Thanks Joel!

Yes, I did. The checkpoint created with 4096MB has problem as lots of
information is missing. Is it possible that checkpoint does not support
larger memory (i.e 4096MB) in M5?

Thanks
-Sheng



On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Joel Hestness <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Sheng,
>   Did you collect the checkpoints from a simulated system with 512MB of
> memory?  The checkpoints encode the current state of memory in the simulated
> system including the capacity, so you'll need to make sure that the
> simulated system in both runs (to collect the checkpoint and to restore from
> it) use the same amount of simulated memory.
>   More generally, an M5 checkpoint is specific to the ISA/architecture,
> number of cores, and the capacity of memory in the simulated system that you
> collect the checkpoint from.
>   Hope this helps,
>   Joel
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Sheng Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> After spending several hours to guess what was wrong, here are my
>> findings:
>>
>> It seems that if I set PhysicalMemory as 512MB, checkpointing can work.
>> However, if I set  it as 4096MB (I did this because SPECCPU2006 requires at
>> least 2GB free memory), checkpoint will not work. The place I changed this
>> is in common/example/se.py
>>
>> system = System(cpu = [CPUClass(cpu_id=i) for i in xrange(np)],
>>                 physmem = PhysicalMemory(range=AddrRange("4096MB")),
>>                 membus = Bus(), mem_mode = test_mem_mode)
>>
>> Could anyone give some suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Sheng
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Sheng Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I tried to use checkpoints in M5 but could not have it work. I used
>>> ALPHA_SE.
>>>
>>> The commands I use to create/resume checkpoints are M5 outputs are:
>>>
>>> Creating checkpoint:
>>> ______________________
>>> [sli2@newcell ~/m5-work-stable]$ ./build/ALPHA_SE/m5.opt
>>> configs/example/se.py --bench bzip2 --take-checkpoint=2200 --at-instruction
>>> ...
>>> command line: ./build/ALPHA_SE/m5.opt configs/example/se.py --bench bzip2
>>> --take-checkpoint=2200 --at-instruction
>>> 2200000000
>>> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
>>> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
>>> Creating checkpoint at inst:2200
>>> info: Entering event queue @ 0.  Starting simulation...
>>> info: Increasing stack size by one page.
>>> hack: be nice to actually delete the event here
>>> exit cause = a thread reached the max instruction count
>>> Writing checkpoint
>>> Checkpoint written.
>>> Exiting @ cycle 1111000 because a thread reached the max instruction
>>> count
>>>
>>> Resume checkpoint:
>>> _________________________
>>> command line: ./build/ALPHA_SE/m5.opt configs/example/se.py --bench bzip2
>>> --checkpoint-restore=2200 --at-instruction
>>> 2200000000
>>> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
>>> 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000
>>> warn: optional parameter system.cpu.workload:M5_pid not present
>>> For more information see: http://www.m5sim.org/warn/aa78cda1
>>> **** REAL SIMULATION ****
>>> info: Entering event queue @ 1111000.  Starting simulation...
>>> hack: be nice to actually delete the event here
>>> Exiting @ cycle 1111500 because halt instruction encountered <--Here is
>>> the problem.
>>>
>>> Any help would be highly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Sheng
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>   Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas - Austin
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