Reasoning about parallel architectures
Reasoning about parallel architectures
Lazy release consistency for software distributed shared memory
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
An Executable Specification and Verifier for Relaxed Memory Order
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on cache memory and related problems
JAVA '99 Proceedings of the ACM 1999 conference on Java Grande
Improving the Java memory model using CRF
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Java consistency: nonoperational characterizations for Java memory behavior
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Core semantics of multithreaded Java
Proceedings of the 2001 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
Specifying multithreaded Java semantics for program verification
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
The Murphi Verification System
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Memory Consistency Models for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Memory Consistency Models for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Impact of Java Memory Model on Out-of-Order Multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
What do high-level memory models mean for transactions?
Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on Memory system performance and correctness
MemSAT: checking axiomatic specifications of memory models
PLDI '10 Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
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Standardized language level support for threads is one of the most important features of Java. However, defining the Java Memory Model (JMM) has turned out to be a major challenge. Several models produced to date are not as easily comprehensible and comparable as first thought. Given the growing interest in multithreaded Java programming, it is essential to have a sound framework that would allow formal specification and reasoning about the JMM.This paper presents the Uniform Memory Model (UMM), a generic memory model specification framework. Based on guarded commands, UMM can be easily integrated with a model checking utility, providing strong built-in support for formal verification and program analysis. With a flexible and simple architecture, UMM is configurable to capture different memory consistency requirements for both architectural and language level memory models. An alternative formal specification of the JMM, primarily based on the semantics proposed by Manson and Pugh, is implemented in UMM. Systematic analysis has revealed interesting properties of the proposed semantics. Inconsistencies from the original specification have also been uncovered.