PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs

Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne; Feng Liu; David I. August; Sharad Malik

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31424-7_60

PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs

Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, Feng Liu, David I. August, Sharad Malik

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Abstract

PASSERT is a new debugging tool for parallel programs which allows programmers to express correctness criteria using a simple, expressive assertion language. We demonstrate how these parallel assertions allow the detection and diagnosis of real world concurrency bugs, detecting 14/17 bugs in an independently selected set of bugs from open source software. We describe a runtime checker which allows automatic checking of parallel assertions in C and C++ programs, with a geometric mean of 6.6× overhead on a set of PARSEC benchmarks. We improve performance by introducing a relaxed timing semantics for parallel assertions, which better reflects real memory models, and exposes more bugs with less overhead (geometric mean overhead 3.5x).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Computer Aided Verification - 24th International Conference, CAV 2012, Proceedings
Pages	751-757
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31424-7_60
State	Published - 2012
Event	24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2012 - Berkeley, CA, United States Duration: Jul 7 2012 → Jul 13 2012

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7358 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Berkeley, CA
Period	7/7/12 → 7/13/12

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Schwartz-Narbonne, D., Liu, F., August, D. I., & Malik, S. (2012). PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs. In Computer Aided Verification - 24th International Conference, CAV 2012, Proceedings (pp. 751-757). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7358 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31424-7_60

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Schwartz-Narbonne, D, Liu, F, August, DI & Malik, S 2012, PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs. in Computer Aided Verification - 24th International Conference, CAV 2012, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 7358 LNCS, pp. 751-757, 24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2012, Berkeley, CA, United States, 7/7/12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31424-7_60

PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs. / Schwartz-Narbonne, Daniel; Liu, Feng; August, David I. et al.
Computer Aided Verification - 24th International Conference, CAV 2012, Proceedings. 2012. p. 751-757 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7358 LNCS).

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Schwartz-Narbonne D, Liu F, August DI , Malik S. PASSERT: A tool for debugging parallel programs. In Computer Aided Verification - 24th International Conference, CAV 2012, Proceedings. 2012. p. 751-757. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31424-7_60

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