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Owicki-Gries Reasoning for C11 RAR

Authors Sadegh Dalvandi , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , Heike Wehrheim

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Theory of computation → Hoare logic
  • Theory of computation → Concurrency
  • Theory of computation → Operational semantics
  • Theory of computation → Program reasoning
Keywords
  • C11
  • Verification
  • Hoare logic
  • Owicki-Gries
  • Isabelle

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Abstract

Owicki-Gries reasoning for concurrent programs uses Hoare logic together with an interference freedom rule for concurrency. In this paper, we develop a new proof calculus for the C11 RAR memory model (a fragment of C11 with both relaxed and release-acquire accesses) that allows all Owicki-Gries proof rules for compound statements, including non-interference, to remain unchanged. Our proof method features novel assertions specifying thread-specific views on the state of programs. This is combined with a set of Hoare logic rules that describe how these assertions are affected by atomic program steps. We demonstrate the utility of our proof calculus by verifying a number of standard C11 litmus tests and Peterson’s algorithm adapted for C11. Our proof calculus and its application to program verification have been fully mechanised in the theorem prover Isabelle.

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Sadegh Dalvandi, Simon Doherty, Brijesh Dongol, and Heike Wehrheim. Owicki-Gries Reasoning for C11 RAR. In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 11:1-11:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.11

Author Details

Sadegh Dalvandi
  • University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Simon Doherty
  • University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Brijesh Dongol
  • University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Heike Wehrheim
  • Paderborn University, Germany

Funding

  • Dalvandi, Sadegh: Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/R032556/1.
  • Doherty, Simon: Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/R032351/1.
  • Dongol, Brijesh: Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/R032556/1.
  • Wehrheim, Heike: Supported by DFG grant WE 2290/12-1.

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