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authorNikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>2018-03-12 10:11:16 +0000
committerGabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>2018-03-21 22:28:26 +0000
commit0473286ab1e9992a906eff380000bf90c82eeccb (patch)
treed750bca0b96da2ab66c788ae3495dbe2f90f2cf3
parent68af229490fc811aebddf68b3e2e09e63a5fa475 (diff)
downloadgem5-0473286ab1e9992a906eff380000bf90c82eeccb.tar.xz
mem-cache: Allow clean operations when block allocation fails
Block allocation can fail when there is an in-service MSHR that operates on the victim block. This can happed due to: * an upgrade operation: a request that needs a writable copy of the block finds a shared (non-writable) copy of the block in the cache and has allocates an MSHR for the pending upgrade operation, or * a clean operation: a clean request finds a dirty copy of the block and allocates an MSHR for the pending clean operation. This changes relaxes an assertion to allow for the 2nd case (cache clean operations). Change-Id: Ib51482160b5f2b3702ed744b0eac2029d34bc9d4 Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9021 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
-rw-r--r--src/mem/cache/cache.cc6
-rw-r--r--src/mem/cache/mshr.hh7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/cache.cc b/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
index 85c96772c..9ee935961 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
@@ -1826,10 +1826,10 @@ Cache::allocateBlock(Addr addr, bool is_secure, PacketList &writebacks)
Addr repl_addr = tags->regenerateBlkAddr(blk);
MSHR *repl_mshr = mshrQueue.findMatch(repl_addr, blk->isSecure());
if (repl_mshr) {
- // must be an outstanding upgrade request
+ // must be an outstanding upgrade or clean request
// on a block we're about to replace...
- assert(!blk->isWritable() || blk->isDirty());
- assert(repl_mshr->needsWritable());
+ assert((!blk->isWritable() && repl_mshr->needsWritable()) ||
+ repl_mshr->isCleaning());
// too hard to replace block with transient state
// allocation failed, block not inserted
return nullptr;
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/mshr.hh b/src/mem/cache/mshr.hh
index 1f59607bf..5fe0fb92d 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/mshr.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/mshr.hh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2012-2013, 2015-2016 ARM Limited
+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2013, 2015-2016, 2018 ARM Limited
* All rights reserved.
*
* The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -235,6 +235,11 @@ class MSHR : public QueueEntry, public Printable
/** True if we need to get a writable copy of the block. */
bool needsWritable() const { return targets.needsWritable; }
+ bool isCleaning() const {
+ PacketPtr pkt = targets.front().pkt;
+ return pkt->isClean();
+ }
+
bool isPendingModified() const {
assert(inService); return pendingModified;
}