sim: Add support for forking

This changeset adds forking capabilities to the gem5 python scripts. A fork
method is added to simulate.py. This method is responsible for forking the
simulator itself, and will direct all output files to a new output directory
based on the fork sequence number. The default name of the output directory is
the same as the parent with the suffix ".fN" added where N is the fork sequence
number. The fork method provides the option to specify if the system should be
drained prior to forking, or not. By default the system is drained to ensure
that there are no in-flight transactions.

When forking the simulator, the fork method returns the PID of the child
process, or returns 0 if running in the child. This is in line with the standard
Python forking interface.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>
[sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version]
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
[andreas.sandberg@arm.com: Updated to comply with modern draining semantics ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/python/swig/core.i b/src/python/swig/core.i
index 862c0e37e..08fbe01d1 100644
--- a/src/python/swig/core.i
+++ b/src/python/swig/core.i
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ const bool flag_TRACING_ON = TRACING_ON;
 
 inline void disableAllListeners() { ListenSocket::disableAll(); }
 
+inline bool listenersDisabled() { return ListenSocket::allDisabled(); }
+
 inline void
 seedRandom(uint64_t seed)
 {
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ seedRandom(uint64_t seed)
 void setOutputDir(const std::string &dir);
 void doExitCleanup();
 void disableAllListeners();
+bool listenersDisabled();
 void seedRandom(uint64_t seed);
 
 %immutable compileDate;