History log of /gem5/util/cpt_upgrader.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13540:da30e62884ee 10-Jan-2019 Andrea Mondelli <andrea.mondelli@ucf.edu>

misc: updated shabang for python script

The default python on MacOS doesn’t have an alias to python2.
The official python version supported in gem5 is Python2.7.

This patch updates the shabang according to the version required in gem5.

Change-Id: I9533c0f7858b5b3cab0ef101be1ee5cd718105b0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15375
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11835:8ab6738c5f66 14-Feb-2017 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

sim: allow forward dependencies in checkpoint upgraders

The notion of forward dependencies is just expressing the same
dependency but at the other end of the dependency edge, i.e. at
the dependee rather than the depender. As there is no more
'power' here, it's strictly a convenience feature for handling
dependencies with tags that are not in the upstream repository.

Change-Id: Ic7c68de6aff4094aaa12de62cdf690a5dc65ccb5
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11834:29f0d1d70282 14-Feb-2017 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

sim: add support for checkpoint downgrading

This commit supports the use case of transitioning tags and their
associated checkpoint rewrites out of use for whatever reason. Just
replace the upgrader() method with a downgrader() method that performs
the appropriate inverse operation.

The tag name is still used, but only in this negative, 'zombie' state,
as it will be removed from the tags in the checkpoint and gem5 binary.

Change-Id: If9d26cccfe8449e026762b1a72f0c2ae5a9cf2d7
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11828:36b064696175 10-Feb-2017 Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

misc: Update #!env calls for python to explicit version

In some newer Linux distributions, env python default to Python 3.0. This
patch explicitly uses "python2" instead of just "python" for all scripts
that use #!

Reported-by: Sanchayan Maity <maitysanchayan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11077:fae097742b7e 02-Sep-2015 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

sim: tag-based checkpoint versioning

This commit addresses gem5 checkpoints' linear versioning bottleneck.
Since development is distributed across many private trees, there exists
a sort of 'race' for checkpoint version numbers: internally a checkpoint
version may be used but then resynchronizing with the external tree causes
a conflict on that version. This change replaces the linear version number
with a set of unique strings called tags. Now the only conflicts that can
arise are of tag names, where collisions are much easier to avoid.

The checkpoint upgrader (util/cpt_upgrader.py) upgrades the version
representation, as one would expect. Each tag version implements its
upgrader code in a python file in the util/cpt_upgraders directory
rather than adding a function to the upgrader script itself.

The version tags are stored in the 'Globals' section rather than 'root'
(as the version was previously) because 'Globals' gets unserialized
first and can provide a warning before any other unserialization errors
can occur.


# 10930:ddc3d96d6313 24-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

base: refactor process class (specifically FdMap and friends)

This patch extends the previous patch's alterations around fd_map. It cleans
up some of the uglier code in the process file and replaces it with a more
concise C++11 version. As part of the changes, the FdMap class is pulled out
of the Process class and receives its own file.


# 10861:9141d87c7f71 01-Jun-2015 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

sim, arm: add checkpoint upgrader for d02b45a5

The insertion of CONTEXTIDR_EL2 in the ARM miscellaneous registers
obsoletes old checkpoints.


# 10338:8bee5f4edb92 29-Apr-2014 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

arm: use condition code registers for ARM ISA

Analogous to ee049bf (for x86). Requires a bump of the checkpoint version
and corresponding upgrader code to move the condition code register values
to the new register file.


# 10285:6cb378bad253 05-Feb-2014 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

sim: bump checkpoint version for multiple event queues

This patch adds a fix for older checkpoints before support for
multiple event queues were added in changeset 2cce74fe359e. The change
in checkpoint version should really hav ebeen part of the
aforementioned changeset.


# 10250:9f5e9bdc2f27 01-Jul-2014 Radhika Jagtap <radhika.jagtap@ARM.com>

util: Add DVFS perfLevel to checkpoint upgrade script

This patch updates the checkpoint upgrader script. It adds the _perfLevel
variable in the clock domain and voltage domain simObjects used for DVFS.


# 10163:e8608cdddae2 19-Apr-2014 Marco Elver <marco.elver@ed.ac.uk>

ruby: recorder: Fix (de-)serializing with different cache block-sizes

Upon aggregating records, serialize system's cache-block size, as the
cache-block size can be different when restoring from a checkpoint. This way,
we can correctly read all records when restoring from a checkpoints, even if
the cache-block size is different.

Note, that it is only possible to restore from a checkpoint if the
desired cache-block size is smaller or equal to the cache-block size
when the checkpoint was taken; we can split one larger request into
multiple small ones, but it is not reliable to do the opposite.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>


# 10037:5cac77888310 24-Jan-2014 ARM gem5 Developers

arm: Add support for ARMv8 (AArch64 & AArch32)

Note: AArch64 and AArch32 interworking is not supported. If you use an AArch64
kernel you are restricted to AArch64 user-mode binaries. This will be addressed
in a later patch.

