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for Correct and Efficient Implementation}
\author{Xingyuan Zhang\inst{1} \and Christian Urban\inst{2} \and Chunhan Wu\inst{1}}
\institute{PLA University of Science and Technology, China \and
- King's College London, U.K.}
+ King's College London, United Kingdom}
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\begin{abstract}
-Despite the wide use of Priority Inheritance Protocol in real time operating
-system, it's correctness has never been formally proved and mechanically checked.
-All existing verification are based on model checking technology. Full automatic
-verification gives little help to understand why the protocol is correct.
-And results such obtained only apply to models of limited size.
-This paper presents a formal verification based on theorem proving.
-Machine checked formal proof does help to get deeper understanding. We found
-the fact which is not mentioned in the literature, that the choice of next
-thread to take over when an critical resource is release does not affect the correctness
-of the protocol. The paper also shows how formal proof can help to construct
-correct and efficient implementation.
+In realtime systems with support for resource locking and
+processes involving priorities, one faces the problem of
+priority inversion. This problem can make the behaviour of processes unpredictable
+and the resulting bugs can be hard to find. The Priority Inheritance
+Protocol is one solution implemented in many systems for
+solving the priority inversion problem, but the correctness of this solution has never
+been formally verified in a theorem prover. The original description
+of the Property Inheritance Protocol presents a ``correctness proof''
+done with pencil-and-paper for an \emph{incorrect} algorithm. This has
+already been pointed out in the literature. In this paper we fix the
+problem of the original proof by making all notions precise and implement a
+variant of a solution proposed earlier. Our formalisation in
+Isabelle/HOL uncovered facts not mentioned in the literature, but also
+shows how to efficiently implement this protocol. Earlier correct
+implementations were criticised as too inefficient. Our formalisation
+is based on Paulson's inductive approach to verifying
+protocols.\medskip
+
+{\bf Keywords:} Priority Inheritance Protocol, formal connectness proof,
+realtime systems
\end{abstract}
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