Hi Sam,

I my version of gem5, I only found activateContext(0); on line 195 but I
didn't find the other line you mentioned.
However, I commented out that line, re-built gem5 and the switch worked
greatly fine. Thanks a million!

Regards,

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Sam Ainsworth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Khaled,
>
> We also found this problem when using checkpoints and switching CPUs to
> the MinorCPU model. The workaround we found was to comment out the
> "activateContext(0);" on line 195 of src/cpu/minor/cpu.cc and the
> "threads[0]->activate();" on line 201, both in MinorCPU::startup().
>
> That breaks being able to start up with a MinorCPU without a switch, but
> should allow you to simulate the switch correctly.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
> On 2015-12-02 16:18, Andreas Hansson wrote:
>
>> Hi Khaled,
>>
>> It would be good if you could run with gdb and see what is going
>> wrong.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>  From: Khaled Attia <[email protected]>
>>  Date: Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 15:59
>>  To: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>, gem5 users mailing
>> list <[email protected]>
>>  Subject: Re: [gem5-users] Problem with using MinorCPU in ARM
>> full-system
>>
>> Hello Andreas,
>>  The error happens when I try to switch from the atomicsimple mode to
>> minorcpu model. (By modifying the switch_cpu list in simulation.py in
>> the event of fast-forward). Whenever the list contains any CPU of the
>> minorCPU model, I got the segmentation fault, core dumped error and
>> gem5 exits. I tried using derivo3cpu and timingsimplecpu and both work
>> fine.
>>
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