Note: Virtualization is only supported in AArch32 mode. This will also be fixed
in a later patch.

Contributors:
Giacomo Gabrielli (TrustZone, LPAE, system-level AArch64, AArch64 NEON, validation)
Thomas Grocutt (AArch32 Virtualization, AArch64 FP, validation)
Mbou Eyole (AArch64 NEON, validation)
Ali Saidi (AArch64 Linux support, code integration, validation)
Edmund Grimley-Evans (AArch64 FP)
William Wang (AArch64 Linux support)
Rene De Jong (AArch64 Linux support, performance opt.)
Matt Horsnell (AArch64 MP, validation)
Matt Evans (device models, code integration, validation)
Chris Adeniyi-Jones (AArch64 syscall-emulation)
Prakash Ramrakhyani (validation)
Dam Sunwoo (validation)
Chander Sudanthi (validation)
Stephan Diestelhorst (validation)
Andreas Hansson (code integration, performance opt.)
Eric Van Hensbergen (performance opt.)
Gabe Black


# 9959:ad4564da49b5 31-Oct-2013 Chander Sudanthi <chander.sudanthi@arm.com>

ARM: add support for TEEHBR access

Thumb2 ARM kernels may access the TEEHBR via thumbee_notifier
in arch/arm/kernel/thumbee.c. The Linux kernel code just seems
to be saving and restoring the register. This patch adds support
for the TEEHBR cp14 register. Note, this may be a special case
when restoring from an image that was run on a system that
supports ThumbEE.


# 9956:6f2b525b8f16 31-Oct-2013 Geoffrey Blake <Geoffrey.Blake@arm.com>

dev: Fix race conditions in IDE device on newer kernels

Newer linux kernels and distros exercise more functionality in the IDE device
than previously, exposing 2 races. The first race is the handling of aborted
DMA commands would immediately report the device is ready back to the kernel
and cause already in flight commands to assert the simulator when they returned
and discovered an inconsitent device state. The second race was due to the
Status register not being handled correctly, the interrupt status bit would get
stuck at 1 and the driver eventually views this as a bad state and logs the
condition to the terminal. This patch fixes these two conditions by making the
device handle aborted commands gracefully and properly handles clearing the
interrupt status bit in the Status register.


# 9818:ebd7d3e04b5f 07-Aug-2013 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

x86: add tlb checkpointing
This patch adds checkpointing support to x86 tlb. It upgrades the
cpt_upgrader.py script so that previously created checkpoints can
be updated. It moves the checkpoint version to 6.


# 9431:8bb372a49e1b 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

arm: Remove the register mapping hack used when copying TCs

In order to see all registers independent of the current CPU mode, the
ARM architecture model uses the magic MISCREG_CPSR_MODE register to
change the register mappings without actually updating the CPU
mode. This hack is no longer needed since the thread context now
provides a flat interface to the register file. This patch replaces
the CPSR_MODE hack with the flat register interface.


# 9425:a24092160ec7 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

arch: Move the ISA object to a separate section

After making the ISA an independent SimObject, it is serialized
automatically by the Python world. Previously, this just resulted in
an empty ISA section. This patch moves the contents of the ISA to that
section and removes the explicit ISA serialization from the thread
contexts, which makes it behave like a normal SimObject during
serialization.

Note: This patch breaks checkpoint backwards compatibility! Use the
cpt_upgrader.py utility to upgrade old checkpoints to the new format.


# 9332:ae2a5329ce96 02-Nov-2012 Dam Sunwoo <dam.sunwoo@arm.com>

ARM: dump stats and process info on context switches

This patch enables dumping statistics and Linux process information on
context switch boundaries (__switch_to() calls) that are used for
Streamline integration (a graphical statistics viewer from ARM).


# 9293:df7c3f99ebca 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Mem: Separate the host and guest views of memory backing store

This patch moves all the memory backing store operations from the
independent memory controllers to the global physical memory. The main
reason for this patch is to allow address striping in a future set of
patches, but at this point it already provides some useful
functionality in that it is now possible to change the number of
memory controllers and their address mapping in combination with
checkpointing. Thus, the host and guest view of the memory backing
store are now completely separate.

With this patch, the individual memory controllers are far simpler as
all responsibility for serializing/unserializing is moved to the
physical memory. Currently, the functionality is more or less moved
from AbstractMemory to PhysicalMemory without any major
changes. However, in a future patch the physical memory will also
resolve any ranges that are interleaved and properly assign the
backing store to the memory controllers, and keep the host memory as a
single contigous chunk per address range.

Functionality for future extensions which involve CPU virtualization
also enable the host to get pointers to the backing store.


# 9056:0e38b529c387 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

cpt: update some comments in the checkpoint migration script


# 9048:950298f29140 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: Provide a framework for detecting out of data checkpoints and migrating them.