sim: handle the case when there're not enough HW thread contexts
authorTuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>
Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:22:50 +0000 (16:22 -0400)
committerTuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>
Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:25:30 +0000 (15:25 +0000)
commit42b063ad30324f1459915070226e820aabd54336
treebffc0c5b937bde1c516a2a4c978008e80c19a808
parent2eb57c7c3bb762097aa7bdab40cd37ec73996dca
sim: handle the case when there're not enough HW thread contexts

In SE mode, since there's no OS scheduler, the number of active SW
threads is limited by the number of HW thread contexts. Previously, if
there is no spare HW thread context, the simulator just fails and stops.
Instead, this patch returns EAGAIN error code from a clone syscall if
there's no available HW thread context. Then it's up to the simulated
program to handle the error.

Linux man page reference:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clone.2.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html

Change-Id: Ib4e092433e49de4dde376c8cb81f7d3f7851cbc0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/9628
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
src/sim/syscall_emul.hh