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2017-08-03configs, arm: Fix incorrect use of mem_range in bL exampleAndreas Sandberg
The change "config: Change mem_range attribute naming in ARM SimpleSystem" modified the SimpleSystem class to be compatible with the MemConfig utility script. While doing so, the way we report the memory ranges supported by the system changed, which broke the bL example configration. This changeset introduces the necessary changes to make the script work again. Change-Id: I789987950ff04b6c5ae1c8b807355bcba34f6b3c Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4380 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-08-01arch-arm: Switch to DTOnly as the default machine typeAndreas Sandberg
Old ARM systems used to pass the machine type in the ATAGS list passed to the kernel. This has been largely deprecated by the introduction of device trees. Switch to the DTOnly machine type by default in gem5 since all new platforms and kernel will require this behavior. Change-Id: Icfd085e4862863b4ef495566bfddbd11591866c3 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4260 Reviewed-by: 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>
2017-05-18configs: fix cpu names in big.LITTLE examplePierre-Yves Péneau
CPU aliases have been dropped, this change fixes the big.LITTLE example. Change-Id: Idd59a6eca93448ef0e23087365fb5452bcef9247 Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3300 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.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>
2017-04-03config, arm: Add multi-core KVM support to bL configAndreas Sandberg
Add support for KVM in the big.LITTLE(tm) example configuration. This replaces the --atomic option with a --cpu-type option that can be used to switch between atomic, kvm, and timing simulation. When running in KVM mode, the simulation script automatically assigns separate event queues (threads) to each of the simulated CPUs. All simulated devices, including CPU child devices (e.g., interrupt controllers and caches), are assigned to event queue 0. Change-Id: Ic9a3f564db91f5a3d3cb754c5a02fdd5c17d5fdf Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2561 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>
2017-04-03config, arm: Unify checkpoint path handling in bL configsAndreas Sandberg
The vanilla bL configuration file and the dist-gem5 configuration file use slightly different code paths when restoring from checkpoints. Unify this by passing the parsed options to the instantiate() method and adding an optional checkpoint keyword argument for checkpoint directories (only used by the dist-gem5 script). Change-Id: I9943ec10bd7a256465e29c8de571142ec3fbaa0e Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2560 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>
2017-02-14arm,config: Refactor the example big.LITTLE(tm) configurationGabor Dozsa
This patch prepares future extensions and customisation of the example big.LITTLE configuration script. It breaks out the major phases into functions so they can be called from other python scripts. Change-Id: I2cb7c207c410fe14602cf17af7482719abba6c24 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2016-12-06arm, config: Add missing IOCache in bL configGabor Dozsa
This patch adds an IOCache to the example bigLITTLE configuration. An IOCache is required for correct DMA transfers when we have caches in the system. Change-Id: Ifeddc1b360aacbb16b1393f361dd98873c834012 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.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.
2016-09-15arm, config: Fixups for the example big.LITTLE(tm) configurationGabor Dozsa
This patch refactors the configuration file to use a more object-oriented design. Change-Id: I44ac2d063c2b5901f385544fb6ce3f259459cb05 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
2016-07-21arm, config: Add an example ARM big.LITTLE(tm) configuration scriptGabor Dozsa
An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script can run a full system simulation with various number of big and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes two example device tree files for booting Linux on the bigLITTLE system. Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>