deterministic replay of multithread applications using virtual machine

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	deterministic replay of multithread applications using virtual machine
	Yu Jiageng; Ci Yiwei; Zhou Peng; Wu Yanjun; Zhao Chen
	2012
会议名称	26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2012
会议录名称	Proceedings - 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, WAINA 2012
页码	429-434
会议日期	March 26, 2012 - March 29, 2012
会议地点	Fukuoka, Japan
收录类别	EI
ISBN	9780769546520
部门归属	(1) Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
摘要	The deterministic replay technology usually is used to reproduce non-deterministic failures, especially the concurrency failures which are hard to debug with cyclic-debugging techniques. Previous techniques either incur large overhead or require custom hardware extensions. They have also suffered from the interference with irrelevant processes. This paper introduces WDRVirt, a new software based replay system that provides deterministic replay for concurrent applications. This paper makes three contributions. First, WDRVirt enforces a deterministic replay for the interleaving of lock acquisitions with low performance overhead. Second, different from the previous works, we customize the lightweight virtual machine execution environment as the container for the target program. WDRVirt replays the container to avoid the interference with other irrelevant processes. At last, WDRVirt is deployed into both virtual machine(VM) and virtual machine manager(VMM) to deal with different types of non-deterministic event. We have implemented this system based on the Xen virtualization platform. Our experiments with real-world benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of WDRVirt. © 2012 IEEE.; The deterministic replay technology usually is used to reproduce non-deterministic failures, especially the concurrency failures which are hard to debug with cyclic-debugging techniques. Previous techniques either incur large overhead or require custom hardware extensions. They have also suffered from the interference with irrelevant processes. This paper introduces WDRVirt, a new software based replay system that provides deterministic replay for concurrent applications. This paper makes three contributions. First, WDRVirt enforces a deterministic replay for the interleaving of lock acquisitions with low performance overhead. Second, different from the previous works, we customize the lightweight virtual machine execution environment as the container for the target program. WDRVirt replays the container to avoid the interference with other irrelevant processes. At last, WDRVirt is deployed into both virtual machine(VM) and virtual machine manager(VMM) to deal with different types of non-deterministic event. We have implemented this system based on the Xen virtualization platform. Our experiments with real-world benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of WDRVirt. © 2012 IEEE.
关键词	Managers
主办者	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Comm. Distrib. Process.
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/15726
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu Jiageng,Ci Yiwei,Zhou Peng,et al. deterministic replay of multithread applications using virtual machine[C],2012:429-434.