xref: /gem5/util/tracediff

#! /usr/bin/env perl
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# Authors: Steve Reinhardt

# Script to simplify using rundiff on trace outputs from two
# invocations of m5.
#
# ******Note that you need to enable some trace flags in the args in order
# to do anything useful!******
#
# Script arguments are handled uniformly as follows:
# - If the argument does not contain a '|' character, it is appended
#   to both command lines.
# - If the argument has a '|' character in it, the text on either side
#   of the '|' is appended to the respective command lines.  Note that
#   you'll have to quote the arg or escape the '|' with a backslash
#   so that the shell doesn't think you're doing a pipe.
#
# In other words, the arguments should look like the command line you
# want to run, with "|" used to list the alternatives for the parts
# that you want to differ between the two runs.
#
# For example:
#
# % tracediff m5.opt --opt1 "--opt2|--opt3" --opt4
# would compare these two runs:
# m5.opt --opt1 --opt2 --opt4
# m5.opt --opt1 --opt3 --opt4
#
# If you want to compare two different simulator binaries, put a '|'
# in the first script argument ("path1/m5.opt|path2/m5.opt").  If you
# want to add arguments to one run only, just put a '|' in with text
# only on one side ("--onlyOn1|").  You can do this with multiple
# arguments together too ("|-a -b -c" adds three args to the second
# run only).
#

if (@ARGV < 2) {
    die "Usage: tracediff \"sim1|sim2\" [common-arg \"arg1|arg2\" ...]\n";
}

foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
    @pair = split('\|', $arg, -1); # -1 enables null trailing fields
    if ($#pair > 0) {
	push @cmd1, $pair[0];
	push @cmd2, $pair[1];
    } else {
	push @cmd1, $arg;
	push @cmd2, $arg;
    }
}

# First two args are the two simulator binaries to compare
$sim1 = shift @cmd1;
$sim2 = shift @cmd2;

# Everything else is a simulator arg.
$args1 = join(' ', @cmd1);
$args2 = join(' ', @cmd2);

# Common mistake: if you don't set any traceflags this often isn't
# doing what you want.
if ($args1 !~ /--trace-flags/) {
    print "****\n";
    print "**** WARNING: no trace flags set... you may not be diffing much!\n";
    print "****\n";
}

# Run individual invocations in separate dirs so output and intermediate
# files (particularly config.py and config.ini) don't conflict.
$dir1 = "tracediff-$$-1";
$dir2 = "tracediff-$$-2";
mkdir($dir1) or die "Can't create dir $dir1\n";
mkdir($dir2) or die "Can't create dir $dir2\n";

$cmd1 = "$sim1 -d $dir1 $args1 2>&1 |";
$cmd2 = "$sim2 -d $dir2 $args2 2>&1 |";

# This only works if you have rundiff in your path.  I just edit it
# with an explicit path if necessary.
$fullcmd = "rundiff '$cmd1' '$cmd2' 2>&1 > tracediff-$$.out";

print "Executing $fullcmd\n";
system($fullcmd);