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ASPLOS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
AVIO: detecting atomicity violations via access interleaving invariants
Concurrency bugs are among the most difficult to test and diagnose of all software bugs. The multicore technology trend worsens this problem. Most previous concurrency bug detect...
Shan Lu, Joseph Tucek, Feng Qin, Yuanyuan Zhou
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Finding concurrency bugs with context-aware communication graphs
Incorrect thread synchronization often leads to concurrency bugs that manifest nondeterministically and are difficult to detect and fix. Past work on detecting concurrency bugs ...
Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 22 days ago
Bug isolation via remote program sampling
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
170views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Tolerating Concurrency Bugs Using Transactions as Lifeguards
Abstract--Parallel programming is hard, because it is impractical to test all possible thread interleavings. One promising approach to improve a multi-threaded program's relia...
Jie Yu, Satish Narayanasamy
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tracking pointers with path and context sensitivity for bug detection in C programs
This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S. Lam