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ThreadSanitizer: data race detection in practice
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Data races are a particularly unpleasant kind of threading bugs. They are hard to find and reproduce -- you may not observe a bug during the entire testing cycle and will only see it in production as rare unexplainable failures. This paper presents ThreadSanitizer -- a dynamic detector of data races. We describe the hybrid algorithm (based on happens-before and locksets) used in the detector. We introduce what we call dynamic annotations -- a sort of race detection API that allows a user to inform the detector about any tricky synchronization in the user program. Various practical aspects of using ThreadSanitizer for testing multithreaded C++ code at Google are also discussed.
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- Serebryany, K., & Iskhodzhanov, T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Binary Instrumentation and Applications
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2009-12-12
- Pages
- 62-71
- OpenAlex
- W2025819261
- Cited by
- 451
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 7.60
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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