소스코드와 실행코드의 상관관계 분석을 통한 최악실행시간 측정 방법

서용진 ( Yongjin Seo ),김현수 ( Hyeon Soo Kim ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2016 인터넷정보학회논문지 Vol.17 No.4

내장 소프트웨어는 실시간성 및 실행 환경으로부터의 독립성을 요구사항으로 갖는다. 실시간성 요구사항은 탑재된 태스크의 최악 실행 시간으로부터 영향을 받는다. 따라서 실시간성을 보장하기 위해서는 정적 분석 기반의 최악 실행 시간 분석 방법을 사용하여 프로그램의 최악 실행 시간을 파악하여야 한다. 그러나 기존의 최악 실행 시간 분석은 실행 환경으로부터 독립성을 고려하지 않는다. 이에 우리는 실행 환경으로부터 독립성을 제공하기 위해 소스코드로부터 실행 시간을 측정하는 방법을 제시한다. 이를 위해 실행 코드가 아닌 소스코드로부터 생성된 제어 흐름 그래프를 통해 실행 시간을 측정한다. 또한 소스코드로부터 생성된 제어 흐름 그래프에는 실행 시간 정보가 존재하지 않기 때문에, 이를 제공하기 위해 소스코드의 문장과 실행코드의 명령어와의 관계를 분석한다. 결과적으로 실행 시간 측정이 가능한 제어 흐름 그래프를 생성할 수 있다. 이를 통해 프로세서로부터 종속적인 부분을 매개변수화할 수 있기 때문에, 최악 실행 시간 분석 도구의 유연성을 향상시킬 수 있다. Embedded software has requirements such as real-time and environment independency. The real-time requirement is affected from worst-case execution time of loaded tasks. Therefore, to guarantee real-time requirement, we need to determine a program`s worst-case execution time using static analysis approach. However, the existing methods for worst-case execution time analysis do not consider the environment independency. Thus, in this paper, in order to provide environment independency, we propose a method for measuring task`s execution time from the source codes. The proposed method measures the execution time through the control flow graph created from the source codes instead of the executable codes. However, the control flow graph created from the source code does not have information about execution time. Therefore, in order to provide this information, the proposed method identifies the relationships between statements in the source code and instructions in the executable code. By parameterizing those parts that are dependent on processors based on the relationships, it is possible to enhance the flexibility of the tool that measures the worst-case execution time.

Bounding Worst-Case Data Cache Performance by Using Stack Distance

Liu, Yu,Zhang, Wei Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Eng 2009 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.3 No.4

Worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis is critical for hard real-time systems to ensure that different tasks can meet their respective deadlines. While significant progress has been made for WCET analysis of instruction caches, the data cache timing analysis, especially for set-associative data caches, is rather limited. This paper proposes an approach to safely and tightly bounding data cache performance by computing the worst-case stack distance of data cache accesses. Our approach can not only be applied to direct-mapped caches, but also be used for set-associative or even fully-associative caches without increasing the complexity of analysis. Moreover, the proposed approach can statically categorize worst-case data cache misses into cold, conflict, and capacity misses, which can provide useful insights for designers to enhance the worst-case data cache performance. Our evaluation shows that the proposed data cache timing analysis technique can safely and accurately estimate the worst-case data cache performance, and the overestimation as compared to the observed worst-case data cache misses is within 1% on average.

Bounding Worst-Case Data Cache Performance by Using Stack Distance

Yu Liu,Wei Zhang 한국정보과학회 2009 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.3 No.4

Worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis is critical for hard real-time systems to ensure that different tasks can meet their respective deadlines. While significant progress has been made for WCET analysis of instruction caches, the data cache timing analysis, especially for setassociative data caches, is rather limited. This paper proposes an approach to safely and tightly bounding data cache performance by computing the worst-case stack distance of data cache accesses. Our approach can not only be applied to direct-mapped caches, but also be used for set-associative or even fully-associative caches without increasing the complexity of analysis. Moreover, the proposed approach can statically categorize worst-case data cache misses into cold, conflict, and capacity misses, which can provide useful insights for designers to enhance the worst-case data cache performance. Our evaluation shows that the proposed data cache timing analysis technique can safely and accurately estimate the worst-case data cache performance, and the overestimation as compared to the observed worst-case data cache misses is within 1% on average.

An Interference Matrix Based Approach to Bounding Worst-Case Inter-Thread Cache Interferences and WCET for Multi-Core Processors

Yan, Jun,Zhang, Wei Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Eng 2011 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.5 No.2

Different cores typically share the last-level cache in a multi-core processor. Threads running on different cores may interfere with each other. Therefore, the multi-core worst-case execution time (WCET) analyzer must be able to safely and accurately estimate the worst-case inter-thread cache interference. This is not supported by current WCET analysis techniques that manly focus on single thread analysis. This paper presents a novel approach to analyze the worst-case cache interference and bounding the WCET for threads running on multi-core processors with shared L2 instruction caches. We propose to use an interference matrix to model inter-thread interference, on which basis we can calculate the worst-case inter-thread cache interference. Our experiments indicate that the proposed approach can give a worst-case bound less than 1%, as in benchmark fib-call, and an average 16.4% overestimate for threads running on a dual-core processor with shared-L2 cache. Our approach dramatically improves the accuracy of WCET overestimatation by on average 20.0% compared to work.

