An Abstract State Machine Specification and Verification of the Location Consistency Memory Model and Cache Protocol
Charles Wallace, Guy Tremblay, José Nelson Amaral · Archipel (Université du Québec à Montréal) · 2020
Abstract: We use the Abstract State Machine methodology to give formal operational semantics for the Location Consistency memory model and cache protocol. With these formal models, we prove that the cache protocol satisfies the memory model, but in a way that is strictly stronger than necessary, disallowing certain behavior allowed by the memory model.