A lightweight logical approach to race-free sharing of heap storage between concurrent threads is described, based on the notion of permission to access. Transfer of permission be...
Richard Bornat, Cristiano Calcagno, Peter W. O'Hea...
On Chip Multiprocessors (CMP), it is common that multiple cores share certain levels of cache. The sharing increases the contention in cache and memory-to-chip bandwidth, further h...
Yunlian Jiang, Eddy Z. Zhang, Kai Tian, Xipeng She...
Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) is a powerful technique that can protect unmodified binaries from a broad range of vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and code inj...
Meltem Ozsoy, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael B. Abu-Ghazal...
There has been considerable recent interest in the support of transactional memory (TM) in both hardware and software. We present an intermediate approach, in which hardware is us...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael F. Spear, Hemayet Hoss...
The notion that certain procedures are atomic is a fundamental correctness property of many multithreaded software systems. A procedure is atomic if for every execution there is a...