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On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs

FIEDOR, J.; LETKO, Z.; LOURENCO, J.; VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs

English Title

On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Transactional memory (TM) is an increasingly popular technique for synchronising threads in multithreaded programs. To address both correctness and performance-related issues of TM programs, one needs to monitor and analyse their execution. However, monitoring concurrent programs (including TM programs) may have a non-negligible impact on their behaviour, which may hamper the objectives of the intended analysis. In this paper, we propose several approaches for monitoring TM programs and study their impact on the behaviour of the monitored programs. The considered approaches range from specialised lightweight monitoring to generic heavyweight monitoring. The implemented monitoring tools are publicly available to the scientific community, and the implementation techniques used for lightweight monitoring of TM programs may be used as an inspiration for developing other specialised lightweight monitors.

English abstract

Transactional memory (TM) is an increasingly popular technique for synchronising threads in multithreaded programs. To address both correctness and performance-related issues of TM programs, one needs to monitor and analyse their execution. However, monitoring concurrent programs (including TM programs) may have a non-negligible impact on their behaviour, which may hamper the objectives of the intended analysis. In this paper, we propose several approaches for monitoring TM programs and study their impact on the behaviour of the monitored programs. The considered approaches range from specialised lightweight monitoring to generic heavyweight monitoring. The implemented monitoring tools are publicly available to the scientific community, and the implementation techniques used for lightweight monitoring of TM programs may be used as an inspiration for developing other specialised lightweight monitors.

Keywords

concurrent software, multithreaded software, transactional memory, software monitoring, dynamic analysis

Key words in English

concurrent software, multithreaded software, transactional memory, software monitoring, dynamic analysis

Authors

FIEDOR, J.; LETKO, Z.; LOURENCO, J.; VOJNAR, T.

RIV year

2016

Released

01.01.2015

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Heidelberg

ISBN

978-3-319-14895-3

Book

Proceedings of MEMICS'14

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

8934

Pages from

73

Pages to

87

Pages count

15

URL

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-14896-0_7

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT119788,
  author="Jan {Fiedor} and Zdeněk {Letko} and Joao {Lourenco} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs",
  booktitle="Proceedings of MEMICS'14",
  year="2015",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="8934",
  pages="73--87",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Heidelberg",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-319-14896-0\{_}7",
  isbn="978-3-319-14895-3",
  url="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-14896-0_7"
}