[Barrelfish-users] How to get the wall-clock in Barrelfish?

Kornilios Kourtis kornilios.kourtis at inf.ethz.ch
Thu Jan 10 16:06:15 CET 2013


Hi Zhiquan,

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:50:21PM +0800, Zhiquan Lai wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I am using Barrelfish built on intel SCC and doing some micro benchmark.
> However I cann't find any wall-clock function provide by Barrelfish.
>  
> So I want to make use of the FPGA clock provided by SCC referring to
> (http://intelopenport.hosted.jivesoftware.com/message/173550).
> As said, we can acess the 64-bit wall-clock at physical address of 0xf9008224.
> Then I add some code in the function of  rck.c:rck_init() to map the physical
> address to a virtual address.
> BUT after this modification, Barrelfish can not be booted with fault as follow:
>   
>     kernel 0: exception 14 (error code 0x2): write page fault due to page not
>     present, while in supervisor mode
>     Address that caused the fault: 0x0
>     No active process
>     Faulting instruction pointer (or following instruction): 0x8010566b (0x
>     10566b in binary)
>     EAX 0x0 EBX 0x8011e198 ECX 0xfffcd100 EDX 0xbffc ESP 0x80927b68
>     Top o' stack:
>     0x8010566b 0x10016 0x8 0x10 0xe 0x2 0x8010566b 0x8 0x10016 0x80327000
>     0x80326000 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x8 0x80 0x0 0xffffffff 0x0 0x8011e198
>     No GDB backend
> 
>   
> Any suggestions are appreciated ?

Haven't look at SCC's FPGA clock, but it seems that the change introduced
a NULL pointer dereference. Have you tried locating where the fault
occurs by disassembling the cpu driver at location 0x10566b? If not, it
might give you some hints on where the problem is.

Alternatively, you could use rdtsc() for taking timing measurements. See
for example usr/bench/bench.c.

cheers,
Kornilios.

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Kornilios Kourtis



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