Measuring performance of programs on the FVP

Mohannad Ismail

Is the FVP accurate in terms of measuring performance of programs? Is it cycle accurate? If I use clock_gettime to measure time taken on applications, is it meaningful? If not, is there an accurate way to measure performance of programs on the FVP?

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Enabling top-byte ignore on ARMv8 Base FVP

Mohannad Ismail

Greetings,

I would like to enable top-byte ignore support on the FVP. I would be grateful on any guidelines on how to do that. Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Mohannad Ismail

Changing Exception Level and Security State with an Armv8-A Fixed Virtual Platform

tmeduthie

In my last couple of blogs we built an ELF image to expose some features of the Armv8-A architecture and toolchain for embedded software development. We got to a point where we could print "hello world" to a telnet console, and enable interrupts on the…

Retargeting and Enabling Exceptions with an ELF Image

tmeduthie

In my last blog we built an executable image to print "hello world" to a terminal. The same tools are being used here. Since the files in this post are a little longer, and consist of a great…

Building an ELF Image for an Armv8-A Fixed Virtual Platform

tmeduthie

This blog is the first of a short series which will explore the process of writing a program for an embedded system. Here we will use Arm's Compiler 6 toolchain to build an executable image for the AEMv8 Base Platform Model. Both of these are included…

Debugging the Armv8-A Linux Kernel with DS-5

Stephen Theobald

To develop, port and debug the Linux kernel on a platform, you will need to be able to set breakpoints, view registers, view memory, single-step at source level and so on - all the normal facilities provided by a debugger. You may also need to do these…