Debug: Add a function to cause the simulator to create a checkpoint from GDB.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/sim/debug.cc b/src/sim/debug.cc
index e866c13e7..bd7924117 100644
--- a/src/sim/debug.cc
+++ b/src/sim/debug.cc
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "sim/debug.hh"
 #include "sim/eventq.hh"
 #include "sim/sim_events.hh"
+#include "sim/sim_exit.hh"
 
 using namespace std;
 
@@ -88,6 +89,17 @@ schedBreakCycle(Tick when)
     warn("need to stop all queues");
 }
 
+///
+/// Function to cause the simulator to take a checkpoint from the debugger
+///
+void
+takeCheckpoint(Tick when)
+{
+    if (!when)
+        when = curTick() + 1;
+    exitSimLoop("checkpoint", 0, when, 0);
+}
+
 void
 eventqDump()
 {