On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Angela Carlsson wrote:

> Hello Ali thanks for the answer, you were right was an M5 bug, I was  
> using a little bit old version of M5 I updated and the error was  
> gone. I was testing DRAMsim and checkpoints and they do not work.
So, it is working in the new version?

>
>
> By the way does fastforwarding work in FS?.
Yes. Are you planning on using it instead of simulation?

Ali


>
> Thanks a lot for the answers.
>
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:42:35 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [m5-users] [PATCH] Beta patch for M5 2.0 DRAMsim  
> implemention
> >
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:01 PM, nathan binkert wrote:
> >
> > >> Hmm...it is derived from PhysicalMemory, so from that viewpoint  
> all
> > >> it
> > >> needs is to be rebuilt using the same parameters and have the
> > >> underlying PhysicalMemory data restored correctly. If  
> PhysicalMemory
> > >> currently works with checkpointing, I am unclear what in my  
> DRAMsim
> > >> code prevents it from working, since I do not override either
> > >> serialize or unserialize. Any ideas on what to look for?
> > >
> > > Well, the error isn't with serialize/unserialize actually, it's  
> with
> > > the drain code that forces the memory system to drain all in  
> flight
> > > requests. We do the drain before we take a checkpoint to make  
> sure we
> > > don't lose any data.
> > It's possible that it's not a bug with DRAMsim, but rather some  
> other
> > issue with M5. What other components are you simulating? Do you  
> have a
> > NIC in the simulation? I know that over the last few months I've  
> fixed
> > one or two checkpointing bugs with the Intel NIC model. A good start
> > to understanding the problem is printing out the value of getCount()
> > before that assert occurs. A value less than 0 means that some  
> object
> > called process() on it's drainEvent more than it should have. I  
> don't
> > think a positive value is possible.
> >
> > Ali
> >
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