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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.3
Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java (Artifact)

Authors: Shuyang Liu, John Bender, and Jens Palsberg

Published in: DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
The compilation scheme for Volatile accesses in the OpenJDK 9 HotSpot Java Virtual Machine has a major problem that persists despite a recent bug report and a long discussion. One of the suggested fixes is to let Java compile Volatile accesses in the same way as C/C++11. However, we show that this approach is invalid for Java. Indeed, we show a set of optimizations that is valid for C/C++11 but invalid for Java, while the compilation scheme is similar. We prove the correctness of the compilation scheme to Power and x86 and a suite of valid optimizations in Java. Our proofs are based on a language model that we validate by proving key properties such as the DRF-SC theorem and by running litmus tests via our implementation of Java in Herd7.
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Shuyang Liu, John Bender, and Jens Palsberg. Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 3:1-3:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{liu_et_al:DARTS.8.2.3,
  author =	{Liu, Shuyang and Bender, John and Palsberg, Jens},
  title =	{{Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{3:1--3:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Liu, Shuyang and Bender, John and Palsberg, Jens},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162018},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.8.2.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: formal semantics, concurrency, compilation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.6
Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java

Authors: Shuyang Liu, John Bender, and Jens Palsberg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 222, 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
The compilation scheme for Volatile accesses in the OpenJDK 9 HotSpot Java Virtual Machine has a major problem that persists despite a recent bug report and a long discussion. One of the suggested fixes is to let Java compile Volatile accesses in the same way as C/C++11. However, we show that this approach is invalid for Java. Indeed, we show a set of optimizations that is valid for C/C++11 but invalid for Java, while the compilation scheme is similar. We prove the correctness of the compilation scheme to Power and x86 and a suite of valid optimizations in Java. Our proofs are based on a language model that we validate by proving key properties such as the DRF-SC theorem and by running litmus tests via our implementation of Java in Herd7.
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Shuyang Liu, John Bender, and Jens Palsberg. Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java. In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 222, pp. 6:1-6:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{liu_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.6,
  author =	{Liu, Shuyang and Bender, John and Palsberg, Jens},
  title =	{{Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java}},
  booktitle =	{36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-225-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{222},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Vitek, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162346},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: formal semantics, concurrency, compilation}
}
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