Trace Acquisition Methodology Clause Samples

Trace Acquisition Methodology. The information that we expect to find on the trace files differs, depending on the focus of the analysis, whether the analysis is made in search of compression opportunities or for sharing pattern analysis. For sharing pattern analysis we need to capture all memory accesses from the cores. In turn, for memory compression opportunities, as communication between L1 and L2 is managed internally by ARM processors, we need to capture all communication between L2 and main memory. In the later we also need to know the memory contents in order to analyze the data transferred. For sharing pattern analysis our point of interest is the parallel section of the applications, namely the section executed by several cores at the same time. To identify this section we explored the application code looking for the starting point and end point of threads. This was identified with THALES support. To delimit this section and make it recognizable by FastModels we introduce a special nop instruction on the application, which is available on the ARM Instruction Set. Therefore, tracing is started when the reserved instruction is fetched and a subsequent appearance of such an instruction determines that the tracing must finish. On the other hand, compression involves not only shared data but also private data, so limiting the trace acquisition to the parallel section of the applications is no longer mandatory. Nevertheless, beyond that consideration, the traces obtained for sharing pattern analysis are suitable for compression analysis as well, so no different set of traces has been obtained. FastModels supports the use of a Model Trace Interface (MTI) plug-in that permits us to consistently track the execution of the model. Through implementing an MTI plug-in for tracing memory accesses produced by the cores and adding it to the simulation we are able to trace exactly what we needed in the form that we required. The ARM simulator offers other alternative tracing methods but they would either modify the system behavior when using RTSM-VE model or be prohibitively time consuming. MTI plug-in provides many different sources to trace, but the more verbose the trace obtained is and the more sources are involved, the more it slows down the simulation. Since it takes billions of instructions to boot a Linux system on FastModels, we need to deactivate the output and minimize the number of sources of the tracing until the starting point of the segment of interest is detected. We have achi...
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