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TLA+: spurious wake-ups of Condition.await() in the models and proofs - #231
Condition.await() may return without a signal, and the code tests again in its loop, but until now no TLA+ model had the step. The detailed model (StreamBuffer.tla) and the calls abstraction (StreamBufferWait.tla) get SpuriousWake(r): a parked thread is woken as if signalled and uses one unit of a ghost budget spurious. The budget starts at the constant Spurious.
Budget, not unbounded. Safety for every value of Spurious covers every run, since a finite prefix contains finitely many wake-ups. Liveness assumes finitely many.
Not under fairness. The fairness per thread never forces the step; a forced wake-up would hide a lost one in the liveness checks.
Existing configurations keep their state counts. They run with Spurious = 0; new models run with 2, the traces with 3.
Proofs for any number of threads and any budget: safety, liveness (the budget is counted in Pot), forever liveness (counted in the measure FIP), and the refinement StreamBuffer.tla → StreamBufferWait.tla. In RefineWaitProof.tla, the lemma SSpuriousWake shows that a spurious wake-up of the detailed model is a spurious wake-up of the abstraction.
Negative controls:
check.sh runs a mutant that skips the loop's test after a wake-up. Next to a lone waitForAtLeast(2) it checks clean without spurious wake-ups and violates WaitEnoughOrClosed with them.
trace-controls.sh writes a spurious wake-up into recorded traces. They are accepted with a budget and rejected with Spurious = 0.
No production code changes. The test side only changes TraceGenerator, which writes the budget into each trace config.
inductive.sh (Apalache v0.63.0): 61 checks OK. These include the budget as a symbolic value and two new TLC refinement checks with spurious wake-ups.
check.sh (TLC v1.7.4): 45 models plus the mutant, each with its expected outcome.
trace.sh: 33/33 traces accepted. trace-controls.sh: every control passes, including the new one (3/3).
Hand-run negative controls, not committed:
Without the step in the abstraction, the TLC refinement fails.
Without the budget in FIP, MeasureSteps is violated.
mvn spotless:check
CI is green on this branch. The TLA+ jobs are scheduled/dispatch only, so they run only after a merge or a dispatch.
Docs and CHANGELOG updated: src/test/tla/README.md, CHANGELOG.md, CLAUDE.md, TODO.md, and the CI time comment in formal-verification.yml.
The proofs, inductive.sh, check.sh and the trace validation all ran on a rented 32-core machine (about 2,141 s for proof.sh). The local machine ran out of memory running them in parallel.
Related issues / PRs
Follows #228 (liveness with threads that call forever) and #230 (the open-items table, row "spurious wake-ups").
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…tla, a budget not under fairness
Every step of the protocol keeps the budget (in WriterStep/CloserStep/ReaderStep and in the
abstraction's writer, closer and thread steps), so fairness, the role actions and the witness
actions need no change. Existing configurations run with Spurious = 0 (state counts unchanged);
five detailed models and two abstraction models with Spurious = 2 check clean, a probe shows a
spurious wake-up happens, and a mutant that skips the test after a wake-up fails only with one
(not committed). A6: TraceStreamBuffer lets a parked reader wake spuriously, TraceGenerator gives
each trace a budget of 3 (33/33 accepted, every control as before; the signal mutant runs without
a budget). TLAPS: StreamBufferWaitProof.tla proves SafeInv with the new step (611 obligations).
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…-controls.sh
check.sh: a mutant whose woken thread skips the test of its loop, next to a lone
waitForAtLeast(2) (WaitAlone1, one 2-byte write: every signal wakes it to enough bytes or a
closed buffer). It checks clean without spurious wake-ups and violates WaitEnoughOrClosed with
them (SpuriousWaitAlone1). Next to a read() reader the mutant fails without them too, so that
configuration would not separate. WaitForeverSpurious2 and WaitForeverMeasureSpurious2 run the
forever abstraction with a budget of 2 (the latter MeasureSteps only; FairRole stays in
WaitForeverMeasure2, a spurious wake-up takes no lock and is no step of a role).
trace-controls.sh: a spurious wake-up written into a trace (unpark, the test, park right after
a park, before any other thread's line) is accepted with the budget and rejected with
Spurious = 0, 3/3. Removing the signal lines of a recorded trace does not give such a trace: the
model can place the writer's signal silently before its exit line.
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…finement, for any budget
Every writer, closer and thread action of StreamBufferWait.tla keeps the budget (TypeOK bounds it
by Spurious), so every action lemma sees it. Pot counts it with weight 10 (a wake-up lifts the
woken thread's rank from 1 to 6), the forever measure with weight 1 in FIP (the first part pays
for any rise below it). RefineWait maps the budget; SSpuriousWake shows the detailed model's
wake-up is one of the abstraction. TLC checks the refinement with spurious wake-ups
(RefineWaitSpuriousWaitChecked2, RefineWaitSpuriousMixed2, in inductive.sh).
proof.sh, all ten modules (Vultr, 32 cores, 2141 s): StreamBufferWaitProof 617,
StreamBufferWaitEnabled 628, StreamBufferWaitLiveProof 956, RefineWaitProof 2729,
StreamBufferWaitForeverEnabled 633, StreamBufferWaitForeverLiveProof 1378, the rest unchanged;
8036 obligations, all proved. inductive.sh: 61 OK, 0 FAIL. Negative controls by hand (not
committed): without the abstraction's step the TLC refinement fails; without the budget in FIP,
MeasureSteps is violated.
