[jira] [Created] (SPARK-26851) CachedRDDBuilder only partially implements double-checked locking

["Bruce Robbins (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Bruce Robbins created SPARK-26851:
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             Summary: CachedRDDBuilder only partially implements double-checked locking
                 Key: SPARK-26851
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26851
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 2.4.0, 3.0.0
            Reporter: Bruce Robbins


In CachedRDDBuilder, {{cachedColumnBuffers}} uses double-checked locking to lazily initialize {{_cachedColumnBuffers}}. Also, clearCache uses double-checked locking to likely avoid synchronization when {{_cachedColumnBuffers}} is still null.

However, the resource (in this case, {{_cachedColumnBuffers}}) is not declared as volatile, which could cause some visibility problems in both methods. {{cachedColumnBuffers}} may see a null reference when there is actually a constructed RDD, and {{clearCache}} may pick up a reference to partially constructed RDD.

From Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz et al:
{quote}Subsequent changes in the JMM (Java 5.0 and later) have enabled DCL to work if resource is made volatile, and the performance impact of this is small since volatile reads are usually only slightly more expensive than nonvolatile reads.
{quote}
There are comments in other documentation that volatile is not needed if the resource in question (again, in this case {{_cachedColumnBuffers}}) is immutable. While an RDD is immutable from a Spark user's point of view, it may not be from a JVM's point of view, since not all internal fields are final.

I've marked this as minor since the race conditions are highly unlikely.



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