Re: [Gems-users] Opal "Caught time breakpoint"

["Lei Yang" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Luke! I decided to to mess up with Opal's code, instead, I switched 
the task running on cpu0 and cpu1, so that I can always use opal to instruct 
number of steps.
Lei
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yen" <lyen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lei Yang" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Gems Users" 
<gems-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Gems-users] Opal "Caught time breakpoint"


>  If you feel like modifying Opal code, you can place a
> SIM_break_simulation() in opal/system/pseq.C's retireInstruction()
> function.  You can count how many instructions (for any processor) has
> retired by tracking how many times d->Retire() gets called in that
> function.
>
>   Luke
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Lei Yang wrote:
>
> > Could anybody please shine some light on this? Do I need to implement a 
> > hap on breakpoints in this situation?
> > Thanks!
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Lei Yang
> >   To: Gems-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:40 PM
> >   Subject: [Gems-users] Opal "Caught time breakpoint"
> >
> >
> >   Dear list,
> >
> >   When opal is used, what do I need to do to stop the simulation when a 
> > certain CPU has executed a certain number of instructions? For example, I 
> > have a 2 core CMP simulation, where I want CPU0 to execute exactly 10000 
> > instructions. Without Opal, I can simply say "cpu0.step-break 10000", and 
> > the simulation will stop when cpu0 has executed 10000 instructions. But 
> > when opal is installed, opal starts simics with a large number of steps 
> > like "opal0.sim-step 10000000000" (documented in quickstart). In this 
> > case, when cpu0 has executed 10000 instructions, in the command line this 
> > will appear "Caught time breakpoint", but the simulation doesn't stop!? 
> > How do I work around this?
> >   Thanks for your comments!
> >
> >   Lei
> >
> >
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