Two control-flow error recovery methods for multithreaded programs running on multi-core processors

Abstract

This paper presents two control-flow error recovery techniques, CFE Recovery using Data-flow graph Consideration and CFE Recovery using Macro block-level Check pointing. These techniques are proposed with regards to thread interactions in the programs. These techniques try to moderate the high memory and performance overheads of conventional control-flow checking techniques. The proposed recovery techniques are composed of two phases of control-flow error detection and recovery. These phases are designed by means of inserting additional instructions into program at compile time considering dependency graph, extracted from control-flow and data-flow dependencies among basic blocks and thread interactions in the programs. In order to evaluate the proposed techniques, five multithreaded benchmarks are utilized to run on a multi-core processor. Moreover, a total of 10000 transient faults have been injected into several executable points of each program. Fault injection experiments show that the proposed techniques recover the detected errors at-least for 91% of the cases.