mem: Do not treat CleanEvict as a write operation

This patch changes the CleanEvict command type to not be considered a
write. Initially it was made a zero-sized write to match the writeback
command, but as things developed it became clear that it causes more
problems than it solves. For example, the memory modules (and bridge)
should not consider the CleanEvict as a write, but instead discard
it. With this patch it will be neither a read, nor write, and as it
does not need a response the slave will simply sink it.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/cache/base.hh b/src/mem/cache/base.hh
index 3baec36d9..a992583fe 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/base.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/base.hh
@@ -508,9 +508,12 @@ class BaseCache : public MemObject
 
     MSHR *allocateWriteBuffer(PacketPtr pkt, Tick time)
     {
-        // should only see clean evictions in a read-only cache
-        assert(!isReadOnly || pkt->cmd == MemCmd::CleanEvict);
-        assert(pkt->isWrite() && !pkt->isRead());
+        // should only see writes or clean evicts here
+        assert(pkt->isWrite() || pkt->cmd == MemCmd::CleanEvict);
+
+        // if this is a read-only cache we should never see any writes
+        assert(!(isReadOnly && pkt->isWrite()));
+
         return allocateBufferInternal(&writeBuffer,
                                       blockAlign(pkt->getAddr()), blkSize,
                                       pkt, time, true);