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Paper
Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel
Paper: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Erickson.pdf
Video: http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/osdi/video/erickson.mp4
Authors: John Erickson, Madanlal Musuvathi, Sebastian Burckhardt, Kirk Olynyk from Microsoft Research
Background Concepts
Explain briefly the background concepts and ideas that your fellow classmates will need to know first in order to understand your assigned paper.
Research problem
What is the research problem being addressed by the paper? How does this problem relate to past related work?
Contribution
What are the research contribution(s) of this work? Specifically, what are the key research results, and what do they mean? (What was implemented? Why is it any better than what came before?)
Critique
What is good and not-so-good about this paper? You may discuss both the style and content; be sure to ground your discussion with specific references. Simple assertions that something is good or bad is not enough - you must explain why.
Style
- does the paper present information out of order?
- does the paper present needless information?
- does the paper have any sections that are inherently confusing?
Content
Data Collider:
References
[1] Erickson, Musuvathi, Burchhardt, Olynyk, Effective Data-Race Detection for the Kernel, Microsoft Research, 2010.PDF