Yes.  I believe that it is the statetrace stuff.  It uses ptrace to
single step through a real process on a host machine. Not sure how
ptrace interacts with KVM.  Should mostly work I'd imagine.

  Nate

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Andreas Sandberg 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I was planning to add more features to it, but I got distracted thinking
>> about efficient ways to implement test cases (it's hard to get FP stuff
>> right!) instead. I had some ideas about using the KVM CPU to verify test
>> cases running on the simulated CPU, but it's all a bit half-baked at the
>> moment. I did that manually for the instructions I added, but I'd like to
>> streamline the process a bit.
>>
>
> On this front... didn't Gabe have some kind of tracing facility put
> together where he could diff instruction effects between gem5 and a real
> machine on an instruction-by-instruction basis?  I don't recall the details
> though.  It seems like that could be really handy here.
>
> Steve
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