Have you tried with this patch? I was getting similar problems with
drain(), although not with checkpointing. It works for me with this patch.

http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1367/

Thanks,
Tony

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jason Power <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since revision 9158:d152d34a4adf (Clock: Make Tick unsigned and remove
> UTick) using the option --checkpoint-at-end has been broken. Tracking the
> problem down it seems that in src/python/m5/simulate.py drain() the call to
> simulate somehow is passing curTick()-1 to the event queue which causes an
> assert error in src/sim/eventq.hh schedule().
>
> It can be reproduced by running:
>
> cascade:gem5>build/X86_MESI_CMP_directory/gem5.debug configs/example/se.py
> -c tests/test-progs/hello/bin/x86/linux/hello --cpu-type=timing --ruby
> --checkpoint-at-end -m 100000
> gem5 Simulator System.  http://gem5.org
> gem5 is copyrighted software; use the --copyright option for details.
>
> gem5 compiled Aug 24 2012 16:26:02
> gem5 started Aug 27 2012 10:28:15
> gem5 executing on cascade
>  command line: build/X86_MESI_CMP_directory/gem5.debug
> configs/example/se.py -c tests/test-progs/hello/bin/x86/linux/hello
> --cpu-type=timing --ruby --checkpoint-at-end -m 100000
> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
> warn: CoherentBus system.membus has no snooping ports attached!
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
> **** REAL SIMULATION ****
> info: Entering event queue @ 0.  Starting simulation...
> Exiting @ tick 100000 because simulate() limit reached
> info: Entering event queue @ 100000.  Starting simulation...
> gem5.debug: build/X86_MESI_CMP_directory/sim/eventq.hh:484: void
> EventQueue::schedule(Event*, Tick): Assertion `when >= curTick()' failed.
>
> In this example, using GDB I find that when=curTick()-1 instead of
> curTick() as I would have expected.
>
> I can also reproduce this without the --ruby option, and I think it's a
> problem with any CPU, but I haven't tried to reproduce it with the atomic
> CPU yet.
>
> Could you look into this Andreas? I'm afraid I get lost at the python/C++
> boundary and can't seem to find where that spurious -1 would be coming
> from.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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