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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Structural Lock Correlation with Ownership Types
Authors : Yi Lu, John Potter, Jingling Xue
Published in: Programming Languages and Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Concurrent object-oriented programming languages coordinate conflicting memory accesses through locking, which relies on programmer discipline and suffers from a lack of modularity and compile-time support. Programmers typically work with large libraries of code whose locking behaviours are not formally and precisely specified; thus understanding and writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult and error-prone. This paper proposes
structural lock correlation
, a new model for establishing structural connections between locks and the memory locations they protect, in an ownership-based type and effect system. Structural lock correlation enables modular specification of locking. It offers a compiler-checkable lock abstraction with an enforceable contract at interface boundaries, leading to improved safety, understandability and composability of concurrent program components.