Does this work on WSL2? about blacksmith HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @MrObvious
I am not sure if it would work on WSL as the hugetlb filesystem is currently only partially implemented, see Memory Management - hugetlbfs filesystem partially implemented #3796. As we don't have any Windows systems, we would appreciate if you could report back in case you have tried it. Thank you!

Regards,
Patrick

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Ok good news WSL2 supports big pages (hugetlb). It was only partially implemented in WSL1. I just need to figure out how to get it to detect the RAM banks. I'm not sure of the command so can I please have some commands or things to check to get it working?

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If you are not running on a Coffee Lake machine (e.g., i7-8700K that we used), you will need to reverse-engineer the DRAM address functions. These are determined by the memory controller of the CPU, so I would assume that they are the same on the native host and WSL but we don't have experience with that.

Regarding reverse-engineering the DRAM address functions, please see the updated README:

NOTE: The DRAM address functions that are hard-coded in DRAMAddr.cpp assume an Intel Core i7-8700K. For any other microarchitecture, you will need to first reverse-engineer these functions (e.g., using DRAMA or TRResspass' DRAMA) and then update the matrices in this class accordingly.

Please follow this issue. I will soon add instructions there on how to pass the functions found by DRAMA to Blacksmith.

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Any updates on this, @MrObvious — could you make it work?

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