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There are some cases, specifically when running systemc, that it's necessary to exit the simulation loop immediately rather than finishing running events scheduled for the current Tick. When running under sc_main, sc_stop and sc_pause return control to sc_main which can happen immediately. When running without sc_main, control needs to return to the python config script which needs to happen through a global exit event. Since sc_pause and sc_stop are supposed to stop simulation without necessarily letting all the events at the current time run, we need a way to schedule an exit event with a very high priority (rather than a very low priority). This change adds a new exitSimLoopNow function which does that, and adds a new constructor to the GlobalSimLoopExitEvent which uses that priority. Also, a couple of cruft functions from the sim events are removed. Change-Id: Icfbec17fb10f98084a75740acd839dbf4096fbb3 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16444 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.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/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. 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/Dependencies 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 ALPHA, 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/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. 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. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.