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Ship it!


Thanks for making the changes!

- Steve Reinhardt


On Feb. 9, 2015, 6:23 a.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 9, 2015, 6:23 a.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 10693:40aaf1161841
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> mem: mmap the backing store with MAP_NORESERVE
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> This patch ensures we can run simulations with very large simulated
> memories (at least 64 TB based on some quick runs on a Linux
> workstation). In essence this allows us to efficiently deal with
> sparse address maps without having to implement a redirection layer in
> the backing store.
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> This opens up for run-time errors if we eventually exhausts the hosts
> memory and swap space, but this should hopefully never happen.
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> Diffs
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>   src/mem/physical.hh 94901e131a7f 
>   src/mem/physical.cc 94901e131a7f 
>   src/sim/System.py 94901e131a7f 
>   src/sim/system.cc 94901e131a7f 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2624/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Hansson
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