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

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

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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

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

Language

en

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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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