Nope, it wasn't me. It was changeset f28f020f3006, syscalls: fix latent
brk/obreak bug.

Gabe

Gabe Black wrote:
> Unless it's the second change where I refactored my code. That's during
> the time with the assertion bug.
>
> Gabe
>
> Gabe Black wrote:
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>> I don't think this is me, actually. I ran it for each changeset starting
>> from right before my timing simple CPU changes, and it's worked each
>> time up until that assertion bug from Steve. That wasn't fixed until
>> just recently, I think, so finding where it starts failing beyond that
>> might be annoying. I won't be working on it any more tonight, but if I
>> get a chance over the next week I'll see if I can figure it out.
>>
>> Gabe
>>
>> Gabe Black wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I just ran it myself, and the number of instructions is exactly the same
>>> so it's probably not anything like a syscall where it would change the
>>> path of execution. It's probably because my change to the the CPU caused
>>> the timing of some corner case to change slightly, hopefully not because
>>> of a memory error although I wouldn't rule it out. Fortunately it seems
>>> to be a reproducible failure, which is surprising since I ran
>>> regressions more than once, so it'll hopefully be easy to pin down.
>>>
>>> Gabe
>>>
>>> nathan binkert wrote:
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>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Though the fact that a TimingSimpleCPU test failed is a bit suspicious
>>>> since it didn't in the past and you just modified it.
>>>>
>>>>  Nate
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:45 PM, nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>> My guess is that it's an uninitialized variable.  My further guess is
>>>>> that it's related to some specific system call since it only happens
>>>>> in SE mode.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Nate
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Gabe Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>> parser seems to have a long standing and hard to identify problem where
>>>>>> it changes a little bit every now and then for no apparent reason. I'm
>>>>>> not sure what would be the problem with SPARC. Did the disk image change
>>>>>> recently? Which one does that regression use?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gabe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nathan binkert wrote:
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>>>>>>> That's odd.  I just ran it and it worked fine.  The ones  I just had 
>>>>>>> fail are:
>>>>>>> SPARC_SE/tests/opt/long/70.twolf/sparc/linux/simple-timing
>>>>>>> X86_SE/tests/opt/long/20.parser/x86/linux/simple-timing
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They differ in about the same way from the base stats.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you sure you have the right disk image?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Nate
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Gabe Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>    I've significantly reworked the ide controller device, and while
>>>>>>>> running the regressions to test it out I noticed that
>>>>>>>> build/ALPHA_FS/tests/opt/long/10.linux-boot/alpha/linux/tsunami-o3/ is
>>>>>>>> failing even in the head. I tried it out with a slightly older version
>>>>>>>> of the head, updated and tried it out with my changes in place, and now
>>>>>>>> I'm trying out just a clean and up to head, but it seems to 
>>>>>>>> consistently
>>>>>>>> fail with slightly different stats in the o3. Is this something that 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> o3 serialization/unserialization changes would have done?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Gabe
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