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2013-11-25sim: simulate with multiple threads and event queuesSteve Reinhardt ext:(%2C%20Nilay%20Vaish%20%3Cnilay%40cs.wisc.edu%3E%2C%20Ali%20Saidi%20%3CAli.Saidi%40ARM.com%3E)
This patch adds support for simulating with multiple threads, each of which operates on an event queue. Each sim object specifies which eventq is would like to be on. A custom barrier implementation is being added using which eventqs synchronize. The patch was tested in two different configurations: 1. ruby_network_test.py: in this simulation L1 cache controllers receive requests from the cpu. The requests are replied to immediately without any communication taking place with any other level. 2. twosys-tsunami-simple-atomic: this configuration simulates a client-server system which are connected by an ethernet link. We still lack the ability to communicate using message buffers or ports. But other things like simulation start and end, synchronizing after every quantum are working. Committed by: Nilay Vaish
2013-11-15cpu: allow the fetch buffer to be smaller than a cache lineAnthony Gutierrez
the current implementation of the fetch buffer in the o3 cpu is only allowed to be the size of a cache line. some architectures, e.g., ARM, have fetch buffers smaller than a cache line, see slide 22 at: http://www.arm.com/files/pdf/at-exploring_the_design_of_the_cortex-a15.pdf this patch allows the fetch buffer to be set to values smaller than a cache line.
2013-11-15cpu: Fix Checker register index useAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes an issue in the checker CPU register indexing. The code will not even compile using LTO as deep inlining causes the used index to be outside the array bounds.
2013-11-14tests: suppress output on switcheroo testsSteve Reinhardt
The output from the switcheroo tests is voluminous and (because it includes timestamps) highly sensitive to minor changes, leading to extremely large updates to the reference outputs. This patch addresses this problem by suppressing output from the tests. An internal parameter can be set to enable the output. Wiring that up to a command-line flag (perhaps even the rudimantary -v/-q options in m5/main.py) is left for future work.
2013-11-12sim: fix event priority name for debug-start optionAnthony Gutierrez
2013-11-01stats: Bump stats to match DRAM controller changesAndreas Hansson
This patch encompasses all the stats updates needed to reflect the changes to the DRAM controller.
2013-11-01mem: Fixes for DRAM stats accountingAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes a number of stats accounting issues in the DRAM controller. Most importantly, it separates the system interface and DRAM interface so that it is clearer what the actual DRAM bandwidth (and consequently utilisation) is.
2013-11-01mem: Fix the LPDDR3 page sizeAndreas Hansson
This patch corrects the LPDDR3 page size, which was set too low.
2013-11-01mem: Adding stats for DRAM power calculationNeha Agarwal
This patch adds stats which are used for offline power calculation from the 'Micron Power Calculator' spreadsheet.
2013-11-01mem: Unify request selection for read and write queuesNeha Agarwal
This patch unifies the request selection across read and write queues for FR-FCFS scheduling policy. It also fixes the request selection code to prioritize the row hits present in the request queues over the selection based on earliest bank availability.
2013-11-01mem: Add a simple adaptive version of the open-page policyAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a basic adaptive version of the open-page policy that guides the decision to keep open or close by looking at the contents of the controller queues. If no row hits are found, and bank conflicts are present, then the row is closed by means of an auto precharge. This is a well-known technique that should improve performance in most use-cases.
2013-11-01mem: Just-in-time write scheduling in DRAM controllerNeha Agarwal
This patch removes the untimed while loop in the write scheduling mechanism and now schedule commands taking into account the minimum timing constraint. It also introduces an optimization to track write queue size and switch from writes to reads if the number of write requests fall below write low threshold.
2013-11-01mem: Add tRRD as a timing parameter for the DRAM controllerAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the tRRD parameter to the DRAM controller. With the recent addition of the actAllowedAt member for each bank, this addition is trivial.
2013-11-01mem: Less conservative tRAS in DRAM configurationsAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the default values of the tRAS timing parameter to be less conservative, and closer in line with existing parts.
2013-11-01mem: Make tXAW enforcement less conservative and per rankAni Udipi
This patch changes the tXAW constraint so that it is enforced per rank rather than globally for all ranks in the channel. It also avoids using the bank freeAt to enforce the activation limit, as doing so also precludes performing any column or row command to the DRAM. Instead the patch introduces a new variable actAllowedAt for the banks and use this to track when a potential activation can occur.
2013-11-01mem: Fix for 100% write threshold in DRAM controllerNeha Agarwal
This patch fixes the controller when a write threshold of 100% is used. Earlier for 100% write threshold no data is written to memory as writes never get triggered since this corner case is not considered.
