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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 1 Post-Silicon Debugging of Transactional Memory Tests Carla Ferreira, João Lourenço {carla.ferreira, joao.lourenco}@fct.unl.pt Ophir Friedler, Wisam Kadry, Amir Nahir, Vitali Sokhin {ophirf, wisamk, nahir, vitali}@il.ibm.com IBM ResearchUniversidade Nova de Lisboa
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 2 Post Silicon Post-silicon validation elements: 1. Stimulating the design under test 2. Detecting erroneous behavior 3. Localizing the root cause of the problem 4. Providing a fix.
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 3 Stimulation 1. Test generation 2. Execution 3. Consistency checking 4. Repeat… Forever! Silicon Accelerator Generation Checking Execution OS services Test Template Topology Architectural Model Exerciser Image (Threadmill)
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 4 Detection Consistency checking Run the same test-case from the same initial architectural state. Expect the same final architectural state ori r10,r0,170 stb r10,0(r6) lbz r11,0(r6)... Initial State R0 = 0x1, R1 = 0x2 … Final State R0 = 0xA, R1 = 0xB … Micro-architectural state varies! Caches, page misses, pre-fetching, thread priorities
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 5 Detection And what if two different final states are manifested? ori r10,r0,170 stb r10,0(r6) lbz r11,0(r6)... Initial State R0 = 0x1, R1 = 0x2 … Final State R0 = 0xA, R1 = 0xB … ori r10,r0,170 stb r10,0(r6) lbz r11,0(r6)... Initial State R0 = 0x1, R1 = 0x2 … Final State R0 = 0xC, R1 = 0xB … MIS-COMPARE Final State R0 = 0xA, R1 = 0xB … Final State R0 = 0xC, R1 = 0xB …
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 6 Localization approach 1. A test-case that produces a mis-compare is found 2. Fast-forward to that test-case on a software simulator (a.k.a. Reference model) 3. Execute test case on the reference model instruction by instruction and extract information
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 7 Localization Reduce number of resources and instructions that might be the root cause of the mis-compare Study the effect of transactions in the test-case on the final state. Justification: Force erroneous behaviour on reference model and re- create the mis-compare results
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8 R1 R4R3R2 Localization = suspicious instruction subset
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 9 Concluding remarks Debug automation effectively reduces the debugging effort. Graph analysis holds the potential automate the localization of suspicious resources and instructions Future work: - Study the impact of escaped stores in transaction aborts - experiment with larger (real-world) cases
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WTM’13, Prague, April 14, 2013 10 Questions
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