Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:17:40 +0000 (11:17 -0700)]
model: make comment more accurate
add_action_to_lists() does not only work on the per-object, per-thread action
list. It performs several pieces of bookkeeping.
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:16:38 +0000 (11:16 -0700)]
action: add const qualifier
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:38:31 +0000 (02:38 -0700)]
clockvector: add const qualifiers
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:37:47 +0000 (02:37 -0700)]
clockvector: add documentation
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:11:15 +0000 (02:11 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sandbox' (remove finalize())
Merge in the fix from Subramanian and me that eliminates the need for a
finalize() call. It was a kind of bug, in a way, that hopefully is fixed now...
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:10:12 +0000 (02:10 -0700)]
snapshot: switch back to mprotect-based snapshotting
Subramanian accidentally switched this configuration macro in his last
commit...
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:11 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
model: build up 'may_read_from' set
Finally wire up the model-checker so that it builds the may_read_from set
for every 'read' action. I think this is working OK, although I don't have
much to really test it on yet.
Also, improve comments to describe the process in check_current_action().
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:59:01 +0000 (01:59 -0700)]
model: add build_reads_from_past() function
Add function that will build up the initial set of all past writes that a
'read' action may read from.
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:56:50 +0000 (01:56 -0700)]
action: add happens_before() function
Now I can easily compare two ModelActions with the happens_before()
relationship. Of course, the clock vectors are not fully complete yet, but
this sets the stage...
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:48:03 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
clockvector: fix 'happens_before', change name to 'synchronized_since'
First, the 'happens_before' function needed to use an inclusive 'less-than'
(i.e., <=) instead of 'strictly less-than' (i.e., <) in order to fit with
most of the algorithm.
Second, the association of 'happens_before' directly with the ClockVector is
not very intuitive to use. I will write an additional happens_before()
function that can easily compare two ModelAction objects. So change this
happens_before() (with it awkward usage) to be called synchronized_since(),
representing whether the ClockVector's thread has previously synchronized
with the ModelAction's thread.
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:05:15 +0000 (01:05 -0700)]
action: add 'get_cv()' accessor function
Brian Norris [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:54:01 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
nodestack: add 'may_read_from' set
Each Node (at least, each Node that is a 'read') will be associated with a
may_read_from set - the set of all possible ModelActions to read from. For now,
this interface handles only actions that exist in the past. It won't properly
retain information from future actions.
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:33:52 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
nodestack: don't perform linear search to check if backtrack is empty
Add a simple add/remove counter to record when threads are 'added' and
'removed' from the backtracking set.
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:00:57 +0000 (16:00 -0700)]
action: add const qualifiers
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:51:06 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
action: replace condition check with ASSERT()
Now that the ModelChecker and NodeStack have been refactored a bit, I don't
need to rely on create_cv() to avoid overwriting a previously-existing
clockvector; create_cv() will now be called at most once per ModelAction. So
change this condition to an ASSERT().
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:44:13 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
nodestack/model: refactor explore_action(), change return semantics
ModelChecker would like to know when a new ModelAction is being inserted
into the NodeStack vs. when the new ModelAction should be discarded in
favor of a pre-existing one (due to replay). So I change the semantics of
NodeStack::explore_action() such that it does not always return a
ModelAction; now it returns NULL if the ModelAction was accepted into the
NodeStack, otherwise returning the ModelAction that was already in the
stack.
Now, ModelChecker can choose when to create new clock vectors as well as
other operations (to come) that may be performed only upon *first*
exploration of a new ModelAction.
Additionally, ModelChecker is now responsible for free-ing the ModelAction
if it is not going to be kept in NodeStack.
There should be no change in functionality.
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:30:19 +0000 (10:30 -0700)]
nodestack: more documentation
Brian Norris [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:04:58 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
cyclegraph: make this compile...
