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authorSteve Reinhardt <Steve.Reinhardt@amd.com>2008-11-06 20:23:05 -0800
committerSteve Reinhardt <Steve.Reinhardt@amd.com>2008-11-06 20:23:05 -0800
commit72743e5020acb671bdd8a4a285ead308859f2605 (patch)
tree5403523ad26350143d85e6b569f7ac65db78ac58 /util/tracediff
parent92714e529f37a76e94d6e2201477fa9ed2410d1c (diff)
downloadgem5-72743e5020acb671bdd8a4a285ead308859f2605.tar.xz
tracediff: add '#' support for sub-arg alternatives, '-n' param
Diffstat (limited to 'util/tracediff')
-rwxr-xr-xutil/tracediff68
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/util/tracediff b/util/tracediff
index 3633fdb48..5f980ea5c 100755
--- a/util/tracediff
+++ b/util/tracediff
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@
# Authors: Steve Reinhardt
# Script to simplify using rundiff on trace outputs from two
-# invocations of m5.
+# invocations of m5. Takes a common m5 command line with embedded
+# alternatives and executes the two alternative commands in separate
+# subdirectories with output piped to rundiff.
#
# ******Note that you need to enable some trace flags in the args in order
# to do anything useful!******
@@ -40,6 +42,10 @@
# of the '|' is appended to the respective command lines. Note that
# you'll have to quote the arg or escape the '|' with a backslash
# so that the shell doesn't think you're doing a pipe.
+# - Arguments with '#' characters are split at those characters,
+# processed for alternatives ('|'s) as independent terms, then
+# pasted back into a single argument (without the '#'s). (Sort of
+# inspired by the C preprocessor '##' token pasting operator.)
#
# In other words, the arguments should look like the command line you
# want to run, with "|" used to list the alternatives for the parts
@@ -47,34 +53,64 @@
#
# For example:
#
-# % tracediff m5.opt --opt1 "--opt2|--opt3" --opt4
+# % tracediff m5.opt --opt1 '--opt2|--opt3' --opt4
# would compare these two runs:
# m5.opt --opt1 --opt2 --opt4
# m5.opt --opt1 --opt3 --opt4
#
-# If you want to compare two different simulator binaries, put a '|'
-# in the first script argument ("path1/m5.opt|path2/m5.opt"). If you
-# want to add arguments to one run only, just put a '|' in with text
-# only on one side ("--onlyOn1|"). You can do this with multiple
-# arguments together too ("|-a -b -c" adds three args to the second
+# % tracediff 'path1|path2#/m5.opt' --opt1 --opt2
+# would compare these two runs:
+# path1/m5.opt --opt1 --opt2
+# path2/m5.opt --opt1 --opt2
+#
+# If you want to add arguments to one run only, just put a '|' in with
+# text only on one side ('--onlyOn1|'). You can do this with multiple
+# arguments together too ('|-a -b -c' adds three args to the second
# run only).
#
+# The '-n' argument to tracediff allows you to preview the two
+# generated command lines without running them.
+#
use FindBin;
-if (@ARGV < 2) {
- die "Usage: tracediff \"sim1|sim2\" [common-arg \"arg1|arg2\" ...]\n";
+$dryrun = 0;
+
+if (@ARGV >= 1 && $ARGV[0] eq '-n') {
+ $dryrun = 1;
+ shift @ARGV;
+}
+
+if (@ARGV < 1) {
+ die "Usage: tracediff [-n] \"sim1|sim2\" [common-arg \"arg1|arg2\" ...]\n";
}
foreach $arg (@ARGV) {
- @pair = split('\|', $arg, -1); # -1 enables null trailing fields
- if ($#pair > 0) {
- push @cmd1, $pair[0];
- push @cmd2, $pair[1];
- } else {
- push @cmd1, $arg;
- push @cmd2, $arg;
+ $a1 = $a2 = '';
+ @subargs = split('#', $arg, -1);
+ foreach $subarg (@subargs) {
+ @pair = split('\|', $subarg, -1); # -1 enables null trailing fields
+ if (@pair == 1) {
+ $a1 .= $subarg;
+ $a2 .= $subarg;
+ } elsif (@pair == 2) {
+ $a1 .= $pair[0];
+ $a2 .= $pair[1];
+ } else {
+ print 'Parse error: too many |s in ', $arg, '\n';
+ exit(1);
+ }
}
+
+ push @cmd1, $a1;
+ push @cmd2, $a2;
+}
+
+
+if ($dryrun) {
+ print "CMD1: ", join(' ', @cmd1), "\n";
+ print "CMD2: ", join(' ', @cmd2), "\n";
+ exit(0);
}
# First two args are the two simulator binaries to compare