arch: Move the ISA object to a separate section

After making the ISA an independent SimObject, it is serialized
automatically by the Python world. Previously, this just resulted in
an empty ISA section. This patch moves the contents of the ISA to that
section and removes the explicit ISA serialization from the thread
contexts, which makes it behave like a normal SimObject during
serialization.

Note: This patch breaks checkpoint backwards compatibility! Use the
cpt_upgrader.py utility to upgrade old checkpoints to the new format.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/arch/alpha/isa.hh b/src/arch/alpha/isa.hh
index 4e22c7eea..739b77286 100644
--- a/src/arch/alpha/isa.hh
+++ b/src/arch/alpha/isa.hh
@@ -88,9 +88,8 @@ namespace AlphaISA
             memset(ipr, 0, sizeof(ipr));
         }
 
-        void serialize(EventManager *em, std::ostream &os);
-        void unserialize(EventManager *em, Checkpoint *cp,
-                const std::string &section);
+        void serialize(std::ostream &os);
+        void unserialize(Checkpoint *cp, const std::string &section);
 
         int
         flattenIntIndex(int reg)