The GIC in the gem5 source cannot support more than 8 CPUs. You would need
GICv3 which has not yet been implemented. At least, that's what I think.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Embedded Systems MadHatter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I'm trying to run a 12 cores ARM simulation, following are my parameters,
> I had a segmentation fault at a Linux initially, but I changed the kernel
> in
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> and change the parameter
>
> #define NR_GIC_CPU_IF 8
>
> to
>
> #define NR_GIC_CPU_IF 32
>
> because I was having a BUG assertion due to its limitation (I believe, so
> that is why I made the change).
>
>
> After recompiling and regenerating DTS, added additional CPUs as
> recommended in the documentation.
>
> Please someone could point the cause of the error and provide insights on
> how to directions to fix it.
>
> error:
>
>
> command line: ./build/ARM/gem5.fast configs/mine/fs.py
> --disk-image=/opt/arm/gem5/armv8_system/disks/linaro-minimal-armv8.img
> --kernel=/opt/arm/gem5/armv8_system/binaries/vmlinux-mine-aarch64-vexpress-emm64
> --dtb-filename=/opt/vlsi/arm/gem5/armv8_system/binaries/rtsm_ve-aemv8a-mine.dtb
> --machine-type=VExpress_EMM64 --caches --l2cache --l1d_size=32kB
> --l1i_size=32kB --l2_size=256kB --l3_size=20MB --l1d_assoc=4 --l1i_assoc=4
> --l2_assoc=8 --l3_assoc=16 --cacheline_size=64 -n 12 --sys-clock=2.0GHz
> --cpu-clock=2.0GHz --mem-type=DDR3_1600_x64
> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
> info: kernel located at:
> /opt/arm/gem5/armv8_system/binaries/vmlinux-mine-aarch64-vexpress-emm64
> warn: Highest ARM exception-level set to AArch32 but bootloader is for
> AArch64. Assuming you wanted these to match.
> Listening for system connection on port 5901
> Listening for system connection on port 3456
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7000
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7001
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7002
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7003
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7004
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7005
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7006
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7007
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7008
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7009
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7010
> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb on port 7011
> info: Using bootloader at address 0x10
> info: Using kernel entry physical address at 0x80080040
> info: Loading DTB file:
> /opt/arm/gem5/armv8_system/binaries/rtsm_ve-aemv8a-mine.dtb at address
> 0x88000000
> **** REAL SIMULATION ****
> info: Entering event queue @ 0.  Starting simulation...
> warn: SCReg: Writing 0 to dcc0:site0:pos0:fn7:dev0
> panic: event not found!
>  @ tick 56582624
> [remove:build/ARM/sim/eventq.cc, line 195]
> Memory Usage: 56582624 KBytes
> Program aborted at cycle 826043850000
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
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