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Lightweight Snapshots and System-level Backtracking

Authors: 

Edouard Bugnion, Vitaly Chipounov, and George Candea, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Abstract: 

We propose a new system-level abstraction, the lightweight immutable execution snapshot, which combines the immutable characteristics of checkpoints with the direct integration into the virtual memory subsystem of standard mutable address spaces. The abstraction can give arbitrary x86 programs and libraries system-level support for backtracking (akin to logic programming) and the ability to manipulate an entire address space as an immutable data structure (akin to functional programming). Our proposed implementation leverages modern x86 hardware-virtualization support.

Edouard Bugnion, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Vitaly Chipounov, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

George Candea, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {181974,
author = {Edouard Bugnion and Vitaly Chipounov and George Candea},
title = {Lightweight Snapshots and System-level Backtracking},
booktitle = {14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV)},
year = {2013},
address = {Santa Ana Pueblo, NM},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos13/session/bugnion},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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