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2017-07-28config: Discover CPU timing models based on target ISAAndreas Sandberg
The CpuConfig helper currently assumes that all timing models live in the cores.arm package. This ignores the potential mismatch between the target ISA and the ISA assumptions made by the timing models. Instead of unconditionally listing all CPU models in cores.arm, list timing models from cores.generic and cores.${TARGET_ISA}. This ensures that the listed timing models support the ISA that gem5 is targeting. Change-Id: If6235af2118889638f56ac4151003f38edfe9485 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3947 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-07-03config: Clean up core timing model discoveryAndreas Sandberg
Instead of hard-coding timing models in CpuConfig.py, use introspection to find them in the cores.arm model package. Change-Id: I6642dc9cbc3f5beeeec748e716c9426c233d51ea Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3944 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-07-03config: Move core timing models to config/common/coresAndreas Sandberg
Change-Id: I189b6462cc64f7cc6c1b7a6c2af1abb60e1854de Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3943 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-06-30config: Add missing import of 'fatal' in CpuConfigAndreas Sandberg
Change-Id: I7762d344cb964c3e010135ff928c6ea12538912c Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3941 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-05-18arm, config: added support for ex5 model of big.LITTLEPierre-Yves Péneau
This patch enables using calibrated big and LITTLE cores, ex5_big and ex5_LITTLE instead of the default 'arm_detailed' and 'minor' cpus. The ex5 model is based on the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5422) SoC. Operation and memory hierarchy latencies have been calibrated using the lmbench micro-benchmark suite. The preliminary validation results have been published as: 'Full-System Simulation of big.LITTLE Multicore Architecture for Performance and Energy Exploration', in International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC'16), Lyon, France (Sep, 2016). From http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3666 Change-Id: I4935dee0a9222bd1bf7adfccb9443014945bb2d7 Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Butko <abutko@lbl.gov> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2464 Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-05-06config: Remove support for CPU aliases.Gabe Black
This was added for backwards compatability, but it adds a decent amount of complexity. The table below shows what CPU class name to use in place of a given alias. +==========+========================================================+ | Alias | CPU class | +==========+========================================================+ | timing | TimingSimpleCPU | | atomic | AtomicSimpleCPU | | minor | MinorCPU | | detailed | DrivO3CPU | | kvm | ArmKvmCPU, ArmV8KvmCPU or X86KvmCPU, depending on arch | | trace | TraceCPU | +==========+========================================================+ Change-Id: I251c4f64b7869c6b64dd25b36967ae240f01ef08 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2940 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-10-26config: Break out base options for usage with NULL ISAAndreas Hansson
This patch breaks out the most basic configuration options into a set of base options, to allow them to be used also by scripts that do not involve any ISA, and thus no actual CPUs or devices. The patch also fixes a few modules so that they can be imported in a NULL build, and avoid dragging in FSConfig every time Options is imported.
2015-12-07config: Enable elastic trace capture and replay in se/fsRadhika Jagtap
This patch adds changes to the configuration scripts to support elastic tracing and replay. The patch adds a command line option to enable elastic tracing in SE mode and FS mode. When enabled the Elastic Trace cpu probe is attached to O3CPU and a few O3 CPU parameters are tuned. The Elastic Trace probe writes out both instruction fetch and data dependency traces. The patch also enables configuring the TraceCPU to replay traces using the SE and FS script. The replay run is designed to resume from checkpoint using atomic cpu to restore state keeping it consistent with FS run flow. It then switches to TraceCPU to replay the input traces.
2015-06-01kvm, arm: Add support for aarch64Andreas Sandberg
This changeset adds support for aarch64 in kvm. The CPU module supports both checkpointing and online CPU model switching as long as no devices are simulated by the host kernel. It currently has the following limitations: * The system register based generic timer can only be simulated by the host kernel. Workaround: Use a memory mapped timer instead to simulate the timer in gem5. * Simulating devices (e.g., the generic timer) in the host kernel requires that the host kernel also simulates the GIC. * ID registers in the host and in gem5 must match for switching between simulated CPUs and KVM. This is particularly important for ID registers describing memory system capabilities (e.g., ASID size, physical address size). * Switching between a virtualized CPU and a simulated CPU is currently not supported if in-kernel device emulation is used. This could be worked around by adding support for switching to the gem5 (e.g., the KvmGic) side of the device models. A simpler workaround is to avoid in-kernel device models altogether.
2015-01-20scons: Do not build the InOrderCPUAndreas Hansson
One step closer to shifting focus to the MinorCPU.
2014-07-23cpu: `Minor' in-order CPU modelAndrew Bardsley
This patch contains a new CPU model named `Minor'. Minor models a four stage in-order execution pipeline (fetch lines, decompose into macroops, decompose macroops into microops, execute). The model was developed to support the ARM ISA but should be fixable to support all the remaining gem5 ISAs. It currently also works for Alpha, and regressions are included for ARM and Alpha (including Linux boot). Documentation for the model can be found in src/doc/inside-minor.doxygen and its internal operations can be visualised using the Minorview tool utils/minorview.py. Minor was designed to be fairly simple and not to engage in a lot of instruction annotation. As such, it currently has very few gathered stats and may lack other gem5 features. Minor is faster than the o3 model. Sample results: Benchmark | Stat host_seconds (s) ---------------+--------v--------v-------- (on ARM, opt) | simple | o3 | minor | timing | timing | timing ---------------+--------+--------+-------- 10.linux-boot | 169 | 1883 | 1075 10.mcf | 117 | 967 | 491 20.parser | 668 | 6315 | 3146 30.eon | 542 | 3413 | 2414 40.perlbmk | 2339 | 20905 | 11532 50.vortex | 122 | 1094 | 588 60.bzip2 | 2045 | 18061 | 9662 70.twolf | 207 | 2736 | 1036
2013-09-30config: Add a 'kvm' CPU aliasAndreas Sandberg
Add a CPU alias, 'kvm', for the first available KVM-accelerated CPU model.
2013-02-15config: Cleanup CPU configurationAndreas Sandberg
The CPUs supported by the configuration scripts used to be hard-coded. This was not ideal for several reasons. For example, the configuration scripts depend on all CPU models even though only a subset might have been compiled. This changeset adds a new module to the configuration scripts that automatically discovers the available CPU models from the compiled SimObjects. As a nice bonus, the use of introspection allows us to automatically generate a list of available CPU models suitable for printing. This list is augmented with the Python doc string from the underlying class if available.