Hello Andreas,

I finally have successful regressions. Sigh!

my M5_PATH had 'android' key word in it
(/home/rizwana/gem5-android/gem5/system/), and because of that 'init=/init'
was appended to boot_osflags in FSConfig.py. That resulted in more
instructions and caused mismatch in stats. I just renamed my working
directory to not have 'android' in path and regressions passed.

Thank you,
-Rizwana

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Rizwana Begum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Andreas,
>
> Okay. Yes, I think problem is somewhere on my end. One of my colleagues
> ran the regression tests, and they passed for him too. The only difference
> is that my tests were on *changeset:   10667:e17949745150 *(tip as of
> yesterday)*, *and he ran tests on latest *changeset:   10680:7639c17357dc
> *(current tip) . I am running tests now on that to see if that makes any
> difference (I am doubtful as I believe all gem5 commits should pass the
> regression tests, but there is nothing else that pops out at me.).
>
> Thank you,
> -Rizwana
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>
>>  I created a minty fresh VM with Ubuntu 14.04 and the ARM regressions
>> pass just fine both with gcc and clang.
>>
>>  Andreas
>>
>>   From: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wednesday, 4 February 2015 08:52
>> To: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>>
>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>
>>   Hi Rizwana,
>>
>>  The regressions run fine on a rather large selection of hosts and
>> compilers (OS X, RHE5, RHE6, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, with gcc 4.6 all
>> the way to 4.9, and clang 3.1). I cannot imagine Ubuntu 14.04 should cause
>> problems. The thing that makes me most suspicious is that you get different
>> results when re-running the same tests. There is no non-determinism in the
>> simulator, and the results should be the same every time. We have done
>> quite a lot of “linting” and an ARM regression run with UBSan switched on
>> shows no run-time errors at all.
>>
>>  Is anyone else having these issues?
>>
>>  Andreas
>>
>>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wednesday, 4 February 2015 05:23
>> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>
>>  Hello Andreas,
>>
>>  This is really strange. I cloned the repo and downloaded the system
>> files again. The errors still don't go away. I tried for 'fast' binary as
>> well and the errors persist. I am trying it all on Ubuntu 14.04. What host
>> OS do you use? I also noticed that number of these errors vary from run to
>> run. I am planning to run long ones tonight, will let you know if those run
>> fine or result in errors.
>>
>>  Thank you,
>> -Rizwana
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>>
>>>  That is strange. I just cloned the repo and ran with the files from
>>> http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz without
>>> any problems.
>>>
>>>  Could you do a clean build and re-download just to be sure?
>>>
>>>  Andreas
>>>
>>>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:49
>>>
>>> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>>
>>>  Hi Andreas,
>>>
>>>  Here are the ones that changed:
>>>
>>>  *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-atomic
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-atomic-dual
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-timing
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-simple-timing-dual
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview-switcheroo-atomic
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-atomic
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-atomic-dual
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-timing
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-simple-timing-dual
>>> CHANGED!
>>> *****
>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/arm/linux/realview64-switcheroo-atomic
>>> CHANGED!
>>>
>>>  Thank you,
>>> -Rizwana
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>>>
>>>>  That doesn’t sound good. Let me double check the system files.
>>>>
>>>>  Which regressions are “changed"?
>>>>
>>>>  Andreas
>>>>
>>>>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:01
>>>>
>>>> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>>>
>>>>  Hello Andreas,
>>>>
>>>>  I ran the tests again and they result in similar errors (magnitude
>>>> error %) in stats. When I don't specify the paths to system files, tests
>>>> fail complaining about system files path. I ran tests on my local Ubuntu
>>>> (14.04) as well as on a CentOS 5 server, both result in similar errors.
>>>> Though none of the tests fail, I don't have clean regression tests (I only
>>>> tried quick ones). I have following gem5 commit:
>>>>
>>>>  *changeset:   10667:e17949745150*
>>>> *tag:         tip*
>>>> *user:        Malek Musleh <[email protected]
>>>> <[email protected]>>*
>>>> *date:        Fri Jan 30 15:49:34 2015 -0600*
>>>> *summary:     config: arm: fix os_flags*
>>>>
>>>>  All I did was cloned gem5-dev repository, compiled ARM opt binary
>>>> (scons build/ARM/gem5.opt), downloaded system files, placed the binaries
>>>> and disks folder in *system* folder, pointed to the *system* folder in
>>>> SysPaths.py, and then ran quick regressions (scons
>>>> build/ARM/tests/opt/quick).
>>>>
>>>>  Any help to resolve this issue would be great.
>>>>
>>>>  Thank you,
