Need help on this too.
Really appreciate if somebody can provide workaround to simulate more than 4 ARM cores.

On 2/23/2015 11:27 AM, Nimish Girdhar wrote:
I also am stuck with the same problem :( Has anybody worked on arm full system with more than 4 cores?

Any help will be appreciated.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Zehan Cui via gem5-users <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

     not yet, I'm using 4 cores now

    On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Jianghao <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        Have you solved the problem? I'm in a similar situation..



        On 1/28/2015 10:20 PM, Zehan Cui via gem5-users wrote:
        Thanks.

        I do have 8 cores in my config.ini file. The dtb file is
        downloaded from the gem5 website. But I cannot directly read
        it, so how can I check this?

        Zehan

        On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Lokesh Jindal
        <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

            My first approach for debug would be this:

            -n 8
            => this configures gem5 system model to have 8 cores
            => you should see 8 cores in your config.ini file in
            output directory!
            Everything should be as expected till this point!

            However, the kernel needs to support as well as be aware
            of 8 core configuration
            => Check if your dtb file (vexpress.aarch64.20140821.dtb)
            corresponds to 4 core configuration!
            => This is easy to check if you have either proper
            documentation or the source dts file that was used to
            generate this dtb file. Otherwise, I am not sure how you
            can check that.


            On 01/27/15 23:39, Zehan Cui via gem5-users wrote:
            Hello everyone,

            I have download the latest aarch64 binary and disk image
            from this link
            (http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz).
            The command line I'm using is:

            build/ARM/gem5.fast configs/example/fs.py
            --kernel=vmlinux.aarch64.20140821
            --disk-image=aarch64-ubuntu-trusty-headless.img
            --dtb-filename=vexpress.aarch64.20140821.dtb
            --machine-type=VExpress_EMM64 --caches --l2cache
            --l3cache --l1d_size=32kB --l1i_size=32kB
            --l2_size=256kB --l3_size=16MB -n 8

            However, I can only see four cores:

            [    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
            [    0.000000] vmalloc : 0xffffff8000000000 -
            0xffffffbbffff0000 (245759 MB)
            [    0.000000] vmemmap : 0xffffffbc01c00000 -
            0xffffffbc02300000   (     7 MB)
            [    0.000000] modules : 0xffffffbffc000000 -
            0xffffffc000000000   (    64 MB)
            [    0.000000] memory  : 0xffffffc000000000 -
            0xffffffc020000000   (   512 MB)
            [    0.000000]   .init : 0xffffffc000692000 -
            0xffffffc0006c6200   (   209 kB)
            [    0.000000]   .text : 0xffffffc000080000 -
            0xffffffc0006914e4   (  6214 kB)
            [    0.000000]   .data : 0xffffffc0006c7000 -
            0xffffffc0007141e0   (   309 kB)
            [    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3,
            MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
            [    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
            [    0.000000] RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8 to
            nr_cpu_ids=4.
            [    0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for
            rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=4
            [    0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0
            [    0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at
            100.00MHz (phys).
            [    0.000002] sched_clock: 56 bits at 100MHz,
            resolution 10ns, wraps every 2748779069440ns
            [    0.000068] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
            [    0.000072] Calibrating delay loop (skipped) preset
            value.. 3997.69 BogoMIPS (lpj=19988480)
            [    0.000076] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
            [    0.000110] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024
            (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
            [    0.000114] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024
            (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
            [    0.000402] hw perfevents: no hardware support available
            [    0.060098] CPU1: Booted secondary processor
            [    0.080101] CPU2: Booted secondary processor
            [    0.100108] CPU3: Booted secondary processor
            [    0.100130] Brought up 4 CPUs
            [    0.100138] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated.


            Does anyone know how to bring up 8 cores?

            Thanks,
            Zehan


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