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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vyas Venkataraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for analyzing race conditions between multiple threads of an application is disclosed. The method comprises accessing hazard records for an application under test. It further comprises creating a graph comprising a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges using the hazard records, wherein each vertex of the graph comprises information about a code location of a hazard and wherein each edge of the graph comprises hazard information between one or more vertices. Additionally, it comprises assigning each edge with a weight, wherein the weight depends on a number and relative priority of hazards associated with a respective edge. Finally, it comprises traversing the graph to report an analysis record for each hazard represented in the graph.