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The TLA+ models now represent spurious condition-variable wake-ups with a finite budget. Safety, refinement, and liveness proofs, TLC configurations, trace validation, and documentation have been updated to account for this model behavior.
Changes: Bounded Spurious Wake-Up Modeling
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Model transitions src/test/tla/StreamBuffer.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWait.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferForever.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitForever.tla, src/test/tla/TraceStreamBuffer.tla
The models add a finite Spurious budget and a spurious state value. A parked reader can wake when the budget is positive, consume one unit, and resume in the woken state. Other model actions preserve the budget, and the wake action is separate from thread-step fairness.
Safety and refinement proofs src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitProof.tla, src/test/tla/RefineWait.tla, src/test/tla/RefineWaitProof.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitEnabled.tla
The proofs include the new state, establish that ordinary actions preserve it, and prove safety and refinement for spurious wakes.
Liveness measures and proofs src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitLive.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitLiveProof.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitForeverLive.tla, src/test/tla/StreamBufferWaitForeverLiveProof.tla
The liveness measures include the remaining wake-up budget. The proofs account for the measure change when a wake consumes one unit.
Model and trace validation src/test/tla/*.cfg, src/test/tla/check.sh, src/test/tla/inductive.sh, src/test/tla/trace-controls.sh, src/test/tla/TraceStreamBuffer.tla, src/test/java/net/ladenthin/streambuffer/trace/TraceGenerator.java
Existing TLC configurations set Spurious = 0; new configurations check bounded wake-ups and refinement. The scripts add model and mutant checks, and trace controls test acceptance with a budget and rejection with Spurious = 0. Generated trace configurations set Spurious = 3.
Documentation and run results CHANGELOG.md, CLAUDE.md, TODO.md, src/test/tla/README.md, .github/workflows/formal-verification.yml
The documentation describes the budget, fairness treatment, model checks, proof results, trace controls, and limitations. The workflow timing comment records the 32-model and 45-model run measurements.
Running the TLA+ check script with a relative jar path makes the mutant controls fail even though the other models pass. CI and the documented command use absolute paths, so the practical impact is small and the fix is one line.
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Resolve the jar path before entering the mutant directory.
If check.sh receives a relative jar path that works from src/test/tla, this cd makes that path resolve under the temporary mutant directory. Both mutant checks then fail to load TLC, although the preceding checks succeeded. Convert jar to an absolute path before changing directories, as trace.sh already does. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Condition.await()may return without a signal, and the code tests again in its loop, but until now no TLA+ model had the step. The detailed model (StreamBuffer.tla) and the calls abstraction (StreamBufferWait.tla) getSpuriousWake(r): a parked thread is woken as if signalled and uses one unit of a ghost budgetspurious. The budget starts at the constantSpurious.Spuriouscovers every run, since a finite prefix contains finitely many wake-ups. Liveness assumes finitely many.Spurious = 0; new models run with 2, the traces with 3.Pot), forever liveness (counted in the measureFIP), and the refinementStreamBuffer.tla→StreamBufferWait.tla. InRefineWaitProof.tla, the lemmaSSpuriousWakeshows that a spurious wake-up of the detailed model is a spurious wake-up of the abstraction.check.shruns a mutant that skips the loop's test after a wake-up. Next to a lonewaitForAtLeast(2)it checks clean without spurious wake-ups and violatesWaitEnoughOrClosedwith them.trace-controls.shwrites a spurious wake-up into recorded traces. They are accepted with a budget and rejected withSpurious = 0.TraceGenerator, which writes the budget into each trace config.Test plan
proof.sh(tlapmff40755): all 10 modules, 8,036 obligations proved. Changed modules:StreamBufferWaitProof617,StreamBufferWaitEnabled628,StreamBufferWaitLiveProof956,RefineWaitProof2,729,StreamBufferWaitForeverEnabled633,StreamBufferWaitForeverLiveProof1,378.inductive.sh(Apalache v0.63.0): 61 checks OK. These include the budget as a symbolic value and two new TLC refinement checks with spurious wake-ups.check.sh(TLC v1.7.4): 45 models plus the mutant, each with its expected outcome.trace.sh: 33/33 traces accepted.trace-controls.sh: every control passes, including the new one (3/3).FIP,MeasureStepsis violated.mvn spotless:checksrc/test/tla/README.md,CHANGELOG.md,CLAUDE.md,TODO.md, and the CI time comment informal-verification.yml.The proofs,
inductive.sh,check.shand the trace validation all ran on a rented 32-core machine (about 2,141 s forproof.sh). The local machine ran out of memory running them in parallel.Related issues / PRs
Follows #228 (liveness with threads that call forever) and #230 (the open-items table, row "spurious wake-ups").
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