I'm experiencing this problem with newer, untested versions of qemu as
well. I've only seen it happen with SMT configurations, however -- have
either of you seen it without SMT?

Tyler

> We sometimes had this happen too, but I think no one has found a reliable
> way to figure out where the problem happens.
>
> When you say 'never', how long have you waited for it? In my experience
> sometimes when this happens, it can stay in kernel mode a long long time
> but then eventually come back to user space.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Hongsun An <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using marss86+dramsim2
>> I made a checkpoint of sphinx3 after fastfowarding 10 billions
>> instructions
>> and simulated the checkpoint.
>>
>> here is the middle of the log
>>
>> Completed    1060261000 cycles,     415478808 commits:    940320 Hz,
>> 332565 insns/sec: rip 000000000041e5cf
>> Completed    1060450000 cycles,     415546041 commits:    940386 Hz,
>> 334523 insns/sec: rip 000000000041e5cf
>> Completed    1060633000 cycles,     415610543 commits:    912773 Hz,
>> 321725 insns/sec: rip 0000000000402a25
>> Completed    1060811000 cycles,     415672043 commits:    889292 Hz,
>> 307255 insns/sec: rip 0000000000415c42
>> Completed    1061031000 cycles,     415712907 commits:   1099278 Hz,
>> 204185 insns/sec: rip ffffffff8105f411
>> Completed    1061175000 cycles,     415825905 commits:    715988 Hz,
>> 561841 insns/sec: rip ffffffff810c043a
>> Completed    1061237000 cycles,     416011905 commits:    307139 Hz,
>> 921417 insns/sec: rip ffffffff810c043a
>> Completed    1061299000 cycles,     416197905 commits:    306858 Hz,
>> 920576 insns/sec: rip ffffffff810c043a
>> Completed    1061361000 cycles,     416383905 commits:    306683 Hz,
>> 920050 insns/sec: rip ffffffff810c043a
>> .......
>> .......
>> user.base_machine.ooo_0_0.thread0.commit.ipc = 0.391764
>> kernel.base_machine.ooo_0_0.thread0.commit.ipc = 2.99783
>> total.base_machine.ooo_0_0.thread0.commit.ipc = 2.29421
>>
>> At some point, rip is changed to ffffffff810c043a and never turns back
>> to
>> 0x000000000xxxxx.
>> Every benchmark has simliar result.
>>
>> I simulated soplex, libquantum with test input and they worked well.
>> What I was missing..
>>
>>
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