Thank you so much! Will take a look. Also wanted to thank you for your tutorials and learning_gem5 code.
My research would not be possible without them. Regards, Armand On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:36 PM Jason Lowe-Power <ja...@lowepower.com> wrote: > Hi Armand, > > You can definitely do this in gem5! We have what we call m5ops or "magic > instructions" that allow for these kinds of "hypercalls" from the simulated > system into the simulator. The documentation has a little information about > this (http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/m5ops/). However, > the code in util/m5 is probably the best place to look. > > Cheers, > Jason > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 1:55 PM Armand Behroozi <arma...@umich.edu> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I wanted to know if there is a method for passing data (such as the >> pointer to an array returned from malloc) from an application to gem5 while >> the application is running. >> >> Currently, in order to pass gem5 the address bounds, I run the >> application without gem5, print out the address bounds of multiple arrays >> onto the screen and then pass them as command line arguments to the run >> script when I execute the application with gem5. I'm using SE mode. >> >> I've worked with another simulator that allows you to insert special >> function calls into the source code using the data you want to pass as >> arguments. Control is then transferred to code inside of the simulator and >> the data can then be used to set the values of variables inside of the >> simulator. >> >> In other words, I want to create a gem5 event in application code (I have >> looked at "Create gem5 Event in application code"). >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Regards, >> >> Armand Behroozi >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> gem5-users@gem5.org >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
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