ARM: Allow conditional quiesce instructions.

This patch prevents not executed conditional instructions marked as
IsQuiesce from stalling the pipeline indefinitely. If the instruction
is not executed the quiesceSkip psuedoinst is called which schedules a
wakes up call to the fetch stage.

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc b/src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc
index f3b10f6d2..bcff2f5c1 100644
--- a/src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc
+++ b/src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 /*
+ * Copyright (c) 2010 ARM Limited
+ * All rights reserved
+ *
+ * The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
+ * not be construed as granting a license to any other intellectual
+ * property including but not limited to intellectual property relating
+ * to a hardware implementation of the functionality of the software
+ * licensed hereunder.  You may use the software subject to the license
+ * terms below provided that you ensure that this notice is replicated
+ * unmodified and in its entirety in all distributions of the software,
+ * modified or unmodified, in source code or in binary form.
+ *
  * Copyright (c) 2003-2006 The Regents of The University of Michigan
  * All rights reserved.
  *
@@ -86,6 +98,28 @@ quiesce(ThreadContext *tc)
 }
 
 void
+quiesceSkip(ThreadContext *tc)
+{
+    BaseCPU *cpu = tc->getCpuPtr();
+
+    if (!cpu->params()->do_quiesce)
+        return;
+
+    EndQuiesceEvent *quiesceEvent = tc->getQuiesceEvent();
+
+    Tick resume = curTick() + 1;
+
+    cpu->reschedule(quiesceEvent, resume, true);
+
+    DPRINTF(Quiesce, "%s: quiesceSkip() until %d\n",
+            cpu->name(), resume);
+
+    tc->suspend();
+    if (tc->getKernelStats())
+        tc->getKernelStats()->quiesce();
+}
+
+void
 quiesceNs(ThreadContext *tc, uint64_t ns)
 {
     BaseCPU *cpu = tc->getCpuPtr();