2013-11-01mem: Pick the next DRAM request based on bank availabilityAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the FCFS bit of FR-FCFS such that requests that target the earliest available bank are picked first (as suggested in the original work on FR-FCFS by Rixner et al). To accommodate this we add functionality to identify a bank through a one-dimensional identifier (bank id). The member names of the DRAMPacket are also update to match the style guide.
2013-11-01mem: Use the same timing calculation for DRAM read and writeAni Udipi
This patch simplifies the DRAM model by re-using the function that computes the busy and access time for both reads and writes.
2013-11-01mem: Fix DRAM bank occupancy for streaming accessAni Udipi
This patch fixes an issue that allowed more than 100% bus utilisation in certain cases.
2013-11-01mem: Schedule time for DRAM event taking tRAS into accountAni Udipi
This patch changes the time the controller is woken up to take the next scheduling decisions. tRAS is now handled in estimateLatency and doDRAMAccess and we do not need to worry about it at scheduling time. The earliest we need to wake up is to do a pre-charge, row access and column access before the bus becomes free for use.
2013-11-01mem: Add tRAS parameter to the DRAM controller modelAni Udipi
This patch adds an explicit tRAS parameter to the DRAM controller model. Previously tRAS was, rather conservatively, assumed to be tRCD + tCL + tRP. The default values for tRAS are chosen to match the previous behaviour and will be updated later.
2013-11-01stats: Bump stats after shifting to SimpleMemoryAndreas Hansson
Match stats with new regression configs.
2013-11-01test: Use SimpleMemory for atomic full-system testsAndreas Hansson
Keep it simple and use the SimpleMemory rather than the DRAM controller model for atomic full-system tests.
2013-11-01sim: Clarify the difference between tracing and debuggingAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the name the command-line options related to debug output to all start with "debug" rather than being a mix of that and "trace". It also makes it clear that the breakpoint time is specified in ticks and not in cycles.
2013-10-31ARM: add support for TEEHBR accessChander Sudanthi
Thumb2 ARM kernels may access the TEEHBR via thumbee_notifier in arch/arm/kernel/thumbee.c. The Linux kernel code just seems to be saving and restoring the register. This patch adds support for the TEEHBR cp14 register. Note, this may be a special case when restoring from an image that was run on a system that supports ThumbEE.
2013-10-31dev: Add 'OSC' oscillator sys control reg support to VersatileExpressMatt Evans
The VE motherboard provides a set of system control registers through which various motherboard and coretile registers are accessed. Voltage regulators and oscillator (DLL/PLL) config are examples. These registers must be impleted to boot Linux 3.9+ kernels.
2013-10-31dev: Add support for MSI-X and Capability Lists for ARM and PCI devicesGeoffrey Blake
This patch adds the registers and fields to the PCI device to support Capability lists and to support MSI-X in the GIC.
2013-10-31dev: Fix race conditions in IDE device on newer kernelsGeoffrey Blake
Newer linux kernels and distros exercise more functionality in the IDE device than previously, exposing 2 races. The first race is the handling of aborted DMA commands would immediately report the device is ready back to the kernel and cause already in flight commands to assert the simulator when they returned and discovered an inconsitent device state. The second race was due to the Status register not being handled correctly, the interrupt status bit would get stuck at 1 and the driver eventually views this as a bad state and logs the condition to the terminal. This patch fixes these two conditions by making the device handle aborted commands gracefully and properly handles clearing the interrupt status bit in the Status register.
2013-10-31base: Add support for ipv6 into inet.hh/inet.ccGeoffrey Blake
2013-10-31cpu: Construct ROB with cpu params struct instead of each variableFaissal Sleiman
Most other structures/stages get passed the cpu params struct.
2013-10-31config: Fix handling of parents for simobject vectorsGeoffrey Blake
SimObjectVector objects did not provide the same interface to the _parent attribute through get_parent() like a normal SimObject. It also handled assigning a _parent incorrectly if objects in a SimObjectVector were changed post-creation, leading to errors later when the simulator tried to execute. This patch fixes these two omissions.
2013-10-31sim: added option to serialize SimLoopExitEventDam Sunwoo
SimLoopExitEvents weren't serialized by default. Some benchmarks utilize a delayed m5 exit pseudo op call to terminate the simulation and this event was lost when resuming from a checkpoint generated after the pseudo op call. This patch adds the capability to serialize the SimLoopExitEvents and enable serialization for m5_exit and m5_fail pseudo ops by default. Does not affect other generic SimLoopExitEvents.
2013-10-31mem: Add "const" attribute to Packet gettersStephan Diestelhorst
Add a "const" keywords to the getters in the Packet class so these can be invoked on const Packet objects.
