Ok, I'll get gzip.

Gabe

On 03/16/11 14:50, Ali Saidi wrote:
> Ok... I'll commit the update to parser shortly.
>
> Ali
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:44:25 -0700, Gabe Black <gbl...@eecs.umich.edu>
> wrote:
>> It looks like gzip and parser failed in the most recent nightlies too
>> (March 11th). They both passed on Feb 27th and didn't run on the
>> March 6th.
>>
>> In that time, I changed how the pagetable walker works slightly,
>> although that won't be used in SE mode, changed how PCI config space is
>> handled which also shouldn't affect SE mode.
>>
>> I also marked prefetches as prefetches, marked IO reads and writes as
>> non-speculative, and started decoding a unofficial and poorly documented
>> floating point instruction. These -shouldn't- matter in SE, other than
>> maybe the prefetches, but it's possible something was misspeculated that
>> behaved differently and threw things off slightly.
>>
>> <looks at the statsdiffs on zizzer>
>>
>> Yeah, the differences are that more non-speculative instructions were
>> floating around and then squashed, and some other small changes which
>> are probably due to that. All those other differences show up as less
>> than 0.00% change. I think there were just mispeculated IO reads and
>> writes (IN and OUT instructions, basically) which changed execution
>> slightly.
>>
>> It sounds like you've already rerun parser at least. If your stats
>> differences sound like what I'm describing, please go ahead and update
>> them. I should have run them again myself, but I must have either
>> forgotten to or assumed they wouldn't affect SE.
>>
>> Gabe
>>
>> On 03/16/11 12:40, Ali Saidi wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like the parser x86 o3 regression fails without any changes in
>>> the head. Anyone seen this?
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
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