>>>> -Rizwana
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Andreas,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I ran tests on clean repo (without any source code modifications),
>>>>> however, I had modified SysPaths.py to point to binaries, disks downloaded
>>>>> from gem5 download page (ARM Full-System Files
>>>>> <http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz>).
>>>>> I am not sure, if that caused the tests to use different kernel/disk image
>>>>> than the default ones. I compiled opt binary and ran quick tests on opt
>>>>> (scons build/ARM/tests/opt/quick).
>>>>>
>>>>>  I am running tests now without modifications to SysPaths.py. I will
>>>>> let you know if my results would change.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thank you,
>>>>> -Rizwana
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Hansson <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  There should be no stats changes at all on the trunk. The
>>>>>> regression runs from yesterday confirms this as well. Are you sure you 
>>>>>> ran
>>>>>> with a clean repo?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Andreas
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   From: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:44
>>>>>> To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Cc: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic
>>>>>> simplification
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hello Andreas,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Yes, the condition will still consider bank conflicts for
>>>>>> open-adaptive policy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I made the fix and ran quick regression tests for ARM. All of the
>>>>>> tests passed, however there are some errors(in % difference) in results.
>>>>>> Here is the output before and after the fix (grep for error):
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  *gem5-dev tip (before fix):*
>>>>>>  Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +89.743590%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  *With fix:*
>>>>>>  Maximum error magnitude: +6.666667%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +38.862333%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +89.743590%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +9999.000000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +68.750000%
>>>>>> [... showing top 20 errors only, additional errors omitted ...]
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>> Maximum error magnitude: +0.000000%
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Is this a concern? or can I ignore these errors?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  PS: Attached full output of quick regression tests.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Thank you,
>>>>>> -Rizwana
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Andreas Hansson <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi Rizwana,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I look forward to see the patch.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Note that open-adaptive and closed-adaptive behave differently. In
>>>>>>> the open case we only close if there is no hit, and there is a bank
>>>>>>> conflict. For the closed one we close if there are no hits (ignoring if
>>>>>>> there are conflicts or not). If this is till captured then by all means 
>>>>>>> go
>>>>>>> ahead and simplify the code. Perhaps add some more comments to make this
>>>>>>> more clear.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Andreas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   From: Rizwana Begum via gem5-users <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Reply-To: Rizwana Begum <[email protected]>, gem5 users mailing
>>>>>>> list <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Date: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 05:01
>>>>>>> To: gem5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Subject: [gem5-users] DRAMCtrl auto precharge logic simplification
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hello All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I think the if condition that's checking to find the right
>>>>>>> condition for auto-precharge in doDRAMAccess() can be simplified
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Original :
>>>>>>>        while (!(got_more_hits &&
>>>>>>>                   (got_bank_conflict || pageMgmt ==
>>>>>>> Enums::close_adaptive)) &&
>>>>>>>                p != queue.end()) {
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Simplified:
>>>>>>>         while (!got_more_hits && p != queue.end()) {
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  The above simplification comes as both close-adaptive and
>>>>>>> open-adaptive policies keep row open if a hit is found. Otherwise the
>>>>>>> search for a hit continues until the end of the queue and during the 
>>>>>>> search
>>>>>>> got_bank_conflict gets updated anyways.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I am planning to put this simplification on reviewboard (along
>>>>>>> with another bug fix that I have). I would appreciate it if anyone using
>>>>>>> DRAM controller has any comments regarding this simplification.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Thank you,
>>>>>>> -Rizwana
>>>>>>>
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