Hello,

I am currently able to run m5 in full system mode with 4 processors.
However, I cannot yet get it run with 8 processors.  I have looked through
previous threads and found some suggestions on how to fix this problem.
However, there are things that are not clear to me.  So I hope someone would
clarify these.

First, I found recommendations that I should compile the kernel 2.6.13
downloaded from m5 web site rather than the stock kernel.  But I cannot find
a link to this kernel source from m5 website?

I tried compiling with the kernel 2.6.13 that I downloaded from
kernel.orginstead.  I found patches to allow more than 4 processors
from m5 web site,
however, I am not sure which one I should apply?  Is it necessary to set up
a mercurial repository in order to apply these patches?  If I apply all of
them using the patch command, the kernel fails to compile.  I could compile
the kernel when I applied only the patches bigtsunami_2.6.13.diff,
bigtsunami.diff, defaultconfig_2.6.13.diff and a few other patches.
However, m5 does not fully boot.  Here are the last few output I had before
the program stalled:

Using epoch = 1900
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 118496k/131072k available (3424k kernel code, 9112k reserved, 998k
data, 224k init)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
SMP starting up secondaries.
Slave CPU 1 console command START
SlaveCmd: restart FFFFFC0000310020 FFFFFC0000310020 vptb FFFFFFFE00000000
my_rpb FFFFFC0000018400 my_rpb_phys 18400
Slave CPU 2 console command START
SlaveCmd: restart FFFFFC0000310020 FFFFFC0000310020 vptb FFFFFFFE00000000
my_rpb FFFFFC0000018680 my_rpb_phys 18680
Slave CPU 3 console command START
SlaveCmd: restart FFFFFC0000310020 FFFFFC0000310020 vptb FFFFFFFE00000000
my_rpb FFFFFC0000018900 my_rpb_phys 18900
Slave CPU 4 console command START
SlaveCmd: restart FFFFFC0000310020 FFFFFC0000310020 vptb FFFFFFFE00000000
my_rpb FFFFFC0000018B80 my_rpb_phys 18B80
Slave CPU 5 console command START
SlaveCmd: restart FFFFFC0000310020 FFFFFC0000310020 vptb FFFFFFFE00000000
my_rpb FFFFFC0000018E00 my_rpb_phys 18E00

Please give some suggestions on how to fix this problem

Thank you very much.

Giang Hoang
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