Hi Hansika,
> 1. Is there anything I'm doing wrong or missing or does checkpointing > usually take hours like this? > > I don't think there is anything wrong with how you are trying to create the checkpoint. If the cpt.tick_value directory is created and has contents in it, that means the checkpoint is created. Depending on the size of the checkpoint and your filesystem, taking the checkpoint can be slow but it should not take hours. I actually tried your command with the same kernel/disk versions and used the gem5 "release-staging-v23-0" branch and things seem to work fine for me i.e., the checkpoint is taken and the simulation terminates after that. > 1. Is there a better way to do fast forwarding without using > checkpoints? (I cannot use new gem5 standard library because it does > not support garnet, therefore I need to use fs.py) > > The alternative is to just switch CPUs at runtime (once you are about to start your benchmark of interest). Example of how to do that (assuming that you cannot use standard library) can be found in older versions of gem5-resources (for example: https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/+/refs/tags/v21.0.1.0/src/npb/configs/run_npb.py). However, please note that those scripts might not work with the latest gem5 version and require small changes. -Ayaz On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 3:32 PM Hansika Weerasena via gem5-users < gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to boot up Linux with *X86KvmCPU *and switch to TimingCpu to run > some benchmarks, and I needed to run them with garnet interconnection > network. I’m planning to do switching via checkpoint (loading checkpoint > with TimingCPU). > > Following is the command I used to run gem5 in full system mode and create > the checkpoint. The details on versions can be found at the end. > > *./build/X86/gem5.opt configs/example/fs.py > --disk-image=dist/x86-ubuntu.img --kernel=dist/vmlinux-4.4.186 --num-cpus=4 > --num-dirs=4 --cpu-type=X86KvmCPU --cpu-clock=2GHz --caches --l1d_size=16kB > --l1i_size=16kB --l2cache --num-l2cache=4 --mem-type=SimpleMemory > --mem-size=2GB --ruby --network=garnet --topology=Mesh_XY --mesh-rows=2 > --script=config/boot/hack_back_ckpt.rcS* > > > system.pc.com_1.device shows the last message as "*Checkpointing > simulation..." *and I can see a folder *cpt.<clocknumber>* created at > m5out directory. But the simulation is hanging there for more than two > hours. I would like to know : > > 1. Is there anything I'm doing wrong or missing or does checkpointing > usually take hours like this? > 2. Does checkpointing works with KvmCPU ? > 3. Is there a better way to do fast forwarding without using > checkpoints? (I cannot use new gem5 standard library because it does not > support garnet, therefore I need to use fs.py) > > > *gem5 version : 22.0.0.1* > > disk image : x86-ubuntu-18.04-img from the gem5 resources : > https://resources.gem5.org/resources/x86-ubuntu-18.04-img?database=gem5-resources&version=1.0.0 > > kernel : x86-linux-kernel-4.4.186 from gem5 resources : > https://resources.gem5.org/resources/x86-linux-kernel-4.4.186?version=1.0.0 > > Regards, > Hansika Weerasena > > Hansika Weerasena > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list -- gem5-users@gem5.org > To unsubscribe send an email to gem5-users-le...@gem5.org >
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