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SystemC stack overflow on large system


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Hi there,

 

I want to simulate a lager system which calculates the inner product of two large vectors. The target vector size is 10^6, but now I can only achieve 4096. When the size N equals 8192, it reports an error: ./../src/systemc/sc_cor_qt.cpp:115: virtual void sc_core::sc_cor_qt::stack_protect(bool): Assertion `ret == 0' failed.

 

I tried set_stack_size which does not work. Because any single thread is not large. They are either an adder or a multiplier. But the whole system is quite large, containing N multiplier and more than N adders. I guess enlarge the stack for sc_main may help, but I do not know how to do that. There is such an option in ModelSim, however, it does not work for my case.

 

Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks.

 

Jintao

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I'd guess, that this is not a stack overflow but an out-of-memory issue, where the kernel fails to obtain enough memory for your processes.

 

Maybe, you can switch your modeling style from SC_THREADs to using SC_METHODs, or even decrease the stack size as a first step?

 

hth,

 Philipp

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I'd guess, that this is not a stack overflow but an out-of-memory issue, where the kernel fails to obtain enough memory for your processes.

 

Maybe, you can switch your modeling style from SC_THREADs to using SC_METHODs, or even decrease the stack size as a first step?

 

hth,

 Philipp

Yes, it works! Thank you, Philipp. I changed all the SC_THREADs to SC_METHODS and now I can run a size as large as 32768. When N=65536, the 8GB memory on my computer runs out, but there are no errors any more. For SC_METHODS, I cannot change the stack size. So for the next step, probably I need to improve the algorithm.

 

Anyway, this problem is solved. Thanks again!

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