation: an automated approach for software debugging
Software defects, commonly known as bugs, present a serious challenge for system reliability and dependability. Once a program failure is observed, the debugging activities to loc...
Martin Dimitrov, Huiyang Zhou
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Kendo: efficient deterministic multithreading in software
Although chip-multiprocessors have become the industry standard, developing parallel applications that target them remains a daunting task. Non-determinism, inherent in threaded a...
Marek Olszewski, Jason Ansel, Saman P. Amarasinghe