An Interference Matrix Based Approach to Bounding Worst-Case Inter-Thread Cache Interferences and WCET for Multi-Core Processors

Jun Yan,Wei Zhang 한국정보과학회 2011 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.5 No.2

Different cores typically share the last-level cache in a multi-core processor. Threads running on different cores may interfere with each other. Therefore, the multi-core worst-case execution time (WCET) analyzer must be able to safely and accurately estimate the worst-case inter-thread cache interference. This is not supported by current WCET analysis techniques that manly focus on single thread analysis. This paper presents a novel approach to analyze the worst-case cache interference and bounding the WCET for threads running on multi-core processors with shared L2 instruction caches. We propose to use an interference matrix to model inter-thread interference, on which basis we can calculate the worst-case inter-thread cache interference. Our experiments indicate that the proposed approach can give a worst-case bound less than 1%, as in benchmark fib-call, and an average 16.4% overestimate for threads running on a dual-core processor with shared-L2 cache. Our approach dramatically improves the accuracy of WCET overestimatation by on average 20.0% compared to work.

Bounding Worst-Case Performance for Multi-Core Processors with Shared L2 Instruction Caches

Jun Yan,Wei Zhang 한국정보과학회 2011 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.5 No.1

As the first step toward real-time multi-core computing, this paper presents a novel approach to bounding the worst-case performance for threads running on multi-core processors with shared L2 instruction caches. The idea of our approach is to compute the worst-case instruction access interferences between different threads based on the program control flow information of each thread, which can be statically analyzed. Our experiments indicate that the proposed approach can reasonably estimate the worst-case shared L2 instruction cache misses by considering the inter-thread instruction conflicts. Also, the worst-case execution time (WCET) of applications running on multi-core processors estimated by our approach is much better than the estimation by simply assuming all L2 instruction accesses are misses.

Multicore-Aware Code Co-Positioning to Reduce WCET on Dual-Core Processors with Shared Instruction Caches

Yiqiang Ding,Wei Zhang 한국정보과학회 2012 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.6 No.1

For real-time systems it is important to obtain the accurate worst-case execution time (WCET). Furthermore, how to improve the WCET of applications that run on multicore processors is both significant and challenging as the WCET can be largely affected by the possible inter-core interferences in shared resources such as the shared L2 cache. In order to solve this problem, we propose an innovative approach that adopts a code positioning method to reduce the inter-core L2 cache interferences between the different real-time threads that adaptively run in a multi-core processor by using different strategies. The worst-case-oriented strategy is designed to decrease the worst-case WCET among these threads to as low as possible. The other two strategies aim at reducing the WCET of each thread to almost equal percentage or amount. Our experiments indicate that the proposed multicore-aware code positioning approaches, not only improve the worstcase performance of the real-time threads but also make good tradeoffs between efficiency and fairness for threads that run on multicore platforms.

Multicore-Aware Code Co-Positioning to Reduce WCET on Dual-Core Processors with Shared Instruction Caches

Ding, Yiqiang,Zhang, Wei Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Eng 2012 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.6 No.1

For real-time systems it is important to obtain the accurate worst-case execution time (WCET). Furthermore, how to improve the WCET of applications that run on multicore processors is both significant and challenging as the WCET can be largely affected by the possible inter-core interferences in shared resources such as the shared L2 cache. In order to solve this problem, we propose an innovative approach that adopts a code positioning method to reduce the inter-core L2 cache interferences between the different real-time threads that adaptively run in a multi-core processor by using different strategies. The worst-case-oriented strategy is designed to decrease the worst-case WCET among these threads to as low as possible. The other two strategies aim at reducing the WCET of each thread to almost equal percentage or amount. Our experiments indicate that the proposed multicore-aware code positioning approaches, not only improve the worst-case performance of the real-time threads but also make good tradeoffs between efficiency and fairness for threads that run on multicore platforms.

Visualization and Formalization of User Constraints for Tight Estimation of Worst-Case Execution Time

LEE, Jong-In,BANG, Ho-Jung,KIM, Tai-Hyo,CHA, Sung-Deok The Institute of Electronics, Information and Comm 2009 IEICE transactions on information and systems Vol.92 No.1

<P>Automated static timing analysis methods provide a safe but usually overestimated worst-case execution time (WCET) due to infeasible execution paths. In this paper, we propose a visual language, User Constraint Language (UCL), to obtain a tight WCET estimation. UCL provides intuitive visual notations with which users can easily specify various levels of flow information to characterize valid execution paths of a program. The user constraints specified in UCL are translated into finite automata. The combined automaton, constructed by a cross-production of the automata for program and user constraints, reflects the static structure and possible dynamic behavior of the program. It contains only the execution paths satisfying user constraints. A case study using part of a software program for satellite flight demonstrates the effectiveness of UCL and our approach.</P>

Bounding Worst-Case Performance for Multi-Core Processors with Shared L2 Instruction Caches

Yan, Jun,Zhang, Wei Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Eng 2011 Journal of Computing Science and Engineering Vol.5 No.1

As the first step toward real-time multi-core computing, this paper presents a novel approach to bounding the worst-case performance for threads running on multi-core processors with shared L2 instruction caches. The idea of our approach is to compute the worst-case instruction access interferences between different threads based on the program control flow information of each thread, which can be statically analyzed. Our experiments indicate that the proposed approach can reasonably estimate the worst-case shared L2 instruction cache misses by considering the inter-thread instruction conflicts. Also, the worst-case execution time (WCET) of applications running on multi-core processors estimated by our approach is much better than the estimation by simply assuming all L2 instruction accesses are misses.