text: #! /usr/bin/env python
  
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  # Authors: Andreas Hansson
  
  import optparse
  import subprocess
  import sys
  
  parser = optparse.OptionParser()
  
  # This script lets the user run a soak test using the false-sharing
  # memtest.py example script. It runs a number of iterations with
  # random tree topologies generated for each run, and runs for a number
  # of ticks. Both the iteration count and the ticks for each run can be
  # set on the command line.
  
  parser.add_option('-c', '--count', type='int', default=100)
  parser.add_option('-t', '--ticks', type='int', default=100000000000)
  
  (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
  
  if len(args) != 1:
      print "Error: Expecting a single argument specifying the gem5 binary"
      sys.exit(1)
  
  gem5_binary = args[0]
  
  for i in range(options.count):
      status = subprocess.call([gem5_binary, 'configs/example/memtest.py',
                                '-r', '-m %d' % (options.ticks)])
      if status != 0:
          print "Error: memtest run failed\n"
          sys.exit(1)
  
  print "memtest soak finished without errors"
  