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2017-06-19configs, arm: add option to enable security extensionsGedare Bloom
Change-Id: I0c839bb649a5d2d73080b7e718da3c9b5839cf8c Signed-off-by: Gedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3264 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-06-13config: Warn not fail for ARM systems configured with rubyNikos Nikoleris
Ruby for ARM systems is not fully supported but certain configurations are expected to work. This change removes the more general fail statement and warns or fails depending on the particular configuration. Change-Id: Ic24799aff966ba15858b93482e0f24a8672d9483 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2905 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: 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>
2017-05-17config: Changes to boot Android NWeiping Liao
necessary kernel command line options in FSConfig.py Change-Id: Id66f640b6beb4efa9c23080c3d2516eda688c72d Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3320 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2017-05-09config: Fix up some configs to not use CPU aliases.Gabe Black
Support for CPU aliases were removed recently. Change-Id: I3c1173dc34170d8639d95e52bf660f248848f77f Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3100 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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>
2017-04-05config: Add a default system disk image for SPARC FS.Gabe Black
When the change below removed the hard coded disk name for the SPARC FS configuration, it broke the regression which had not specified a disk name. This change adds a default disk name so that the regression will continue to work like it used to, but preserving the effect of this other change. commit 86a25bbcee88f6e69299867b6264885d738f636e Author: Jakub Jermar <jakub@jermar.eu> Date: Tue Jul 19 09:52:46 2016 -0500 config: Allow SPARC FS image to be specified on the command line Change-Id: Ieb317b2bf573a4f2fc435d34cccd1f246c28d84c Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2645 Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-03-01config: exit with fatal() if errorPierre-Yves Péneau
If output redirection is activated, the error message is printed in simout. This change ensure it will be printed in simerr. Change-Id: Ie661ac6b6978bf2e4aaaccdf23134795d764d459 Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2221 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2016-11-09syscall_emul: [patch 5/22] remove LiveProcess class and use Process insteadBrandon Potter
The EIOProcess class was removed recently and it was the only other class which derived from Process. Since every Process invocation is also a LiveProcess invocation, it makes sense to simplify the organization by combining the fields from LiveProcess into Process.
2017-02-14mem: Update DRAM configuration namesWendy Elsasser
Names of DRAM configurations were updated to reflect both the channel and device data width. Previous naming format was: <DEVICE_TYPE>_<DATA_RATE>_<CHANNEL_WIDTH> The following nomenclature is now used: <DEVICE_TYPE>_<DATA_RATE>_<n>x<w> where n = The number of devices per rank on the channel x = Device width Total channel width can be calculated by n*w Example: A 64-bit DDR4, 2400 channel consisting of 4-bit devices: n = 16 w = 4 The resulting configuration name is: DDR4_2400_16x4 Updated scripts to match new naming convention. Added unique configurations for DDR4 for: 1) 16x4 2) 8x8 3) 4x16 Change-Id: Ibd7f763b7248835c624309143cb9fc29d56a69d1 Reviewed-by: Radhika Jagtap <radhika.jagtap@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
2017-02-09misc: Clean up and complete the gem5<->SystemC-TLM bridge [1/10]Christian Menard
The current TLM bridge only provides a Slave Port that allows the gem5 world to send request to the SystemC world. This patch series refractors and cleans up the existing code, and adds a Master Port that allows the SystemC world to send requests to the gem5 world. This patch: * Restructure the existing sources in preparation of the addition of the * new Master Port. * Refractor names to allow for distinction of the slave and master port. * Replace the Makefile by a SConstruct. Testing Done: The examples provided in util/tlm (now util/tlm/examples/slave_port) still compile and run error free. Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3527/ Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-12-19sim: Remove redundant buildEnv importAndreas Sandberg
Change-Id: Id6bdbc0c988aa92b96e292cabc913e6b974f14bb Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
2016-11-30mem: Split the hit_latency into tag_latency and data_latencySophiane Senni
If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore, the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True", tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency. Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-10-26dev: Add m5 op to toggle synchronization for dist-gem5.Michael LeBeane
This patch adds the ability for an application to request dist-gem5 to begin/ end synchronization using an m5 op. When toggling on sync, all nodes agree on the next sync point based on the maximum of all nodes' ticks. CPUs are suspended until the sync point to avoid sending network messages until sync has been enabled. Toggling off sync acts like a global execution barrier, where all CPUs are disabled until every node reaches the toggle off point. This avoids tricky situations such as one node hitting a toggle off followed by a toggle on before the other nodes hit the first toggle off.
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.
