This PR changes memory and cache sizes in various parts of the gem5
codebase to use binary units (e.g. KiB) instead of metric units (e.g.
kB). This makes the codebase more consistent, as gem5 automatically
converts memory and cache sizes that are in metric units to binary
units.
This PR also adds a warning message to let users know when an
auto-conversion from base 10 to base 2 units occurs.
There were a few places in configs and in the comments of various files
where I didn't change the metric units, as I couldn't figure out where
the parameters with those units were being used.
This commit adds a test that checks that strings representing
base 10 memory sizes or base 10 memory bandwidths are correctly
converted to strings representing base 2 values.
Change-Id: Ie8cac15f06b4ceb1786484fea4e8ba2111f4e8d3
**Note**: Erin needs to complete the commit by expanding this test to
properly test the behavior of this change.
To run the pyunit tests:
```sh
scons build/ALL/gem5.opt -j`nproc`
./build/ALL/gem5.opt tests/run_pyunit.py
```
Change-Id: I8cea0fe8b088e03e84072a000444953768bc3151
This commit contains the rest of the base 2 vs base 10 cache/memory
size clarifications. It also changes the warning message to use
warn(). With these changes, the warning message should now no
longer show up during a fresh compilation of gem5.
Change-Id: Ia63f841bdf045b76473437f41548fab27dc19631
A new host tag `gcn_gpu` has been added. This allows for selection of
those GPU tests which depend upon the gcn-gpu docker image to run.
In addition to this, the square GPU tests has been moved to the CI
tests. This ensures some GPU code is compiled and run on every PR.
This allows for multiple gem5 simulations to be spawned from a single
parent gem5 process, as defined in a simgle gem5 configuration. In this
design _all_ the `Simulator`s are defined in the simulation script and
then added to the mutlisim module. For example:
```py
from gem5.simulate.Simulator import Simulator
import gem5.utils.multisim as multisim
# Construct the board[0] and board[1] as you wish here...
simulator1 = Simulator(board=board[0], id="board-1")
simulator2 = Simulator(board=board[1], id="board-2")
multisim.add_simulator(simulator1)
multisim.add_simulator(simulator2)
```
This specifies that two simulations are to be run in parallel in
seperate threads: one specified by `simulator1` and another by
`simulator2`. They are then added to MultiSim via the
`multisim.add_simulator` function. The user can specify an id via the
Simulator constructor. This is used to give each process a unique id and
output directory name. Given this, the id should be a helpful name
describing the simulation being specified. If not specified one is
automatically given.
To run these simulators we use `<gem5 binary> -m gem5.utils.multisim
<script> -p <num_processes>`. Note: multisim is an executable module in
gem5. This is the same module we input into our scripts to add the
simulators. This is an intentionally modular encapsulated design. When
the module processes a script it will schedule multiple gem5 jobs and,
dependent on the number of processes specified, will create child gem5
processes to processes tjese jobs (jobs are just gem5 simulations in
this case). The `--processes` (`-p`) argument is optional and if not
specified the max number of processes which can be run concurrently will
be the number of available threads on the host system.
The id for each process is used to create a subdirectory inside the
`outputdor` (`m5out`) of that id name. E.g, in the example above the
ID's are `board-1` and `board-2`. Therefore the m5 out directory will
look as follows:
```sh
- m5out
- board-1
- stats.txt
- config.ini
- config.json
- terminal.out
- board-2
- stats.txt
- config.ini
- config.json
- terminal.out
```
Each simulations output is encapsulated inside the subdirectory of the
id name.
If the multisim configuation script is passed directly to gem5 (like a
traditional gem5 configuraiton script, i.e.: `<gem5 binary> <script>`),
the user may run a single simulation specified in that script by passing
its id as an argument. E.g. `<gem5 binary> <script> board-1` will run
the `board-1` simulation specified in `script`. If no argument is passed
an Exception is raised asking the user to either specify or use the
MultiSim module if multiprocessing is needed.
If the user desires a list of ids of the simulations specified in a
given MultiSim script, they can do so by passing the `--list` (`-l`)
parameter to the config script. I.e., `<gem5 binary> <script> --list`
will list all the IDs for all the simulations specified in`script`.
This change comes with two new example scripts found in
'configs/example/gem5_library/multsim" to demonstrate multisim in both
an SE and FS mode simulation. Tests have been added which run these
scripts as part of gem5' Daily suite of tests.
Notes
=====
* **Bug fixed**: The `NoCache` classic cache hierarchy has been modified
so the Xbar is no longet set with a `__func__` call. This interfered
with MultiProcessing as this structure is not serializable via Pickle.
This was quite bad design anyway so should be changed
* **Change**: `readfile_contents` parameter previously wrote its value
to a file called "readfile" in the output dorectory. This has been
changed to write to a file called "readfile_{hash}" with "{hash}" being
a hash of the `readfile_contents`. This ensures that, during multisim
running, this file is not overwritten by other processes.
* **Removal note**: This implementation supercedes the functionality
outlined in 'src/python/gem5/utils/multiprocessing'. As such, this code
has been removed.
Limitations/Things to Fix/Improve
=================================
* Though each Simulator process has its own output directory (a
subdirectory within m5out, with an ID set by the user unique to that
Simulator), the stdout and stderr are still output to the terminal, not
the output directory. This results in: 1. stdout and stderr data lost
and not recorded for these runs. 2. An incredibly noisy terminal output.
* Each process uses the same cached resources. While there are locks on
resources when downloading, each processes will hash the resources they
require to ensure they are valid. This is very inefficient in cases
where resources are common between processes (e.g., you may have 10
processes each using the same disk image with each processes hashing the
disk images independently to give the same result to validate the
resources).
