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Modern libraries such as ROCm, MPI, and libnuma use files in Linux'
sysfs to determine the system topology such as number of CPUs, cache
size, cache associativity, etc. If Linux does not recognize the vendor
string returned by CPUID in x86 it will do a generic initialization
which does not include creating these files. In the case of ROCm
(specifically ROCt) this causes failures when getting device properties.
This can be solved by setting the vendor string to, for example,
AuthenticAMD (as qemu does) so that Linux will create the relevant sysfs
files. Unfortunately, simply changing the string in cpuid.cc to
AuthenticAMD causes simulation slowdown and may not be desirable to all
users. This change creates a parameter, defaulting to M5 Simulator as it
currently is, which can be set in python configuration files to change
the vendor string. Example of how to configure this is:
for i in range(len(self.cpus)):
for j in range(len(self.cpus[i].isa)):
self.cpus[i].isa[j].vendor_string = "AuthenticAMD"
Change-Id: I8de26d5a145867fa23518718a799dd96b5b9bffa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/36156
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.