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authorJavier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>2019-04-02 23:39:06 +0200
committerJavier Bueno Hedo <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>2019-04-03 09:14:04 +0000
commit06b305bb342ac02b22b77050324864b3217e7482 (patch)
treef6b6a397dd52856d906686124e253824c1615015
parente7a1636889dec63a65723dc4df71d1970b013116 (diff)
downloadgem5-06b305bb342ac02b22b77050324864b3217e7482.tar.xz
mem-cache: Fix panic in Indirect Memory prefetcher
Memory requests with a size non-power-of-two and less than 8 values were causing a panic, but there these should be allowed and ignored by the prefetcher. Change-Id: I86baa60058cc8a7f232d6ba5748d4c24a463c840 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17733 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--src/mem/cache/prefetch/indirect_memory.cc8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/prefetch/indirect_memory.cc b/src/mem/cache/prefetch/indirect_memory.cc
index 393958c57..d49652fa8 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/prefetch/indirect_memory.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/prefetch/indirect_memory.cc
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ IndirectMemoryPrefetcher::calculatePrefetch(const PrefetchInfo &pfi,
if (!miss && !pfi.isWrite() && pfi.getSize() <= 8) {
int64_t index = 0;
+ bool read_index = true;
switch(pfi.getSize()) {
case sizeof(uint8_t):
index = pfi.get<uint8_t>(byteOrder);
@@ -122,14 +123,15 @@ IndirectMemoryPrefetcher::calculatePrefetch(const PrefetchInfo &pfi,
index = pfi.get<uint64_t>(byteOrder);
break;
default:
- panic("Invalid access size\n");
+ // Ignore non-power-of-two sizes
+ read_index = false;
}
- if (!pt_entry->enabled) {
+ if (read_index && !pt_entry->enabled) {
// Not enabled (no pattern detected in this stream),
// add or update an entry in the pattern detector and
// start tracking misses
allocateOrUpdateIPDEntry(pt_entry, index);
- } else {
+ } else if (read_index) {
// Enabled entry, update the index
pt_entry->index = index;
if (!pt_entry->increasedIndirectCounter) {