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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Georgy Lukyanov, Dr Andrey Mokhov
This is the final published version of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by CEUR-WS, 2018.
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This paper presents an approach to deriving concurrency oracles for processor instructions whose behaviour is formally specified using a state transformer semantics. The presented approach does not require any modification of the existing semantics, nor does it rely on writing a parser for the language in which the semantics is described, thus justifying the “for free” part of the title. The main tool in our arsenal is ad-hoc polymorphism: the presented approach is only applicable when the semantics of processor instructions is expressed using state transformation functions that can be reinterpreted in different contexts. As we show in the paper, such semantics can be interpreted not only for instruction simulation or verification, but also for extracting the information about instruction dependencies, thus allowing us to identify concurrency as well as various types of conflicts between instructions or blocks of instructions.
Author(s): Lukyanov G, Mokhov A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: International Workshop on Algorithms & Theories for the Analysis of Event Data (ATAED 2018)
Year of Conference: 2018
Pages: 112-127
Online publication date: 25/06/2018
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 11/07/2018
ISSN: 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR-WS
URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2115/ATAED2018-112-127.pdf
Series Title: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
