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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.35
Synthesis-Aided Crash Consistency for Storage Systems

Authors: Jacob Van Geffen, Xi Wang, Emina Torlak, and James Bornholt

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 263, 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)

Abstract
Reliable storage systems must be crash consistent - guaranteed to recover to a consistent state after a crash. Crash consistency is non-trivial as it requires maintaining complex invariants about persistent data structures in the presence of caching, reordering, and system failures. Current programming models offer little support for implementing crash consistency, forcing storage system developers to roll their own consistency mechanisms. Bugs in these mechanisms can lead to severe data loss for applications that rely on persistent storage. This paper presents a new synthesis-aided programming model for building crash-consistent storage systems. In this approach, storage systems can assume an angelic crash-consistency model, where the underlying storage stack promises to resolve crashes in favor of consistency whenever possible. To realize this model, we introduce a new labeled writes interface for developers to identify their writes to disk, and develop a program synthesis tool, DepSynth, that generates dependency rules to enforce crash consistency over these labeled writes. We evaluate our model in a case study on a production storage system at Amazon Web Services. We find that DepSynth can automate crash consistency for this complex storage system, with similar results to existing expert-written code, and can automatically identify and correct consistency and performance issues.
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Jacob Van Geffen, Xi Wang, Emina Torlak, and James Bornholt. Synthesis-Aided Crash Consistency for Storage Systems. In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 263, pp. 35:1-35:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{vangeffen_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.35,
  author =	{Van Geffen, Jacob and Wang, Xi and Torlak, Emina and Bornholt, James},
  title =	{{Synthesis-Aided Crash Consistency for Storage Systems}},
  booktitle =	{37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-281-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{263},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182285},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: program synthesis, crash consistency, file systems}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.103
Toward a Dependability Case Language and Workflow for a Radiation Therapy System

Authors: Michael D. Ernst, Dan Grossman, Jon Jacky, Calvin Loncaric, Stuart Pernsteiner, Zachary Tatlock, Emina Torlak, and Xi Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 32, 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)

Abstract
We present a near-future research agenda for bringing a suite of modern programming-languages verification tools - specifically interactive theorem proving, solver-aided languages, and formally defined domain-specific languages - to the development of a specific safety-critical system, a radiotherapy medical device. We sketch how we believe recent programming-languages research advances can merge with existing best practices for safety-critical systems to increase system assurance and developer productivity. We motivate hypotheses central to our agenda: That we should start with a single specific system and that we need to integrate a variety of complementary verification and synthesis tools into system development.
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Michael D. Ernst, Dan Grossman, Jon Jacky, Calvin Loncaric, Stuart Pernsteiner, Zachary Tatlock, Emina Torlak, and Xi Wang. Toward a Dependability Case Language and Workflow for a Radiation Therapy System. In 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 32, pp. 103-112, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{ernst_et_al:LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.103,
  author =	{Ernst, Michael D. and Grossman, Dan and Jacky, Jon and Loncaric, Calvin and Pernsteiner, Stuart and Tatlock, Zachary and Torlak, Emina and Wang, Xi},
  title =	{{Toward a Dependability Case Language and Workflow for a Radiation Therapy System}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{103--112},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Ball, Thomas and Bodík, Rastislav and Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S. and Morriset, Greg},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.103},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50208},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.103},
  annote =	{Keywords: Synthesis, Proof Assistants, Verification, Dependability Cases, Domain Specific Languages, Radiation Therapy}
}
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