A Generic Logic for Proving Linearizability

June 23, 2015

Artem Khyzha


A Generic Logic for Proving Linearizability

Time:   11:00am
Location:   Meeting room 302 (Mountain View), level 3

Linearizability is a commonly accepted notion of correctness for libraries of concurrent algorithms, and recent years have seen a number of proposals of program logics for proving it. Although these logics differ in technical details, they embody similar reasoning principles. In our ongoing work we aim to explicate these principles and propose a logic for proving linearizability that is generic: it can be instantiated with different means of compositional reasoning about concurrency, such as separation logic, rely-guarantee or RGsep. In this talk, I will present a generalisation of the Views framework for reasoning about concurrency to handle relations between programs, required for proving linearizability. This is joint work with Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA) and Matthew Parkinson (MSR).