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DisLog: A Separation Logic for Disentanglement

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Disentanglement is a run-time property of parallel programs that facilitates task-local reasoning about the memory footprint of parallel tasks. In particular, it ensures that a task does not access any memory locations allocated by another concurrently executing task. Disentanglement can be exploited, for example, to implement a high-performance parallel memory manager, such as in the MPL (MaPLe) compiler for Parallel ML. Prior research on disentanglement has focused on the design of optimizations, either trusting the programmer to provide a disentangled program or relying on runtime instrumentation for detecting and managing entanglement. This paper provides the first static approach to verify that a program is disentangled: it contributes DisLog, a concurrent separation logic for disentanglement. DisLog enriches concurrent separation logic with the notions necessary for reasoning about the fork-join structure of parallel programs, allowing the verification that memory accesses are effectively disentangled. A large class of programs, including race-free programs, exhibit memory access patterns that are disentangled "by construction". To reason about these patterns, the paper distills from DisLog an almost standard concurrent separation logic, called DisLog+. In this high-level logic, no specific reasoning about memory accesses is needed: functional correctness proofs entail disentanglement. The paper illustrates the use of DisLog and DisLog+ on a range of case studies, including two different implementations of parallel deduplication via concurrent hashing. All our results are mechanized in the Coq proof assistant using Iris.
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hal-04291381 , version 1 (17-11-2023)

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Alexandre Moine, Sam Westrick, Stephanie Balzer. DisLog: A Separation Logic for Disentanglement. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2024, 8 (POPL), ⟨10.1145/3632853⟩. ⟨hal-04291381⟩
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