tree bffc0c5b937bde1c516a2a4c978008e80c19a808
parent 2eb57c7c3bb762097aa7bdab40cd37ec73996dca
author Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu> 1522700570 -0400
committer Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu> 1549639530 +0000

sim: handle the case when there're not enough HW thread contexts

In SE mode, since there's no OS scheduler, the number of active SW
threads is limited by the number of HW thread contexts. Previously, if
there is no spare HW thread context, the simulator just fails and stops.
Instead, this patch returns EAGAIN error code from a clone syscall if
there's no available HW thread context. Then it's up to the simulated
program to handle the error.

Linux man page reference:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clone.2.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html

Change-Id: Ib4e092433e49de4dde376c8cb81f7d3f7851cbc0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/9628
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>