Actually I just noticed that the PC in the trace is 0x402088 but the jle is
at 0x402083, so maybe it's not so mysterious....

Steve


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Joel Hestness via gem5-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>   You could run an Exec trace around the time when you are seeing strange
> PCs. Just add 'Exec' (sans quotes) to your --debug-flag= command line. I'd
> recommend only collecting maybe a million ticks before the problematic PC
> (or the trace gets very long), and you can do this with --debug-start=
> 5228734114000.
>
>   I've never seen an exec trace show incorrect PCs, so it should be
> reliable. If the Exec PCs do actually differ from your memory request
> trace, then something is definitely funky.
>
>   Another thing to consider is that the read request you're seeing in the
> hit callback may be an instruction stream read rather than a data read that
> resulted from executing an instruction. I'm not sure how the fetch units
> set packet addresses and PCs, so it may be worth some digging in the code
> to check that (Also note that if the Exec trace doesn't show a memory
> request instruction executing near the offending PC, this may be an
> indicator that the request is for the instruction stream).
>
>
>   Joel
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Scott Lerner via gem5-dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That is exactly why I was concerned. I tried to find the micro-ops for
> the
> > jmp instruction to see if there was some type of format that read or
> wrote
> > to memory, but I couldn't find anything.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Steve Reinhardt via gem5-dev <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Tough to say... my gut feeling is that the numeric PC is more likely to
> > be
> > > correct, but on the other hand, the PC appears to map not only to a
> > > different function, but to an instruction that's not even a memory
> > access,
> > > which makes it odd that it is generating a request packet.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Scott Lerner via gem5-dev <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to do some validation of gem5 by looking at the output
> > memory
> > > > traces and comparing them to the static-compiled binary.
> > > >
> > > > What I have seen is that in the memory trace there will be an output
> > line
> > > > like:
> > > > "5228735114000: system.l1_cntrl3.sequencer: Ruby Hit Callback: Read,
> > > Thread
> > > > number=3, Pkt Address=0x3ff250c0,Pkt Size=8,
> Func=pthread_barrier_wait,
> > > > PC=0x402088"
> > > >
> > > > But when looking at the dump of the binary, the PC 0x402088 maps to a
> > > > different function:
> > > > 00000000004016d0 <lu>:
> > > > ...
> > > > 402083:       0f 8e f4 00 00 00       jle    40217d <lu+0xaad>
> > > > ...
> > > > 0000000000402740 <OneSolve>:
> > > >
> > > > My question is should I trust the PC or the function name? Is there a
> > way
> > > > to verify that either one is correct? I am using the gem5 from
> February
> > > > last year.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > > > Ph.D. candidate
> > > > Drexel University
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