2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Local Verification of Global Invariants in Concurrent Programs
Authors : Ernie Cohen, Michał Moskal, Wolfram Schulte, Stephan Tobies
Published in: Computer Aided Verification
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We describe a practical method for reasoning about realistic concurrent programs. Our method allows global two-state invariants that restrict update of shared state. We provide simple, sufficient conditions for checking those global invariants modularly. The method has been implemented in VCC, an automatic, sound, modular verifier for concurrent C programs. VCC has been used to verify functional correctness of tens of thousands of lines of Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform and of SYSGO’s embedded real-time operating system PikeOS.