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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2011
Vineet Kahlon, Princeton, NJ (US);
Chao Wang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Vineet Kahlon, Princeton, NJ (US);
Chao Wang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for removing locks from a concurrent program. A set of behaviors associated with a concurrent program are modeled as causality constraints. The causality constraints which preserve the behaviors of the concurrent program are identified. Having identified the behavior preserving causality constraints, the corresponding lock and unlock statements in the concurrent program are identified which enforce the identified causality constraints. All identified lock and unlock statements are retained, while all other lock and unlock statements are discarded.