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(***************************************************************************) (* This specification is explained in "Transaction Commit", Lecture 5 of *) (* the TLA+ Video Course. *) (***************************************************************************) CONSTANT RM \* The set of participating resource managers VARIABLE rmState \* rmState[rm] is the state of resource manager rm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TCTypeOK == (*************************************************************************) (* The type-correctness invariant *) (*************************************************************************) rmState \in [RM -> {"working", "prepared", "committed", "aborted"}] TCInit == rmState = [r \in RM |-> "working"] (*************************************************************************) (* The initial predicate. *) (*************************************************************************) canCommit == \A r \in RM : rmState[r] \in {"prepared", "committed"} (*************************************************************************) (* True iff all RMs are in the "prepared" or "committed" state. *) (*************************************************************************) notCommitted == \A r \in RM : rmState[r] # "committed" (*************************************************************************) (* True iff no resource manager has decided to commit. *) (*************************************************************************) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (***************************************************************************) (* We now define the actions that may be performed by the RMs, and then *) (* define the complete next-state action of the specification to be the *) (* disjunction of the possible RM actions. *) (***************************************************************************) Prepare(r) == /\ rmState[r] = "working" /\ rmState' = [rmState EXCEPT ![r] = "prepared"] Decide(r) == \/ /\ rmState[r] = "prepared" /\ canCommit /\ rmState' = [rmState EXCEPT ![r] = "committed"] \/ /\ rmState[r] \in {"working", "prepared"} /\ notCommitted /\ rmState' = [rmState EXCEPT ![r] = "aborted"] TCNext == \E r \in RM : Prepare(r) \/ Decide(r) (*************************************************************************) (* The next-state action. *) (*************************************************************************) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TCConsistent == (*************************************************************************) (* A state predicate asserting that two RMs have not arrived at *) (* conflicting decisions. It is an invariant of the specification. *) (*************************************************************************) \A r1, r2 \in RM : ~ /\ rmState[r1] = "aborted" /\ rmState[r2] = "committed" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (***************************************************************************) (* The following part of the spec is not discussed in Video Lecture 5. It *) (* will be explained in Video Lecture 8. *) (***************************************************************************) TCSpec == TCInit /\ [][TCNext]_rmState (*************************************************************************) (* The complete specification of the protocol written as a temporal *) (* formula. *) (*************************************************************************) THEOREM TCSpec => [](TCTypeOK /\ TCConsistent) (*************************************************************************) (* This theorem asserts the truth of the temporal formula whose meaning *) (* is that the state predicate TCTypeOK /\ TCInvariant is an invariant *) (* of the specification TCSpec. Invariance of this conjunction is *) (* equivalent to invariance of both of the formulas TCTypeOK and *) (* TCConsistent. *) (*************************************************************************)
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