You need 'inttypes' for 'uintptr_t'
Brian Demsky [Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:44:13 +0000 (11:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/home/git/model-checker
Brian Demsky [Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:43:32 +0000 (11:43 -0700)]
builds
Brian Demsky [Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:10:35 +0000 (06:10 -0700)]
add hashtable
Brian Norris [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:55:25 +0000 (23:55 -0700)]
Doxyfile: exclude malloc.c
I don't think we really want documentation for the dlmalloc code. It provides
several Doxygen warnings/complaints, and it muddies up some of the output HTML.
Maybe we can fix this up somehow later, but it's not really worth doing right
now.
Brian Demsky [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:29:55 +0000 (14:29 +0800)]
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/home/git/model-checker
Brian Norris [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:20:20 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
fixup some doc wording
Brian Norris [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:09:05 +0000 (23:09 -0700)]
add more documentation
I'm trying to add doxygen comments next to the definitions (not the
declaration) as much as possible, to keep the documentation as close to the
actual code as much as possible, helping to prevent errors as functionality
changes.
Brian Demsky [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:59:42 +0000 (13:59 +0800)]
subramanian lied when he said he fixed these...
Brian Norris [Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:51:30 +0000 (22:51 -0700)]
Makefile: force `make docs' to depend on all source files
That way, if I change a file that might have documentation comments in it,
`make docs' will rerun doxygen.
Subramanian Ganapathy [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:13:59 +0000 (16:13 -0700)]
(snapshot) removing mbFinalize and usage of finalize
Now there is no need for finalize mechanism at all.
All that was required was resetting the rollback id
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:31:44 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
snapshot: refactor the fork-based stack initialization
This complicated code block uses a getcontext()/setcontext() pair with an
'alreadySwapped' boolean (int) to perform basically the same functionality as
'swapcontext()'. Refactor this code to make it simpler.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:30:25 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
snapshot: remove unused 'uc_link' context
The 'currentContext' variable was never initialized, and so doesn't perform any
useful functionality as a 'uc_link' address. Remove it.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:29:42 +0000 (09:29 -0700)]
snapshotimp: reindent file
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:28:15 +0000 (09:28 -0700)]
snapshot: don't put entire if (...) on one line
It's harder to read the failure conditions if you put if (...) and the
following statement all on one line.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:22:31 +0000 (09:22 -0700)]
snapshot: define macros with type size_t
The SHARED_MEMORY_DEFAULT and STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT macros need to be of type
size_t, so cast them when they're defined, not when they're used.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:19:41 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
snapshot: use (void *) instead of (char *)
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:16:47 +0000 (09:16 -0700)]
snapshot: rearrange #if a little
HandlePF() is only used in mprotect-based snapshotting, so keep it entirely
within the #if block.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:57:01 +0000 (23:57 -0700)]
snapshot: remove extra blank lines
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:55:45 +0000 (23:55 -0700)]
snapshot: make other file-scope functions static
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:53:44 +0000 (23:53 -0700)]
snapshot: don't export page-aligning functions
Declare these functions static and move them upward in the file.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:51:07 +0000 (23:51 -0700)]
rename struct Snapshot_t => struct Snapshot
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:39:59 +0000 (23:39 -0700)]
snapshot: don't declare sTheRecord in both #if and #else
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:28:10 +0000 (23:28 -0700)]
snapshot: remove 'extern "C"' block
We do not need to wrap this function in 'extern "C"' for two reasons:
1) It's not actually exported and used in C code
2) You only need this sort of declaration in the header file that may be
included in both C++ and C compilation. But snapshot.cc should only be
compiled by the C++ compiler, and snapshot.h is not included in any C
compilation.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:20:43 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
snapshot-interface: don't export SnapshotGlobalSegments()
SnapshotGlobalSegments() is only used within snapshot-interface.cc, so declare
it static and remove it from the header.
