Hi Negar,

When you restore you need to pass --at-instruction so the code that is 
restoring from the checkpoint knows that the format should be by instruction 
count and not tick count.

Thanks,
Ali

On May 10, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Negar Miralaei <nm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to create a checkpoint at a specific instruction number and stop 
> execution, then start running from the checkpoint for 100 number of 
> instructions and then exit. Below are the commands I'm using. Would anybody 
> tell me if I'm running the correct commands? Since I got the message "Exiting 
> @ tick 281314000 because a thread reached the max instruction count" for the 
> first command, which I guessed should be "... because reached the max number 
> of checkpoints "! And, an error message for restoring as follows.
> 
> Command line to create checkpoint:
> 
> build/ARM/gem5.fast  -d system/disks/CPU2000/output/ configs/example/se.py 
> --bench bzip2_source --warmup-insts=1000 -cpu-type=atomic --at-instruction 
> --take-checkpoints=179600 --max-checkpoints=1
> 
> Command line to restore from checkpoint and run for 100 instructions:
> 
> build/ARM/gem5.fast  -d system/disks/CPU2000/output/ configs/example/se.py 
> --bench bzip2_source  -cpu-type=atomic -r 1 --maxinsts=100
> 
> Error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/GEM5/gem5/src/python/m5/main.py", line 387, in main
>     exec filecode in scope
>   File "configs/example/se-sim.py", line 235, in <module>
>     Simulation.run(options, root, system, FutureClass)
>   File "/GEM5/gem5/configs/common/Simulation.py", line 425, in run
>     maxtick, checkpoint_dir = findCptDir(options, maxtick, cptdir, testsys)
>   File "/GEM5/gem5/configs/common/Simulation.py", line 158, in findCptDir
>     maxtick = maxtick - int(cpts[cpt_num - 1])
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
> 
> Thanks
> Negar
> 
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