I am studying last level cache behavior - mainly miss rate and working set
size etc. And so i do not need a very detailed cpu model.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Jack Harvard <[email protected]>wrote:

> Abhishek, why you want to run Atomic CPU with cache?
>
> On 11 Aug 2011, at 02:44, Abhishek Rawat wrote:
>
> > Hi Iordan,
> >
> > Here is the patch for checkpointing caches. I was working on the current
> stable revision 8337:b9ba22cb23f2. This works for Simple Atomic CPU.
> >
> > -Abhishek
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can think of very few reasons why you would want to have caches in a
> checkpoint. You can add them when you restore from the checkpoint.
> >
> > Ali
> >
> > Sent from my ARM powered device
> >
> > On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:56 AM, Iordan Alexandru <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Thank you for your reply.
> >>
> >> Is there no way to get a valid checkpoint in a simulation with caches
> enabled? Is there nothing that I can do (hack)?
> >>
> >> Alexandru
> >>
> >> From: Ali Saidi <[email protected]>
> >> To: Iordan Alexandru <[email protected]>; gem5 users mailing list <
> [email protected]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 9:31 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] About checkpointing
> >>
> >> You can't checkpoint the simulation with caches enabled. Any dirty state
> in the caches isn't saved in the checkpoint.
> >>
> >> Ali
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 03:29:47 -0700 (PDT), Iordan Alexandru <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>> I have been having problems using the checkpoint feature in GEM5. I
> tried to run a very simple scenario:
> >>> 1. I launched the simulator with the command:
> >>> ./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt --outdir=test/ configs/example/fs.py -n 2
> --caches --l2cache
> >>> 2. using m5term I created a checkpoint (witch was created with no
> errors) and then I exited the simulation
> >>> 3. I tried to restore using the checkpoint:
> >>> ./build/ALPHA_FS/gem5.opt --outdir=test/ configs/example/fs.py -n 2
> --caches --l2cache -r 1
> >>> The message that I got in m5term is the following:
> >>> ==== m5 slave terminal: Terminal 0 ====
> >>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> 000000011fd2dd40
> >>> Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
> >>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> 0000000000000004
> >>> CPU 0 mount(761): Oops 0
> >>> pc = []  ra = []  ps = 0000    Not tainted
> >>> pc is at do_exit+0xf4/0x950
> >>> ra is at do_exit+0x80/0x950
> >>> v0 = 0000000000000007  t0 = 0000000000000004  t1 = fffffc001f4a96d0
> >>> t2 = fffffc000085eca0  t3 = 0000000000000000  t4 = fffffc00008191c0
> >>> t5 = 0000000000000ad7  t6 = 0000000000000031  t7 = fffffc001f354000
> >>> s0 = 0000000000000009  s1 = fffffc001f4a9500  s2 = 0000000000000000
> >>> s3 = 0000000000000000  s4 = 0000000000000000  s5 = 000000011fd2dd40
> >>> s6 = 0000000000000000
> >>> a0 = fffffc001f4a9500  a1 = fffffc000083c108  a2 = ffffffffffffffff
> >>> a3 = 0000000000000000  a4 = 0000000000000008  a5 = 0000000000000009
> >>> t8 = 0000000000000000  t9 = fffffc00006c9534  t10= 0000000000007fff
> >>> t11= 00000000000003ff  pv = fffffc000034f030  at = 0000000000000000
> >>> gp = fffffc000085bf40  sp = fffffc001f357da0
> >>> Trace:
> >>> [] do_page_fault+0x3c0/0x4a0
> >>> [] do_page_fault+0x3ac/0x4a0
> >>> [] entMM+0x9c/0xc0
> >>> [] do_group_exit+0x54/0x100
> >>>
> >>> Code: 402203a1  e4200001  b44400b0  a42a0358  20210004  60004000
> 40603122
> >>> Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
> >>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> 0000000000000004
> >>> CPU 0 mount(761): Oops 0
> >>> pc = []  ra = []  ps = 0000    Tainted: G      D
> >>> pc is at do_exit+0xf4/0x950
> >>> ra is at do_exit+0x80/0x950
> >>> v0 = 0000000000000007  t0 = 0000000000000004  t1 = fffffc001f4a96d0
> >>> t2 = fffffc000085eca0  t3 = 0000000000000000  t4 = fffffc00008191c0
> >>> t5 = 0000000000000fed  t6 = 0000000000000031  t7 = fffffc001f354000
> >>> s0 = 000000000000000b  s1 = fffffc001f4a9500  s2 = 0000000000000000
> >>> s3 = fffffc001f357c38  s4 = 0000000000000000  s5 = 0000000000000004
> >>> s6 = 0000000000000000
> >>> a0 = fffffc001f4a9500  a1 = fffffc000083c108  a2 = ffffffffffffffff
> >>> a3 = 0000000000000000  a4 = 0000000000000008  a5 = 0000000000000008
> >>> t8 = 0000000000000000  t9 = fffffc00006c9534  t10= 0000000000007fff
> >>> t11= 00000000000003ff  pv = fffffc000034f030  at = 0000000000000000
> >>> gp = fffffc000085bf40  sp = fffffc001f357b10
> >>> Trace:
> >>> [] die_if_kernel+0x12c/0x130
> >>> [] die_if_kernel+0xd4/0x130
> >>> [] do_page_fault+0x3ac/0x4a0
> >>> [] entMM+0x9c/0xc0
> >>> [] release_console_sem+0x20c/0x310
> >>> [] release_console_sem+0x2b4/0x310
> >>> [] vprintk+0x224/0x530
> >>> [] vprintk+0x224/0x530
> >>> [] do_exit+0x80/0x950
> >>> [] exit_signals+0x0/0x190
> >>> [] do_exit+0xf4/0x950
> >>> [] do_page_fault+0x3c0/0x4a0
> >>> [] do_page_fault+0x3ac/0x4a0
> >>> [] entMM+0x9c/0xc0
> >>> [] do_group_exit+0x54/0x100
> >>>
> >>> Code: 402203a1  e4200001  b44400b0  a42a0358  20210004  60004000
> 40603122
> >>> Did I did something wrong here? Do I need to add something in the
> configuration file before I can use the checkpoint feature?
> >>> Thank you in advance!
> >>> Alexandru
> >>>
> >>> die_if_kernel recursion detected.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >
> > --
> > -Abhishek
> >
> > Graduate Student
> > Computer Science
> > University of Virginia
> >
> >
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