cpu: warn if TrafficGen is suppressing a large numer of packets

Add a basic warning for every 10000 packet that is suppressed to alert
the user.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.cc b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.cc
index f8eb38d31..a405351ed 100644
--- a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.cc
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ TrafficGen::TrafficGen(const TrafficGenParams* p)
       port(name() + ".port", *this),
       retryPkt(NULL),
       retryPktTick(0),
-      updateEvent(this)
+      updateEvent(this),
+      numSuppressed(0)
 {
 }
 
@@ -198,6 +199,12 @@ TrafficGen::update()
         } else {
             DPRINTF(TrafficGen, "Suppressed packet %s 0x%x\n",
                     pkt->cmdString(), pkt->getAddr());
+
+            ++numSuppressed;
+            if (numSuppressed % 10000)
+                warn("%s suppressed %d packets with non-memory addresses\n",
+                     name(), numSuppressed);
+
             delete pkt->req;
             delete pkt;
             pkt = nullptr;
diff --git a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.hh b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.hh
index d57b613f3..914b4ac09 100644
--- a/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.hh
+++ b/src/cpu/testers/traffic_gen/traffic_gen.hh
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ class TrafficGen : public MemObject
     /** Event for scheduling updates */
     EventWrapper<TrafficGen, &TrafficGen::update> updateEvent;
 
+    uint64_t numSuppressed;
+
     /** Count the number of generated packets. */
     Stats::Scalar numPackets;