[gem5-users] gem5 crash with some cpu related error in real simulation after restore from a checkpoint

2018-04-04 Thread Da Zhang
Hey guys, My gem5 real simulation crashed with " gem5.opt: build_alter/build/X86/cpu/timebuf.hh:54: void TimeBuffer::valid(int) const [with T = DefaultIEWDefaultCommit]: Assertion `idx >= -past && idx <= future' failed. " I am using DerivO3CPU and 32MB l2 cache 32GB mem and ramulator memory.

[gem5-users] Multicore x86 simulation hangs during system booting

2018-04-04 Thread Xin Zhan
Hi all, When I simulate a 4-core x86 system, my simulation always hangs during system booting. And I tried to use hack_back_ckpt.rcS to create a checkpoint but it doesn't work as well. The booting hangs at the step: Fake M5 x86_64 CPU stepping 01 Brought up 4 CPUs I use the below command to

Re: [gem5-users] please help

2018-04-04 Thread Krishna, Tushar
Don’t remember if I responded already. This shows how to run NoC synthetic traffic sims : http://www.gem5.org/Garnet_Synthetic_Traffic This garnet implementation is here: http://www.gem5.org/Garnet2.0 In the m5out.stats file, you can see the network stats. If you want additional stats, you can

Re: [gem5-users] [EXT] Re: New image of Ubuntu 17.x with custom kernel (append build string -gem5) - kernel Panic

2018-04-04 Thread Ciro Santilli
Hi Vitorio, I don't know exactly what is the problem, but I can provide a setup that just works which might help you to diff it out: https://github.com/ cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/tree/e38a1dea9223bf4658384cbd93 e748d728de#gem5-getting-started (replace arm with x86_64) My

[gem5-users] 4-core X86 FS simulation with empty activities on 3-cores

2018-04-04 Thread Xin Zhan
Hi all, Recently I am doing 4-core X86 FS simulation running Parsec benchmark. However, except for the first cpu0, cpu1, cpu2, cpu3 all has zero activities as in stats.txt and I am using script freqmine.rcS: cd parsec /sbin/m5 dumpstats /sbin/m5 resetstats ./run freqmine simsmall 4 m5 exit

Re: [gem5-users] [EXT] Re: New image of Ubuntu 17.x with custom kernel (append build string -gem5) - kernel Panic

2018-04-04 Thread Vitorio Cargnini (lcargnini)
Ok, Thanks Ciro, I'll look into that, besides that I built a Gentoo image, and currently, I'm facing another roadblock, for some reason booting the images, on x86 at least I didn’t attempt it on ARM yet, it is next on the agenda, once It achieves the following point: [0.913616] ata1.01:

[gem5-users] Connect CPU and accelerator through a bus

2018-04-04 Thread Jeckson Souza
Hi all, I'm trying to send instructions from a CPU to an accelerator through a SystemXBar (I need the bus as, eventually, I'll add more of these components to the system). In my first attempt, I tried to create ports on the CPU/accelerator similar to the ones used as memory ports so I could use