mem: Remove redundant findVictim() input argument

The patch
(1) removes the redundant writeback argument from findVictim()
(2) fixes the description of access() function

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

4 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc b/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc
index c3e2b66e4..6526aadb8 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ FALRU::findBlock(Addr addr, bool is_secure) const
 }
 
 FALRUBlk*
-FALRU::findVictim(Addr addr, PacketList &writebacks)
+FALRU::findVictim(Addr addr)
 {
     FALRUBlk * blk = tail;
     assert(blk->inCache == 0);
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh b/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh
index 1465bd861..ef13b2c79 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh
@@ -203,10 +203,9 @@ public:
     /**
      * Find a replacement block for the address provided.
      * @param pkt The request to a find a replacement candidate for.
-     * @param writebacks List for any writebacks to be performed.
      * @return The block to place the replacement in.
      */
-    FALRUBlk* findVictim(Addr addr, PacketList & writebacks);
+    FALRUBlk* findVictim(Addr addr);
 
     void insertBlock(PacketPtr pkt, BlkType *blk);
 
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc b/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc
index ff0596987..744d7224a 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ LRU::findBlock(Addr addr, bool is_secure) const
 }
 
 LRU::BlkType*
-LRU::findVictim(Addr addr, PacketList &writebacks)
+LRU::findVictim(Addr addr)
 {
     unsigned set = extractSet(addr);
     // grab a replacement candidate
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh b/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh
index 9d438497a..121bdb292 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh
@@ -169,10 +169,9 @@ public:
     /**
      * Find a block to evict for the address provided.
      * @param addr The addr to a find a replacement candidate for.
-     * @param writebacks List for any writebacks to be performed.
      * @return The candidate block.
      */
-    BlkType* findVictim(Addr addr, PacketList &writebacks);
+    BlkType* findVictim(Addr addr);
 
     /**
      * Insert the new block into the cache.  For LRU this means inserting into