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2019-11-13arm: Replace most htog and gtoh with htole and letoh.Gabe Black
We already know what endianness to use when with ARM. In places where a ISA was being supplied through an argument, those were left as htog or gtoh. Change-Id: Iff01e8b09a061d9a72e657cdd4570836e0da933f Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22372 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-30arch,sim: Make copyStringArray take an explicit endianness.Gabe Black
Change-Id: I5cf4291b19dd2d2bdbbf145ad8e00994fabf5547 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22366 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-12arch,base: Separate the idea of a memory image and object file.Gabe Black
A memory image can be described by an object file, but an object file is more than a memory image. Also, it makes sense to manipulate a memory image to, for instance, change how it's loaded into memory. That takes on larger implications (relocations, the entry point, symbols, etc.) when talking about the whole object file, and also modifies aspects which may not need to change. For instance if an image needs to be loaded into memory at addresses different from what's in the object file, but other things like symbols need to stay unmodified. Change-Id: Ia360405ffb2c1c48e0cc201ac0a0764357996a54 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21466 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-10-10arch,base: Stop loading the interpreter in ElfObject.Gabe Black
The interpreter is a separate object file, and while it's convenient to hide loading it in the code which loads the main object file, it breaks the conceptual abstraction since you only asked it to load the main object file. Also, this makes every object file format reimplement the idea of loading the interpreter. Admittedly only ELF recognizes and sets up an interpreter, but other formats conceptually could too. This does move that limitted hypothetical redundancy out of the object file formats and moves it into the process objects, but I think conceptually that's where it belongs. It would also probably be pretty easy to add a method to the base Process class that would handle loading an image and also the interpreter image. This change does not (yet) separate reading symbol tables. Change-Id: I4a165eac599a9bcd30371a162379e833c4cc89b4 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21465 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-10-10arch, base: Stop assuming object files have three segments.Gabe Black
The ObjectFile class has hardcoded assumptions that there are three segments, text, bss and data. There are some files which have one "segment" like raw files, where the entire file's contents are considered a single segment. There are also ELF files which can have an arbitrary number of segments, and those segments can hold any number of sections, including the text, data and/or bss sections. Removing this assumption frees up some object file formats from having to twist themselves to fit in that structure, possibly introducing ambiguities when some segments may fulfill multiple roles. Change-Id: I976e06a3a90ef852b17a6485e2595b006b2090d5 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21463 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-10-09base: Rename Section to Segment, and some of its members.Gabe Black
ELF is, in my opinion, the most important object file format gem5 currently understands, and in ELF terminolgy the blob of data that needs to be loaded into memory to a particular location is called a segment. A section is a software level view of what's in a region of memory, and a single segment may contain multiple sections which happen to follow each other in memory. Change-Id: Ib810c5050723d5a96bd7550515b08ac695fb1b02 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21462 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-05-29arch, base, dev, sim: Remove now unnecessary casts from PortProxy methods.Gabe Black
Change-Id: Ia73b2d86a10d02fa09c924a4571477bb5f200eb7 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18572 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2019-04-28arch, sim: Simplify the AuxVector type.Gabe Black
The AuxVector type has a bunch of accessors which just give access to the underlying variables through references. We might as well just make those members accessible directly. Also, the AuxVector doesn't need to handle endianness flips itself. We can tell the byteswap mechanism how to flip an AuxVector, and let it handle that for us. This gets rid of the entire .cc file which was complicated by trying to both hide the ISA specific endianness translations, and instantiate templated functions in a .cc. Change-Id: I433cd61e73e0b067b6d628fba31be4a4ec1c4cf0 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18373 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-03-22sim-se: Fixed initialization array sizeTiago Muck
Doubled the size of the zeroed auxiliary vector since 2 * intSize on aarch64 > sizeof(uint64). Change-Id: I5196b000a696e9ea3f2b5daa5d5bb071794369aa Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17088 Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com> Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2019-03-14arch-arm,cpu: Add initial support for Arm SVEGiacomo Gabrielli
This changeset adds initial support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) by implementing: - support for most data-processing instructions (no loads/stores yet); - basic system-level support. Additional authors: - Javier Setoain <javier.setoain@arm.com> - Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> - Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Thanks to Pau Cabre for his contribution of bugfixes. Change-Id: I1808b5ff55b401777eeb9b99c9a1129e0d527709 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13515 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-01-22arm: Get rid of some register type definitions.Gabe Black
