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ATLAS: Adaptable Thread-Level Address Spaces (DFG: DI 2840/1-1)

ATLAS is a joint project with SRA (Co-PI: Daniel Lohmann)

Traditionally, an OS process contains a single address space with code and data segments that are shared among all of its threads. The fork() system call creates a new address space (and process) that, even though it starts as an exact clone of its ancestor, provides strong isolation between the respective threads by means of copy-on-write.

The core idea of ATLAS is to provide processes with additional address spaces that are, however, kept in sync with their ancestor: Changes to one of them – we call them address-space views – become immediately visible in the others. Views diverge only in explicitly specified areas. As they still belong to the same process, the threads of this process can be migrated individually between views.

Address-space views provide an efficient mean to implement temporary or permanent thread-level variations in the "view of the world", while threads can still interact with each other regarding the shared parts. In the figure, the code segment diverges and provides a thread-specific variation (e.g., an client-specific optimization or restriction of functionality), while the data segment is shared, so that th1 can still transparently interact with th2 and th3. Such variations can be arbitrary small or complex. They can be prepared in the background in a new view and atomically applied to individual threads by migrating them to the new address space.

Applications

In our OSDI '20 paper, we present a first application of these technique to implement WfPatch, a wait-free dynamic code-patching approch for large multi-threaded server applications.

People




Niklas Gollenstede (M.Sc.)



Sören Tempel (M.Sc.)



Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Dietrich



Prof. Dr. Daniel Lohmann

Publications

USENIX Conference A
MELF: Multivariant Executables for a Heterogeneous World
Dominik Töllner, Christian Dietrich, Illia Ostapyshyn, Florian Rommel, Daniel Lohmann2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '23)USENIX Association2023.
PDF [BibTex]

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{toellner:23:atc,
location = {Boston, MA},
author = {Töllner, Dominik and Dietrich, Christian and Ostapyshyn, Illia and Rommel, Florian and Lohmann, Daniel},
booktitle = {2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '23)},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
isbn = {978-1-939133-35-9},
month = {July},
pages = {257–273},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
title = {{MELF}: Multivariant Executables for a Heterogeneous World},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/tollner},
year = {2023},
}
LCTES Conference B
Thread-Level Attack-Surface Reduction
Florian Rommel, Christian Dietrich, Andreas Ziegler, Illia Ostapyshyn, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded SystemsACM Press2023.
PDF Slides Video 10.1145/3589610.3596281 [BibTex]

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{rommel:23:lctes,
location = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Rommel, Florian and Dietrich, Christian and Ziegler, Andreas and Ostapyshyn, Illia and Lohmann, Daniel},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems},
doi = {10.1145/3589610.3596281},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
isbn = {979-8-4007-0174-0/23/06},
month = {June},
publisher = {ACM Press},
title = {Thread-Level Attack-Surface Reduction},
venue = {Orlando, Florida, USA},
year = {2023},
}
LCTES Conference B
reUpNix: Reconfigurable and Updateable Embedded Systems
Niklas Gollenstede, Ulf Kulau, Christian DietrichProceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded SystemsACM Press2023.
PDF Slides Raw Data 10.1145/3589610.3596273 [BibTex]

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{gollenstede:23:lctes,
location = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Gollenstede, Niklas and Kulau, Ulf and Dietrich, Christian},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems},
doi = {10.1145/3589610.3596273},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
isbn = {979-8-4007-0174-0/23/06},
month = {June},
publisher = {ACM Press},
title = {{reUpNix}: Reconfigurable and Updateable Embedded Systems},
year = {2023},
}
OSDI Conference A*
From Global to Local Quiescence: Wait-Free Code Patching of Multi-Threaded Processes
Florian Rommel, Christian Dietrich, Birte Friesel, Marcel Köppen, Christoph Borchert, Michael Müller, Olaf Spinczyk, Daniel Lohmann14th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI '20)2020.
PDF Video [BibTex]

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{rommel:20:osdi,
author = {Florian Rommel and Christian Dietrich and Birte Friesel and Marcel K{ö}ppen and Christoph Borchert and Michael M{ü}ller and Olaf Spinczyk and Daniel Lohmann},
booktitle = {14th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI '20)},
entrysubtype = {Conference},
isbn = {978-1-939133-19-9},
month = {November},
pages = {651-666},
title = {From Global to Local Quiescence: Wait-Free Code Patching of Multi-Threaded Processes},
year = {2020},
}

Theses

Open Topics

Nix as OCI Container Image storage and transport backend

Typ: Bachelorarbeit
Status: offen
Supervisors: Niklas Gollenstede
Sideload OCI images from the Nix-store into Docker or Podman and analyze the result

Safe sharing of CHERI capabilities between POSIX processes

Typ: Masterarbeit
Status: offen
Supervisors: Niklas Gollenstede
Make sharing or blocking of CHERI capabilities between processes more backwards compatible, safer, and more performant.

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