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Reconciling Event Structures with Modern Multiprocessors

Authors Evgenii Moiseenko, Anton Podkopaev, Ori Lahav, Orestis Melkonian, Viktor Vafeiadis

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Software and its engineering → Concurrent programming languages
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  • Weak Memory Consistency
  • Event Structures
  • IMM
  • Weakestmo

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Abstract

Weakestmo is a recently proposed memory consistency model that uses event structures to resolve the infamous "out-of-thin-air" problem and to enable efficient compilation to hardware. Nevertheless, this latter property - compilation correctness - has not yet been formally established.
This paper closes this gap by establishing correctness of the intended compilation schemes from Weakestmo to a wide range of formal hardware memory models (x86, POWER, ARMv7, ARMv8) in the Coq proof assistant. Our proof is the first that establishes correctness of compilation of an event-structure-based model that forbids "out-of-thin-air" behaviors, as well as the first mechanized compilation proof of a weak memory model supporting sequentially consistent accesses to such a range of hardware platforms. Our compilation proof goes via the recent Intermediate Memory Model (IMM), which we suitably extend with sequentially consistent accesses.

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Evgenii Moiseenko, Anton Podkopaev, Ori Lahav, Orestis Melkonian, and Viktor Vafeiadis. Reconciling Event Structures with Modern Multiprocessors. In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 5:1-5:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.5

Author Details

Evgenii Moiseenko
  • St. Petersburg State University, Russia
  • JetBrains Research, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anton Podkopaev
  • National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
  • MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • JetBrains Research, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ori Lahav
  • Tel Aviv University, Israel
Orestis Melkonian
  • University of Edinburgh, UK
Viktor Vafeiadis
  • MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Funding

  • Moiseenko, Evgenii: was supported by RFBR (grant number 18-01-00380).
  • Podkopaev, Anton: was supported by RFBR (grant number 118-01-00380).
  • Lahav, Ori: was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant number 5166651), by Len Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family foundation, and by the Alon Young Faculty Fellowship.

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