• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.630-632
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• 2000

경합은 공유메모리 병렬프로그램의 비결정적인 수행결과를 초래하므로, 디버깅을 위해서 경합탐지는 중요하다. 임계구역을 가진 병렬프로그램을 위한 수행중 경합 탐지 기법은 공유 자료구조를 사용하므로, 매 접근 사건 시에 병목현상을 유발한다. 본 연구에서는 동기화가 있는 병렬프로그램에서 매 반복을 수행할 때마다 공유 자료구조의 접근 횟수를 기껏해야 임계구역의 수에 비례하도록 매 접근사건을 검사한다. 그러므로 이 기법은 수행중 경합탐지의 확장성과 효율성을 제공한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.1042-1054
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• 1999

공유메모리 병렬프로그램의 오류수정에서 경합의 탐지는 중요하다. 왜냐하면 경합은 잘못된 수행 결과를 초래할 뿐만 아니라, 의도하지 않은 프로그램의 비결정적인 수행을 유발하여 오류수정을 어렵게 하기 때문이다. 특히 최초경합의 탐지는 더욱 중요하다. 그 이유는 최초경합을 제거함으로써 나머지 경합들을 방지할 수도 있기 때문이다. 기존의 수행중 경합 탐지기법들은 접근별 보고방식을 기반으로 하는데, 이 기법들은 임의 공유변수에 대한 병행 쓰레드들의 모든 접근사건들을 검사하기 위해서 접근역사라는 유일한 공유정보를 이용하므로 탐지과정에 심각한 병목현상을 유발시킨다. 그러나, 최초경합 탐지를 위한 경우 이러한 병목현상은 크게 개선될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는, 각 접근사건 검사를 위해 각 쓰레드에 공유되지 않는 독립적인 접근역사를 별개로 두고, 경합을 보고하는 시점인 쓰레드 합류시점에서만 공유되는 접근역사를 이용하도록 함으로써 병목현상을 개선하여 최초경합을 탐지할 수 있는 새로운 수행중 탐지기법을 제안한다. 그러므로 본 기법은 최초경합을 보다 효율적으로 탐지할 수 있기 때문에 수행중 경합 탐지를 더욱 효율적이고 실용적으로 할 수 있다. Abstract Detecting races is important for debugging shared-memory parallel programs, because the races lead to unintended nondeterministic executions of the programs as well as erroneous result and then make debugging programs difficult. Especially, detecting the first races is more important. The reason is that the removal of the first races can make other races disappear. Most existing on-the-fly techniques to detect the races are based on per- access reporting method incurring the serious central bottleneck, because the techniques use unique shared information called access history for checking all accesses of concurrent threads to a shared variable. Such bottleneck, however, can be improved considerably in case of detecting first races. This paper presents a new on-the-fly technique which detects the first races with reduced bottleneck through checking each accesses with private access histories and finally reporting races with shared access histories. Therefore, this technique makes on-the-fly race detection more efficient and practical.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.391-398
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• 2012

Detecting races is important for debugging shared-memory parallel programs, because the races result in unintended non-deterministic executions of the programs. Previous on-the-fly techniques to detect races in parallel programs with general inter-thread coordination show serious space overhead which depends on the maximum parallelism of the program. Therefore, this paper presents a loop splitting technique for on-the-fly race detection of parallel programs which is more efficient in space complexity than previous techniques. This loop splitting technique is the debugged program which preserves semantics of the original program. Monitering loop splitting program in on-the-fly can detect first races.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.3
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• pp.253-260
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• 2001

It is important to detect races for debugging shared-memoy parallel programs, because the races cause unintended nondeterministic program execution. Previous on-the-fly techniques to detect races can not guarantee the first race detection in nested parallel programs. Detecting the first race is important for debugging parallel programs, since the removal of the first race may make the next occurred races disappear. In this paper, we presents an on-the-fly detection technique to detect all of the first races through the reexecution of the debugged programs. We assume that the debugged parallel program may have one-way nested parallel programs. The number of reexecution is at the least the nesting depth of the program in the worst case. The space complexity is O(VT) and the time complexity to detect race in each access of access history is O(T), where V is number of shared variables and T is the maximum parallelism of the program. This efficiency of our technique in each execution is the same with the previous on-the-fly detection techniques. Therefore, this technique makes debugging parallel programs more effective and practical.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.774-776
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• 1999

