Abstract:In parallel systems, memory consistency models and cache coherence protocols establish the rules specifying which values will be visible to each instruction of parallel programs. Despite their central importance, verifying their correctness has remained a major challenge, due both to informal or incomplete specifications and to difficulties in scaling verification to cover their operations comprehensively. While coherence and consistency are often specified and verified independently at an architectural level,… Show more
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