Hi Rajesh,

I think the error you are seeing is because tlbs are exposed through an mmu
unit in gem5 now. I guess changing line 117 in caches.py as in this file (
https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/+/refs/heads/stable/src/boot-exit/configs/system/caches.py)
should work for you.

-Ayaz

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 2:04 PM Rajesh Shashi Kumar via gem5-users <
gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:

> Thank you for the quick response.
>
>
>    - Thank you for confirming that the KVM fix has been integrated into
>    the stable branch (pointing to gem5-v21.0). At this time, I have not
>    managed to get PARSEC working in FS mode on the stable branch (v21.0) and I
>    am debugging the issue described below
>    - For context, I encountered the following error on gem5-v21.0 while
>    running PARSEC which made me explore reverting back to v20.1 (and the KVM
>    patch) as described in the gem5art documentation. I'm using the latest
>    PARSEC config run scripts from the gem5-resources repository
>    
> <https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/+/refs/heads/stable/src/parsec/>
>
> gem5 version 21.0.0.0
> gem5 compiled Jun 10 2021 01:34:21
> gem5 started Jun 10 2021 01:57:17
> gem5 executing on lenovo, pid 20958
> command line: gem5/build/X86/gem5.opt 
> /home/rajesh/tests/configs/run_parsec.py 
> /home/rajesh/tests/linux-stable/vmlinux-4.19.83 
> /home/rajesh/tests/disk-image/parsec/image/parsec.img kvm streamcluster 
> simsmall 1
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "build/X86/python/m5/main.py", line 455, in main
>   File "/home/rajesh/tests/configs/run_parsec.py", line 79, in <module>
>     system = MySystem(kernel, disk, cpu, int(num_cpus))
>   File "/home/rajesh/tests/configs/system/system.py", line 78, in __init__
>     self.createCacheHierarchy()
>   File "/home/rajesh/tests/configs/system/system.py", line 158, in 
> createCacheHierarchy
>     cpu.mmucache.connectCPU(cpu)
>   File "/home/rajesh/tests/configs/system/caches.py", line 117, in connectCPU
>     for tlb in [cpu.itb, cpu.dtb]:
>   File "build/X86/python/m5/SimObject.py", line 1379, in __getattr__
> AttributeError: object 'X86KvmCPU' has no attribute 'itb'
>   (C++ object is not yet constructed, so wrapped C++ methods are unavailable.)
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> -- Rajesh Shashi Kumar
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 12:51 AM Bobby Bruce <bbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>> The "Fix KVM on Intel platforms" patch is on stable, it was added here:
>> https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/12278
>>
>> The other patch your cherry-picking I'm less sure of, but I dont think
>> it's a relevant problem anymore from what I can ascertain.
>>
>> I apologize that the gem5art documentation is using such an old version
>> of gem5. Have you managed to get this working with the stable branch
>> (version 21.0)? I'm not aware of any reason why it shouldn't work.
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Bobby R. Bruce
>> Room 3050,
>> Kemper Hall, UC Davis
>> Davis,
>> CA, 95616
>>
>> web: https://www.bobbybruce.net
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:06 AM Rajesh Shashi Kumar via gem5-users <
>> gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to run PARSEC benchmarks in FS mode on gem5-v21.0. I have
>>> encountered an issue with KVM on Intel machine. I believe the same was
>>> addressed by this patch
>>> <https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/7361> recommended
>>> earlier in the mailing list
>>> <https://gem5-users.gem5.narkive.com/8DBihuUx/running-fs-py-with-x86kvmcpu-failed>
>>> .
>>>
>>>     panic: KVM: Failed to enter virtualized mode (hw reason: 0x80000021)
>>>
>>> Most of the tutorials on gem5art
>>> <http://www.gem5.org/documentation/gem5art/tutorials/boot-tutorial> in
>>> gem5 documentation recommend using gem5-v20.1, but I noticed that applying
>>> the patch on 20.1 or 21 is not a trivial merge. For the time being, I've
>>> been able to use this specific commit tag described in
>>> gem5art-experiments <https://github.com/darchr/gem5art-experiments>.
>>>
>>> git clone https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5cd gem5
>>> git checkout *d40f0bc579fb8b10da7181*
>>> git remote add darchr https://github.com/darchr/gem5
>>> git fetch darchr*git cherry-pick 
>>> 6450aaa7ca9e3040fb9eecf69c51a01884ac370c**git cherry-pick 
>>> 3403665994b55f664f4edfc9074650aaa7ddcd2c*
>>> scons build/X86/gem5.opt -j8
>>>
>>> At this point, I have two questions:
>>>
>>>    1. Is the KVM patch necessary on gem5-v21?
>>>    2. In case someone has encountered a similar issue previously, were
>>>    you able to find a way to merge the patch on newer gem5 releases
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rajesh Shashi Kumar
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