gem5 Tutorial

This is a copy of the Learning gem5 book specifically for Mark Hill’s CS757 course for Spring 2016. The canonical and (possibly) more up to date version can be found on Jason Lowe-Power’s website: http://www.lowepower.com/jason/learning_gem5/.

This version has a newly added part: Part 3: Full System Simulation. This new section is under development and may have mistakes. Please send any comments or errors to Jason (powerjg@cs.wisc.edu).

Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Getting started with gem5
  • Building gem5
  • Creating a simple configuration script
  • Adding cache to the configuration script
  • Understanding gem5 statistics and output
  • Using the default configuration scripts
• Part II: Modifying and extending gem5
  • Setting up your development environment
  • Creating your first SimObject
  • Debugging gem5
• Part III: Full System Simulation
  • gem5 Full System Simulation
  • Full system configuration files
• Some thoughts on this document
  • Todo list
• Acknowledgements

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page