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src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc
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    Why do you need to remove this local variable? Now you are calling 
outstandingCount() twice.



src/mem/ruby/system/Sequencer.cc
<http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1386/#comment3450>

    Are you sure this is correct?



src/mem/ruby/system/Sequencer.cc
<http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1386/#comment3451>

    I think there is one more place in Sequencer.cc where the deadlock event is 
scheduled. You might want to put the same check there as well.


- Nilay Vaish


On Aug. 31, 2012, 4:56 p.m., Joel Hestness wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 31, 2012, 4:56 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Description
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> Changeset 9185:97d6b8c92b6d
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> RubyPort and Sequencer: Fix draining
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> Fix the drain functionality of the RubyPort to only call drain on child ports
> during a system-wide drain process, instead of calling each time that a
> ruby_hit_callback is executed.
> 
> This fixes the issue of the RubyPort ports being reawakened during the drain
> simulation, possibly with work they didn't previously have to complete. If
> they have new work, they may call process on the drain event that they had
> not registered work for, causing an assertion failure in cleanupCountedDrain
> (assert(event->getCount() == 0);) when completing the drain event.
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> Also, in RubyPort, set the drainEvent to NULL when there are no events
> to be drained. If not set to NULL, the drain loop can result in stale
> drainEvents used.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   src/mem/ruby/system/RubyPort.cc 42807286d6cb 
>   src/mem/ruby/system/Sequencer.cc 42807286d6cb 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1386/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> Verified that all prior working Ruby checkpointing configurations still work 
> correctly. Verified that this fixes checkpoint restore into timing CPU and 
> then switch to detailed CPU with x86. Will need to verify that this works 
> when restoring in full-system simulation, functionality which is currently 
> obscured by another bug when restoring into detailed CPU in FS.
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> Thanks,
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> Joel Hestness
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