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Change-Id: I6585c5664d966989991f61303548aed634cf298a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9841
Reviewed-by: Michael LeBeane <Michael.Lebeane@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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FALRU was missing MoveToTail functionality within its invalidate
function, and MoveToHead was doing unnecessary passes when the
moved block was the head already.
Besides, added some comments to make the code understandable.
Change-Id: I2430d82b5d53c88b102a62610ea38b46d6e03a55
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9541
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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fixes line length and white space issues.
Change-Id: Ia04a91ec68cae2bcdabeb93bb1a0f74e8e5486c3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9801
Reviewed-by: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Maintainer: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
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This patch fixes the disassemble for AArch32 mcr/mrc p14 instructions.
Change-Id: If5d7c2d7c726f040ae20053bf1d70f4405b34d0e
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9681
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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These are single byte commands which change the mode of the mouse. They don't
take any additional parameters like the SetRate or SetResolution.
Change-Id: I29194916cfed5d3f4893947ef6d6cc636aee2419
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9701
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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When we transitioned from having PCs and nextPCs stored as individual items
in the ThreadContext and went to having PC objects with abstracted
components (micro PCs, delay slots, variable instruction lengths, etc.), a
small mistake was made when translating the alpha StackTrace code.
Change-Id: Ib5dd65c53a26920e66899f421902607efd139e71
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9702
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Now it is using the kernels on https://gem5.googlesource.com/arm
Change-Id: I765f2b8ee48cfd7175e5b17a65db3bf612570c68
Signed-off-by: Pau Cabre <pau.cabre@metempsy.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9481
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch introduces the TarmacTracer: an instruction tracer which
allows to dump a gem5 execution trace in Tarmac format [1]. The new
tracer is supporting either Tarmac and TarmacV8 format specifications.
Not every traceable information has been implemented:
Implemented Trace Type:
Instruction Trace
Register Trace
Processor Memory Access Trace
Unimplemented Trace Type:
Program Flow Trace
Event Trace
Memory Bus Trace
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/docs/dui0845/f/tarmac-trace-file-format
Change-Id: I8799d8e5852e868673f728971db3fe8c63961f5e
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9382
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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A new InstTracer (TarmacParser) has been implemented. This tracer is
parsing a pre-existing Tarmac trace file [1] while gem5 is running; it
is comparing execution data together with trace data and it is dumping
differences.
This allows to use Tarmac format as a glue between heterogeneous
simuators speaking the same Tarmac language.
Kudos to Giacomo Gabrielli for writing the original tracer.
[1]: https://developer.arm.com/docs/dui0845/f/tarmac-trace-file-format
Change-Id: I9b92204a149813166166adba4a7c61a248bdcac3
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9381
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch adds the generateDisassembly method for BranchReg, BranchImm
and BranchRegReg Base classes used by AArch32 branch instructions.
Change-Id: I6de015cc213335556d5187df3d4fcd765876262c
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9503
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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MiscRegisters are not banked between secure and non-secure mode if EL3
is not implemented or if EL3 is using AArch64 (highestELIs64). In this
scenario a unique register is used and it is mapped to the NS version
(see snsBankedIndex implementation), so that a secure world read/write
should access the non secure storage.
Change-Id: Ica4182e3cdf4021d2bd1db23e477ce2bbf055926
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9502
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch is fixing AArch32 mcrr,mrrc instruction disassemble by
printing the correct source/destination registers
Change-Id: I3fcffa0349aeee466e7c60ba4d1244824fb65d91
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9501
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Removal of unused/barely used 'using namespace' from C++ files.
Change-Id: I66dc548c04506db2e41180b9ea7ab5abd7d5375a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9601
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Block insertion is being done in the getCandidates function, while the
insertBlock function does not do anything.
Besides, BaseTags' stats weren't being updated.
Change-Id: Iadab9c1ea61519214f66fa24c4b91c4fc95604c0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8882
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Implementation of a LRU Insertion Policy replacement policy.
Change-Id: I1a9aa0091ff2cdc1b1652c1d5ec7a3b33fba5b44
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9002
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Implementation of a Bimodal Insertion Policy replacement policy.
Change-Id: Ife058d0d4310dbcb35858348006189f0b2bf7c37
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9003
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Instead of using raw memcpy, use the proper writer functions
from the Packet class in Cache.
Fixed typos in comments of these functions.
Change-Id: I156a00989c6cbaa73763349006a37a18243d6ed4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9661
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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The EtherTap device may be called into from an event on the PollQueue when
some event queue other than its own is active. This change ensures that it
switches event queues if necessary before doing anything that may cause more
events to be scheduled.
Change-Id: If8666542d7664780c0b371230e1e5fba93fbc1c0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9521
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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The specializations need to be online only and not static, but the
template itself is static and inline.
