On Validity of Program Transformations in the Java Memory Model

Authors:
Jaroslav Ševčík;David Aspinall
Affiliations:
LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,;LFCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
Venue:
ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We analyse the validity of several common program transformations in multi-threaded Java, as defined by the Memory Model section of the Java Language Specification. The main design goal of the Java Memory Model (JMM) was to allow as many optimisations as possible. However, we find that commonly used optimisations, such as common subexpression elimination, can introduce new behaviours and so are invalid for Java. In this paper, we describe several kinds of transformations and explain the problems with a number of counterexamples. More positively, we also examine some valid transformations, and prove their validity. Our study contributes to the understanding of the JMM, and has the practical impact of revealing some cases where the Sun Hotspot JVM does not comply with the Java Memory Model.