Don’t sit on the fence: A static analysis approach to automatic fence insertion

Modern architectures rely on memory fences to prevent undesired weakenings of memory consistency. As the fences’ semantics may be subtle, the automation of their placement is highly desirable. But precise methods for restoring consistency do not scale to deployed systems code. We choose to trade som...

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Autors principals: Kroening, D, Alglave, J, Nimal, V, Poetzl, D
Format: Journal article
Publicat: Association for Computing Machinery 2017