These are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. These have been supplanted by the global types RegVal and FloatRegVal. Change-Id: Ief1cd85d0eff7156282ddb1ce168a2a5677f7435 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13625 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
2018-10-02sim-se: Set ArmProcess64 hwcaps depending on ID regsGiacomo Travaglini
ArmProcess64 needs to query AArch64 ID registers to check which hw capability is going to report in the appropriate aux vector's entry. Change-Id: I1e1294b831e902226f9b162f25e841e53b940454 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13164 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2018-10-02sim-se: Different HWCAP for ArmProcess32/64Giacomo Travaglini
AArch32 and AArch64 have different HWCAP flags in Linux, but we are currently using AArch32 HWCAP flags to initialize the aux vector of both AArch32 and AArch64 binaries. This patch also fixes a bug that was introduced by running in SE mode a target binary compiled with glibc > 2.18. Using AArch32 flags resulted on CPUID flag being set for AArch64. This incorrectly tells libc that emulation of the midr_el1 is supported. In FullSystem this might work, but since we are in Syscall Emulation there is no OS behind emulating the mrs midr_el1 instruction. By separating AArch32 flags from AArch64 flags we are turning off the CPUID hwcap flag in SE mode. Change-Id: I9f651957ba9d19dc2bc06606de070c6586f0f9fa Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12884 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2018-09-19syscall_emul: expand AuxVector classBrandon Potter
The AuxVector class is responsible for holding Process data. The data that it holds is normally setup by an OS kernel in the process address space. The purpose behind doing this is to pass in information that the process will need for various reasons. (Check out the enum in the header file for an idea of what the AuxVector holds.) The AuxVector struct was changed into a class and encapsulation methods were added to protect access to the member variables. The host ISA may have a different endianness than the simulated ISA. Since data is passed between the process address space and the simulator for auxiliary vectors, we need to worry about maintaining endianness for the right context. Change-Id: I32c5ac4b679559886e1efeb4b5483b92dfc94af9 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12109 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
2018-01-19arch, mem, sim: Consolidate and rename the SE mode page table classes.Gabe Black
Now that Nothing inherits from PageTableBase directly, it can be merged into FuncPageTable. This change also takes the opportunity to rename the combined class to EmulationPageTable which lets you know that it's specifically for SE mode. Also remove the page table entry cache since it doesn't seem to actually improve performance. The TLBs likely absorb the majority of the locality, essentially acting like a cache like they would in real hardware. Change-Id: If1bcb91aed08686603bf7bee37298c0eee826e13 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7342 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-01-15arch: Fix a fatal_if in most of the arch's process classes.Gabe Black
When switching an assert to a fatal while addressing recent review feedback, I forgot to reverse the polarity of the condition, making the fatal fire in exactly the opposite of the conditions it was meant to. Change-Id: Icf49864ef449052bbb0d427dca786006166575c4 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7381 Reviewed-by: Matthias Jung <jungma@eit.uni-kl.de> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-01-11arch,mem: Remove the default value for page size.Gabe Black
This breaks one more architecture dependence outside of the ISAs. Change-Id: I071f9ed73aef78e1cd1752247c183e30854b2d28 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6982 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2018-01-11arch,mem: Move page table construction into the arch classes.Gabe Black
This gets rid of an awkward NoArchPageTable class, and also gives the arch a place to inject ISA specific parameters (specifically page size) without having to have TheISA:: in the generic version of these types. Change-Id: I1412f303460d5c43dafdb9b3cd07af81c908a441 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6981 Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2017-12-04misc: Rename misc.(hh|cc) to logging.(hh|cc)Gabe Black
These files aren't a collection of miscellaneous stuff, they're the definition of the Logger interface, and a few utility macros for calling into that interface (panic, warn, etc.). Change-Id: I84267ac3f45896a83c0ef027f8f19c5e9a5667d1 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6226 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2017-03-09syscall-emul: Move memState into its own fileBrandon Potter
The Process class is full of implementation details and structures related to SE Mode. This changeset factors out an internal class from Process and moves it into a separate file. The purpose behind doing this is to clean up the code and make it a bit more modular. Change-Id: Ic6941a1657751e8d51d5b6b1dcc04f1195884280 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2263 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2017-02-27syscall_emul: [PATCH 15/22] add clone/execve for threading and multiprocess ↵Brandon Potter
simulations Modifies the clone system call and adds execve system call. Requires allowing processes to steal thread contexts from other processes in the same system object and the ability to detach pieces of process state (such as MemState) to allow dynamic sharing.
