Using Alpha Syscall Emulation, I'm playing around with moving
processes from one cpu to another, as well as having "floating
processes" which do not start on any cpu until a later time. I'm
running into an issue with getting a page fault when I try to load
one of these floating processes onto a cpu. Could anyone shed some
light onto what the necessary actions to take are?
My setup has one system object with multiple cpu's within it, each
with a private l1. I have storage for these floating processes, which
are initialized to be different benchmarks in the configuration file.
Currently, I perform the following when attempting to load an
uninitialized process onto a core for the first time (where thecpu is
the cpu object I want to run the new process on):
(note: I drain the cpu first to make sure the previous process is in
a steady state)
((AlphaTC<AlphaSimpleImpl> *)(thecpu->threadContexts[0]))->thread-
>process = pkt->proc; // attach the process
thecpu->registerThreadContexts(); // register the process
pkt->proc->startup(); // perform the initial write of program data
into memory
thecpu->resume(); // resume the cpu
This seems to work, as watching the fetch shows that things are
happening, but inevitably I get a page fault. Any ideas?
-Nick
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