mem: Add the notion of point of unification in the coherent xbar

The point of unification is the first crossbar at which the
instruction cache, the data cache and the translation table walks of
the core are guaranteed to see the same copy of a memory location.

Change-Id: Ica79b34c8ed4f1a8f2379748e8520a8f8afffa90
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anouk Van Laer <anouk.vanlaer@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5040
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/XBar.py b/src/mem/XBar.py
index 59f0d8d8d..655d9808a 100644
--- a/src/mem/XBar.py
+++ b/src/mem/XBar.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2012, 2015 ARM Limited
+# Copyright (c) 2012, 2015, 2017 ARM Limited
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ class CoherentXBar(BaseXBar):
     point_of_coherency = Param.Bool(False, "Consider this crossbar the " \
                                     "point of coherency")
 
+    # Specify whether this crossbar is the point of unification.
+    point_of_unification = Param.Bool(False, "Consider this crossbar the " \
+                                      "point of unification")
+
     system = Param.System(Parent.any, "System that the crossbar belongs to.")
 
 class SnoopFilter(SimObject):
@@ -139,6 +143,11 @@ class L2XBar(CoherentXBar):
     # the crossbar
     snoop_filter = SnoopFilter(lookup_latency = 0)
 
+    # This specialisation of the coherent crossbar is to be considered
+    # the point of unification, it connects the dcache and the icache
+    # to the first level of unified cache.
+    point_of_unification = True
+
 # One of the key coherent crossbar instances is the system
 # interconnect, tying together the CPU clusters, GPUs, and any I/O
 # coherent masters, and DRAM controllers.
@@ -161,6 +170,13 @@ class SystemXBar(CoherentXBar):
     # caches.
     point_of_coherency = True
 
+    # This specialisation of the coherent crossbar is to be considered
+    # the point of unification, it connects the dcache and the icache
+    # to the first level of unified cache. This is needed for systems
+    # without caches where the SystemXBar is also the point of
+    # unification.
+    point_of_unification = True
+
 # In addition to the system interconnect, we typically also have one
 # or more on-chip I/O crossbars. Note that at some point we might want
 # to also define an off-chip I/O crossbar such as PCIe.