Hi Ali,

That's what I'm looking for. Thank you very much.

Regards,
Yinchong


2013/2/6 Ali Saidi <[email protected]>

> **
>
> Before the cpu starts executing the code in src/base/loader/* loads the
> binary into memory (the instructions) and the code in
> src/arch/**/process.cc builds up a stack frame as appropriate for the
> architecture/OS that you're simulating.
>
>
>
> Ali
>
> On 05.02.2013 18:22, Tao Zhang wrote:
>
> Hi Yinchong,
>
> I am not quite sure the exact meaning of "memory initialization" you
> mentioned (DRAM initialization steps? or Data initialization). If you care
> about how data is accessed by the gem5, I may give you some clue.
>
> In SE mode, your host machine first allocates a large memory space for
> your benchmark. The data is actually in this memory space. Gem5 remembers
> the starting address so that it knows where the data should be read from or
> written to your host machine. On the other hand, the virtual main memory
> only behaves like a timing model but never stores the real data. As a
> result, it seems the data has been initialized prior to the simulation.
>
> -Tao
>
> On 02/05/2013 01:06 PM, Yinchong Feng wrote:
>
>  I think that it's Main Memory.
> It shows like below:
>
>  0:       0: system.physmem: Write of size 4096 on address 0x0
>       0: system.physmem: 00000000  7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00    ELF
>       0: system.physmem: 00000010  02 00 28 00 01 00 00 00  34 9c 00 00 34
> 00 00 00     (     4   4
>       0: system.physmem: 00000020  f0 c2 09 00 02 00 00 05  34 00 20 00 08
> 00 28 00   pB      4     (
>       0: system.physmem: 00000030  14 00 12 00 06 00 00 00  34 00 00 00 34
> 80 00 00           4   4
>       0: system.physmem: 00000040  34 80 00 00 00 01 00 00  00 01 00 00 04
> 00 00 00   4
>       0: system.physmem: 00000050  04 00 00 00 04 00 00 00  38 01 00 00 38
> 81 00 00           8   8
>       0: system.physmem: 00000060  38 81 00 00 20 00 00 00  20 00 00 00 04
> 00 00 00   8
>       0: system.physmem: 00000070  04 00 00 00 07 00 00 00  d4 d6 07 00 d4
> d6 08 00           TV  TV
>
> Do you have any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Yinchong
>
>
> 2013/2/5 Tao Zhang <[email protected]>
>
>> do you mean cache or main memory?
>>
>> -Tao
>>
>>
>> On 02/05/2013 11:46 AM, Yinchong Feng wrote:
>>
>>    Hi All,
>>
>> I'm new at using gem5, and I'm trying to run benchmarks on gem5 in SE
>> mode. I feel confused about the momory initialization in SE mode. When I
>> ran the bianries with debug-flags MemoryAccess, MemDepUnit and MemTest, I
>> saw that the memory was initialized before the real simulation starting.
>> Could you please tell me where the data is from?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Yinchong
>>
>>
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