Android KitKat

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Building Android KitKat for gem5

Overview

The easiest way to build Android for gem5 is to base the system on a the emulated Goldfish device. The main difference between the actual qemu-based Goldfish model and gem5 is a small number of gem5-specific configuration files. These files are mainly related to differences in block device naming and scripts to start use gem5's pseudo-op interface to start experiments.

Build Instructions

Follow the directions on Android Open Source to download and build Android. Make sure to create a local mirror (see the download page) to speed up things if you ever need to create a new working directory. The following instructions are based on our experience from bringing up Android 4.4.4r2 (KitKat).

Make sure to quickly read the AOSP build instructions. In particular the section about Java dependencies. KitKat and earlier all depend on particular Sun/Oracle JDK versions. Lollipop and newer seem to be able to build with OpenJDK.

If you are building on a dedicated build machine or virtual machine, I'd recommend making sure OpenJDK is not installed at all on your machine for building KitKat. Sometimes having both versions can cause issues where some tools are invoked from OpenJDK while others get invoked from the Oracle JDK.

Either way, make sure that the Oracle bin directory is first in your PATH (and make sure it doesn't have a trailing slash): 

export PATH=/path/to/java-6-jdk/bin:$PATH


When setting up your build directories, I'd suggest a structure as follows:

  • /work/android (or some other directory with plenty of free space)
    • .../repos/aosp-mirro - Mirror of the upstream Android repository
    • .../gem5kitkat/
      • .../aosp - Clone of the Android repository

Before you start the AOSP build, you will need to make one change to the build system to enable building libion.so, which is used by the Mali driver. Edit the file aosp/system/core/libion/Android.mk to change LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS for libion from 'optional' to 'debug'. Here is the output of repo diff: 

 project system/core/
 diff --git a/libion/Android.mk b/libion/Android.mk
 index 5121fee..1a0af0e 100644
 --- a/libion/Android.mk
 +++ b/libion/Android.mk
 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ LOCAL_PATH:= $(call my-dir)
  include $(CLEAR_VARS)
  LOCAL_SRC_FILES := ion.c
  LOCAL_MODULE := libion
 -LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := optional
 +LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS := debug
  LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := liblog
  include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)


Build a vanilla AOSP KitKat distribution using the following command:

. build/envsetup.sh
lunch aosp_arm-userdebug
make -j8

This builds a plain Android for the Goldfish device (an Android specific qemu version). We are going to use this as a base for our gem5 distribution.

Useful commands:

hmm Show a list of build system commands
mm Build the Android module in the current directory
mma Build the Android module in the current directory and its dependencies
emulator Launch Android in qemu

The mm command is especially useful since just running make in a directory with an existing build of Android (i.e., make doesn't need to build anything) can take several minutes.

Preparing a filesystem for gem5

First, create an empty disk (this example creates a 2GiB image) image:

dd if=/dev/zero of=myimage.img bs=1M count=2048

As root, hook up the disk image to a loopback device (the following assumes /dev/loop0 is free).

losetup /dev/loop0 myimage.img


Using fdisk, create the following partitions:

Part. No Usage Approximate Size
1 / 500MB
2 /data 1GB
3 /cache 500MB

Use common sense when setting up the partitions. The root partition will contain both Android's root file system and the system file system and should be big enough for both of them. The data partition will contain any apps that are not a part of the system (i.e., anything you install).

As root, tell the kernel about the partitions and format them to ext4:

partprobe /dev/loop0
mkfs.ext4 -L AndroidRoot /dev/loop0p1
mkfs.ext4 -L AndroidData /dev/loop0p2
mkfs.ext4 -L AndroidCache /dev/loop0p3


Mount the filesystem and extract the root file system:

mkdir -p /mnt/android
mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/android
cd /mnt/android
zcat AOSP/out/target/product/generic/ramdisk.img  | cpio -i
mkdir cache

mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
mount -oro,loop AOSP/out/target/product/generic/system.img /mnt/tmp
cp -a /mnt/tmp/* system/


At this point, the new disk image is a (mostly) vanilla Goldfish image. Add the gem5 pixie dust by copying all the files in the attached tar-ball into the new root file system and adding an m5 binary (see util/m5 in your gem5 work directory) to /sbin. This directory contains a gem5-specific init.rc that is based on the original Goldfish device, with additional tweaks. Specifically, it runs /gem5/postboot.sh when Android has booted. This script is responsible for disabling the screen lock and downloading and executing a run script from gem5. Double check to make sure that both the init.gem5.rc and postboot.sh file have the executable permission set.