Originally they were in an anonymous namespace, but that causes
warnings when building on clang or with certain versions of gcc because
the functions may not be used in every .cc.
Change-Id: Iff127337f7bf0c18755de07a49d6e7a9ce6f2f0a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9581
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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The recvTimingReq function in the cache always returns true. This
changeset removes the return value.
Change-Id: I00dddca65ee7224ecfa579ea5195c841dac02972
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8289
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
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FALRU didn't initialize the blocks' data, causing seg faults.
This patch does not make FALRU functional yet.
Change-Id: I10cbcf5afc3f8bc357eeb8b7cb46789dec47ba8b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9302
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Implementation of a Least Frequently Used replacement policy.
Change-Id: I772afccd3a7955777e53d59341e922718db44e5c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8890
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Implementation of a Re-Reference Interval Prediction replacement
policy.
Change-Id: Iba716eb5df2bf2be156e765f889d94f6ad00c91b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8981
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Implementation of a Bimodal Re-Reference Interval Prediction
replacement policy.
Change-Id: I25d4a59a60ef7ac496c66852e394fd6cbaf50912
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8891
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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This way printing bitunions with, for instance, DPRINTF actually prints
something useful. More specialized overloads will still allow printing
particular bitunion types in ways that might make more sense for that
particular type.
Change-Id: I92beb0ce07683ba8b318cf25aa73e0057e4a60ef
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9461
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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It's not used, and so doesn't need to be brought in with a "using"
statement.
Change-Id: Iff4f7c66dbf1ee18e2e1a7d3e73bbae8cc4bf8eb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9406
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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There was a bunch of commented out code in the MIPS malta
implementation which originally came from Alpha. That code is now
deleted. Also, the MIPS code pulled in the TheISA namespace which it
didn't use.
Change-Id: I8470cc2fecb302f4399e52de4de9daf79c00a711
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9405
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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These typedefs aren't used, and they expose ISA specific types outside
the ISA implementations.
Change-Id: I64b9cec18d6f92765eebbdf8c8f1de15c0deba34
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9404
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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This doesn't completely hide the ISA specific ExtMachInst type inside
the ISAs since it still gets applied in arch/generic, but it at least
pulls it into the arch directory.
Change-Id: Ic2188d59696530d7ecafdff0785d71867182701d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9403
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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These fix what I believe are some bugs, and also some gcc warnings.
Change-Id: I5fb2a1b2f0ef3643b25aaf0c29c096996ef98ec0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9402
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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The instruction representation is already encoded in the trace
protobuf, so there's no reason to encode a part of it again. This is
especially true since this supposedly generic code is extracting the
first 8 bits of the machInst, a totally arbitrary set of bits for most
ISAs. If certain bits within a machine instruction are actually
relevant, the consumer of the trace should be able to interpret the
instruction bytes which are already there and extract the same bits
within the context of whatever ISA they're appropriate for.
Change-Id: Idaebe6a110d7d4812c3d7c434582d5a9470bcec1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9401
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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I haven't tested this at all, but this may fix backwards compatibility
in inst.proto by removing the oneof construct.
Change-Id: Iba19744791c2c577c3b442402f8cc6dcef8550bd
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9361
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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These warnings have been fixed.
Change-Id: I28ee5f4ae21412121849fcb9d273939d8e462842
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9344
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Clang has started(?) reporting override related warnings, something gcc
apparently did before, but was disabled in the SConstruct. Rather than
disable the warnings in for clang as well, this change fixes the
warnings. A future change will re-enable the warnings for gcc.
Change-Id: I3cc79e45749b2ae0f9bebb1acadc56a3d3a942da
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9343
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Use this function to get the binary representation of the instruction
rather than referencing the ExtMachInst typed machInst member of the
StaticInst directly. ExtMachInst is an ISA specific type and can't
always be straightforwardly squished into a 32 bit integer.
Change-Id: Ic1f74d6d86eb779016677ae45c022939ce3e2b9f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7563
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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This function takes a pointer to a buffer and the current size of the
buffer as a pass by reference argument. If the size of the buffer is
sufficient, the function stores a binary representation of itself
(generally the ISA defined instruction encoding) in the buffer, and
sets the size argument to how much space it used. This could be used
by ISAs which have two instruction sizes (ARM and thumb, for example).
If the buffer size isn't sufficient, then the size parameter should be
set to what size is required, and then the function should return
without modifying the buffer.
The buffer itself should be aligned to the same standard as memory
returned by new, specifically "The pointer returned shall be suitably
aligned so that it can be converted to a pointer of any complete object
type and then used to access the object or array in the storage
allocated...". This will avoid having to memcpy buffers to avoid
unaligned accesses.
