base: Declare a type for context IDs

Context IDs used to be declared as ad hoc (usually as int). This
changeset introduces a typedef for ContextIDs and a constant for
invalid context IDs.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/RubyRequest.hh b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/RubyRequest.hh
index 357eddbb5..cdb04bceb 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/RubyRequest.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/slicc_interface/RubyRequest.hh
@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ class RubyRequest : public Message
     PrefetchBit m_Prefetch;
     uint8_t* data;
     PacketPtr pkt;
-    unsigned m_contextId;
+    ContextID m_contextId;
 
     RubyRequest(Tick curTime, uint64_t _paddr, uint8_t* _data, int _len,
         uint64_t _pc, RubyRequestType _type, RubyAccessMode _access_mode,
         PacketPtr _pkt, PrefetchBit _pb = PrefetchBit_No,
-        unsigned _proc_id = 100)
+        ContextID _proc_id = 100)
         : Message(curTime),
           m_PhysicalAddress(_paddr),
           m_Type(_type),