Using Local Clocks to Reproduce Concurrency Bugs

doi:10.1109/TSE.2017.2752158

	Using Local Clocks to Reproduce Concurrency Bugs
	Wang, Zhe 1,2; Wu, Chenggang 3; Yuan, Xiang 7; Wang, Zhenjiang 7; Li, Jianjun 8; Yew, Pen-Chung 4; Huang, Jeff 5; Feng, Xiaobing 3; Lan, Yanyan 3; Chen, Yunji 3; Lai, Yuanming 3; Guan, Yong 6
	2018-11-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
ISSN	0098-5589
卷号	44 期号:11 页码:1112-1128
摘要	Multi-threaded programs play an increasingly important role in current multi-core environments. Exposing concurrency bugs and debugging such multi-threaded programs are quite challenging due to their inherent non-determinism. In order to mitigate such non-determinism, many approaches such as record-and-replay have been proposed. However, those approaches often suffer significant performance degradation because they require a large amount of recorded information and/or long analysis and replay time. In this paper, we propose an efficient and effective approach, ReCBuLC (reproducing concurrency bugs using local clocks), to take advantage of the hardware clocks available on modern processors. The key idea is to reduce the recording overhead and the time to analyze events' global order by recording timestamps in each thread. These timestamps are used to determine the global order of shared accesses. To avoid the large overhead in accessing system-wide global clock, we opt to use local per-core clocks that incur much less access overhead. We then propose techniques to resolve skews among local clocks and obtain an accurate global event order. By using per-core clocks, state-of-the-art bug reproducing systems such as PRES and CLAP can reduce their recording overheads by up to 85 percent, and the analysis time up to 84.66%similar to 99.99%, respectively.
关键词	Concurrency bug reproducing local clock
DOI	10.1109/TSE.2017.2752158
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National High Technology Research and Development Program of China[2012AA010901] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61303051] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61303052] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61332009] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[60925009] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61100011] ; Innovation Research Group of NSFC[61221062]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000449964600006
出版者	IEEE COMPUTER SOC
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/4334
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Wu, Chenggang
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Architecture Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 4.Univ Minnesota Twin Cities, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA 5.Texas A&M Univ, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 USA 6.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Informat Engn, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 7.Huawei Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 8.Horizon Robot Inc, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Zhe,Wu, Chenggang,Yuan, Xiang,et al. Using Local Clocks to Reproduce Concurrency Bugs[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,2018,44(11):1112-1128.
APA	Wang, Zhe.,Wu, Chenggang.,Yuan, Xiang.,Wang, Zhenjiang.,Li, Jianjun.,...&Guan, Yong.(2018).Using Local Clocks to Reproduce Concurrency Bugs.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,44(11),1112-1128.
MLA	Wang, Zhe,et al."Using Local Clocks to Reproduce Concurrency Bugs".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 44.11(2018):1112-1128.