At this point, everything should just work. Unmount everything and disconnect the loop back device:

umount /mnt/android
losetup -d /dev/loop0


Android systems generally does a lot of initialization (JIT compilation etc.) on the first boot. Since gem5 normally mounts the root file system as CoW and stores the file system differences in memory. To speed up future experiments, make sure to follow the guide in BBench-gem5 to make these changes permanent.

Building the kernel

You will need a recent ARM cross compiler to build the kernel. If you're using Ubuntu 10.04, install it by running:

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

Checkout the gem5 kernel from the following git repository:

git://linux-arm.org/linux-linaro-tracking-gem5.git

Alternatively, you can use the github mirror of this same repo (See: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.m5.devel/27631): 

git clone https://github.com/gem5/linux-arm-gem5.git

If you are not planning on doing kernel development, you can add the option --depth 1 to significantly speed up your clone.

Configure and build the kernel using:

make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- ARCH=arm vexpress_gem5_defconfig
make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- ARCH=arm vmlinux -j8

Note: if you want to use Workload Automation, this may be a good time to add the extra kernel options to your .config file. See WA-gem5 for a description and which kernel options should be enabled.

Android Runtime Configuration

Simulation-specific kernel boot options options:

Kernel Option Function
qemu=1 Enable emulation support
qemu.gles=1 Don't use software rendering (usually enables GLES pass through)
androidboot.hardware=NAME Overrides the device's platform name (used to select configuration files at boot)

A simulated system should normally set qemu=1 on the kernel command line. This enables software rendering and some emulation specific services. In order to load the right boot configuration, set androidboot.hardware to gem5.

Kernel command line to properties mapping:

Kernel Option Android Property
androidboot.* ro.boot.*
androidboot.serialno ro.serialno
androidboot.mode ro.bootmode
androidboot.baseband ro.baseband
androidboot.bootloader ro.bootloader
androidboot.hardware ro.hardware & ro.boot.hardware
* ro.kernel.* if running in emulation mode

Emulation Mode Specifics (qemu=1)

OpenGL & Graphics

  • Setting the ro.kernel.qemu property forces libGLES_android to be used unless ro.kernel.qemu.gles is also set.
  • qemu.sf.lcd_density instead of ro.sf.lcd_density is used to specify display density.

Resources

kitkat-overlay.tar.bz2

Running workloads with Kitkat

To run workloads we advise the use of Workload Automation. For detailed instructions on how to use this see: WA-gem5

NoMali

To use a NoMali model in gem5, you need to perform the following steps:

  • Add it to the configuration file
  • Add the user-space drivers to your Android image
  • Add the kernel-side driver to your kernel
  • Inform the kernel of the device by adding it to the device tree

These steps are described in detail in the sections below.

Once you have completed the steps to build the kernel-side driver and modified the DTB, test the kernel and DTB by starting it in gem5. Ensure that you get the following message from the kernel: 

mali 2d000000.gpu: Continuing without Mali clock control
mali 2d000000.gpu: GPU identified as 0x0750 r0p0 status 1
mali 2d000000.gpu: Probed as mali0

Once the user-space driver has been added, start Android and check the output of the logcat command. You should see something like this when surfaceflinger starts: 

