Reproducible execution of POSIX programs with DiOS

J 2021

Reproducible execution of POSIX programs with DiOS

ROČKAI, Petr, Zuzana BARANOVÁ, Jan MRÁZEK, Katarína KEJSTOVÁ, Jiří BARNAT et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Reproducible execution of POSIX programs with DiOS

Authors

ROČKAI, Petr (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Zuzana BARANOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Jan MRÁZEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Katarína KEJSTOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Jiří BARNAT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Software & Systems Modeling, Springer, 2021, 1619-1366

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.211

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/21:00118773

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-020-00837-y

UT WoS

000582103200001

Keywords in English

model checking; posix; operating system; llvm; verification; model

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, we describe DiOS, a lightweight model operating system, which can be used to execute programs that make use of POSIX APIs. Such executions are fully reproducible: running the same program with the same inputs twice will result in two exactly identical instruction traces, even if the program uses threads for parallelism. DiOS is implemented almost entirely in portable C and C++: although its primary platform is DiVM, a verification-oriented virtual machine, it can be configured to also run in KLEE, a symbolic executor. Finally, it can be compiled into machine code to serve as a user-mode kernel. Additionally, DiOS is modular and extensible. Its various components can be combined to match both the capabilities of the underlying platform and to provide services required by a particular program. Components can be added to cover additional system calls or APIs or removed to reduce overhead. The experimental evaluation has three parts. DiOS is first evaluated as a component of a program verification platform based on DiVM. In the second part, we consider its portability and modularity by combining it with the symbolic executor KLEE. Finally, we consider its use as a standalone user-mode kernel.

Links

GA18-02177S, research and development project

Name: Abstrakce a jiné techniky v semi-symbolické verifikaci programů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

ROČKAI, Petr, Zuzana BARANOVÁ, Jan MRÁZEK, Katarína KEJSTOVÁ and Jiří BARNAT. Reproducible execution of POSIX programs with DiOS. Software & Systems Modeling. Springer, 2021, vol. 20, No 2, p. 363-382. ISSN 1619-1366. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-020-00837-y.

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ROČKAI, Petr, Zuzana BARANOVÁ, Jan MRÁZEK, Katarína KEJSTOVÁ and Jiří BARNAT. Reproducible execution of POSIX programs with DiOS. \textit{Software \&{} Systems Modeling}. Springer, 2021, vol.~20, No~2, p.~363-382. ISSN~1619-1366. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-020-00837-y.

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