공유메모리 병렬프로그램에서의 경합은 프로그램 수행에서 원하지 않는 비결정성을 야기할 수 있기 때문에 반드시 탐지되어져야 한다. 기존의 탐지 기법들은 경합을 탐지하기 위해서 공유 자료구조를 사용하므로 심각한 병목현상을 일으킨다. 본 논문에서는 동기화가 있는 프로그램에서 병목현상을 줄임으로써 탐지의 효율성을 높임과 동시에, 최초로 발생한 경합을 탐지하기 위해서 감시대상이 되는 접근사건들의 수를 감소시키는 기법을 제시한다. 이러한 목적을 위해서 사건선택 알고리즘과 실제적인 실험결과를 통해 본 기법의 효율성을 보인다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.341-351
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• 2003

For debugging effectively the shared-memory programs with nested parallelism, it is important to detect efficiently the first races which incur non-deterministic executions of the programs. Previous on-the-fly technique detects the first races in two passes, and shows inefficiencies both in execution time and memory space because the size of an access history for each shared variable depends on the maximum parallelism of program. This paper proposes a new on-the-fly technique to detect the first races in two passes, which is constant in both the number of event comparisons and the space complexity on each access to shared variable because the size of an access history for each shared variable is a small constant. This technique therefore makes on-the-fly race detection more efficient and practical for debugging shared-memory programs with nested parallelism.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

Detecting data races is important for debugging programs with OpenMP directives, because races result in unintended non-deterministic executions of the program. It is especially important to detect the first data races to occur for effective debugging, because the removal of such races may make other affected races disappear or appear. The previous tools for race detecting can not guarantee that detected races are the first races to occur. This paper suggests a tool what detects the first races to occur on the program with nested parallelism using the two-pass on-the-fly technique. To show functionality of this tool, we empirically compare with the previous tools using a set of the synthetic programs with OpenMP directives.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.267-275
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• 2007

Message races should be detected for debugging message-passing parallel programs because they can cause non-deterministic executions. Specially, it is important to detect the first race in each process because the first race can cause the occurrence of the other races in the same process. The previous techniques for detecting the first races require more than two monitored runs of a program or analyze a trace file which size is proportional to the number of messages. In this paper we introduce an on-the-fly technique to detect the first race in each process without generating any trace file. In the experiment we test the accuracy of our technique with some benchmark programs and it shows that our technique detects the first race in each process in all benchmark programs.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.16A no.2
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• pp.55-60
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• 2009

Race conditions in current Java programs must be detected because it may cause unexpected result by non-deterministic executions. For detecting such races during program execution, execution flows of all threads and all access events can be monitored. It is difficult for previous race detection techniques to monitor all threads and access events in actuality because these techniques analyze the files traced during program execution or modify original source programs and then monitor these programs. This paper presents a transparent scalable monitoring tool to detect races using JDI(Java Debug Interface) where JDI is 100% pure java interface to provide in JDPA(Java Platform Debugger Architecture) and is able to provide information corresponding to events occurred in run-time of programs. This tool thus can monitor execution flows of all threads and all access events without program modification. We prove transparency of the presented tool and grasp the efficiency of it using a set of published benchmark programs. As a result of this, the suggested tool can monitor all threads and accesses of these programs without their modification, and their monitoring time is increased to more than 20 times.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.553-556
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• 2008

임계구역을 가진 공유 메모리 기반의 병렬 프로그램에서 발생하는 경합은 프로그래머가 의도하지 않은 비결정적인 수행 결과를 초래하므로 반드시 디버깅해야 한다. 이러한 경합을 수행 중에 탐지하는 기존의 기법들은 임계구역의 실행순서에 의해서 발생하는 내부적 비결정성이 존재하지 않는 프로그램에 대해서만 경합의 존재를 검증할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 내부적 비결정성을 가진 프로그램에 존재하는 비결정적 접근사건을 정적으로 분석하고, 이 정보를 이용하여 수행 중에 경합을 탐지함으로써 잠재되어 있는 경합까지 탐지할 수 있는 도구를 제안한다. 제안한 도구는 비결정성이 포함된 합성프로그램과 공인된 OpenMP 벤치마크 프로그램인 Microbenchmark를 이용하여 경합 검증이 가능함을 보인다.