2016-10-15cpu, arm: Distinguish Float* and SimdFloat*, create FloatMem* opClassFernando Endo
Modify the opClass assigned to AArch64 FP instructions from SimdFloat* to Float*. Also create the FloatMemRead and FloatMemWrite opClasses, which distinguishes writes to the INT and FP register banks. Change the latency of (Simd)FloatMultAcc to 5, based on the Cortex-A72, where the "latency" of FMADD is 3 if the next instruction is a FMADD and has only the augend to destination dependency, otherwise it's 7 cycles. Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-10-14config: Make configs/common a Python packageAndreas Hansson
Continue along the same line as the recent patch that made the Ruby-related config scripts Python packages and make also the configs/common directory a package. All affected config scripts are updated (hopefully). Note that this change makes it apparent that the current organisation and naming of the config directory and its subdirectories is rather chaotic. We mix scripts that are directly invoked with scripts that merely contain convenience functions. While it is not addressed in this patch we should follow up with a re-organisation of the config structure, and renaming of some of the packages.
2016-10-13ruby: Fix regressions and make Ruby configs Python packagesAndreas Hansson
This patch moves the addition of network options into the Ruby module to avoid the regressions all having to add it explicitly. Doing this exposes an issue in our current config system though, namely the fact that addtoPath is relative to the Python script being executed. Since both example and regression scripts use the Ruby module we would end up with two different (relative) paths being added. Instead we take a first step at turning the config modules into Python packages, simply by adding a __init__.py in the configs/ruby, configs/topologies and configs/network subdirectories. As a result, we can now add the top-level configs directory to the Python search path, and then use the package names in the various modules. The example scripts are also updated, and the messy path-deducing variations in the scripts are unified.
2016-09-13config: move dist-gem5 options to common configMichael LeBeane
dist-gem5 should not be restricted to FullSystem mode.
2016-08-12mem: Add snoop filter to SystemXBar by defaultAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the default behaviour of the SystemXBar, adding a snoop filter. With the recent updates to the snoop filter allocation behaviour this change no longer causes problems for the regressions without caches. Change-Id: Ibe0cd437b71b2ede9002384126553679acc69cc1 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
2016-08-10arm, config: Exit with fatal error if using RubyAndreas Sandberg
Ruby on ARM is currently very experimental. Fail with a fatal error that explains this to make sure users are aware of the limitations (it doesn't actually work yet!). Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2016-08-10arm, config: Add initial support for RubyAndreas Sandberg
Add initial support for creating an ARM system with a Ruby-based memory system. This support is currently experimental and limited to the new VExpress_GEM5_V1 platform. Change-Id: I36baeb68b0d891e34ea46aafe17b5e55217b4bfa Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Brad Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
2016-07-19config: Allow SPARC FS image to be specified on the command lineJakub Jermar
At the moment the SPARC FS machine configuration comes with a hardcoded value for using the Solaris 10 disk image from the OpenSPARC tarball. The --disk-image option is completely ignored for SPARC. This simple patch modifies the behavior so that --disk-image option is both taken into account and also required. This makes it possible to easily change SPARC FS images without having to modify the configuration files.
2016-07-01mem: different HMC configurationAbdul Mutaal Ahmad
In this new hmc configuration we have used the existing components in gem5 mainly [SerialLink] [NoncoherentXbar]& [DRAMCtrl] to define 3 different architecture for HMC. Highlights 1- It explores 3 different HMC architectures 2- It creates 4-HMC crossbars and attaches 16 vault controllers with it. This will connect vaults to serial links 3- From the previous version, HMCController with round robin funtionality is being removed and all the serial links are being accessible directly from user ports 4- Latency incorporated by HMCController (in previous version) is being added to SerialLink Committed by Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-06-20config: Fix omission of walker cache in config scriptsAndreas Hansson
This patch ensures a walker cache is instantiated if specfied. Change-Id: I2c6b4bf3454d56bb19558c73b406e1875acbd986 Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>
2016-05-27mem, config: Selective use of snoop filterStephan Diestelhorst
Disable the default snoop filter in the SystemXBar so that the typical membus does not have a snoop filter by default. Instead, add the snoop filter only when there are caches added to the system (with the caches / l2cache options). The underlying problem is that the snoop filter grows without bounds (for now) if there are no caches to tell it that lines have been evicted. This causes slow regression runs for all the atomic regressions. This patch fixes this behaviour. --HG-- extra : source : f97c20511828209757440839ed48d741d02d428f
2016-05-19config, x86: Properly space pad the X86IntelMPBus Entry descriptionsBjoern A. Zeeb
According to the Intel Multi Processor Specification rev 1.4 (-006) (*), section 4.3.2 Bus Entries, Bus type strings are >>6-character ASCII (blank-filled) strings<<. This patch properly pads the entries with the missing spaces at the end. (*) http://www.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/24201606.pdf Committed by Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
2016-02-10mem: Deduce if cache should forward snoopsAndreas Hansson
This patch changes how the cache determines if snoops should be forwarded from the memory side to the CPU side. Instead of having a parameter, the cache now looks at the port connected on the CPU side, and if it is a snooping port, then snoops are forwarded. Less error prone, and less parameters to worry about. The patch also tidies up the CPU classes to ensure that their I-side port is not snooping by removing overrides to the snoop request handler, such that snoop requests will panic via the default MasterPort implement
2016-02-06style: remove trailing whitespaceSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.
