University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

An Operating-System-Level Framework for Providing Application-Aware Reliability

Wang, Long; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew; Gu, Weining; Iyer, Ravi

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CRHC-06-12 REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE.pdf
rmk.pdf
UILU-ENG-06-2218 - COVER ONLY.pdf

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Title
An Operating-System-Level Framework for Providing Application-Aware Reliability
Author(s)
  • Wang, Long
  • Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew
  • Gu, Weining
  • Iyer, Ravi
Issue Date
2006-09
Keyword(s)
  • Operating system
  • Reliability
  • Application aware
  • Application specific
  • Hang detection
  • Checkpointing
  • Application Transparent
Date of Ingest
2018-03-30T21:40:19Z
Abstract
Operating systems enable collecting and extracting rich information on application execution characteristics, including program counter traces, memory access patterns, and operating-system-generated signals. This information can be exploited to design highly efficient, application-aware reliability mechanisms that are transparent to applications. This paper describes the Reliability MicroKernel framework (RMK), a loadable kernel module for providing application-aware reliability and dynamically configuring reliability mechanisms installed in RMK. The RMK prototype is implemented in Linux and supports detection of application/OS failures and transparent application checkpointing. Experiment results show that the OS hang detection and application hang detection, which exploit characteristics of application and system behavior, can achieve 100% coverage and low false positive rates. Moreover, the performance overhead of RMK and the detection/checkpointing mechanisms is small (0.6% for application hang detection and 0.1% for transparent application checkpointing in the experiments).
Publisher
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Coordinated Science Laboratory Report no. UILU-ENG-06-2218, CRHC-06-12
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Technical Report
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99566
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
  • National Science Foundation / CNS-04-06351, CNS-05-24695, and ACI-0121658 ITR/AP
  • Gigascale Systems Research Center/MARCO
  • Motorola

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Report - Coordinated Science Laboratory PRIMARY