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2018-03-09tests: Python regression scripts using new print functionGiacomo Travaglini
Change-Id: I92060da4537e4ff1c0ff665f2f6ffc3850c50e88 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8892 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-10-14config: Make configs/common a Python packageAndreas Hansson
Continue along the same line as the recent patch that made the Ruby-related config scripts Python packages and make also the configs/common directory a package. All affected config scripts are updated (hopefully). Note that this change makes it apparent that the current organisation and naming of the config directory and its subdirectories is rather chaotic. We mix scripts that are directly invoked with scripts that merely contain convenience functions. While it is not addressed in this patch we should follow up with a re-organisation of the config structure, and renaming of some of the packages.
2015-03-19test, arm: Add scripts to test checkpointsAndreas Sandberg
Add a set of scripts to automatically test checkpointing in the regression framework. The checkpointing tests are similar to the switcheroo tests, but instead of switching between CPUs, they checkpoint the system and restore from the checkpoint again. This is done at regular intervals, typically while booting Linux. The implementation is fairly straight forward, with the exception that we have to work around gem5's inability to restore from a checkpoint after a system has been instantiated. We work around this by forking off child processes that does the actual simulation and never instantiate a system in the parent process unless a maximum checkpoint count is reached (in which case we just simulate the system to completion in the parent). Checkpoint testing is currently only enabled 32- and 64-bit ARM systems using atomic CPUs. Note: An unfortunate side-effect of forking is that every new process will overwrite the stats and terminal output from the previous process. This means that the output directory only contains data from the last checkpoint.