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Add support for partial stat dumps by passing an optional 'root' keyword argument to m5.stats.dump(). Specifying root slightly changes the semantics of the dump command. For legacy reasons, gem5 only allows one stat dump per tick. This is likely a limitation introduced as a hack to prevent automatic dumping at the end of simulation from interfering with explicit dumping from a simulation script. This restriction does not apply when specifying a root. However, these stat dumps will still prevent an additional stat dump in the same tick with an unspecified root. N.B.: This new API /only/ works for new-style stats that have an explicit hierarchy. Legacy stats will not be dumped if a root is specified. Change-Id: Idc8ff448b9f70a796427b4a5231e7371485130b4 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19369 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> 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.