> On July 21, 2015, 8:50 p.m., Nilay Vaish wrote:
> > src/sim/process.hh, line 164
> > <http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2966/diff/1/?file=48128#file48128line164>
> >
> >     I think this will break existing SE mode checkpoints.
> 
> Brandon Potter wrote:
>     Is the problem that it's referenced through a pointer now?  If not, can 
> you elaborate on why you think it might be a problem.  (Sorry, don't have any 
> experience with using checkpoints in gem5 and only starting to need to 
> support the interface in code; we don't make heavy use of them internally.)
> 
> Nilay Vaish wrote:
>     I think we write all the fds whether they are valid or not to the 
> checkpoint file.
>     Since the number is changing from 256 to 1024, I think earlier 
> checkpoints may not load.
>     I think you should test with hello world application: take a checkpoint 
> after 1000 instructions
>     and see if the checkpoint loads correctly and the application runs to 
> completion.

Hey Nilay, thanks for this review in particular.

You're right in that it did cause a problem.  (There should be a way to check 
whether checkpoints get trampled with the regression system; although maybe 
that's asking too much.  I'll have to be more careful moving forward.)

Anyways, the changes were more applicable to the next review in the patch 
series: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2967/.

I have tested that this code works by creating a checkpoint as you suggested 
and then running it through updates and then util/cpt_upgrader.py


- Brandon


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On July 14, 2015, 5:30 a.m., Brandon Potter wrote:
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> (Updated July 14, 2015, 5:30 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Default.
> 
> 
> Repository: gem5
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> Changeset 10917:eafe9bd908a7
> ---------------------------
> syscall_emul: file descriptor interface changes
> 
> This patch gets rid of unused Process::dup_fd method and does minor
> refactoring in the process class files.  The file descriptor max has been
> changed to be the number of file descriptors since this clarifies the loop
> boundary condition and cleans up the code a bit.  The fd_map field has been
> altered to be dynamically allocated as opposed to being an array; the
> intention here is to build on this is subsequent patches to allow processes
> to share their file descriptors with the clone system call.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   src/sim/process.hh 5c76426fd9ee08bca733582c8c2f001a99e7ff5a 
>   src/sim/process.cc 5c76426fd9ee08bca733582c8c2f001a99e7ff5a 
>   src/sim/syscall_emul.cc 5c76426fd9ee08bca733582c8c2f001a99e7ff5a 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2966/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brandon Potter
> 
>

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