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JATO: Native Code Atomicity for Java

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Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2012)

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Atomicity enforcement in a multi-threaded application can be critical to the application’s safety. In this paper, we take the challenge of enforcing atomicity in a multilingual application, which is developed in multiple programming languages. Specifically, we describe the design and implementation of JATO, which enforces the atomicity of a native method when a Java application invokes the native method through the Java Native Interface (JNI). JATO relies on a constraint-based system, which generates constraints from both Java and native code based on how Java objects are accessed by threads. Constraints are then solved to infer a set of Java objects that need to be locked in native methods to enforce the atomicity of the native method invocation. We also propose a number of optimizations that soundly improve the performance. Evaluation through JATO’s prototype implementation demonstrates it enforces native-method atomicity with reasonable run-time overhead.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lehigh University, USA

    Siliang Li & Gang Tan

  2. Department of Computer Science, SUNY Binghamton, USA

    Yu David Liu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 92092-6237, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Ranjit Jhala

  2. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, 606-8501, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Atsushi Igarashi

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Li, S., Liu, Y.D., Tan, G. (2012). JATO: Native Code Atomicity for Java. In: Jhala, R., Igarashi, A. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7705. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35182-2_2

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