2016-01-19gpu-compute: AMD's baseline GPU modelTony Gutierrez
2016-01-15dev, arm: Add a platform with support for both aarch32 and aarch64Andreas Sandberg
Add a platform with support for both aarch32 and aarch64. This platform implements a subset of the devices in a real Versatile Express and extends it with some gem5-specific functionality. It is in many ways similar to the old VExpress_EMM64 platform, but supports the following new features: * Automatic PCI interrupt assignment * PCI interrupts allocated in a contiguous range. * Automatic boot loader selection (32-bit / 64-bit) * Cleaner memory map where gem5-specific devices live in CS5 which isn't used by current Versatile Express platforms. * No fake devices. Devices that were previously faked will be removed from the device tree instead. * Support for 510 GiB contiguous memory
2016-01-11configs: Fix inheritance of HMCSystem and cleanup spacingAndreas Hansson
Minor fix to ensure the HMCSystem can actually be instantiated (SimObject cannot be created). Also address some spacing issues.
2016-01-07config: Updates for distributed gem5 simulationsGabor Dozsa
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.
2015-12-05dev: Rewrite PCI host functionalityAndreas Sandberg
The gem5's current PCI host functionality is very ad hoc. The current implementations require PCI devices to be hooked up to the configuration space via a separate configuration port. Devices query the platform to get their config-space address range. Un-mapped parts of the config space are intercepted using the XBar's default port mechanism and a magic catch-all device (PciConfigAll). This changeset redesigns the PCI host functionality to improve code reuse and make config-space and interrupt mapping more transparent. Existing platform code has been updated to use the new PCI host and configured to stay backwards compatible (i.e., no guest-side visible changes). The current implementation does not expose any new functionality, but it can easily be extended with features such as automatic interrupt mapping. PCI devices now register themselves with a PCI host controller. The host controller interface is defined in the abstract base class PciHost. Registration is done by PciHost::registerDevice() which takes the device, its bus position (bus/dev/func tuple), and its interrupt pin (INTA-INTC) as a parameter. The registration interface returns a PciHost::DeviceInterface that the PCI device can use to query memory mappings and signal interrupts. The host device manages the entire PCI configuration space. Accesses to devices decoded into the devices bus position and then forwarded to the correct device. Basic PCI host functionality is implemented in the GenericPciHost base class. Most platforms can use this class as a basic PCI controller. It provides the following functionality: * Configurable configuration space decoding. The number of bits dedicated to a device is a prameter, making it possible to support both CAM, ECAM, and legacy mappings. * Basic interrupt mapping using the interruptLine value from a device's configuration space. This behavior is the same as in the old implementation. More advanced controllers can override the interrupt mapping method to dynamically assign host interrupts to PCI devices. * Simple (base + addr) remapping from the PCI bus's address space to physical addresses for PIO, memory, and DMA.
2015-12-04arm, config: Automatically discover available platformsAndreas Sandberg
Add support for automatically discover available platforms. The Python-side uses functionality similar to what we use when auto-detecting available CPU models. The machine IDs have been updated to match the platform configurations. If there isn't a matching machine ID, the configuration scripts default to -1 which Linux uses for device tree only platforms.
