Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the response. I will post it shortly. 


Thanks
Srini

On 04/17/14, Andreas Hansson  wrote:
> Hi Srini,
> 
> Could you perhaps post a patch of what you have done so far?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 17/04/2014 04:30, "Srinivasan Narayanamoorthy" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am trying to run some android benchmarks in gem5 and often, the cpu is
> >put to sleep by executing a 'WFI'(Wait for interrupt) instruction. The
> >task requires me to take checkpoints frequently during program execution.
> >
> >
> >I found that when performing drain before writing the checkpoint, all
> >cores (cpu0,cpu1,cpu3) except the one which has executed WFI(cpu2), drain
> >successfully. The WFI core does not drain at all since other cores cannot
> >interrupt to wake the sleeping core (because they are drained).
> >
> >
> >As a stop gap solution, I am calling the wakeup() routine in cpu.cc
> >during drain operation. Though this solution does not cause any immediate
> >problems, this does not appear to be a good solution as there may be
> >other cases that might break.
> >
> >
> >I would be very grateful if a solution is suggested.
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >Srini
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