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POPL
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Static analysis of interrupt-driven programs synchronized via the priority ceiling protocol
We consider programs for embedded real-time systems which use priority-driven preemptive scheduling with task priorities adjusted dynamically according to the immediate ceiling pr...
Martin D. Schwarz, Helmut Seidl, Vesal Vojdani, Pe...
DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enhancing data availability in disk drives through background activities
Latent sector errors in disk drives affect only a few data sectors. They occur silently and are detected only when the affected area is accessed again. If a latent error is detect...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Ried...
ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
An Offline Algorithm for Dimension-Bound Analysis
The vector-clock size necessary to characterize causality in a distributed computation is bounded by the dimension of the partial order induced by that computation. In an arbitrar...
Paul A. S. Ward
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
A case for unlimited watchpoints
Numerous tools have been proposed to help developers fix software errors and inefficiencies. Widely-used techniques such as memory checking suffer from overheads that limit thei...
Joseph L. Greathouse, Hongyi Xin, Yixin Luo, Todd ...
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Transparent Privatization in Software Transactional Memory
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...