2015-11-06mem: Add an option to perform clean writebacks from cachesAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the necessary commands and cache functionality to allow clean writebacks. This functionality is crucial, especially when having exclusive (victim) caches. For example, if read-only L1 instruction caches are not sending clean writebacks, there will never be any spills from the L1 to the L2. At the moment the cache model defaults to not sending clean writebacks, and this should possibly be re-evaluated. The implementation of clean writebacks relies on a new packet command WritebackClean, which acts much like a Writeback (renamed WritebackDirty), and also much like a CleanEvict. On eviction of a clean block the cache either sends a clean evict, or a clean writeback, and if any copies are still cached upstream the clean evict/writeback is dropped. Similarly, if a clean evict/writeback reaches a cache where there are outstanding MSHRs for the block, the packet is dropped. In the typical case though, the clean writeback allocates a block in the downstream cache, and marks it writable if the evicted block was writable. The patch changes the O3_ARM_v7a L1 cache configuration and the default L1 caches in config/common/Caches.py
2015-11-06mem: Add cache clusivityAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a parameter to control the cache clusivity, that is if the cache is mostly inclusive or exclusive. At the moment there is no intention to support strict policies, and thus the options are: 1) mostly inclusive, or 2) mostly exclusive. The choice of policy guides the behaviuor on a cache fill, and a new helper function, allocOnFill, is created to encapsulate the decision making process. For the timing mode, the decision is annotated on the MSHR on sending out the downstream packet, and in atomic we directly pass the decision to handleFill. We (ab)use the tempBlock in cases where we are not allocating on fill, leaving the rest of the cache unaffected. Simple and effective. This patch also makes it more explicit that multiple caches are allowed to consider a block writable (this is the case also before this patch). That is, for a mostly inclusive cache, multiple caches upstream may also consider the block exclusive. The caches considering the block writable/exclusive all appear along the same path to memory, and from a coherency protocol point of view it works due to the fact that we always snoop upwards in zero time before querying any downstream cache. Note that this patch does not introduce clean writebacks. Thus, for clean lines we are essentially removing a cache level if it is made mostly exclusive. For example, lines from the read-only L1 instruction cache or table-walker cache are always clean, and simply get dropped rather than being passed to the L2. If the L2 is mostly exclusive and does not allocate on fill it will thus never hold the line. A follow on patch adds the clean writebacks. The patch changes the L2 of the O3_ARM_v7a CPU configuration to be mostly exclusive (and stats are affected accordingly).
2015-11-04configs: fix bug introduced due to 276ad9121192Nilay Vaish
I had made a typo in changeset 276ad9121192. This changeset fixes it
2015-11-03mem: hmc: top level designErfan Azarkhish
This patch enables modeling a complete Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) device. It highly reuses the existing components in gem5's general memory system with some small modifications. This changeset requires additional patches to model a complete HMC device. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-11-03sparc: add missing parameter to makeSparcSystem()Palle Lyckegaard
makeSparcSystem() in configs/common/FSConfig.py is missing the cmdLine parameter Without the parameter the simulation fails to start. With the parameter the simulation starts properly.
2015-09-16config: Add configs scripts used in Learning gem5Jason Lowe-Power
Added a new directory in configs (learning_gem5) to hold the scripts that are used in the book. See http://lowepower.com/jason/learning_gem5/ for a working copy. For now, only the scripts in Part 1: Getting started with gem5 have been added. A separate patch adds tests for these scripts. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-08-21mem: Add explicit Cache subclass and make BaseCache abstractAndreas Hansson
Open up for other subclasses to BaseCache and transition to using the explicit Cache subclass. --HG-- rename : src/mem/cache/BaseCache.py => src/mem/cache/Cache.py
2015-08-03misc: Coupling gem5 with SystemC TLM2.0Matthias Jung
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>
2015-07-03mem: Remove redundant is_top_level cache parameterAndreas Hansson
This patch takes the final step in removing the is_top_level parameter from the cache. With the recent changes to read requests and write invalidations, the parameter is no longer needed, and consequently removed. This also means that asymmetric cache hierarchies are now fully supported (and we are actually using them already with L1 caches, but no table-walker caches, connected to a shared L2).
2015-07-03mem: Allow read-only caches and check complianceAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a parameter to the BaseCache to enable a read-only cache, for example for the instruction cache, or table-walker cache (not for x86). A number of checks are put in place in the code to ensure a read-only cache does not end up with dirty data. A follow-on patch adds suitable read requests to allow a read-only cache to explicitly ask for clean data.
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.
2015-05-05arch, cpu: Do not forward snoops to table walkerAndreas Hansson
This patch simplifies the overall CPU by changing the TLB caches such that they do not forward snoops to the table walker port(s). Note that only ARM and X86 are affected. There is no reason for the ports to snoop as they do not actually take any action, and from a performance point of view we are better of not snooping more than we have to. Should it at a later point be required to snoop for a particular TLB design it is easy enough to add it back.
2015-04-29cpu: o3: replace issueLatency with bool pipelinedNilay Vaish
Currently, each op class has a parameter issueLat that denotes the cycles after which another op of the same class can be issued. As of now, this latency can either be one cycle (fully pipelined) or same as execution latency of the op (not at all pipelined). The fact that issueLat is a parameter of type Cycles makes one believe that it can be set to any value. To avoid the confusion, the parameter is being renamed as 'pipelined' with type boolean. If set to true, the op would execute in a fully pipelined fashion. Otherwise, it would execute in an unpipelined fashion.
2015-04-23config: enable setting SE-mode environment variables from filebpotter