I/[Gralloc](  885): using (fd=14)
I/[Gralloc](  885): id           = hdlcd
I/[Gralloc](  885): xres         = 1920 px
I/[Gralloc](  885): yres         = 1080 px
I/[Gralloc](  885): xres_virtual = 1920 px
I/[Gralloc](  885): yres_virtual = 1080 px
I/[Gralloc](  885): bpp          = 16
I/[Gralloc](  885): r            = 11:5
I/[Gralloc](  885): g            =  5:6
I/[Gralloc](  885): b            =  0:5
I/[Gralloc](  885): width        = 305 mm (159.895081 dpi)
I/[Gralloc](  885): height       = 171 mm (160.421051 dpi)
I/[Gralloc](  885): refresh rate = 59.28 Hz
E/SurfaceFlinger(  885): hwcomposer module not found
W/SurfaceFlinger(  885): getting VSYNC period from fb HAL: 16868241
W/SurfaceFlinger(  885): no suitable EGLConfig found, trying a simpler query
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): EGL informations:
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): vendor    : Android
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): version   : 1.4 Android META-EGL
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): extensions: EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses EGL_ANDROID_presentation_time EGL_KHR_image EGL_KHR_image_base EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image EGL_KHR_fence_sync EGL_KHR_create_context EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness EGL_ANDROID_image_native_buffer EGL_KHR_wait_sync EGL_ANDROID_recordable 
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): Client API: OpenGL_ES
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): EGLSurface: 5-6-5-0, config=0x78f1f4e0
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): OpenGL ES informations:
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): vendor    : ARM
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): renderer  : Mali-T760
I/SurfaceFlinger(  885): version   : OpenGL ES 3.1 v1.r8p0-02rel0.785fbb28b57044ab28a90a55a7b06f3f


Configuration Changes

The NoMali GPU is not instantiated by default in any of the example configurations. To instantiate it, add the following code to your configuration script: 

my_system.gpu = NoMaliGpu(
    gpu_type="T760",
    ver_maj=0, ver_min=0, ver_status=1,
    int_job=114, int_mmu=115, int_gpu=116,
    pio_addr=0x2d000000,
    pio=membus.master)

The code above instantiates a NoMali model of a Mali T760 r0p0-1 at address 0x2d000000. The GPU type and revision must match the driver.

Android User Space Drivers

Download the Mali drivers for gem5 from the ARM Mali Midgard User Space Drivers section on MaliDeveloper. Make sure that you download a driver that matches your Android version. Make a note of the driver version number, you'll need a matching kernel-side driver of the same version.

The downloaded file will contain at least the following files:

  • lib/egl/libGLES_mali.so
  • lib/hw/gralloc.default.so

Copy the entire lib directory into /system/vendor in the target system. The resulting disk image should contain (at least) the following files:

  • /system/vendor/lib/egl/libGLES_mali.so
  • /system/vendor/lib/hw/gralloc.default.so

Make sure that everyone can access the files (i.e., files have permission 0644 and directories 0755), or you'll end up with permission errors when booting the system.

Kernel Drivers

Download the Mali kernel-side drivers from the ARM Mali Midgard Kernel Drivers section on MaliDeveloper. Make sure that you download a driver version that matches your user space driver version.

Copy the directory driver/product/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm into drivers/gpu/ in your target kernel. You now need to wire up the driver to the kernel's build system. Do that by adding arm/ to the list of subdirectories in drivers/gpu/Makefile. To add it to the configuration system, add source "drivers/gpu/arm/Kconfig" to drivers/video/Kconfig.

Enable the driver in the kernel configuration (set MALI_MIDGARD / Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> ARM GPU Configuration -> Mali Midgard series support). The default options should work and enable device tree support. Do not set the NoMali option in the kernel.

You will also need to enable the Mali DDK sysfs configuration (set MALI_MIDGARD_DEBUG_SYS / Device Drivers -> Graphics support -> ARM GPU Configuration -> Mali Midgard series support -> Enable sysfs for the Mali Midgard DDK).

You will also need to enable the kernel config option CONFIG_ION_DUMMY=y / Device Drivers -> Staging drivers -> Android -> Android Drivers -> Ion Memory Manager -> Dummy Ion driver . This will create the /dev/ion device node that the Mali driver will use.

In short, you need to set following configurations in your .config file. 

CONFIG_MALI_MIDGARD=y
CONFIG_MALI_MIDGARD_DEBUG_SYS=y
CONFIG_ION=y
CONFIG_ION_DUMMY=y

Device Tree

Add the following node to your device tree: 

gpu@0x2d000000 {
	compatible = "arm,mali-midgard";
	reg = <0 0x2d000000 0 0x4000>;
	interrupts = <0 82 4>, <0 83 4>, <0 84 4>;
	interrupt-names = "JOB", "MMU", "GPU";
};

Note that there is an offset between interrupts in gem5 and in the device tree. Linux starts counting SPIs from 0, while gem5 starts from 32.

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