misc: Coupling gem5 with SystemC TLM2.0

Transaction Level Modeling (TLM2.0) is widely used in industry for creating
virtual platforms (IEEE 1666 SystemC). This patch contains a standard compliant
implementation of an external gem5 port, that enables the usage of gem5 as a
TLM initiator component in SystemC based virtual platforms. Both TLM coding
paradigms loosely timed (b_transport) and aproximately timed (nb_transport) are
supported.

Compared to the original patch a TLM memory manager was added. Furthermore, the
transaction object was removed and for each TLM payload a PacketPointer that
points to the original gem5 packet is added as an TLM extension.  For event
handling single events are now created.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

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+/*
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+ * Authors:
+ *    Robert Gernhardt
+ *    Matthias Jung
+ */
+
+#ifndef MEMORYMANAGER_H_
+#define MEMORYMANAGER_H_
+
+#include <tlm.h>
+
+#include <vector>
+
+typedef tlm::tlm_generic_payload gp;
+
+class MemoryManager : public tlm::tlm_mm_interface
+{
+  public:
+    MemoryManager();
+    virtual ~MemoryManager();
+    virtual gp* allocate();
+    virtual void free(gp* payload);
+
+  private:
+    unsigned int numberOfAllocations;
+    unsigned int numberOfFrees;
+    std::vector<gp*> freePayloads;
+};
+
+#endif /* MEMORYMANAGER_H_ */