This patch is updating the arm regression configs so that the newer
VExpress_GEM_V1 platform is used instead of the older VExpress_EMM and
VExpress_EMM64.
A new optional kernel_mode argument has been added in order to
distinguish between realview and realview64 platforms. If not provided
the config will assume the machine is running a AArch64 kernel.
Other notable additions:
- DTB autogeneration in regressions
- Using minimal m5exit.squashfs disk image
Change-Id: Ia230565f072fe3eb7756c41876dba4657583f4df
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22687
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Add a set of scripts to automatically test checkpointing in the
regression framework. The checkpointing tests are similar to the
switcheroo tests, but instead of switching between CPUs, they
checkpoint the system and restore from the checkpoint again. This is
done at regular intervals, typically while booting Linux.
The implementation is fairly straight forward, with the exception that
we have to work around gem5's inability to restore from a checkpoint
after a system has been instantiated. We work around this by forking
off child processes that does the actual simulation and never
instantiate a system in the parent process unless a maximum checkpoint
count is reached (in which case we just simulate the system to
completion in the parent).
Checkpoint testing is currently only enabled 32- and 64-bit ARM
systems using atomic CPUs.
Note: An unfortunate side-effect of forking is that every new process
will overwrite the stats and terminal output from the previous
process. This means that the output directory only contains data from
the last checkpoint.
