spot/iface/dve2

This directory contains an interface that presents DiVinE models as
kripke* objects for Spot.

The DiVinE model checker [http://anna.fi.muni.cz/divine/] has a
specification language called DVE that makes it easy to model
processes synchonizing through channels
[http://anna.fi.muni.cz/divine/language.html].

A lot of models can be found in the BEEM database at
http://anna.fi.muni.cz/models/

For efficient generation of the state space of the model, DiVinE
compiles the DVE input into a dynamic library that contains anything
needed to generate the state-space.

The LTSmin people [http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/tools/ltsmin/] have made a
patched version of DiVinE that compiles a dynamic library with a very
simple C interface (no C++) and extra information about state
variables (name, type, possible values).  We are using this interface,
therefore you need to install their version of DiVinE in order to use
Spot's DVE interface.



Installation of DiVinE
======================

Use the following commands to compile and install the patched version
of DiVinE.

  git clone http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/tools/scm/divine2.git
  cd divine2
  mkdir _build && cd _build
  cmake .. -DMURPHI=OFF -DHOARD=OFF -DGUI=OFF -DRX_PATH= -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/usr
  make
  make install

The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable is the equivalent of the --prefix
option of configure scripts.  If you decide to install in $HOME/usr
like I do, make sure that $HOME/usr/bin is in your PATH.  If you omit
the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX setting, it will default to /usr/local.

After installation, you can check that compilation works by running
the following command on any DVE model.  It should create a file
model.dve2C (which is a dynamic library).

  divine compile --ltsmin model.dve


Usage with Spot
===============

  The function load_dve2() defined in dve2.hh in this directory
  will accept "model.dve" or "model.dve2C" as file argument.
  In the former case, it will call "divine compile --ltsmin"
  if "model.dve2C" does not exist or is older.  Then load
  "model.dve2C" dynamically.

  load_dve2() also requires a set of atomic propositions that should
  be observed in the model.  These are usually the atomic propositions
  that occur in the formula to verify, but it might be a larger set.

  There are two kinds of atomic propositions, those that refer to the
  state of a process, and those that compare the value of a variable.
  Let's have some example on an excerpt of the beem-peterson.4.dve
  model included in this directory:

    byte pos[4];
    byte step[4];

    process P_0 {
    byte j=0, k=0;
    state NCS, CS, wait ,q2,q3;
    init NCS;
    trans
     NCS -> wait { effect j = 1; },
     wait -> q2  { guard j < 4; effect pos[0] = j;},
     q2 -> q3 { effect step[j-1] = 0, k = 0; },
     q3 -> q3 { guard k < 4 && (k == 0 || pos[k] < j); effect k = k+1;},
     q3 -> wait { guard step[j-1] != 0 || k == 4; effect j = j+1;},
     wait -> CS { guard j == 4; },
     CS -> NCS { effect pos[0] = 0;};
    }

  The following atomic propositions could be used in LTL formula:

    P_0.CS          Process P_0 is in state CS.
    "pos[3] < 3"    Global variable pos[3] is less than 3.
    "P_0.j >= 2"    Process P_0's variable j is greater or equal to 2.
    P_0.j           This is equivalent to "P_0.j != 0".

  Comparisons operators available are "<", ">", ">=", "<=", "==", and
  "!=".  The left operant should always be a variable and the right
  operand should always be a number, so you cannot write something
  like "P_0.j <= P_0.i".

  Because the LTL parser knows nothing about the details of the
  languages we interface with, every atomic proposition that cannot be
  express using only alphanumeric characters (plus `_' and `.') should
  be enclosed in double quote.

  Caveat: "P_0.j >= 2" and " P_0.j>=2" (watch the spaces!) are
  considered to be two atomic propositions with the same semantics.

Examples
========

  Using the dve2check program built into this directory, we can verify
  that the critical section is accessed infinitely often by some
  processes using:

    % ./dve2check beem-peterson.4.dve '!GF(P_0.CS|P_1.CS|P_2.CS|P_3.CS)'
    2239039 unique states visited
    0 strongly connected components in search stack
    11449204 transitions explored
    1024245 items max in DFS search stack
    no accepting run found

  Process P_0 can starve, waiting to enter in critical section:

     % ./dve2check beem-peterson.4.dve '!G(P_0.wait -> F P_0.CS)'
     2190 unique states visited
     34 strongly connected components in search stack
     4896 transitions explored
     83 items max in DFS search stack
     an accepting run exists (use -C to print it)

   Variable pos[1] is not always < 3 (this formula makes no sense, it
   is just to demonstrate the use of double quote).

     % ./dve2check beem-peterson.4.dve '!G("pos[1] < 3")'
     130 unique states visited
     61 strongly connected components in search stack
     132 transitions explored
     130 items max in DFS search stack
     an accepting run exists (use -C to print it)


Two state-compression techniques have been implemented as experiments.
Prefer the -Z option if your model use only non-negative value less
than 2^28, it is way faster than -z (which will work for all values).

Activating state compression will often reduce runtime.  Compare:

% ./dve2check -T beem-peterson.4.dve '!GF(P_0.CS|P_1.CS|P_2.CS|P_3.CS)'
2239039 unique states visited
0 strongly connected components in search stack
11449204 transitions explored
1024245 items max in DFS search stack
122102 pages allocated for emptiness check
no accepting run found
                       |    user time   |    sys. time   |      total     |
                  name | ticks        % | ticks        % | ticks        % |   n
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          loading dve2 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
       parsing formula |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
   reducing A_f w/ SCC |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
running emptiness chec |  1222    100.0 |    18    100.0 |  1240    100.0 |   1
   translating formula |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 TOTAL |  1222    100.0 |    18    100.0 |  1240    100.0 |

% ./dve2check -T -Z beem-peterson.4.dve '!GF(P_0.CS|P_1.CS|P_2.CS|P_3.CS)'
2239039 unique states visited
0 strongly connected components in search stack
11449204 transitions explored
1024245 items max in DFS search stack
78580 pages allocated for emptiness check
no accepting run found
                       |    user time   |    sys. time   |      total     |
                  name | ticks        % | ticks        % | ticks        % |   n
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          loading dve2 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
       parsing formula |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
   reducing A_f w/ SCC |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
running emptiness chec |  1051    100.0 |    10    100.0 |  1061    100.0 |   1
   translating formula |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |     0      0.0 |   1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 TOTAL |  1051    100.0 |    10    100.0 |  1061    100.0 |

It's a 15% speedup in this case, be the improvement can be more
important on larger models.