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Automating Memory Model Metatheory with Intersections

Authors Aristotelis Koutsouridis , Michalis Kokologiannakis , Viktor Vafeiadis

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Aristotelis Koutsouridis
  • MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, Germany
Michalis Kokologiannakis
  • MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, Germany
Viktor Vafeiadis
  • MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, Germany

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This work was supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for the project "PERSIST" under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101003349).

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We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their feedback.

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Aristotelis Koutsouridis, Michalis Kokologiannakis, and Viktor Vafeiadis. Automating Memory Model Metatheory with Intersections. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 33:1-33:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.33

Abstract

In the weak memory consistency literature, the semantics of concurrent programs is typically defined as a constraint on execution graphs, expressed in relational algebra. Prior work has shown that basic metatheoretic questions about memory models are decidable as long as they can be expressed as irreflexivity and emptiness constraints over Kleene Algebra with Tests (KAT), a condition that rules out practical memory models such the C/C++ and the Linux kernel models.
In this paper, we extend these results to memory models containing arbitrary intersections with uninterpreted relations. We can thus automatically establish compilation correctness and derive efficient incremental consistency checkers for RC11, LKMM, and other memory models.

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Theory of computation → Concurrency
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  • Kleene Algebra
  • Weak Memory Models

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