feat(causal): wall-anchored timers — controller windows keep fixed wall length (RFC 007)

New timer anchor: insert_sleep_wall / scheduler::sleep_wall (exported) opt a
Sleep entry out of the RFC 007 virtual-time shift, so it fires at its raw
deadline regardless of injected delay. Featureless config is unchanged (the
API exists but is identical to sleep).

The causal controller's window/cooldown sleeps and the tsc_hz calibration
sleep use it on the actor path (the OS-thread path was already wall). This
fixes the controller's own sleeps dilating under its own injection —
experiment windows stretched ~2x at 50% speedup (337ms -> 646ms injected/
window). Deltas were rate-normalized so results were unbiased; this fixes
sweep cost, not bias. The general wall-anchored-timer-semantics jar item
(user-facing opt-out) remains open; this lands the substrate.

Test: wall_timer_ignores_injected_delay — wall entry fires at raw deadline
while a virtual sibling in the same heap shifts. 13/13 causal, 34/34
binaries both feature configs.
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Claude (sandbox)
2026-07-13 07:44:51 +00:00
parent 04dbac1f4b
commit efbc254634
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@@ -403,6 +403,28 @@ pub fn sleep(duration: std::time::Duration) {
park_current();
}
/// Like [`sleep`], but wall-anchored: under causal profiling (feature
/// `smarm-causal`) the deadline is honoured in wall time instead of chasing
/// injected virtual delay. Identical to [`sleep`] without the feature. For
/// measurement machinery whose durations define wall time (the causal
/// controller's windows, TSC calibration) — workload code wants [`sleep`].
pub fn sleep_wall(duration: std::time::Duration) {
let me = match current_pid() {
Some(pid) => pid,
None => panic!("sleep_wall() called outside an actor"),
};
let _np = NoPreempt::enter();
let epoch = begin_wait();
let deadline = crate::timer::deadline_from_now(duration);
with_runtime(|inner| {
match inner.timers.lock() {
Ok(mut timers) => timers.insert_sleep_wall(deadline, me, epoch),
Err(e) => panic!("smarm: timers lock poisoned (core corrupt): {e}"),
}
});
park_current();
}
pub fn insert_wait_timer(
deadline: std::time::Instant,
pid: Pid,