That does look very mysterious... I'd set a breakpoint on line 284 of cpu.cc
and then single-step through the call chain down to the DPRINTF in the
constructor to see if you can see where things go wrong.

Steve

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Dean Michael Ancajas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> hi everybody,
>     I've created an Event called SuspendThreadEvent(same properties with
> ActivateThreadEvent in src/o3/cpu.cc) which will call
> FullO3CPU<Impl>::suspendContext(int tid), to be able to initialize a
> SuspendThreadEvent instance, I created scheduleSuspendThreadEvent(tid,cpu),
> the problem is when I passed the correct parameter to
> scheduleSuspendThreadEvent but according to the generated traces(see below)
> the value used in the initialization is different.
>
> commandline:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/m5/repos/smt$ ./m5.debug --trace-file=event2.out
> --trace-flags=Event tests/run.py quick/01.hello-2T-smt/alpha/tru64/o3-timing
>
>
> in cpu.cc
>  if( params->max_insts_pause_each_thread == 0 ){ //number of instructiosn
> has been coded in initialization at cpu.hh
>  279
>  280         for(int tid=0;tid < numThreads; tid++){
>  281
>  282            DPRINTF(Event,"Num of threads: %d\n",numThreads); //print
> number of threads
>  283            DPRINTF(Event,"1. scheduling suspend thread: %d\n",tid);
> //print out thread # to be suspended
>  284
> scheduleSuspendThreadEvent(tid,params->max_insts_pause_each_thread);
>  285            DPRINTF(Event,"2. scheduling suspend thread: %d\n",tid);
> //double check if value of tid has changed
>  286         }
>  287     }
>
>
> in cpu.hh
>  /** added by dean michael ancajas, Schedule thread to suspend **/
> 189         void scheduleSuspendThreadEvent(int _tid,Tick when){
> 190         // Schedule thread to suspend, regardless of its current state.
> 191         DPRINTF(Event,"suspend thread:%d \n",_tid);
> 192
> 193         suspendThreadEvent[_tid] = *(new
> SuspendThreadEvent(comInstEventQueue[_tid],100)); //for now this is
> hard-coded to suspend in 100 instructions each thread
> 194         suspendThreadEvent[_tid].init(_tid,this);
> 201         }
>
>
> Generated traces from event2.out:
>
>    2       0: system.cpu: Num of threads: 2
>    3       0: system.cpu: 1. scheduling suspend thread: 0
>    4       0: system.cpu: suspend thread:0
>    5       0: Event_15: FullO3CPU "Suspend Thread" event scheduled @ 100
>    6       0: Event_15: thread suspend: 0
>    7       0: system.cpu: 2. scheduling suspend thread: 0
>    8       0: system.cpu: Num of threads: 2
>    9       0: system.cpu: 1. scheduling suspend thread: 1
>   10       0: system.cpu: suspend thread:1
>   11       0: Event_16: FullO3CPU "Suspend Thread" event scheduled @ 100
>   12       0: Event_16: thread suspend: 9
>   13       0: system.cpu: 2. scheduling suspend thread: 1
>   14       0: Event_2: FullO3CPU tick event scheduled @ 0
>
>
> The first SuspendThreadEvent was initialized properly(line 3's thread # and
> line 6's thread # are equal, but the 2nd is not, line 9 says it must suspend
> thread #1 but in line 12 it passed thread #9. I'm confused as to where the
> value started to change. As we can also see in line 13, the value of tid in
> cpu.cc hasn't change after calling the scheduleSuspendThreadEvent. So I
> guess the culprit must be in the scheduleSuspendThreadEvent.. Any help/ideas
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks in advance,
> Dean Michael Ancajas
>
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