2016-11-09syscall_emul: [patch 8/22] refactor process classBrandon Potter
Moves aux_vector into its own .hh and .cc files just to get it out of the already crowded Process files. Arguably, it could stay there, but it's probably better just to move it and give it files. The changeset looks ugly around the Process header file, but the goal here is to move methods and members around so that they're not defined randomly throughout the entire header file. I expect this is likely one of the reasons why I several unused variables related to this class. So, the methods are declared first followed by members. I've tried to aggregate them together so that similar entries reside near one another. There are other changes coming to this code so this is by no means the final product.
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.
2016-11-09style: [patch 3/22] reduce include dependencies in some headersBrandon Potter
Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward declarations could have been used rather than a full include.
2016-11-09style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includesBrandon Potter
2016-03-17base: support dynamic loading of Linux ELF objects in SE modeBrandon Potter
2016-03-17syscall_emul: move mmapGrowsDown() to LiveProcessSteve Reinhardt
The mmapGrowsDown() method was a static method on the OperatingSystem class (and derived classes), which worked OK for the templated syscall emulation methods, but made it hard to access elsewhere. This patch moves the method to be a virtual function on the LiveProcess method, where it can be overridden for specific platforms (for now, Alpha). This patch also changes the value of mmapGrowsDown() from being false by default and true only on X86Linux32 to being true by default and false only on Alpha, which seems closer to reality (though in reality most people use ASLR and this doesn't really matter anymore). In the process, also got rid of the unused mmap_start field on LiveProcess and OperatingSystem mmapGrowsUp variable.
2015-04-29arch, base, dev, kern, sym: FreeBSD supportRuslan Bukin
This adds support for FreeBSD/aarch64 FS and SE mode (basic set of syscalls only) Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-09-03arch: Cleanup unused ISA traits constantsAndreas Hansson
This patch prunes unused values, and also unifies how the values are defined (not using an enum for ALPHA), aligning the use of int vs Addr etc. The patch also removes the duplication of PageBytes/PageShift and VMPageSize/LogVMPageSize. For all ISAs the two pairs had identical values and the latter has been removed.
2014-05-12syscall emulation: clean up & comment SyscallReturnSteve Reinhardt
2014-01-24arm: Add support for ARMv8 (AArch64 & AArch32)ARM gem5 Developers
Note: AArch64 and AArch32 interworking is not supported. If you use an AArch64 kernel you are restricted to AArch64 user-mode binaries. This will be addressed in a later patch. Note: Virtualization is only supported in AArch32 mode. This will also be fixed in a later patch. Contributors: Giacomo Gabrielli (TrustZone, LPAE, system-level AArch64, AArch64 NEON, validation) Thomas Grocutt (AArch32 Virtualization, AArch64 FP, validation) Mbou Eyole (AArch64 NEON, validation) Ali Saidi (AArch64 Linux support, code integration, validation) Edmund Grimley-Evans (AArch64 FP) William Wang (AArch64 Linux support) Rene De Jong (AArch64 Linux support, performance opt.) Matt Horsnell (AArch64 MP, validation) Matt Evans (device models, code integration, validation) Chris Adeniyi-Jones (AArch64 syscall-emulation) Prakash Ramrakhyani (validation) Dam Sunwoo (validation) Chander Sudanthi (validation) Stephan Diestelhorst (validation) Andreas Hansson (code integration, performance opt.) Eric Van Hensbergen (performance opt.) Gabe Black
2012-02-24MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointersAndreas Hansson
This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this clear. The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact the code would break and that is how this patch started out). Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only done in the locations affected by the proxies.
