Code-pointer integrity

V Kuznetzov, L Szekeres, M Payer, G Candea… - The Continuing Arms …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this chapter, we describe code-pointer integrity (CPI), a new design point that guarantees
the integrity of all code pointers in a program (eg, function pointers, saved return addresses) …

All about eve:{Execute-Verify} replication for {Multi-Core} servers

M Kapritsos, Y Wang, V Quema, A Clement… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2012 - usenix.org
This paper presents Eve, a new Execute-Verify architecture that allows state machine
replication to scale to multi-core servers. Eve departs from the traditional agree-execute …

Log20: Fully automated optimal placement of log printing statements under specified overhead threshold

X Zhao, K Rodrigues, Y Luo, M Stumm… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
When systems fail in production environments, log data is often the only information
available to programmers for postmortem debugging. Consequently, programmers' decision …

Automated {Concurrency-Bug} Fixing

G Jin, W Zhang, D Deng - … Symposium on Operating Systems Design and …, 2012 - usenix.org
Concurrency bugs are widespread in multithreaded programs. Fixing them is time-
consuming and error-prone. We present CFix, a system that automates the repair of …

NVthreads: Practical persistence for multi-threaded applications

TCH Hsu, H Brügner, I Roy, K Keeton… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Non-volatile memory technologies, such as memristor and phase-change memory, will allow
programs to persist data with regular memory instructions. Liberated from the overhead to …

Apus: Fast and scalable paxos on rdma

C Wang, J Jiang, X Chen, N Yi, H Cui - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
State machine replication (SMR) uses Paxos to enforce the same inputs for a program (eg,
Redis) replicated on a number of hosts, tolerating various types of failures. Unfortunately …

A scalable architecture for ordered parallelism

MC Jeffrey, S Subramanian, C Yan, J Emer… - Proceedings of the 48th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present Swarm, a novel architecture that exploits ordered irregular parallelism, which is
abundant but hard to mine with current software and hardware techniques. In this …

Engineering record and replay for deployability

R O'Callahan, C Jones, N Froyd, K Huey… - 2017 USENIX Annual …, 2017 - usenix.org
The ability to record and replay program executions with low overhead enables many
applications, such as reverse-execution debugging, debugging of hard-to reproduce test …

Eidetic systems

D Devecsery, M Chow, X Dou, J Flinn… - 11th USENIX Symposium …, 2014 - usenix.org
The vast majority of state produced by a typical computer is generated, consumed, then lost
forever. We argue that a computer system should instead provide the ability to recall any …

Varan the unbelievable: An efficient n-version execution framework

P Hosek, C Cadar - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 2015 - dl.acm.org
With the widespread availability of multi-core processors, running multiple diversified
variants or several different versions of an application in parallel is becoming a viable …