Modular verification of concurrency-aware linearizability

Nir Hemed, Noam Rinetzky*, Viktor Vafeiadis

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Abstract

Linearizability is the de facto correctness condition for concurrent objects. Informally, linearizable objects provide the illusion that each operation takes effect instantaneously at a unique point in time between its invocation and response. Hence, by design, linearizability cannot describe behaviors of concurrency-aware concurrent objects (CAobjects), objects in which several overlapping operations “seem to take effect simultaneously”. In this paper, we introduce concurrency-aware linearizability (CAL), a generalized notion of linearizability which allows to formally describe the behavior of CA-objects. Based on CAL, we develop a thread- and procedure-modular verification technique for reasoning about CA-objects and their clients. Using our new technique, we present the first proof of linearizability of the elimination stack of Hendler et al. [10] in which the stack’s elimination subcomponent, which is a general-purpose CA-object, is specified and verified independently of its particular usage by the stack.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDistributed Computing - 29th International Symposium, DISC 2015, Proceedings
EditorsYoram Moses
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages371-387
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783662486528
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2015 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 7 Oct 20159 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9363
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period7/10/159/10/15

Funding

FundersFunder number
Seventh Framework Programme308830

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