ARM: Allow conditional quiesce instructions.

This patch prevents not executed conditional instructions marked as
IsQuiesce from stalling the pipeline indefinitely. If the instruction
is not executed the quiesceSkip psuedoinst is called which schedules a
wakes up call to the fetch stage.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/arch/arm/isa/insts/misc.isa b/src/arch/arm/isa/insts/misc.isa
index be51d927d..cf5c7b47a 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/isa/insts/misc.isa
+++ b/src/arch/arm/isa/insts/misc.isa
@@ -491,10 +491,13 @@ let {{
 
     wfeCode = '''
 #if FULL_SYSTEM
-    if (SevMailbox)
+    if (SevMailbox) {
         SevMailbox = 0;
-    else
+        PseudoInst::quiesceSkip(xc->tcBase());
+    }
+    else {
         PseudoInst::quiesce(xc->tcBase());
+    }
 #endif
     '''
     wfeIop = InstObjParams("wfe", "WfeInst", "PredOp", \
@@ -502,7 +505,7 @@ let {{
             ["IsNonSpeculative", "IsQuiesce", "IsSerializeAfter"])
     header_output += BasicDeclare.subst(wfeIop)
     decoder_output += BasicConstructor.subst(wfeIop)
-    exec_output += PredOpExecute.subst(wfeIop)
+    exec_output += QuiescePredOpExecute.subst(wfeIop)
 
     wfiCode = '''
 #if FULL_SYSTEM
@@ -511,22 +514,25 @@ let {{
     '''
     wfiIop = InstObjParams("wfi", "WfiInst", "PredOp", \
             { "code" : wfiCode, "predicate_test" : predicateTest },
-            ["IsNonSpeculative", "IsQuiesce"])
+            ["IsNonSpeculative", "IsQuiesce", "IsSerializeAfter"])
     header_output += BasicDeclare.subst(wfiIop)
     decoder_output += BasicConstructor.subst(wfiIop)
-    exec_output += PredOpExecute.subst(wfiIop)
+    exec_output += QuiescePredOpExecute.subst(wfiIop)
 
     sevCode = '''
     // Need a way for O3 to not scoreboard these accesses as pipe flushes.
+    SevMailbox = 1;
     System *sys = xc->tcBase()->getSystemPtr();
     for (int x = 0; x < sys->numContexts(); x++) {
         ThreadContext *oc = sys->getThreadContext(x);
-        oc->setMiscReg(MISCREG_SEV_MAILBOX, 1);
+        if (oc != xc->tcBase()) {
+            oc->setMiscReg(MISCREG_SEV_MAILBOX, 1);
+        }
     }
     '''
     sevIop = InstObjParams("sev", "SevInst", "PredOp", \
             { "code" : sevCode, "predicate_test" : predicateTest },
-            ["IsNonSpeculative", "IsQuiesce", "IsSerializeAfter"])
+            ["IsNonSpeculative", "IsSquashAfter"])
     header_output += BasicDeclare.subst(sevIop)
     decoder_output += BasicConstructor.subst(sevIop)
     exec_output += PredOpExecute.subst(sevIop)