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The recent changeset to readlink() to handle reading the /proc/self/exe link introduces a number of problems. This patch fixes two: 1) Because readlink() called on /proc/self/exe now uses LiveProcess::progName() to find the binary path, it will only get the zeroth parameter of the simulated system command line. However, if a config script also specifies the process' executable, the executable parameter is used to create the LiveProcess rather than the zeroth command line parameter. Thus, the zeroth command line parameter is not necessarily the correct path to the binary executing in the simulated system. To fix this, add a LiveProcess data member, 'executable', which is correctly set during instantiation and returned from progName(). 2) If a config script allows a user to pass a relative path as the zeroth simulated system command line parameter or process executable, readlink() will incorrecly return a relative path when called on '/proc/self/exe'. /proc/self/exe is always set to a full path, so running benchmarks can fail if a relative path is returned. To fix this, clean up the handling of LiveProcess::progName() within readlink() to get the full binary path. NOTE: This patch still leaves the potential problem that host full path to the binary bleeds into the simulated system, potentially causing the appearance of non-deterministic simulated system execution. |
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This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.