[m5-dev] Enhancement to 'brk' system call

2009-08-28 Thread Timothy M Jones
Hi everyone, One very major problem I had in running one of my binaries concerned the 'brk' system call. When a program calls this to reduce the brk point, then some time later calls it again to increase the brk point, the page tables will have already been allocated in M5 and there could

Re: [m5-dev] Enhancement to 'brk' system call

2009-08-28 Thread nathan binkert
Tim, First, let me say that all of your work is awesome. Thanks for doing all of this. It was certainly a pleasant surprise. In your brk patch, I think the zero function on physical memory is not the right thing to do. You want to use a memory port and call memsetBlob on that port. Similar