RFR: AArch64: 8179954: AArch64: C1 and C2 volatile accesses are not sequentially consistent

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue May 9 17:18:12 UTC 2017


In C2 we use LDAR/STLR to handle volatile accesses, but in C1 and the
interpreter we use separate DMB instructions and relaxed loads. When
used together, these do not form a sequentially-consistent memory
ordering. For example, if stores use STLR and loads use LDR;DMB a
simple Dekker idiom will fail.

This is extremely hard to test because the loads and stores have to be
in separately-compiled methods, but it is incorrect, and likely to
fail in very weakly-ordered implementations.

Note: this is for JDK 9.

 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8179954/

Andrew.


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