There have been a couple of bugs with the prefetcher. Are you using the
latest version of gem5? This patch may help:
http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2242/ 

Ali 

On 07.05.2014 02:08, Prasanth Nunna via gem5-users wrote: 

> Dear gem5-users,
> 
> I have designed a new prefetcher and I have run it on gem5 ALPHA ISA for 
> blackscholes. I am dynamically updating prefetch degree and printing it 
> whenever its updated. 
> 
> I am trying to create checkpoints for blacksholes using the following command:
> ./build/ALPHA/gem5.opt ./configs/example/fs.py --cpu-type=detailed --caches 
> --l2cache --l2_size=512kB --script=./m5parsec/blackscholes_4c_simsmall.rcS 
> --kernel=vmlinux --disk-image=linux-latest.img 
> --take-checkpoints=10000000000,5000000000 
> --checkpoint-dir=/home/prasanth/gem5/m5out/checkpoints/blackscholes_simsmall/
> 
> I can see the output printed in the terminal until the real simulation 
> started but after that there are no entries in the terminal. Also the 
> terminal on port 3456 halted after printing the following:
> 
> prasanth@prasanth-VPCCB15FG:~$ telnet localhost 3456
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ==== m5 slave terminal: Terminal 0 ====
> M5 console: m5AlphaAccess @ 0xFFFFFD0200000000
> Got Configuration 623
> memsize 20000000 pages 10000 
> First free page after ROM 0xFFFFFC0000018000
> HWRPB 0xFFFFFC0000018000 l1pt 0xFFFFFC0000040000 l2pt 0xFFFFFC0000042000 
> l3pt_rpb 0xFFFFFC0000044000 l3pt_kernel 0xFFFFFC0000048000 l2reserv 
> 0xFFFFFC0000046000
> kstart = 0xFFFFFC0000310000, kend = 0xFFFFFC0000899860, kentry = 
> 0xFFFFFC0000310000, numCPUs = 0x1
> CPU Clock at 2000 MHz IntrClockFrequency=1024 
> Booting with 1 processor(s) 
> KSP: 0x20043FE8 PTBR 0x20
> Console Callback at 0x0, fixup at 0x0, crb offset: 0x510
> Memory cluster 0 [0 - 392]
> Memory cluster 1 [392 - 65144]
> Initalizing mdt_bitmap addr 0xFFFFFC0000038000 mem_pages 10000 
> ConsoleDispatch at virt 10000658 phys 18658 val FFFFFC00000100A8
> unix_boot_mem ends at FFFFFC0000076000 
> k_argc = 0 
> jumping to kernel at 0xFFFFFC0000310000, (PCBB 0xFFFFFC0000018180 pfn 1101)
> CallbackFixup 0 18000, t7=FFFFFC0000814000
> Linux version 2.6.27.6-dirty (joel@capillary) (gcc version 4.3.4 
> (crosstool-NG-1.5.2) ) #1 SMP Sat Mar 6 19:10:44 CST 2010
> Booting GENERIC on Tsunami variation DP264 using machine vector DP264 from SRM
> Major Options: SMP LEGACY_START VERBOSE_MCHECK 
> Command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0
> memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 392
> memcluster 1, usage 0, start 392, end 65536
> freeing pages 1103:65536
> reserving pages 1103:1104
> SMP: 1 CPUs probed -- cpu_present_map = 1
> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 65088
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0
> PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 16384 bytes)
> Using epoch = 1900
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> console [ttyS0] enabled
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 509920k/524288k available (3757k kernel code, 10632k reserved, 261k 
> data, 208k init)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> SMP mode deactivated.
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> SMP: Total of 1 processors activated (4002.20 BogoMIPS).
> net_namespace: 552 bytes
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> 
> It has been at the same point for a whole day. Someone please help me with 
> this.
> 
> Regards, N Prasanth. 
> 
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