mem: Fix DRAM controller to operate on its own address space

Typically, a memory controller is assigned an address range of the
form [start, end). This address range might be interleaved and
therefore only a non-continuous subset of the addresses in the address
range is handed by this controller.

Prior to this patch, the DRAM controller was unaware of the
interleaving and as a result the address range could affect the
mapping of addresses to DRAM ranks, rows and columns. This patch
changes the DRAM controller, to transform the input address to a
continuous range of the form [0, size). As a result the DRAM
controller always operates on a dense and continuous address range
regardlesss of the system configuration.

Change-Id: I7d273a630928421d1854658c9bb0ab34e9360851
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19328
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Wendy Elsasser <wendy.elsasser@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configs/common/MemConfig.py b/configs/common/MemConfig.py
index 7f737761e..0b5011c36 100644
--- a/configs/common/MemConfig.py
+++ b/configs/common/MemConfig.py
@@ -66,10 +66,6 @@ def create_mem_ctrl(cls, r, i, nbr_mem_ctrls, intlv_bits, intlv_size):
 
     # Only do this for DRAMs
     if issubclass(cls, m5.objects.DRAMCtrl):
-        # Inform each controller how many channels to account
-        # for
-        ctrl.channels = nbr_mem_ctrls
-
         # If the channel bits are appearing after the column
         # bits, we need to add the appropriate number of bits
         # for the row buffer size