PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
Parallel programs are known to be difficult to analyze. A key reason is that they typically have an enormous number of execution interleavings, or schedules. Static analysis over...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 9 days ago
2012
ACM
Multithreaded programs often suffer from synchronization bugs such as atomicity violations and deadlocks. These bugs arise from complicated locking strategies and ad hoc synchroni...
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
ASIAN
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. A major difficulty for tracking information flow in multithreaded programs is due to the internal timing covert channel. Information is leaked via this channel when secre...
HICSS
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
This paper describes ThreadMon, a monitoring tool for improving the performance of multithreaded programs, and how we have used it to examine various aspects of the many-to-many (...
PLDI
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1999
ACM
This paper presents a novel interprocedural, ow-sensitive, and context-sensitive pointer analysis algorithm for multithreaded programs that may concurrently update shared pointers...
SAS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Abstract. The field of program analysis has focused primarily on sequential programming languages. But multithreading is becoming increasingly important, both as a program structu...
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
Recent work has shown that multithreaded workloads running in execution-driven, full-system simulation environments cannot use instructions per cycle (IPC) as a valid performance ...
POPL
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
The ability to summarize procedures is fundamental to building scalable interprocedural analyses. For sequential programs, procedure summarization is well-understood and used rout...
TLDI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Atomicity is a fundamental correctness property in multithreaded programs. This paper presents an algorithm for verifying atomicity via type inference. The underlying type system ...