Publication Details
On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs
Letko Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Lourenco Joao (UNL)
Vojnar Tomáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
concurrent software, multithreaded software, transactional memory, software monitoring, dynamic analysis
Transactional memory (TM) is an increasingly popular technique for synchronising threads in multithreaded programs. To address both correctness and performance-related issues of TM programs, one needs to monitor and analyse their execution. However, monitoring concurrent programs (including TM programs) may have a non-negligible impact on their behaviour, which may hamper the objectives of the intended analysis. In this paper, we propose several approaches for monitoring TM programs and study their impact on the behaviour of the monitored programs. The considered approaches range from specialised lightweight monitoring to generic heavyweight monitoring. The implemented monitoring tools are publicly available to the scientific community, and the implementation techniques used for lightweight monitoring of TM programs may be used as an inspiration for developing other specialised lightweight monitors.
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10617,
author = "Jan Fiedor and Zden\v{e}k Letko and Joao Lourenco and Tom\'{a}\v{s} Vojnar",
title = "On Monitoring C/C++ Transactional Memory Programs",
pages = "73--87",
booktitle = "Proceedings of MEMICS'14",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
volume = 8934,
year = 2015,
location = "Heidelberg, DE",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
ISBN = "978-3-319-14895-3",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-14896-0\_7",
language = "english",
url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10617"
}