remove checkpoint trace generation since that requires qemu hacking and because we are able to generate the whole trace on VLSI

linux/testvector-generation/0001-bens-hack-to-turn-on-logging-mid-execution-using-GDB.patch

@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-From f9882bd274bde82d8c38a9c31692b6ee33d8cd9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: root <root@tera.eng.hmc.edu>
-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:48:29 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] bens hack to turn on logging mid-execution using GDB
-
----
- gdbstub.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/gdbstub.c b/gdbstub.c
-index 141d7bc4ec..98ecce1b67 100644
---- a/gdbstub.c
-+++ b/gdbstub.c
-@@ -2317,6 +2317,23 @@ static void handle_set_qemu_phy_mem_mode(GArray *params, void *user_ctx)
-     }
-     put_packet("OK");
- }
-+
-+static void handle_set_qemu_logging(GArray *params, void *user_ctx)
-+{
-+    if (!params->len) {
-+        put_packet("E22");
-+        return;
-+    }
-+
-+    int log_mask;
-+    if (!get_param(params, 0)->val_ul) {
-+        log_mask = 0;
-+    } else {
-+        log_mask = CPU_LOG_TB_IN_ASM | CPU_LOG_INT | CPU_LOG_TB_CPU | CPU_LOG_TB_NOCHAIN;
-+    }
-+    qemu_set_log(log_mask);
-+    put_packet("OK");
-+}
- #endif
- 
- static const GdbCmdParseEntry gdb_gen_query_set_common_table[] = {
-@@ -2430,6 +2447,12 @@ static const GdbCmdParseEntry gdb_gen_set_table[] = {
-         .cmd_startswith = 1,
-         .schema = "l0"
-     },
-+    {
-+        .handler = handle_set_qemu_logging,
-+        .cmd = "qemu.Logging:",
-+        .cmd_startswith = 1,
-+        .schema = "l0"
-+    },
- #endif
- };
- 
--- 
-2.27.0
-

linux/testvector-generation/createGenCheckpointScript.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/python3
 import sys
 
-if len(sys.argv) != 9:
+if len(sys.argv) != 8:
     sys.exit("""Error createGenCheckpointScript.py expects 7 args:
     <TCP port number>
     <path to vmlinux>
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ if len(sys.argv) != 9:
     <path to GDB checkpoint state dump>
     <path to GDB ram dump>
     <checkpoint pc address>
-    <number of times pc has already been hit before checkpoint>
-    <whether to generate a trace after hitting checkpoint>""")
+    <number of times pc has already been hit before checkpoint>""")
 
 tcpPort=sys.argv[1]
 vmlinux=sys.argv[2]
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ statePath=sys.argv[4]
 ramPath=sys.argv[5]
 checkPC=sys.argv[6]
 checkPCoccurences=sys.argv[7]
-genTrace=sys.argv[8]
 
 GDBscript = f"""
 # GDB config
@@ -56,20 +54,7 @@ set logging off
 # Log main memory to a file
 print "GDB storing RAM to {ramPath}\\n"
 dump binary memory {ramPath} 0x80000000 0xffffffff
-"""
-if (genTrace=="1"):
-    GDBscript+=\
-"""
-# Generate Trace Until End
-maintenance packet Qqemu.Logging:1
-# Do this by setting an impossible breakpoint
-b *0x1000
-del 1
-c
-"""
-else:
-    GDBscript+=\
-"""
+
 kill
 q
 """

linux/testvector-generation/genCheckpoint.sh

@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@ recordFile="$tvDir/all.qemu"
 traceFile="$tvDir/all.txt"
 
 # Parse Commandline Arg
-if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
-    echo "genCheckpoint requires 2 arguments: <num instrs> <whether to genTrace>" >&2
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    echo "genCheckpoint requires 1 argument: <num instrs>" >&2
     exit 1
 fi
 instrs=$1
-genTrace=$2
 if ! [ "$instrs" -eq "$instrs" ] 2> /dev/null
 then
     echo "Error expected integer number of instructions, got $instrs" >&2
@@ -25,14 +24,8 @@ rawStateFile="$checkPtDir/stateGDB.txt"
 rawRamFile="$checkPtDir/ramGDB.bin"
 ramFile="$checkPtDir/ram.bin"
 
-if [ $genTrace -eq "1" ]; then
-    read -p "This scripts is going to create a checkpoint at $instrs instrs.
-    AND it's going to start generating a trace at that checkpoint.
-    Is that what you wanted? (y/n) " -n 1 -r
-else 
 read -p "This scripts is going to create a checkpoint at $instrs instrs.
 Is that what you wanted? (y/n) " -n 1 -r
-fi
 echo
 if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
 then
@@ -63,7 +56,7 @@ then
     echo "It occurs ${occurences} times before the ${instrs}th instr." 
 
     # Create GDB script because GDB is terrible at handling arguments / variables
-    ./createGenCheckpointScript.py $tcpPort $imageDir/vmlinux $instrs $rawStateFile $rawRamFile $pc $occurences $genTrace
+    ./createGenCheckpointScript.py $tcpPort $imageDir/vmlinux $instrs $rawStateFile $rawRamFile $pc $occurences
     # GDB+QEMU
     echo "Starting QEMU in replay mode with attached GDB script at $(date +%H:%M:%S)"
     (qemu-system-riscv64 \
@@ -81,10 +74,8 @@ then
     echo "Changing Endianness at $(date +%H:%M:%S)"
     make fixBinMem
     ./fixBinMem "$rawRamFile" "$ramFile"
-    if [ $genTrace -ne "1" ]; then
     echo "Copying over a truncated trace"
     tail -n+$instrs $traceFile > $outTraceFile
-    fi
     read -p "Checkpoint completed at $(date +%H:%M:%S)" -n 1 -r
 
     # Cleanup