Abstract
Title:
Automatic device driver synthesis with TermiteAuthors:
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Etienne Le Sueur and Gernot Heiser School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
National ICT Australia, Sydney,
Australia
Open Kernel Labs, Sydney, Australia
Abstract:
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness by construction. We achieve this by synthesising drivers automatically from formal specifications of device interfaces, thus reducing the impact of human error on driver reliability and potentially cutting down on development costs.
We present a concrete driver synthesis approach and tool called Termite. We discuss the methodology, the technical and practical limitations of driver synthesis, and provide an evaluation of non-trivial drivers for Linux, generated using our tool. We show that the performance of the generated drivers is on par with the equivalent manually developed drivers. Furthermore, we demonstrate that device specifications can be reused across different operating systems by generating a driver for FreeBSD from the same specification as used for.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{Ryzhyk_CKSH_09,
author = {Leonid Ryzhyk and Peter Chubb and Ihor Kuz and Etienne Le Sueur and Gernot Heiser},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
title = {Automatic Device Driver Synthesis with {Termite}},
year = {2009},
month = {Oct},
address = {Big Sky, MT, USA}
}