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:13:29 +0000 (23:13 -0700)]
snapshot: replace DumpIntoLog() with lighter-weight debugging
This file I/O "debug" messaging gets in the way. Make the debugging code simple
and succinct, or don't put it in at all. Now, you can enabled SnapShot
debugging by adding this near the top of snapshot.cc:
#define CONFIG_DEBUG
Brian Norris [Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:08:57 +0000 (22:08 -0700)]
snapshot: move comments to the right place
Subramanian Ganapathy [Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:07:22 +0000 (13:07 -0700)]
Removing comment asking to fix fork(), has been fixed now
Subramanian Ganapathy [Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:58:54 +0000 (12:58 -0700)]
fixing calloc(), fix Makefile
Adding sbrk() calls and hooked into free also to avoid freeing sbrked memory...
checked both fork and paged implementation. seems to work Also everytime we
switch between fork and paged impl, we need to rebuild so adding snapshot.h as
dependency to mymemory.cc in makefile
Brian Norris [Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:34:47 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
libatomic: perform write before context switch
Atomic actions block a thread at the "switch_to_master" function call, so under
the current structure (which isn't quite fit for relaxed modeling yet...) we
should perform the memory write before calling "switch_to_master".
If not, we can observe sequences like the following, where x is an atomic
variable. All actions are seq_cst:
Initially, x = 0
Thread Action
------ ------
1 r1 = x; // r1 = 0
1 x = r1 + 1; // x = 1, not stored yet?
2 r2 = x; // r2 = 0
2 x = r2 // x = 1, not stored yet?
Then, depending on scheduling, Thread 1 or Thread 2 might complete first, with
its write being performed *after* it receives control again.
Brian Norris [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:22:07 +0000 (12:22 -0700)]
.gitignore: ignore docs directory
Brian Norris [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:48:54 +0000 (09:48 -0700)]
action: fix some comments
Brian Norris [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:46:44 +0000 (09:46 -0700)]
Makefile: have `mrclean' depend on `clean'
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:16:04 +0000 (02:16 -0700)]
more comments
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:01:38 +0000 (02:01 -0700)]
more doc changes
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 08:53:30 +0000 (01:53 -0700)]
more documentation
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 08:46:49 +0000 (01:46 -0700)]
1) Add more comments.
2) Change is_dependent to is_synchronizing and make it capture actual synchronizing behavior...
3) Add more support for RMW operations.
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:45:15 +0000 (00:45 -0700)]
more documentation
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:13:23 +0000 (00:13 -0700)]
more docs
Brian Demsky [Wed, 6 Jun 2012 06:51:02 +0000 (23:51 -0700)]
add support for docs
Brian Norris [Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:54:52 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
snapshot: zero out entire siginfo_t
We should initialize this variable to all zeros, just to be safe.
Brian Demsky [Mon, 4 Jun 2012 05:35:41 +0000 (22:35 -0700)]
Changes needed to run on OS X... Example runs on my laptop now. No need to push code back and forth to test...
Out of time for fun hack, have to get back to real work now. :(
Brian Demsky [Mon, 4 Jun 2012 01:05:39 +0000 (18:05 -0700)]
hack some stuff towards running on mac... unrelated bugs still..
Brian Norris [Thu, 31 May 2012 18:40:25 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
snapshot: remove duplicate definition of finalize()
finalize() was moved to snapshot-interface.h but wasn't removed from snapshot.h
Brian Norris [Thu, 31 May 2012 02:49:03 +0000 (19:49 -0700)]
use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE
We were wildly inconsistent with our exit status. We might as well follow the
C standard.
Brian Norris [Thu, 31 May 2012 02:42:07 +0000 (19:42 -0700)]
userprog: use atomics allocated on "heap"
Just for kicks, since snapshotting is working properly. We might as well test
this.
