Did you configure MARSS to use more than one CPU context? If you didn't
build MARSS with (scons c=1 ...) or use a machine configuration similar to
single_core's, that could be an explanation for the problems that you're
seeing.

Tyler

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> Hello to all,
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> We are trying to generate checkpoints from already
> created SimPoints, taken from SPEC CPU2006. Although we have followed the
> instructions shown in the MARSSx86 wiki page, it does not seem to work
> properly. The image is downloaded from the wiki (ubuntu-natty.qcow2) and
> the benchmarks are built in the same image.
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> As a result, a couple of checkpoints are created and then the image
> freezes unexpectedly. Sometimes, it generates all the checkpoints, but
> unfortunately they are wrong, that is, they were taken in almost the same
> instructions.
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> Below is the procedure that we followed:
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> Booting MARSSx86, using default
> configurations:
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> qemu/qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :10 -m 4096 -hda
> /opt/images/ubuntu-natty.qcow2
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> 2. By using of "create_checkpoint"
> binary (provided by ubuntu-natty.qcow2), we created the initial checkpoint
> at the beginning of the benchmark:
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> ~/create_checkpoint bzip2;
> ./bzip2_base.gcc43-64bit chicken.jpg 30 > /dev/null;
> ~/stop_sim
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> 3. Rebooting MARSSx86 using the last created
> checkpoint:
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> qemu/qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :10 -m 4096 -loadvm bzip2
> -simconfig simconfig.cfg -hda /opt/images/ubuntu-natty.qcow2
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> where
> simconfig.cfg file have the contents exactly as shown
> bellow:
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> -simpoint
> /opt/simpoints/401.bzip2/t.simpoints
> -simpoint-interval
> 100M
> -simpoint-chk-name bzip2
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> Do you have any idea about what
> might be wrong?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> George
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