When I enable the Exec debug flag I can see that it seems to be stuck in a
spin lock (queued_spin_lock_slowpath)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 5:28 PM Shehab Elsayed <shehaby...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have a gem5 X86 full system set up that starts with KVM cores and then
> switches to O3 cores once the benchmark reaches the region of interest.
> Right now I am testing with a simple multithreaded hello world benchmark.
> Sometimes the benchmark completes successfully while others gem5 just seems
> to hang after starting the benchmark. I believe it is still executing some
> instructions but without making any progress. The chance of this behavior (
> indeterminism) happening increases as the number of simulated cores or
> the number of threads created by the benchmark increases.
>
> Any ideas what might be the reason for this or how I can start debugging
> this problem?
>
> Note: I have tried the patch in https://gem5-review.googlesource
> .com/c/public/gem5/+/19568 but the problem persists.
>
> Thanks!
>
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