Re: [Gems-users] Start Ruby after the simulation is running?

[Xuan Qi <xqi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

4) Be careful to only simulate the important regions of code -- do not

   include thread creation / destruction, process forking, etc.

   BTW, does this mean GEMS can't simulate multiprogramed or multithreaded
   programs? Thanks!

   Best regards,
   Xuan Qi

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Dan Gibson wrote:

> Have a look at the various headers that come in the LogTM codebase, in
> transactions/common/ (GEMS 2.0+) in particular. There should be some
> handy macros there intended for this purpose.
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
> Philip Garcia wrote:
>       Look in the simics reference manual about using the special
>       magic instructions.  Using magic breakpoints in the code
>       (combined with having set magic-break-enable before running
>       the code) will have simics stop execution at that
>       instruction.  Just make sure you do a "c 1" after the magic
>       instruction before saving the processor's state.  If you
>       don't do this, the state will be saved at the magic
>       instruction, and telling it to execute again will just cause
>       it to break again.
> Phil
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Jim Leek wrote:
>
>       The wiki FAQ
>       (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/gems/doc/wiki/moin.cgi/Frequently_Asked_Questions)
>       recommends the following:
>
>  4) Be careful to only simulate the important regions of code -- do not
>
> include thread creation / destruction, process forking, etc.
>
>       That sounds like a good idea.  What is the standard way
>       to do this?  It seems like you would have to throw an
>       instruction into the benchmark code to halt the
>       simulation and drop back to the simics CLI.  Is there
>       an instruction to do this?  I guess I could use
>       getchar() to do that.  What did the logTM guys do?
>
>       Jim
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