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Guanglin Xu
Guanglin Xu

Reputation: 53

How to specify kernel parameters in Spike (riscv)?

I want to reserve a portion of physical memory when booting Linux. The common kernel parameters should be like "mem=51M memmap=512M$512M". How can I specify these parameters for kernel for Spike?

My Spike execution commands are :

[email protected]:~/riscv$ spike -m2048 +disk=./root.bin bbl ./linux-3.14.33/vmlinux
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[    0.000000] Linux version 3.14.33-g043bb5d (guanglin@guanglin-a11-linux) (gcc version 5.2.0 (GCC) ) #2 Sun Aug 23 17:19:49 EDT 2015
[    0.000000] Detected 0x7fc00000 bytes of physical memory
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x00200000-0x7fdfffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00200000-0x7fdfffff]
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 516110
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/htifblk0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[    0.000000] Sorting __ex_table...
[    0.000000] Memory: 2058700K/2093056K available (1722K kernel code, 124K rwdata, 356K rodata, 68K init, 211K bss, 34356K reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:2
[    0.150000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 20.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=100050)
[    0.150000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.150000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.150000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.150000] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.150000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.150000] Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource
[    0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.150000] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.150000] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.150000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[    0.150000] TCP: reno registered
[    0.150000] UDP hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.150000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.150000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 6144 bytes)
[    0.150000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.150000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.150000] htifcon htif1: detected console
[    0.150000] console [htifcon0] enabled
[    0.150000] htifblk htif2: detected disk
[    0.150000] htifblk htif2: added htifblk0
[    0.150000] TCP: cubic registered
[    0.150000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
[    0.150000] devtmpfs: mounted
[    0.150000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 68K (ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff80011000)
[    0.160000] EXT2-fs (htifblk0): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
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I tried 

spike -m2048 +disk=./root.bin bbl ./linux-3.14.33/vmlinux mem=1G memmap=1G$1G
spike -m2048 +disk=./root.bin bbl ./linux-3.14.33/vmlinux mem=512M memmap=512M$512M

None of them works.

If I do

spike -m2048 +disk=./root.bin bbl "./linux-3.14.33/vmlinux mem=512M memmap=512M$512M"

couldn't open ELF program: ./linux-3.14.33/vmlinux mem=512M memmap=512M12M!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 698

Answers (1)

user2548418
user2548418

Reputation: 1571

For now, arguments to linux need to compiled into linux via the CONFIG_CMDLINE parameter in .config.

A future version of bbl could be improved to support passing arguments to linux.

Upvotes: 1

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