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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2008
Yarden Nir-buchbinder, Haifa, IL;
Orna Raz-pelleg, Haifa, IL;
Rachel Tzoref, Haifa, IL;
Shmuel Ur, Shorashim, IL;
Aviad Zlotnick, Mitzpeh Netofah, IL;
Yarden Nir-Buchbinder, Haifa, IL;
Orna Raz-Pelleg, Haifa, IL;
Rachel Tzoref, Haifa, IL;
Shmuel Ur, Shorashim, IL;
Aviad Zlotnick, Mitzpeh Netofah, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detecting locking discipline violations on shared resources. For example, a method of detecting locking discipline violations of shared resources of a computing platform, by a testing process to be executed concurrently with one or more other processes on said computing platform, the testing process comprising: locking a shared resource of said computing platform; reading a value of the shared resource; locally storing the value of the shared resource; rereading the value of the shared resource after a predefined time period; and generating a locking discipline violation report if the value of said shared resource as reread by said rereading is different from the value of said resource as locally stored by said locally storing.