Ok! Some notes for the next update: I've been hammering changeset 11061:25b53a7195f7, and can confirm that it appears Ruby checkpoint and restore is working with timing and O3 CPUs, both with and without the Ruby backing store.
Joel On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Joel Hestness wrote: > > Hi Nilay, >> One major concern is that we just pushed fixes for Ruby checkpointing to >> mainline (i.e. http://repo.gem5.org/gem5?cmd=changeset;node=72781d410e48). >> Tim >> Jones suggested that gem5 changeset 10524 was the origin of some >> checkpointing bugs, so gem5-stable might not currently support Ruby >> checkpointing in a stable way. However, it would be nice to be able to >> rely >> on gem5-stable for correct checkpointing (I believe checkpointing in Ruby >> was still broken at changeset 10875?). >> >> Perhaps we could merge the Ruby checkpointing patches into gem5-stable? >> Or it might make sense to wait a bit longer before updating stable, and at >> that time, update past gem5 10991? The former would avoid introducing any >> latent bugs from recent changesets. >> >> Joel >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone >>> >>> Nearly four months have passed since we updated gem5-stable. I am >>> planning to move it forward on 15th August. The changeset I have on my >>> mind is: >>> >>> changeset: 10875:60eb3fef9c2d >>> user: Jason Power <[email protected]> >>> date: Thu Jun 25 11:58:28 2015 -0500 >>> summary: Ruby: Remove assert in RubyPort retry list logic >>> >>> This would add about 208 patches to gem5-stable. Since we no longer >>> maintain the same changeset order between gem5 and gem5-stable, I am >>> willing to entertain requests for cherry picking bug fixes that were >>> pushed >>> after the changeset suggested. >>> >>> >>> > > I have updated gem5-stable to the changeset I mentioned. > > Joel, I tried merging the patches that fix checkpointing, but they do not > apply cleanly on top of 10875:60eb3fef9c2d. So those patches would be > merged with gem5-stable next time we update it. > > > -- > Nilay > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > -- Joel Hestness PhD Candidate, Computer Architecture Dept. of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hestness/ _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
