Gave.

I noticed the clobber argument but it seems like it’s not exposed in python. So 
I couldn’t set it for the map function.

However if I am wrong I’d appreciate a short example. I’m relatively new to gem5

Thanks.

Jose Monsalve
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Subject: Re: [gem5-users] Re: How to map elf section to physical memory

You can also take a look at the "clobber" argument which will tell the mapping 
function to overwrite existing mappings. You can see in the panic that that's 
what it's checking, ie it found an overlap and it wasn't told to go ahead and 
clobber those, so it has to give up.

Gabe

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:13 PM Monsalve, Jose Manuel via gem5-users 
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Jason,



Thanks for the answer.



Let me take a look into this idea and I will get back to you.



Jose



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Subject: Re: [gem5-users] How to map elf section to physical memory



Hi Jose,



This is an interesting question! My quick suggestion would be to "hack" the 
loader/page table to skip the mapping portion when loading the elf section.



I don't fully understand exactly what the underlying "problem" is. That said, 
we may be able to solve it "correctly" by generally skipping the mapping during 
the elf loading if it's already been manually mapped by the process.map 
function. This may be useful to upstream if this idea works.



Cheers,

Jason



On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 4:30 PM Monsalve, Jose Manuel via gem5-users 
<gem5-users@gem5.org<mailto:gem5-users@gem5.org>> wrote:

Hi everyone,



I am working on developing the simulation of a system that contains two 
different regions of memory. One that maps to the cachable system memory 
(including cache hierarchy) but another region that is non-cachable, and which 
goes to a different memory (similar to scratchpad memory for the sake of this 
question). Additionally, in the executing code, I am trying to allocate some 
objects into this scratchpad memory address space from a section in the elf 
file. While running in SE mode. So, for example:



System Memory address range -> 0x-00000 to 0x00FFF

Scratchpad memory address range -> 0x01000 to 0xFFFFF



And in the linker script I place some sections in this region like:



. = 0x1000

.scratchpad {

   /* all symbols */

}



Then to use the __attribute__((section(“.scratchpad”)) in a given definition.



However, when the loader loads this elf file, the virtual memory is assigned 
correctly, but it is mapped to another physical memory range that is different 
to the physical memory of the SPmem device.



I know I can use the .map() method in the process like this (in python)



process.map(Addr(args.mem_size),

                Addr(args.mem_size),

                SPMemorySize,

                False)



This will only work if I don’t use sections in the linker script, and instead, 
manually assign the value of a pointer. (e.g. int *a = (int*) 0x1000;)



But when I run it with the elf sections I get the error:

build/RISCV/mem/page_table.cc:60: panic: panic condition !clobber occurred: 
EmulationPageTable::allocate: addr 0xc0000000 already mapped



Because by the moment I reach the second map, the loader has already mapped the 
region before.



I would appreciate if someone can share nay pointers on how to properly do this 
mapping between virt and physical.



Thanks!



Jose M Monsalve Diaz

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