On the Correctness of Transactional Memory Algorithms
Transactional Memory (TM) provides programmers with a high-level and composable concurrency control abstraction. The correct execution of client programs using TM is directly dependent on the correctness of the TM algorithms. In return for the simpler programming model, designing a correct TM algorithm is an art. We have introduced a language for architecture-independent specification of synchronization algorithms that assists in the design of correct TM algorithms along with a new correctness condition, markability, and a sound program logic called synchronization object logic (SOL) that supports reasoning about the execution order and linearization orders of method calls.