2013-10-31mem: Add privilege info to request classPrakash Ramrakhyani
This patch adds a flag in the request class that indicates if the request was made in privileged mode.
2013-10-31arm: fix m5ops binary for ARM and add m5fail.Ali Saidi
Changes to make m5ops work under virtualization seemed to break them working with non-virtualized systems and the recently added m5 fail command makes the m5op binary not compile. For now remove the code for virtualization.
2013-10-31cpu: Fix O3 issuse with load+barrier instructions.Ali Saidi
Fix a problem in the O3 CPU for instructions that are both memory loads and memory barriers (e.g. load acquire) and to uncacheable memory. This combination can confuse the commit stage into commitng an instruction that hasn't executed and got it's value yet. At the same time refactor the code slightly to remove duplication between two of the cases.
2013-10-30ruby: set SenderMachine in messages of MOESI_CMP_directoryLluc Alvarez
This patch adds missing initializations of the SenderMachine field of out_msg's when thery are created in the L2 cache controller of the MOESI_CMP_directory coherence protocol. When an out_msg is created and this field is left uninitialized, it is set to the default value MachineType_NUM. This causes a panic in the MachineType_to_string function when gem5 is executed with the Ruby debug flag on and it tries to print the message. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2013-10-30ruby: Fixed a deadlock when restoring a checkpoint with garnetEmilio Castillo
This patch fixes a problem where in Garnet, the enqueue time in the VCallocator and the SWallocator which is of type Cycles was being stored inside a variable with int type. This lead to a known problem restoring checkpoints with garnet & the fixed pipeline enabled. That value was really big and didn't fit in the variable overflowing it, therefore some conditions on the VC allocation stage & the SW allocation stage were not met and the packets didn't advance through the network, leading to a deadlock panic right after the checkpoint was restored. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2013-10-17mem: De-virtualise interfaces in the CoherentBusStephan Diestelhorst
The CoherentBus eventually got virtual methods for its interface. The "virtuality" of the CoherentBus, however, comes already from the virtual interface of the bus' ports. There is no need to add another layer of virtual functions, here.
2013-10-17cpu: add consistent guarding to *_impl.hh files.Matt Horsnell
2013-10-17mem: Add PortID to QueuedMasterPort constructorSascha Bischoff
This patch adds the PortID to the QueuedMasterPort. This allows a PortID to be specified as it previously was set to the detault value of -1.
2013-10-17arm: Add a 'clear PPI' method to gic_pl390Matt Evans
The underlying assumption that all PPIs must be edge-triggered is strained when the architected timers and VGIC interfaces make level-behaviour observable. For example, a virtual timer interrupt 'goes away' when the hypervisor is entered and the vtimer is disabled; this requires a PPI to be de-activated. The new method simply clears the interrupt pending state.
2013-10-17config: Fix ommission of number base in ethernet address paramGeoffrey Blake
The ethernet address param tries to convert a hexadecimal string using int() in python, which defaults to base 10, need to specify base 16 in this case.
2013-10-17config: Fix for port references generated multiple timesGeoffrey Blake
SimObjects are expected to only generate one port reference per port belonging to them. There is a subtle bug with using "not" here as a VectorPort is seen as not having a reference if it is either None or empty as per Python docs sec 9.9 for Standard operators. Intended behavior is to only check if we have not created the reference.
2013-10-17dev: Add option to disable framebuffer .bmp dump in run folderDam Sunwoo
There is an option to enable/disable all framebuffer dumps, but the last frame always gets dumped in the run folder with no other way to disable it. These files can add up very quickly running many experiments. This patch adds an option to disable them. The default behavior remains unchanged.
2013-10-17cpu: Removing an unused variable in renameFaissal Sleiman
2013-10-17cpu: Change IEW DPRINTF to use IEW debug flagFaissal Sleiman
IEW DPRINTF uses Decode debug flag, which appears to be a copying error. This patch changes this to the IEW Debug flag.
2013-10-17cpu: Put in assertions to check for maximum supported LQ/SQ sizeFaissal Sleiman
LSQSenderState represents the LQ/SQ index using uint8_t, which supports up to 256 entries (including the sentinel entry). Sending packets to memory with a higher index than 255 truncates the index, such that the response matches the wrong entry. For instance, this can result in a deadlock if a store completion does not clear the head entry.
2013-10-17util: Streamline .apc project convertsion scriptDam Sunwoo
This Python script generates an ARM DS-5 Streamline .apc project based on gem5 run. To successfully convert, the gem5 runs needs to be run with the context-switch-based stats dump option enabled (The guest kernel also needs to be patched to allow gem5 interrogate its task information.) See help for more information.
2013-10-17arm: Accomodate function name changes in newer linux kernelsEric Van Hensbergen
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