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Safe Shared Stack Bounds in Systems with Offsets and Precedences

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Authors:

Markus Bohlin, Kaj Hänninen, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Jan Carlson, Mikael Sjödin

Publication Type:

Report - MRTC

ISRN:

MDH-MRTC-221/2008-1-SE

Abstract

The paper presents two novel methods to bound the stack memory used in preemptive, shared stack, real-time systems. The first method is based on branch-and-bound search for possible preemption patterns, and the second one approximates the first in polynomial time. The work extends previous methods by considering a more general taskmodel, in which all tasks can share the same stack. In addition, the new methods account for precedence and offset relations. Thus, the methods give tight bounds for a large set of realistic systems. The methods have been implemented and a comprehensive evaluation, comparing our new methods against each other and against existing methods, is presented. The evaluation shows that our exact method can significantly reduce the amount of stack memory needed. In our simulations, a decrease in the order of 40% was typical, with a runtime in the order of seconds. Our polynomial approximation consequently yields about 20% higher bound than the exact method.

Bibtex

@techreport{Bohlin1173,
author = {Markus Bohlin and Kaj H{\"a}nninen and Jukka M{\"a}ki-Turja and Jan Carlson and Mikael Sj{\"o}din},
title = {Safe Shared Stack Bounds in Systems with Offsets and Precedences},
number = {ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-221/2008-1-SE},
month = {January},
year = {2008},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/1173-}
}