ruby: get rid of RefCnt and Allocator stuff use base/refcnt.hh

This was somewhat tricky because the RefCnt API was somewhat odd.  The
biggest confusion was that the the RefCnt object's constructor that
took a TYPE& cloned the object.  I created an explicit virtual clone()
function for things that took advantage of this version of the
constructor.  I was conservative and used clone() when I was in doubt
of whether or not it was necessary.  I still think that there are
probably too many instances of clone(), but hopefully not too many.

I converted several instances of const MsgPtr & to a simple MsgPtr.
If the function wants to avoid the overhead of creating another
reference, then it should just use a regular pointer instead of a ref
counting ptr.

There were a couple of instances where refcounted objects were created
on the stack.  This seems pretty dangerous since if you ever
accidentally make a reference to that object with a ref counting
pointer, bad things are bound to happen.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/NetworkInterface_d.cc b/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/NetworkInterface_d.cc
index da86c32fa..2a2536d53 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/NetworkInterface_d.cc
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/NetworkInterface_d.cc
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ void NetworkInterface_d::addNode(Vector<MessageBuffer*>& in,  Vector<MessageBuff
 
 bool NetworkInterface_d::flitisizeMessage(MsgPtr msg_ptr, int vnet)
 {
-        NetworkMessage *net_msg_ptr = dynamic_cast<NetworkMessage*>(msg_ptr.ref());
+        NetworkMessage *net_msg_ptr =
+            safe_cast<NetworkMessage *>(msg_ptr.get());
         NetDest net_msg_dest = net_msg_ptr->getInternalDestination();
         Vector<NodeID> dest_nodes = net_msg_dest.getAllDest(); // gets all the destinations associated with this message.
 
@@ -120,10 +121,11 @@ bool NetworkInterface_d::flitisizeMessage(MsgPtr msg_ptr, int vnet)
                 {
                         return false ;
                 }
-                MsgPtr new_msg_ptr = *(msg_ptr.ref());
+                MsgPtr new_msg_ptr = msg_ptr->clone();
                 NodeID destID = dest_nodes[ctr];
 
-                NetworkMessage *new_net_msg_ptr = dynamic_cast<NetworkMessage*>(new_msg_ptr.ref());
+                NetworkMessage *new_net_msg_ptr =
+                    safe_cast<NetworkMessage *>(new_msg_ptr.get());
                 if(dest_nodes.size() > 1)
                 {
                         NetDest personal_dest;
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ bool NetworkInterface_d::flitisizeMessage(MsgPtr msg_ptr, int vnet)
                 {
                         m_net_ptr->increment_injected_flits();
                         flit_d *fl = new flit_d(i, vc, vnet, num_flits, new_msg_ptr);
-                        fl->set_delay(g_eventQueue_ptr->getTime() - (msg_ptr.ref())->getTime());
+                        fl->set_delay(g_eventQueue_ptr->getTime() - msg_ptr->getTime());
                         m_ni_buffers[vc]->insert(fl);
                 }
                 m_ni_enqueue_time[vc] = g_eventQueue_ptr->getTime();
diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/RoutingUnit_d.cc b/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/RoutingUnit_d.cc
index 0c215efd3..fabda735a 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/RoutingUnit_d.cc
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/network/garnet/fixed-pipeline/RoutingUnit_d.cc
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ void RoutingUnit_d::RC_stage(flit_d *t_flit, InputUnit_d *in_unit, int invc)
 int RoutingUnit_d::routeCompute(flit_d *t_flit)
 {
         MsgPtr msg_ptr = t_flit->get_msg_ptr();
-        NetworkMessage* net_msg_ptr = NULL;
-        net_msg_ptr = dynamic_cast<NetworkMessage*>(msg_ptr.ref());
+        NetworkMessage* net_msg_ptr =
+            safe_cast<NetworkMessage*>(msg_ptr.get());
         NetDest msg_destination = net_msg_ptr->getInternalDestination();
 
         int output_link = -1;