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  • 19.16.2. gem5 ARM RSK
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  • the actual command nicely, indented and with arguments broken one per line, but with continuing backslashes so you can just copy paste into a terminal

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    For setups that don’t support the newline e.g. Eclipse debugging, you can turn them off with --print-cmd-oneline

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  • ;: both a valid part of the Bash command, and a visual mark the end of the command

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    We choose DerivO3CPU because of the se.py assert:

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    We choose DerivO3CPU because of the se.py assert:

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    BaseSimpleCPU: gem5 BaseSimpleCPU

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    MinorO3CPU

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    MinorO3CPU: gem5 MinorCPU

  • BaseO3CPU

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    From this we see that there are basically only 4 C++ CPU models in gem5: Atomic, Timing, Minor and O3. All others are basically parametrizations of those base types.

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    19.16.1. List gem5 CPU types

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    Implemented by Pierre-Yves Péneau from LIRMM, which is a research lab in Montpellier, France, in 2017.

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    O3_ARM_v7a: implemented by Ronald Dreslinski from the University of Michigan in 2012

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    Not sure why it has v7a in the name, since I believe the CPUs are just the microarchitectural implementation of any ISA, and the v8 hello world did run.

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    The CLI option is named slightly differently as: --cpu-type O3_ARM_v7a_3.

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    19.16.1.3. gem5 DeriveO3CPU
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    19.16.1.3. gem5 DerivO3CPU

    Generic out-of-order core. "O3" Stands for "Out Of Order"!

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    O3_ARM_v7a: implemented by Ronald Dreslinski from the University of Michigan in 2012

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    Not sure why it has v7a in the name, since I believe the CPUs are just the microarchitectural implementation of any ISA, and the v8 hello world did run.

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    The CLI option is named slightly differently as: --cpu-type O3_ARM_v7a_3.

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    To run and GDB step debug the executable, just copy the full command line from the output ./run, and configure it into Eclipse.

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    To run and GDB step debug the executable, just copy the full command line without newlines from your run command (Eclipse does not like newlines for the arguments), e.g.:

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    ./run --emulator gem5 --print-cmd-oneline
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    and configure it into Eclipse as usual.

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    pybind11 is amazingly easy to use. But it also makes your builds really slow: pybind11 accounts for 50% of gem5 build time.

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    pybind11 is amazingly easy to use. But it can also make your builds really slow:

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    userland/linux/sched_getcpu.c

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    userland/linux/getcpu.c: a wrapper close the the syscall that also returns the current NUMA node

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  • userland/linux/sched_getcpu_barrier.c: this uses a barrier to ensure that gem5 will run each thread on one separate CPU

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    Ubuntu 19.10, GCC 9.2.1, LKMC 7c6bb29bc89ec3f1056c0680c3f08bd64018a7bc, gem5 d7d9bc240615625141cd6feddbadd392457e49eb (2020-02-18), ./build --arch aarch64 --gem5-worktree master --no-cache: 19m 33s TODO must investigate why it got so much worse.

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    Ubuntu 20.04, GCC 9.3.0, LKMC 6275f70ed8862d8fe4e58ca4524a6994d254be35, gem5 d9cb548d83fa81858599807f54b52e5be35a6b03 (2020-05-06), ./build --arch aarch64 --gem5-worktree master --no-cache: 28m!!! It’s out of control.

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    Same but gem5 d7d9bc240615625141cd6feddbadd392457e49eb (2018-06-17) hacked with -Wnoerror: 11m 37s. So there was a huge regression in the last two years! We have to find it out.