Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Software transactional memory for dynamic-sized data structures
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Proceedings of the 36th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Unbounded Transactional Memory
HPCA '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
Virtualizing Transactional Memory
Proceedings of the 32nd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
A Dynamic Compilation Framework for Controlling Microprocessor Energy and Performance
Proceedings of the 38th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Software-Based Transparent and Comprehensive Control-Flow Error Detection
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Optimizing memory transactions
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Compiler and runtime support for efficient software transactional memory
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
LIFT: A Low-Overhead Practical Information Flow Tracking System for Detecting Security Attacks
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Code Generation and Optimization for Transactional Memory Constructs in an Unmanaged Language
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary-Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory
PACT '07 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques
StarDBT: an efficient multi-platform dynamic binary translation system
ACSAC'07 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific conference on Advances in Computer Systems Architecture
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Transactional memory (TM) has been shown to be a promising programming model for multi-core systems. We developed a Software-based Transactional Memory (STM) compiler that generates efficient transactional code for transactions to run on a STM runtime without the need of transactional hardware support. Since real-world applications often invoke third party libraries available only in binary form, it is imperative for our STM compiler to support legacy binary functions and provide an efficient solution to convert those invoked inside transactions to the corresponding transactional code. Our STM compiler employs a Lightweight Dynamic Binary Translation and Optimization Module (LDBTOM) to automatically convert legacy binary functions to transactional code. In this paper, we describe our LDBTOM system, which 1) seamlessly integrates the translated code with the STM compiler generated code to run on the STM runtime, and 2) optimizes the translated code taking advantage of dynamic optimization opportunities and STM runtime information. Although the binary code is inherently harder to optimize than high-level source code, our experiment shows that it can be translated and optimized into efficient transactional code by LDBTOM.