Did you take a checkpoint with caches? If so, you must take a checkpoint
without caches.

-Tony

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu> wrote:

>  I see, probably I had some interacting with vncviewer with the mouse
> when the keyboard is open. I tried to run the benchmark again and now it
> can run to completion. Thank you very much for your kind help!
>
> I have another problem. I took a checkpoint after booting the OS in atomic
> mode with the default configuration. I did this by inserting a m5
> instruction in the bbench-gb.rcS file: /sbin/m5 checkpoint (right after
> sleep 10). The checkpoint can be taken correctly. Then I want to resume the
> checkpoint and simulate BBench in arm_detailed mode, but I got segmentation
> fault. The command line and output is as follows:
>
> command line: build/ARM/gem5.opt --outdir=bbench2 configs/example/fs.py -b
> bbench-gb --kernel=vmlinux.smp.mouse.arm --frame-capture
> --checkpoint-dir=bbench -r 1 --caches --cpu-type=arm_detailed --l2cache
> --cacheline_size=64 --l1d_size=32kB --l1d_assoc=4 --l2_size=512kB
> --l2_assoc=8
> Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
> info: kernel located at:
> /tigress-hsm/fangfeil/gem5/system/binaries/vmlinux.smp.mouse.arm
> Switch at curTick count:10000
> info: Entering event queue @ 19318968082000.  Starting simulation...
> Switched CPUS @ tick 19318968092000
> Changing memory mode to timing
> switching cpus
> **** REAL SIMULATION ****
> info: Entering event queue @ 19318968092000.  Starting simulation...
> Segmentation fault
>
> I still use the same rcS file except comment the checkpoint command. I was
> wondering whether I did this correctly. Thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards
> Fangfei
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org [gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org] on
> behalf of Anthony Gutierrez [atgut...@umich.edu]
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 30, 2012 12:59 PM
>
> *To:* gem5 users mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [gem5-users] questions on running benchmark on gem5
>
>  BBench is a web-page rendering benchmark, however, it shouldn't interact
> with the web-pages in any way. It's doing a google search for something
> called ewbay and the keyboard is open, that shouldn't happen. Were you
> interacting with the vncviewer with the mouse? Is it possible that this
> query could have been entered in error? There is nothing in the BBench
> source called "ewbay", so it's hard to tell how that url is being produced
> otherwise.
>
>  -Tony
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I didn’t change anything and the command line I used was exactly the same
>> as that in the BBench instruction page. The exact URL is
>> http://www.google.com/m?hl=md&gl=us&source=android-browser-type&q=ewbay<https://owa.princeton.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=7HmSRhGXSk2J12xsesLMwH3TuxeMcc8IjThnd3hkIWuO2qoM84GhCA0ZlhUlBjlhcqAIq2Ta4iw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.google.com%2fm%3fhl%3dmd%26gl%3dus%26source%3dandroid-browser-type%26q%3dewbay>.
>> It is actually doing google search for ebay. Please find attached a
>> snapshot for this page.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Fangfei
>>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0400
>> From: Anthony Gutierrez <atgut...@umich.edu>
>>
>> To: gem5 users mailing list <gem5-users@gem5.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [gem5-users] questions on running benchmark on gem5
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>>
>> I started a BBench run this morning with a fresh check out of the latest
>> dev repo, the Android kernel and an unmodified Gingerbread disk image with
>> BBench, both from gem5.org/bbench-gem5. I do not see this problem, eBay
>> renders fine and the simulation continues. I will need more info on your
>> setup/how you're running the simulation if you'd like help with this
>> problem.
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Anthony Gutierrez <atgut...@umich.edu
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I've never seen this problem before, and the BBench source for eBay does
>> > not show anything called ewbay in the source, so I don't know how it's
>> > getting redirected to that URL. Did you modify the BBench source in any
>> > way? Can you send me your exact command line? And, can you tell me the
>> > exact URL that the browser shows when it hangs?
>> >
>> > -Tony
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Fangfei Liu <fangf...@princeton.edu
>> >wrote:
>> >
>>  >> Hi,****
>> >>
>> >> ** **
>>
>> >>
>> >> I tried to run Bbench on gem5 with Gingerbread disk image (atomic mode
>> >> and default configuration). The simulator took about 140 minutes to
>> boot
>> >> Android and start running the benchmark. But it seems that the
>> benchmark
>> >> stalled at certain web page after running for a while. I find that it
>> is
>> >> supposed to render a web page in ebay but used the wrong url with
>> ewbay. I
>> >> terminated the simulation manually after 97 hours but find that the
>> >> statistics shows only 87 billion instructions were simulated. I was
>> >> wondering what caused the problem and what is supposed to be the end of
>> >> running of Bbench? Will the simulation exit automatically? How many
>> >> instructions are there if I want to run Bbench to completion? I also
>> >> downloaded an EEMBC benchmark: AndEbench, which is an Android app (.apk
>> >> file). Can I run this app directly on gem5? If so, does anyone know
>> how to
>>  >> install and run it on gem5? Thanks!****
>> >>
>> >> ** **
>> >>
>> >> ** **
>> >>
>> >> Best regards****
>> >>
>> >> Fangfei****
>> >>
>> >> ** **
>>
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