I believe this is an alternative way to checkpointing. Thanks for the
explanation. However, is it possible to distinguish application instructions
during application execution?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Malek Musleh <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am assuming you want to filter out the insts used to boot the kernel
> from inflating the stats numbers you get from your binary.
>
> If so, you should be able to use the m5 psuedo insts switchcpu,
> dumpstats, resetstats in your rcS script file.
>
> E.g.
> cd location of binary on diskimage
> /sbin/m5 switchcpu
> /sbin/m5 dumpstats
> /sbin/m5 resetstats
> ./alpha_binary
> /sbin/m5 exit
> /sbin/m5 exit
>
> I use the switchcpu command because I run the linux boot using the
> atomic model, and then switch to the detailed model.
>
> If you do not want to fastfwd, or switch between cpu models, then just
> use dumpstats/resetstats.
>
> When using the switchcpu, followed by dumo.reset, the output stats
> file will have the kernel stats on the first set of stat dumps,
> followed by another set of stats, of which these correspond to the
> application.
>
> Malek
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:54 AM, George Tz. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been searching for that and though I am not quite sure if it is
> the
> > best way, I believe you can do it by checking the IPR_ICM register.
> > Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > George Tziantzioulis
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Lide Duan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am wondering if there is anyway to distinguish application
> instructions
> >> from Linux OS instructions in ALPHA_FS mode?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Lide
> >>
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