Journal article
Don’t sit on the fence: A static analysis approach to automatic fence insertion
- Abstract:
- Modern architectures rely on memory fences to prevent undesired weakenings of memory consistency. As the fences’ semantics may be subtle, the automation of their placement is highly desirable. But precise methods for restoring consistency do not scale to deployed systems code. We choose to trade some precision for genuine scalability: our technique is suitable for large code bases. We implement it in our new musketeer tool, and report experiments on more than 700 executables from packages found in Debian GNU/Linux 7.1, including memcached with about 10,000 LoC.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1145/2994593
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- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Journal:
- Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems More from this journal
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 6
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1558-4593
- ISSN:
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0164-0925
- Pubs id:
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pubs:673485
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uuid:f0563159-16db-407b-b98c-0a3beef10b6f
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pubs:673485
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673485
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2017-01-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Kroening et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
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