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There is a check on a global flag denoting that the simulator has been configured to run in fullsystem mode. The check is conducted at runtime during calls to syscall methods. The high-level models are checking the flag when the check could be conducted further down the call chain (nearer to the actual Process invocation). Moving the checks should result in less copy-pasta as new models are developed. It might be argued that the checks should stay in place since an error would detected earlier; that may be true, but the error would be the same and the simulation should fail in either case. This arrangement requires fewer lines of code. The changeset also changes the check into a fatal error instead of a panic since usage (in fs mode) should result in immediate corruption. Change-Id: If387e27f166ac1374f3fe8b7befe3546e69adba7 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23240 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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/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.