cpu,mem: Add support for partial loads/stores and wide mem. accesses

This changeset adds support for partial (or masked) loads/stores, i.e.
loads/stores that can disable accesses to individual bytes within the
target address range.  In addition, this changeset extends the code to
crack memory accesses across most CPU models (TimingSimpleCPU still
TBD), so that arbitrarily wide memory accesses are supported.  These
changes are required for supporting ISAs with wide vectors.

Additional authors:
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
- Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ibad33541c258ad72925c0b1d5abc3e5e8bf92d92
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13518
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/cache/cache.cc b/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
index 494a998a5..b72ff4261 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
+++ b/src/mem/cache/cache.cc
@@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ Cache::promoteWholeLineWrites(PacketPtr pkt)
 {
     // Cache line clearing instructions
     if (doFastWrites && (pkt->cmd == MemCmd::WriteReq) &&
-        (pkt->getSize() == blkSize) && (pkt->getOffset(blkSize) == 0)) {
+        (pkt->getSize() == blkSize) && (pkt->getOffset(blkSize) == 0) &&
+        !pkt->isMaskedWrite()) {
         pkt->cmd = MemCmd::WriteLineReq;
         DPRINTF(Cache, "packet promoted from Write to WriteLineReq\n");
     }