Timing Analysis of Concurrent Programs

Authors Robert Mittermayr, Johann Blieberger



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Robert Mittermayr
Johann Blieberger

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Robert Mittermayr and Johann Blieberger. Timing Analysis of Concurrent Programs. In 12th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 23, pp. 59-68, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2012.59

Abstract

Worst-case execution time analysis of multi-threaded software is still a challenge. This comes mainly from the fact that the number of thread interleavings grows exponentially in the number of threads and that synchronization has to be taken into account. In particular, a suitable graph based model has been missing. The idea that thread interleavings can be studied with a matrix calculus is a novel approach in this research area. Our sparse matrix representations of the program are manipulated using Kronecker algebra. The resulting graph represents the multi-threaded program and plays a similar role for concurrent systems as control flow graphs do for sequential programs. Thus a suitable graph model for timing analysis of multi-threaded software has been set up. Due to synchronization it turns out that often only very small parts of the resulting graph are actually needed, whereas the rest is unreachable. A lazy implementation of the matrix operations ensures that the unreachable parts are never calculated. This speeds up processing significantly and shows that our approach is very promising.
Keywords
  • Worst-case execution time analysis (WCET)
  • Concurrency
  • Thread Synchronization
  • Kronecker Algebra
  • Program Analysis

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