To standardize the representation of the data, it should be stored in
the buffer as little endian. Since most hosts (including ARM and x86
hosts) will be little endian, this will almost always be a no-op.
Change-Id: I2f31aa0b4f9c0126b44f47a881c2901243279bd6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7562
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Change-Id: I67759a4532e8a46c1643d4c3a9c546ad6b565b81
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9321
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Added fix in the invalid transition panic and various places in ruby
random tester.
Change-Id: I879264da58369faf7de49d1a28b2da1cb935ef0a
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8941
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Adds a new config script to configure the MI_example protocol. This script
closely follows the script used for MSI, but instead supports the
MI_example protocol. This script works with the simple_ruby runscript and
can be included instead of msi_caches.
Change-Id: I8be0be67bf51369763ba103a5f101cfc01ad8859
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8945
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Adds a pair of scripts to run the Ruby random tester with the MSI protocol.
This code follows Learning gem5 Part 3.
http://learning.gem5.org/book/part3/index.html
Change-Id: I15550a36618546f0354163b0216cf771f434ed84
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8944
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Adds the required configuration files to run the MSI protocol. These
config files are much simpler than the current Ruby examples and follow
the pattern in the other Learning gem5 run scripts.
By default, this script runs with two CPUs and runs the recently added
thread test binary.
Currently, only SE mode is supported.
This code follows Learning gem5 Part 3.
http://learning.gem5.org/book/part3/index.html
Change-Id: I813a3153d49e47198444c38a6af30269bd1310cd
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8943
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Adds the MSI protocol from "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache
Coherence" by Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood.
This code follows Learning gem5 Part 3.
http://learning.gem5.org/book/part3/index.html
This is meant to be a simple, clean, example of how to make a Ruby
protocol.
Currently, it only works in SE mode.
The next changeset will contain the required configuration files.
Change-Id: If2cc53f5e6b9c6891749f929d872671615a2b4ab
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8942
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Implementation of a First-In, First-Out replacement policy.
Change-Id: Id234ec9d29c092dd4516e609da14b8a75a96b5e4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8888
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Rebase of MRU missed a const qualifier, introducing a compilation
error.
Change-Id: Ia25aa30523613a1a87593a353abe439946656f63
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9301
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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TLBI broadcasting was the default implementation of most of TLBI
instructions. This patch applies the broadcasting behaviour only to the
Inner-Shareable subset, while simpler TLB invalidation instructions only
affect the PE that executes them.
Change-Id: Idb01d0d4f593131f657e8fc9668112de8e4ccdcb
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9182
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch is intended to avoid code duplication and extends the set of
TLBI ISA functions adding the entry invalidation by ASID match.
Change-Id: I9bcb498059ea480dd2118639c7b3c64fea80a5e1
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9181
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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The "segment" private element in this class was only ever set to zero
on construction, and then used to index into a list of segment names
to get the string "none" in a DPRINTF. If debugging was turned off,
there would be no consumers of that variable, and that upset g++. This
change removes the essentially useless variable, and also that bit of
text in the DPRINTF.
Change-Id: I3f85db4af5f0678768243daf84b8d698350af931
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9221
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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This change adds an inst_bytes field which is of type bytes, and puts
it in a oneof with the previously required inst field. If an
instruction's encoding happens to be 4 bytes long, the original inst
field will be used. Otherwise, the new variably sized inst_bytes field
will be used.
Because this tracer doesn't have visibility into how the data in
inst_bytes is structured, it can't do any endian conversion itself.
To maintain compatibility between producers and consumers who may have
different endiannesses, all data should be manually converted to
little endian before being stored in this field.
inst will be converted into little endian by protobuf, and so
compatibility doesn't have to be handled manually.
Change-Id: I290713f70e7124d8aa9550c022c71334939d84a6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7561
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Implementation of a Most Recently Used replacement policy.
Change-Id: Id52cb247ca25d4523dcc53490d113695dac6a3f1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8889
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Replacement policies (LRU, Random) are currently considered as array
indexing methods, but have completely different functionalities:
- Array indexers determine the possible locations for block allocation.
This information is used to generate replacement candidates when
conflicts happen.
- Replacement policies determine which of the replacement candidates
should be evicted to make room for new allocations.
For this reason, they were split into different classes. Advantages:
- Easier and more straightforward to implement other replacement
policies (RRIP, LFU, ARC, ...)
- Allow easier future implementation of cache organization schemes
As now we can't assure the use of sets, the previous way to create a
true LRU is not viable. Now a timestamp_bits parameter controls how
many bits are dedicated for the timestamp, and a true LRU can be
achieved through an infinite number of bits (although a few bits suffice
in practice).
Change-Id: I23750db121f1474d17831137e6ff618beb2b3eda
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8501
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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