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Trillium: Higher-Order Concurrent and Distributed Separation Logic for Intensional Refinement

Programming Languages 2024-08-23 v4 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Expressive state-of-the-art separation logics rely on step-indexing to model semantically complex features and to support modular reasoning about imperative higher-order concurrent and distributed programs. Step-indexing comes, however, with an inherent cost: it restricts the adequacy theorem of program logics to a fairly simple class of safety properties. In this paper, we explore if and how intensional refinement is a viable methodology for strengthening higher-order concurrent (and distributed) separation logic to prove non-trivial safety and liveness properties. Specifically, we introduce Trillium, a language-agnostic separation logic framework for showing intensional refinement relations between traces of a program and a model. We instantiate Trillium with a concurrent language and develop Fairis, a concurrent separation logic, that we use to show liveness properties of concurrent programs under fair scheduling assumptions through a fair liveness-preserving refinement of a model. We also instantiate Trillium with a distributed language and obtain an extension of Aneris, a distributed separation logic, which we use to show refinement relations between distributed systems and TLA+ models.

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@article{arxiv.2109.07863,
  title  = {Trillium: Higher-Order Concurrent and Distributed Separation Logic for Intensional Refinement},
  author = {Amin Timany and Simon Oddershede Gregersen and Léo Stefanesco and Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen and Léon Gondelman and Abel Nieto and Lars Birkedal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.07863},
  year   = {2024}
}
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