Subramanian Ganapathy [Wed, 30 May 2012 23:52:38 +0000 (16:52 -0700)]
Adding fixes for the fork based implementation, also removed some redundant code pointed to by Prof. Demsky
Brian Demsky [Wed, 30 May 2012 07:23:38 +0000 (00:23 -0700)]
check in message
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 20:37:33 +0000 (13:37 -0700)]
snapshot-interface: replace Subramanian's /proc/*/maps checking
Subramanian's code needed rewriting. It didn't actual snapshot any globals, and
it was also written so that it would never snapshot libmodel.so. I rewrite this
code and fix these problems, after Brian Demsky has fixed the problem with
dynamic linking of the HandlePF() code.
Brian Demsky [Wed, 30 May 2012 07:18:44 +0000 (00:18 -0700)]
fix bug...this is another evil one...
Brian Norris [Wed, 30 May 2012 15:06:02 +0000 (08:06 -0700)]
node: do not use static member variable
Static member variables of a class are going to be snapshotted. Move them so
they aren't static in order to prevent this.
(This can create interesting behavior, where the "total number of nodes
created" is decreasing at times!)
Brian Norris [Wed, 30 May 2012 06:35:15 +0000 (23:35 -0700)]
snapshot: move declarations to the right interface header
We should have a minimal set of code/declarations in the snapshot-interface.h
header. And it should not include other headers unless necessary. With this
change, the model checker code only needs to use snapshot-interface.h.
Brian Norris [Wed, 30 May 2012 06:29:06 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
snapshot: rename MyFuncPtr to VoidFuncPtr
Better descriptive name.
Brian Norris [Wed, 30 May 2012 06:20:37 +0000 (23:20 -0700)]
snapshot: rename USE_CHECKPOINTING to USE_MPROTECT_SNAPSHOT
"Checkpointing" is a generic name for either method. USE_MPROTECT_SNAPSHOT is a
more descriptive name.
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 20:22:09 +0000 (13:22 -0700)]
snapshot-interface: don't redefine PAGESIZE
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 19:30:35 +0000 (12:30 -0700)]
snapshot-interface: bugfix - fixup array indeces
When removing code, I missed a few magic numbers in the code.
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 17:46:42 +0000 (10:46 -0700)]
nodestack: push 'create_cv' functionality responsibility back to ModelChecker
It doesn't really make sense to have NodeStack call the 'create_cv' function
for a ModelAction. This commit separates the functionality of 'explore_action'
from 'create_cv', calling each separately from the higher-level
'check_current_action' model-checking function.
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 17:29:59 +0000 (10:29 -0700)]
model: thread creation establishes synchronization
First, I add a get_parent_action() wrapper which finds either the last action
in the current thread (get_last_action()) or if NULL, finds the parent
thread-creation action.
Then, using this functionality, I provide the correct 'parent' to the
explore_action() function, which performs the clock-vector creation.
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 17:21:06 +0000 (10:21 -0700)]
threads: add 'creation' information
The 'creation' field will hold the ModelAction that created the thread. For the
main user-thread, this is NULL.
Brian Norris [Tue, 29 May 2012 17:17:23 +0000 (10:17 -0700)]
libthreads: pass 'class Thread' object as ModelAction 'location'
Currently, the 'location' parameter is unused for THREAD_CREATE. I need to
provide a reference from a Thread object to the ModelAction which created it,
so I will use this parameter as an entry point into the ModelChecker, which can
build the necessary reference later.
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 19:58:56 +0000 (12:58 -0700)]
model: move bookkeeping to add_action_to_lists()
I keep a lot of bookkeeping info for efficiently locating ModelActions (e.g.,
in lists, maps, vectors). Let's just perform the dirty calculations in a single
function to help separate logical functions a little better.
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 19:45:54 +0000 (12:45 -0700)]
model: set 'last action in thread' as an action's parent
This is a step toward synchronizing clock vectors properly: on exploration of
an action, we use only the last action in the current thread as the 'parent'
(or NULL).
Note that this still does not include the parent thread in determining each
ModelAction's parent.
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 19:42:54 +0000 (12:42 -0700)]
model: log the last action in each thread
The last action in each thread is needed for some model-checking computations.
This could be expanded to a full-fledged per-thread list if needed...
