cpu: use probes infrastructure to do simpoint profiling

Instead of having code embedded in cpu model to do simpoint profiling use
the probes infrastructure to do it.

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diff --git a/src/cpu/simple/probes/SimPoint.py b/src/cpu/simple/probes/SimPoint.py
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+# Authors: Curtis Dunham
+
+from m5.params import *
+from Probe import ProbeListenerObject
+
+class SimPoint(ProbeListenerObject):
+    """Probe for collecting SimPoint Basic Block Vectors (BBVs)."""
+
+    type = 'SimPoint'
+    cxx_header = "cpu/simple/probes/simpoint.hh"
+
+    interval = Param.UInt64(100000000, "Interval Size (insts)")
+    profile_file = Param.String("simpoint.bb.gz", "BBV (output) file")