Add traceprocessing steps for PC trace comparisons Documenting sed/awk/grep one-liners for extracting PC trace from Spike/Renode in a format that can be directly diff-ed with the SystemC trace.dat for the same elf file. Change-Id: Ib9e527c0049a6e7d5d33433cc30a42bf9b0a7b26
diff --git a/TraceGeneration.md b/TraceGeneration.md index e34c78a..ebc745b 100644 --- a/TraceGeneration.md +++ b/TraceGeneration.md
@@ -144,3 +144,29 @@ ```sh renode_trace_output.txt | wc -l ``` + +### PC for Trace Analysis + +SystemC trace output contains the 8 digit PC in hex (without the '0x' prefix). + +These commands reformat the raw output trace from Spike and Renode for +comparison with the SystemC output trace, located at: + +```sh +$ROOTDIR/out/springbok/systemc/sim/simulations/trace.dat +``` + + +#### Spike + +```sh +cat spike_trace.txt | awk '/_start/,/_finish/' | sed 's/.*: 0x\([0-9a-fA-F]\{8\}\).*/\1/g' | egrep "^32" > spike_trace_pc.txt +``` + +#### Renode + + +```sh +cat renode_trace.txt | awk -F":" '{print $1}' | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" > renode_trace_pc.txt +``` +