mem: Add probe support to the CommMonitor

This changeset adds a standardized probe point type to monitor packets
in the memory system and adds two probe points to the CommMonitor
class. These probe points enable monitoring of successfully delivered
requests and successfully delivered responses.

Memory system probe listeners should use the BaseMemProbe base class
to provide a unified configuration interface and reuse listener
registration code. Unlike the ProbeListenerObject class, the
BaseMemProbe allows objects to be wired to multiple ProbeManager
instances as long as they use the same probe point name.

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+ * Authors: Andreas Sandberg
+ */
+
+#ifndef __MEM_PROBES_STACK_BASE_HH__
+#define __MEM_PROBES_STACK_BASE_HH__
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "mem/packet.hh"
+#include "sim/probe/probe.hh"
+#include "sim/sim_object.hh"
+
+struct BaseMemProbeParams;
+
+/**
+ * Base class for memory system probes accepting Packet instances.
+ *
+ * This is a helper base class for memory system probes that
+ * instrument Packet handling. Unlike the ProbeListenerObject base
+ * class, this class supports instrumentation of multiple ProbeManager
+ * instances. However, it's limited to one probe point name. This
+ * enables features like tracing or stack distance analysis of packets
+ * from multiple components using the same probe. For example, a stack
+ * distance probe could be hooked up to multiple memories in a
+ * multi-channel configuration.
+ */
+class BaseMemProbe : public SimObject
+{
+  public:
+    BaseMemProbe(BaseMemProbeParams *params);
+
+    void regProbeListeners() M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE;
+
+  protected:
+    /**
+     * Callback to analyse intercepted Packets.
+     */
+    virtual void handleRequest(const PacketPtr &pkt) = 0;
+
+  private:
+    class PacketListener : public ProbeListenerArgBase<PacketPtr>
+    {
+      public:
+        PacketListener(BaseMemProbe &_parent,
+                       ProbeManager *pm, const std::string &name)
+            : ProbeListenerArgBase(pm, name),
+              parent(_parent) {}
+
+        void notify(const PacketPtr &pkt) M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE {
+            parent.handleRequest(pkt);
+        }
+
+      protected:
+        BaseMemProbe &parent;
+    };
+
+    std::vector<std::unique_ptr<PacketListener>> listeners;
+};
+
+#endif //  __MEM_PROBES_STACK_BASE_HH__