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 19:20:01 +0000 (12:20 -0700)]
nodestack: compute parent ModelAction externally
For a particular ModelAction, the 'parent' may be the last action in the
current thread, or otherwise, the action in the parent thread that created the
current thread. This calculation is not suitable for within the NodeStack (and
the current implementation is wrong, taking the last action performed by *any*
thread as the parent). Thus, I set up the method calls to pass the 'parent' to
explore_action() and leave the details to further work.
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 19:12:04 +0000 (12:12 -0700)]
clockvector: fixup initialization
Two related fixes:
Even if parent is NULL, pass the current ModelAction to ClockVector
constructor.
When no parent is present, do not make special case for initializing
clock[0] = 1. This is only correct for a single case (the root Action)
and is already handled in other ways.
Brian Norris [Mon, 28 May 2012 17:16:34 +0000 (10:16 -0700)]
nodestack: construct Node with 'number of threads', not 'parent node'
I don't really want to base the number of threads off of a 'parent'; I can
just record the global 'number of threads' as a Node parameter.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:17:51 +0000 (19:17 -0700)]
model: add obj_thrd_map
Provides a mapping of ModelActions so that we can efficiently sort through the
actions on a particular object (memory location) in a particular thread.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:35:27 +0000 (18:35 -0700)]
Makefile: add 'make debug'
This is sort of hacky, but it works! Now (after cleaning), you can recompile
with 'make debug' to enable my debugging features (not Subramanian's).
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:19:15 +0000 (19:19 -0700)]
action: enhance print() message
Include clock vector, realign
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:16:06 +0000 (19:16 -0700)]
nodestack: create ModelAction clock vectors
Only create the clock vector if the ModelAction will be retained in our
nodestack, and hence will be used for synchronization, etc.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:13:36 +0000 (19:13 -0700)]
action: add create_cv() and read_from()
These functions provide basic wrapper functionality for creating and updating
the clock vector for a particular ModelAction.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 03:28:58 +0000 (20:28 -0700)]
clockvector: bugfix - fixup vector initialization, size
This fixes a few bugs in ClockVector:
- The parent-less vector is the initial-thread creation, so set its vector
clock[0] = 1
- The clock vector's data should be initialized to 0
- A clock vector cannot determine its size simply by the size of its parent (+1
if 'act' is THREAD_CREATE); other threads could have been created, giving an
inconsistent result here. Instead of trying to be smart about calculating
num_threads from the parent, then, I just ask for it globally.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 03:28:30 +0000 (20:28 -0700)]
model: add get_num_threads()
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:36:06 +0000 (19:36 -0700)]
clockvector: fixup print message
Brian Norris [Wed, 16 May 2012 19:45:03 +0000 (12:45 -0700)]
clockvector: add print() method
Brian Norris [Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45:04 +0000 (11:45 -0700)]
action: add clock vector field, destructor
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 02:00:37 +0000 (19:00 -0700)]
action: use proper location comparison
Now that snapshotting is in place for the initial state, stack allocation is
deterministic across executions, so we can compare stack-allocated addresses
again.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:44:23 +0000 (18:44 -0700)]
clockvector: add snapshotting new/delete operators
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:28:49 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
rename snapshotStack -> SnapshotStack
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:23:44 +0000 (18:23 -0700)]
snapshot: remove #include, use snapshot_id typedef
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:10:58 +0000 (18:10 -0700)]
snapshot-interface: cleanup interface header
The MyString type does not belong in an interface header. It's only used in one
file, so move its typedef locally.
Remove/move a bunch of misplaced #includes.
There's an unnecessary forward declaration of class snapshotStack.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 01:00:10 +0000 (18:00 -0700)]
model: remove scheduler comment
It's being snapshotted now.
Brian Norris [Sat, 26 May 2012 00:59:13 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
model: don't clear thread_map (snapshot)
The thread_map structure is being snapshotted, so no need to clear it.