Hmm, that might be trickier to fix than I was hoping for, although still
important to fix. I'm (slowly) in the process of getting a VM set up
with a 32 bit installation in it so I can do some testing.

Gabe

On 09/02/11 07:27, Tim Harris (RESEARCH) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I spent a bit of time tracking down a problem like this on 32-bit Cygwin -- I 
> mentioned this on the list a while back, but I'm not sure what the conclusion 
> was about where to fix this (e.g., if it was a Cygwin bug or a gem5 bug -- I 
> worked around it by switching to Linux in a VM, still all 32-bit).
>
> Here are the details:
>
> It looked like some updates to the flags field defined on StaticInstBase were 
> being truncated.  I was seeing IsLastMicroop being lost, leading to 
> assert-fails (m5.opt) / crashes (m5.fast).
>
> decoder.cc was generating uint64_t initializers for the flags and these were 
> being passed intact to the X86MicroopBase constructor in microop.hh.  The 
> constructor then initialized the flags bitset by using:
>
>       flags |= setFlags;
>
> (where flags is a std::bitset, and setFlags is a uint64_t).
>
> I think the implementation of std::bitset I had with Cygwin was only taking 
> the bottom 32-bits, rather than splitting a uint64_t over two 32-bit words.
>
> I meant to look into this further, and see whether this was a bug in 
> std::bitset, or in M5's use of it... but I was travelling, switched to using 
> Virtual PC, and unfortunately forgot to get back to the problem.
>
>  --Tim
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Gabe Black
> Sent: 02 September 2011 14:35
> To: gem5 users mailing list
> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] Invalid microop
>
> I would rather fix bugs than document them. It's probably something
> silly since we rarely run on 32 bit machines.
>
> Gabe
>
> On 09/01/11 23:25, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>> I suggest adding an entry in FAQ about this problem.
>> If you run X86_FS on a 32 bit host, you will get "panic: Invalid microop!"
>>
>> On 9/1/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Gabe!
>>>
>>> The problem was occurring on Ubuntu 11.4 32-bit version. Now I installed
>>> Ubuntu 11.4 64-bit version with the same setup and it works! The setup is
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> scons 2.0.1
>>> swig 1.3.40
>>> gcc 4.5.2
>>> python 2.7
>>>
>>> So the only difference was OS (32-bit not working and now with 64-bit
>>> working). The machine is Pentium Dual Core E5400. Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Borislav Nikolic
>>>
>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:43:58 -0700, Gabe Black <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> A number of people have had problems like this, so if we can figure out
>>>> what's going on that would be great. The basic problem is that one of
>>>> the very first microops, maybe the first or only one or two later, is
>>>> not valid for some reason. Please describe your setup, including
>>>> versions of your compiler, etc, if you're on a 32 bit machine, the
>>>> version of gem5, where you got your kernel, etc. If you can, try this
>>>> again on a different computer with a different setup and see if it works
>>>> there. Also run with --debug-flags=Exec,ExecMacro and see what it's
>>>> trying to execute. gdb might help too.
>>>>
>>>> Gabe
>>>>
>>>> On 09/01/11 00:03, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>>>>> Are you using 32 bit host?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/31/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Dear GEM5 users,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was able to build ALPHA_FS architecture and boot
>>>>>> linux on it. However, when I tried to do the same with X86_FS (after
>>>>>> downloading x86 binaries), I got the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> borni@borni-G31M-ES2L:~/gem5$ ./build/X86_FS/m5.opt --verbose
>>>>>> configs/example/fs.py
>>>>>> --kernel=/home/borni/Desktop/X86_GEM5/binaries/x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.22.9
>>>>>> gem5
>>>>>> Simulator System. http://gem5.org
>>>>>> gem5 is copyrighted software; use the
>>>>>> --copyright option for details.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gem5 compiled Aug 29 2011 13:01:34
>>>>>> gem5
>>>>>> started Aug 31 2011 18:01:01
>>>>>> gem5 executing on borni-G31M-ES2L
>>>>>> command
>>>>>> line: ./build/X86_FS/m5.opt --verbose configs/example/fs.py
>>>>>> --kernel=/home/borni/Desktop/X86_GEM5/binaries/x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.22.9
>>>>>> warning:
>>>>>> add_child('terminal'): child 'terminal' already has parent
>>>>>> Global frequency
>>>>>> set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
>>>>>> info: kernel located at:
>>>>>> /home/borni/Desktop/X86_GEM5/binaries/x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.22.9
>>>>>>  0: rtc:
>>>>>> Real-time clock set to Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 2012
>>>>>> Listening for com_1
>>>>>> connection on port 3456
>>>>>> warn: Reading current count from inactive timer.
>>>>>> 0:
>>>>>> system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
>>>>>> ****
>>>>>> REAL SIMULATION ****
>>>>>> info: Entering event queue @ 0. Starting
>>>>>> simulation...
>>>>>> panic: Invalid microop!
>>>>>>  @ cycle
>>>>>> 1000
>>>>>> [invoke:build/X86_FS/arch/generic/debugfaults.hh, line 93]
>>>>>> Memory
>>>>>> Usage: 232296 KBytes
>>>>>> Program aborted at cycle 1000
>>>>>> Aborted
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found two
>>>>>> similar questions raised on this list couple of months ago, but nobody
>>>>>> replied. I tied with builds ".opt", ".fast", ".debug" with both GEM5
>>>>>> stable
>>>>>> and development versions. Always the same result. Am I doing something
>>>>>> wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Borislav Nikolic
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