Change-Id: Ief5a3b765070c622d1f0de53ebd545c85a3f0eee
---------
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Co-authored-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Bigs fixed of note:
1. The 'find' method has been fixed to work. This involved making
'children' a class implemented per-subclass as required.
2. The 'get_all_stats_of_name' method has been removed. This was not
working at all correctly and is largely doing what 'find' does.
2. The functionality to get an element in a vector via an attribute call
(i.e., self.vector1 == self.vector[1]) has been implemented this
maintaining backwards compatibility with the regular Python stats.
Change-Id: I31a4ccc723937018a3038dcdf491c82629ddbbb2
1. Thests here for the Scalar tasks are named appropriately. Not just
generic "SimStats tess".
2. We remove 'simstat' terminology. The correct word is "Pystats".
Change-Id: Idebc4e750f4be7f140ad6bff9c6772f580a24861
The big thing missing from the Vector stats was that each position in
the vector could have it's own unique id (a str, float, or int) and each
position in the vector can have its own description. Therefore, to add
this the Vector is represented as a dictionary mapping the unique ID to
a Pystat Scaler (whcih can have it's own unique description.
Change-Id: I3a8634f43298f6491300cf5a4f9d25dee8101808
This reverts commit c1de2b8762. We revert
the commit as Ruby does not use get_runtime_isa anymore after [1]
[1]: https://github.com/gem5/gem5/pull/241
Change-Id: Iaac8d64194bbd53a9b1a57a796ff92f763c75a87
- After removal of the ClientWrapper class, the mocking of clients needs
to be changed to _create_client function.
- Commented failing tests due to persistence issues.
The persistence is being caused as the new mocked clients
not being used as the older clients are persisting over
the tests.
Change-Id: Ie342c9fc8103504dd12f49ae30b3bf62d189ce1d
This has the SimObjects defined in "src/test_objects" only be compiled
into the gem5 binary if the Kconfig 'USE_TEST_OBJECTS" == 'y'. This
happens in two cases:
1. When 'ALL/gem5' is compiled via "build_opts".
2. When tests are run via "./tests/main.py".
Change-Id: I2330008fd7c7900de5f4de142b8ac89ef4e351ce
This SimObject can be used to quickly test the statistics are
functioning correctly. The SimObject schedules a single event which sets
the statistics to values dependent on the SimObject params.
With this commit the "Scalar" stats have a StatTester subclass that can
be used for testing. More can be added as required.
Tests are included to check our Scalar SimStat functionality.
Change-Id: I78fa5d9a0c3fc7115bd6c6d3410a5436aaa47f55
This update modifies the test configuration to specify the versions of
resources used, rather than automatically using the latest versions.
Previously, if a resource was updated for a change, it could potentially
cause tests to fail if those tests were incompatible with the new
version of the resource.
Now, with this change, tests are tied to specific versions of resources,
ensuring that any updates to resources will require corresponding
updates to the tests to maintain compatibility.
Change-Id: I9633b1749f6c6c82af6aa6697b7e7656020f62fa
As X86 and RISCV are relying on a Table Walker cache, we
change their stdlib configs to use the newly defined
PrivateL1PrivateL2WalkCacheHierarchy
Change-Id: I63c3f70a9daa3b2c7a8306e51af8065bf1bea92b
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
This change allows pyunit tests to be run on specific directories
instead of the default `pyunit` directory.
You can pass in the directory as follows. I have built gem5.opt for
RISCV however it should work the same with other builds
```
./build/RISCV/gem5.opt tests/run_pyunit.py --directory tests/pyunit/gem5/
```
The default path works as it is currently
```
./build/RISCV/gem5.opt tests/run_pyunit.py
```
Change-Id: Id9cc17498fa01b489de0bc96a9c80fc6b639a43f
Signed-off-by: Suraj Shirvankar <surajshirvankar@gmail.com>
These tests previously used "build/NULL" but due to changes in the
"Ruby" and "garnet_synth_traffic.py" scripts, "NULL" fails as the script
exists "X86TimingSimple" with MESI_Two_Level.
This change fixes the tests by compiling and using the correct
compilation of gem5. It shouldn't affect the tests in any negative way.
As far as I'm aware it does not matter what ISA is used for these tests.
Change-Id: I8ae84b49f65968e97bef4904268de5a455f06f5c
`get_runtime_isa()` has been deprecated for some time. It is a leftover
piece of code from when gem5 was compiled to a single ISA and that ISA
used to configure the simulated system to use that ISA. Since multi-ISA
compilations are possible, `get_runtime_isa()` should not be used.
Unless the gem5 binary is compiled to a single ISA, a failure will
occur.
The new proceedure for specify which ISA to use is by the setting of the
correct `BaseCPU` implementation. E.g., `X86SimpleTimingCPU` of
`ArmO3CPU`.
This patch removes the remaining `get_runtime_isa()` instances and
removes the function itself. The `SimpleCore` class has been updated to
allow for it's CPU factory to return a class, needed by scripts in
"configs/common".
The deprecated functionality in the standard library, which allowed for
the specifying of an ISA when setting up a processor and/or core has
also been removed. Setting an ISA is now manditory.
Fixes#216.
PR https://github.com/gem5/gem5/pull/396 updates the gem5 SST bridge to
use StandardMem in SST. This change updates the nightly tests to use SST
13.0.0 instead of SST 11.1.0. It also updates the dockerfile.
Change-Id: I5c109c40379d2f09601a1c9f19c51dd716c6582e
---------
Signed-off-by: Kaustav Goswami <kggoswami@ucdavis.edu>
Co-authored-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Now:
* The Atlas Client will attempt a connection 4 times, using an
exponential backoff approach between attempts.
* When a failure does arise a rich output is given so problems can be
easily diagnosed.
Addresses: #340
