Re: [Gems-users] error dumping cache state

[Thomas Yeh <tomyeh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dan Gibson wrote:

> Have a look at SIMICS_remove_timing_model in interface.C. Be aware it
> might be a slightly deprecated, but it does the trick for Simics 2.2.x.
I am running simics 3.0.19. Would this still work?

Is save-caches and load-caches the way to save and warmup cache state? 
instead of dump-data?
What exactly is saved with save-caches? just the tags? or both tag and 
data?
thx,

> Regards,
> Dan
>
> Thomas Yeh wrote:
> > I have another related question:
> >
> > Is there a way to switch the sending of memory accesses to ruby on and
> > off?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Thomas Yeh wrote:
> >
> >
> > > thx for the info. I just looked in the code and saw that there is no code
> > > inside printdata().
> > >
> > > If I just want to save the cache state for warmup purpose on future runs,
> > > should I just use ruby0.save-caches? and ruby0.load-caches to warmup?
> > >
> > > What exactly is saved when I do save-caches? just the addresses of data
> > > stored inside the cache with the corresponding tag bits? or is the actual
> > > data stored?
> > >
> > > thx Mike.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Mike Marty wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > See CacheMemory.h.  You could just change printData() to call print()
> > > > which is implemented.
> > > >
> > > > I forgot why this got implemented the way it did.  I think printData() was
> > > > meant to dump out the raw data values, and that print() was meant to dump
> > > > the Entry information (states, etc)
> > > >
> > > > --mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I tried dumping cache state when running with both opal and ruby (using
> > > > > the MOESI_CMP_directory protocol, and I get the following message in the
> > > > > .cache file:
> > > > >
> > > > > printData() not supported
> > > > >
> > > > > Does the cache state printing only work for certain protocols?
> > > > >
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