gpl: gui debug mode does not stop for some designs

[gudeh]

Description

It happens only for some designs.
Here is a list of some designs I noticed it is not stopping:
-nangate45/jpeg
-nangate45/gcd
-nangate45/ibex
-nangate45/swerv
-sky130hd/riscvi
-sky130hd/gcd
-sky130hd/jpeg

And here are designs that successfully stopped for gpl debug mode in the gui:
-sky130hd/chameleon
-asap7/microwatt
-asap7/jpeg
-sky130hd/aes

Suggested Solution

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Additional Context

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[maliberty]

Please give an example of the command you are using when it doesn't stop. I find it hard to understand why it would be design specific.

[gudeh]

I inserted line 8 to flow/scripts/global_place_skip_io.tcl in this image. global_placement_debug -pause 10 -update 10 -draw_bins

Also, for each of the designs I tried I went to ORFS/flow directory and did:
make DESIGN_CONFIG=./designs/sky130hd/chameleon/config.mk global_place_skip_io_issue
emacs run-me-chameleon-sky130hd-base.sh
inserted the -gui flag to the openroad command:

and ran ./run-me-chameleon-sky130hd-base.sh

[maliberty]

I believe the problem is [place_density_with_lb_addon] which runs part of global placement and probably consumes the debug before global_placement happens.