Hi Ali,

I'll try that out, should I make a new repo under the repo.gem5.org?

Pritha

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:

> It seems like it's broken at the time. Yes you could start with a the
> kernel source tar ball.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.27/linux-2.6.27.61.tar.bz2
>
> You'd probably need to turn that into a mercurial repository by creating a
> new repo and committing all the code and the apply the patch queue on top
> of that.
>
> Ali
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>
> Hi Ali,
>
> I was trying to compile the kernel again but I am not able to run this
> command:
> hg clone http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/
>
> Should I just download the kernel from the ftp repository?
>
> Pritha
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pritha,
>>
>> I really don't know. The kernel I tried was 2.6.27.6 and is a the
>> mercurial repository of the linux kernel with the following patch queue
>> applied: http://repo.m5sim.org/linux-patches There is nothing in there
>> that touches the e1000 driver anymore.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>>
>> 51061742000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+608    : ldq
>>  r16,680(r11)    : MemRead :  D=0x0000000000000000 A=0xfffffc00070242a8
>> 51061747000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap    : lda
>>  r1,-3(r31)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffffffffffffd
>> 51061747500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+4    : sll
>>  r1,40,r1        : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
>> 51061748000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+8    : addq
>> r16,r1,r0       : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
>> 51061749500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+648    : stq
>>  r0,752(r12)     : MemWrite :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
>>
>> So the address is actually coming from a modified version of the value in
>> R31. It is shifted left logically 40 bits and that's how the wrong address
>> is generated. This value gets stored in address A=0xfffffc000722b930.
>>
>> I am still confused about how you don't see this error, do I have some
>> old versions of files?
>>
>> Pritha
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder who wrote to A=0xfffffc000722b930 last. That would be the next
>>> step in debugging this is to understand where the address got initially
>>> generated from.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ali,
>>>
>>> So I think this is the relevant trace:
>>> 51061923500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+1412    : ldq
>>>  r16,144(r30)    : MemRead :  D=0xfffffc000722b930 A=0xfffffc0007033c78
>>> 51061927500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+20    : bis
>>>      r31,r16,r9      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffc000722b930
>>> 51061942000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+184    : ldq
>>>      r16,0(r9)       : MemRead :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
>>> 51061943000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+192    : lda
>>>      r16,8(r16)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000008
>>> 51061947500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_readl    : ldl
>>>  r0,0(r16)       : MemRead :
>>>
>>> The last line of code gets executed for the NSGige adapter as well, but
>>> the previous part of the code which sets r16, sets a different value for
>>> that adapter, as this is adapter specific code.
>>>
>>> I am not sure how to rectify the error still though..
>>>
>>> Pritha
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you get an execution trace right before this happens that might shed
>>>> some light on it. Tracking how the address that is being used is assembled
>>>> by the cpu is a good start.
>>>>
>>>> Nothing jumps out at me though, so I'm pretty confused why I don't see
>>>> the problem and you do.
>>>>
>>>> Ali
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi Pritha,
>>>> >> I took a old kernel from when i published the original paper in 2009
>>>> (2.6.27)
>>>> > and it seems to work with the e1000 NIC if I just make the following
>>>> change:
>>>> >> diff -r ef8630054b5e configs/common/FSConfig.py---
>>>> > a/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Tue Feb 14 14:15:30 2012 -0500+++
>>>> > b/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Thu Feb 16 11:28:32 2012 -0600 <at>
>>>>  <at>  -58,7
>>>> > +58,7  <at>  <at>  def makeLinuxAlphaSystem(mem_mode, mdesc = None):
>>>> > IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000     class BaseTsunami(Tsunami):-
>>>> > ethernet = NSGigE(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)+        ethernet =
>>>> > IGbE_e1000(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)         ide =
>>>> IdeController(disks=
>>>> > [Parent.disk0, Parent.disk2],                             pci_func=0,
>>>> pci_dev=0,
>>>> > pci_bus=0)
>>>> >> I don't know what kernel you're using but it's likely there is
>>>> either an issue
>>>> > with the configuration of it or perhaps something has broken in the
>>>> alpha
>>>> > branch.
>>>> >> From an Alpha/Tsunami perspective, virtual addresses that start with
>>>> ffffc map
>>>> > to physical memory directly and addresses that start with ffffd map
>>>> to the i/o.
>>>> > I'd have to look at the tsunami memory map documentation which isn't
>>>> close at
>>>> > hand to what 80000000008 could be, but it doesn't seem right. You
>>>> could use the
>>>> > PCIDev Ethernet trace flags to understand what addresses the PCI
>>>> devices are
>>>> > getting assigned.
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >> Ali
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi Ali,
>>>> >
>>>> > I had tried using the same modification in FSConfig.py, and even the
>>>> kernel I am
>>>> > using in 2.6.27. Should I try to build the kernel again and check?
>>>> >
>>>> > Regarding the addresses, I used the flag BusAddrRanges, I am not able
>>>> to see any
>>>> > of the address ranges mapped to the IOBus which starts from
>>>> 0x80000000000. The
>>>> > closest one I can see is:
>>>> >     0: drivesys.tsunami.fake_OROM: registering range:
>>>> 0x800000a0000-0x60000
>>>> >      0: drivesys.iobus: Adding range 0x800000a0000 - 0x800000fffff
>>>> for id 12
>>>> > All the rest seem to be starting with 0x801**** instead of 0x800****.
>>>> > For membus this is the range:
>>>> >      0: drivesys.membus: Adding range 0x80000000000 -
>>>> 0xffffffffffffffff for id
>>>> > 2
>>>> > So there is one range of addresses which are not mapped to anywhere
>>>> on IO bus,
>>>> > even though the
>>>> >    IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000
>>>> > is set in FSConfig.py.
>>>> > But the mapping of addresses do not change from NSGigE adapter
>>>> mappings, and
>>>> > there is no error in that case.
>>>> >
>>>> > I enabled Fetch flag to see the addresses being accessed before the
>>>> error
>>>> > condition, and in the e100 NIC, this is the faulting address:
>>>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>>>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0000000008, Physical
>>>> address
>>>> > 80000000008
>>>> >
>>>> > But in the case of NSGigE, the same address brings forward a
>>>> different virtual
>>>> > address for the read:
>>>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>>>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0009000018, Physical
>>>> address
>>>> > 80009000018
>>>> >
>>>> > For the other cases, the sequence addresses are identical in case of
>>>> NSGigE and
>>>> > IGbE_e1000 adapters. eg:
>>>> > NSGigE:
>>>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>>>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical
>>>> address 85e208
>>>> > e1000:
>>>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>>>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical
>>>> address 85e208
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Could you give any pointer regarding where this faulty address is
>>>> getting
>>>> > generated for this particular case?
>>>> >
>>>> > Pritha
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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