Note that there was a change checked in to the development repository for a
while that broke O3 boot, so if you had pulled this changeset:

http://repo.gem5.org/gem5/rev/d389b6ec0e2d

but not this one:

http://repo.gem5.org/gem5/rev/7907b19fbe80

 then that could be your problem.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just re-ran the ALPHA_FS O3 boot test with a 512kB L2 and it worked (the
> test of course failed, since the statistics change, but the simulated system
> booted fine).
>
> Basically I made this change:
>
> diff --git a/tests/configs/tsunami-o3.py b/tests/configs/tsunami-o3.py
> --- a/tests/configs/tsunami-o3.py
> +++ b/tests/configs/tsunami-o3.py
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
>
>
>  #connect up the l2 cache
> -system.l2c = L2(size='4MB', assoc=8)
> +system.l2c = L2(size='512kB', assoc=8)
>  system.l2c.cpu_side = system.toL2Bus.port
>  system.l2c.mem_side = system.membus.port
>
>
> then ran:
>
> scons build/ALPHA_FS/tests/opt/long/10.linux-boot/alpha/linux/tsunami-o3
>
> and verified that the output in system.terminal matched the correct output,
> and that the simout and simerr output files didn't contain any errors.
>
> So I don't think the failure is due only to the cache size change.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Fabian Oboril <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I use the actual version (the most recent unstable from today),
>> exactly the same error occurs! Can I upload somewhere my configuration
>> files?
>>
>> Best wishes
>>    Fabian
>>
>>
>> Am 14.07.2011 16:19, schrieb Nilay:
>>
>>  On Thu, July 14, 2011 8:02 am, Fabian Oboril wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with M5 and the FS mode with ALPHA. The version I am
>>>> using is based on a release in February which I modified for my own
>>>> purpose, so may be the problem I face is due to my additions. However, I
>>>> don't know this, I basically have no idea where the problem comes from,
>>>> right now.
>>>>
>>>> If I decrease the size of the L2-Cache (detailed mode with L1&
>>>> L2-Cache) from 2 MByte to 512 KByte I get an segmentation fault when
>>>> booting in FS mode. The last actions thereby are:
>>>>
>>>> init started:  BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.03.04-01:07+0000) multi-call binary
>>>> mounting filesystems...
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen such a behavior before or has an idea what my be the
>>>> root cause for the segmentation fault? With 2 MByte L2-Cache everything
>>>> is working fine...
>>>>
>>>>  I do not expect booting of the operating system can be affected by the
>>> size of the cache. To figure out where the problem is, try booting with
>>> unmodified gem5 and 512kb of cache.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nilay
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