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Strong Logic for Weak Memory: Reasoning About Release-Acquire Consistency in Iris

Authors Jan-Oliver Kaiser, Hoang-Hai Dang, Derek Dreyer, Ori Lahav, Viktor Vafeiadis

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  • Weak memory models
  • release-acquire
  • concurrency
  • separation logic

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Abstract

The field of concurrent separation logics (CSLs) has recently
undergone two exciting developments: (1) the Iris framework for
encoding and unifying advanced higher-order CSLs and formalizing them in Coq, and (2) the adaptation of CSLs to account for weak memory models, notably C11's release-acquire (RA) consistency.
Unfortunately, these developments are seemingly incompatible, since
Iris only applies to languages with an operational interleaving
semantics, while C11 is defined by a declarative (axiomatic)
semantics.  In this paper, we show that, on the contrary, it is not
only feasible but useful to marry these developments together.  Our
first step is to provide a novel operational characterization of
RA+NA, the fragment of C11 containing RA accesses and "non-atomic"
(normal data) accesses.  Instantiating Iris with this semantics, we
then derive higher-order variants of two prominent RA+NA logics, GPS
and RSL. Finally, we deploy these derived logics in order to perform
the first mechanical verifications (in Coq) of several interesting
case studies of RA+NA programming.  In a nutshell, we provide the
first foundationally verified framework for proving programs correct
under C11's weak-memory semantics.

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Jan-Oliver Kaiser, Hoang-Hai Dang, Derek Dreyer, Ori Lahav, and Viktor Vafeiadis. Strong Logic for Weak Memory: Reasoning About Release-Acquire Consistency in Iris. In 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 74, pp. 17:1-17:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.17

Author Details

Jan-Oliver Kaiser
Hoang-Hai Dang
Derek Dreyer
Ori Lahav
Viktor Vafeiadis

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