Can you run the SPARC_FS regression successfully?

Ali

On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:11 PM, prasun gera wrote:

> Forgot that I edited a cc file and not a script and hence didn't
> rebuild. I suppose this won't happen once i rebuild m5.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:19 AM, prasun gera <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
>> Ali,
>> I saw the simulate(Tick num_cycles) function in
>> build/SPARC_FS/sim/simulate.cc and it has the following lines of code
>> (lines 58 to 60)
>>
>> Event *limit_event =
>> new SimLoopExitEvent("simulate() limit reached", 0);
>>    mainEventQueue.schedule(limit_event, num_cycles);
>>
>> As far as I can tell, this is the only place where a limit_event is
>> added to the event queue. (and should be the only one right?) So I
>> commented the aforementioned lines out just to see what happens.
>> However, m5 still exit with same error message about limit being
>> reached. I expected m5 to exit with an assert failure(inside the
>> following while loop) since the queue would be empty after the event
>> before the limit_event is executed, but that didn't happen.  So does
>> it mean that another(possibly interfering) limit_event was added to
>> the queue earlier?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Prasun
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Prasun,
>>>
>>> I imagine what is happening is you're running the simple cpu,  
>>> booting
>>> Solaris and then there is nothing to do, since you didn't specify
>>> anything. The only think that occurs after that point are timer
>>> interrupts which makes the simulation tick quite quickly up until  
>>> you
>>> reach MaxTick. Have you looked at the terminal? What is the output
>>> there?
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:33 PM, prasun gera wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> You mentioned that I'm using the O3 CPU model. Isn't the default  
>>>> model
>>>> simple atomic? I mean, I didn't pass any arguments to the script  
>>>> fs.py
>>>> and from setCPUClass, it seemed as though it is using the simple
>>>> atomic model.
>>>> In fact, later I tried the command line
>>>>
>>>> build/SPARC_FS/m5.opt -v -d /tmp/output/ configs/example/fs.py -d  
>>>> --
>>>> caches
>>>>
>>>> to use the detailed CPU model but it threw an error
>>>> NameError: global name 'DerivO3CPU' is not defined.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Gabriel Michael Black
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> It looks like the simulation ran out of things to do and stopped  
>>>>> at
>>>>> the end of simulated time. You could use the Exec trace flag to  
>>>>> see
>>>>> what, if anything, is executing when that happens. If the  
>>>>> simulation
>>>>> runs for a while before failing, Exec will output a lot of text.
>>>>> You'll want to start tracing close to the interesting point.
>>>>>
>>>>> One other thing I notice is that you're using the O3 CPU model  
>>>>> with
>>>>> SPARC_FS. While that model should work with SPARC_SE and SPARC_FS
>>>>> works with the simple CPUs, I don't know if anyone ever got the  
>>>>> bugs
>>>>> worked out of that particular combination (someone please say
>>>>> something if you know otherwise). That makes me think that O3 is
>>>>> losing track of work that it needs to do, thinks it should become
>>>>> idle, and effectively goes to sleep and never wakes up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gabe
>>>>>
>>>>> Quoting prasun gera <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I could boot solaris in SPARC_FS, but m5 exited abruptly after  
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> with the following message:
>>>>>> Exiting @ cycle 9223372036854775807 because simulate() limit  
>>>>>> reached
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The command line I executed was:
>>>>>> build/SPARC_FS/m5.opt -v -d /tmp/output/ configs/example/fs.py
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Host system: Ubuntu 32 bit
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried it twice, and it quit at the same cycle count both the
>>>>>> times.
>>>>>> To ascertain whether the error was caused because of something I
>>>>>> did,
>>>>>> I didn't enter anything on the solaris terminal the second time.
>>>>>> i.e.
>>>>>> The computer was idle for the entire duration except for the boot
>>>>>> command on opb. Has anyone run into a similar error? Or any hints
>>>>>> regarding debugging this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]>  
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The original binaries should work just fine, the _new versions
>>>>>>> were ones
>>>>>>> that we verified we could compile from source.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:50:07 +0530, prasun gera <[email protected]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Figured it out. Copied the files to the binaries and disks
>>>>>>>> directories
>>>>>>>> and could run configs/example/fs.py after that. One small thing
>>>>>>>> though. The names of the solaris binaries used in m5 have new  
>>>>>>>> as a
>>>>>>>> suffix ( for eg. openboot_new.bin and q_new.bin). Does it mean
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> the original binaries from opensparc need to be modified in  
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> way?
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