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| author | Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> | 2015-01-22 05:00:54 -0500 |
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| committer | Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> | 2015-01-22 05:00:54 -0500 |
| commit | ce12d4bc632a081dfc76cfda97d570e0381cd2b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9478ee3633a76be4405401651d25eb8ae1167858 /src/arch | |
| parent | f49830ce0ba79c54c65c9c4b25bc3c6184aaf2a9 (diff) | |
| download | gem5-ce12d4bc632a081dfc76cfda97d570e0381cd2b4.tar.xz | |
x86: Delay X86 table walk on receiving walker response
This patch fixes a minor issue in the X86 page table walker where it
ended up sending new request packets to the crossbar before the
response processing was finished (recvTimingResp is directly calling
sendTimingReq). Under certain conditions this caused the crossbar to
see illegal combinations of request/response overlap, in turn causing
problems with a slightly modified crossbar implementation.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc b/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc index cc2a5099d..81c4ccdb5 100644 --- a/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc +++ b/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.cc @@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ Walker::recvTimingResp(PacketPtr pkt) delete senderWalk; // Since we block requests when another is outstanding, we // need to check if there is a waiting request to be serviced - if (currStates.size()) - startWalkWrapper(); + if (currStates.size() && !startWalkWrapperEvent.scheduled()) + // delay sending any new requests until we are finished + // with the responses + schedule(startWalkWrapperEvent, clockEdge()); } return true; } diff --git a/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh b/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh index c6766689b..c8ec549fe 100644 --- a/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh +++ b/src/arch/x86/pagetable_walker.hh @@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ namespace X86ISA // Wrapper for checking for squashes before starting a translation. void startWalkWrapper(); + /** + * Event used to call startWalkWrapper. + **/ + EventWrapper<Walker, &Walker::startWalkWrapper> startWalkWrapperEvent; + // Functions for dealing with packets. bool recvTimingResp(PacketPtr pkt); void recvRetry(); @@ -207,7 +212,8 @@ namespace X86ISA MemObject(params), port(name() + ".port", this), funcState(this, NULL, NULL, true), tlb(NULL), sys(params->system), masterId(sys->getMasterId(name())), - numSquashable(params->num_squash_per_cycle) + numSquashable(params->num_squash_per_cycle), + startWalkWrapperEvent(this) { } }; |