2012-01-17MEM: Add port proxies instead of non-structural portsAndreas Hansson
Port proxies are used to replace non-structural ports, and thus enable all ports in the system to correspond to a structural entity. This has the advantage of accessing memory through the normal memory subsystem and thus allowing any constellation of distributed memories, address maps, etc. Most accesses are done through the "system port" that is used for loading binaries, debugging etc. For the entities that belong to the CPU, e.g. threads and thread contexts, they wrap the CPU data port in a port proxy. The following replacements are made: FunctionalPort > PortProxy TranslatingPort > SETranslatingPortProxy VirtualPort > FSTranslatingPortProxy --HG-- rename : src/mem/vport.cc => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.cc rename : src/mem/vport.hh => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.hh rename : src/mem/translating_port.cc => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.cc rename : src/mem/translating_port.hh => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.hh
2011-10-22SE: move page allocation from PageTable to ProcessSteve Reinhardt
PageTable supported an allocate() call that called back through the Process to allocate memory, but did not have a method to map addresses without allocating new pages. It makes more sense for Process to do the allocation, so this method was renamed allocateMem() and moved to Process, and uses a new map() call on PageTable. The remaining uses of the process pointer in PageTable were only to get the name and the PID, so by passing these in directly in the constructor, we can make PageTable completely independent of Process.
2011-04-15trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vectorNathan Binkert
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that --trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help
2011-04-10ARM: Fix checkpoint restoration in ARM_SE.Ali Saidi
2011-03-24Arm: Get rid of the unused copyStringArray32 method from Arm process classes.Gabe Black
2010-10-31ISA,CPU,etc: Create an ISA defined PC type that abstracts out ISA behaviors.Gabe Black
This change is a low level and pervasive reorganization of how PCs are managed in M5. Back when Alpha was the only ISA, there were only 2 PCs to worry about, the PC and the NPC, and the lsb of the PC signaled whether or not you were in PAL mode. As other ISAs were added, we had to add an NNPC, micro PC and next micropc, x86 and ARM introduced variable length instruction sets, and ARM started to keep track of mode bits in the PC. Each CPU model handled PCs in its own custom way that needed to be updated individually to handle the new dimensions of variability, or, in the case of ARMs mode-bit-in-the-pc hack, the complexity could be hidden in the ISA at the ISA implementation's expense. Areas like the branch predictor hadn't been updated to handle branch delay slots or micropcs, and it turns out that had introduced a significant (10s of percent) performance bug in SPARC and to a lesser extend MIPS. Rather than perpetuate the problem by reworking O3 again to handle the PC features needed by x86, this change was introduced to rework PC handling in a more modular, transparent, and hopefully efficient way. PC type: Rather than having the superset of all possible elements of PC state declared in each of the CPU models, each ISA defines its own PCState type which has exactly the elements it needs. A cross product of canned PCState classes are defined in the new "generic" ISA directory for ISAs with/without delay slots and microcode. These are either typedef-ed or subclassed by each ISA. To read or write this structure through a *Context, you use the new pcState() accessor which reads or writes depending on whether it has an argument. If you just want the address of the current or next instruction or the current micro PC, you can get those through read-only accessors on either the PCState type or the *Contexts. These are instAddr(), nextInstAddr(), and microPC(). Note the move away from readPC. That name is ambiguous since it's not clear whether or not it should be the actual address to fetch from, or if it should have extra bits in it like the PAL mode bit. Each class is free to define its own functions to get at whatever values it needs however it needs to to be used in ISA specific code. Eventually Alpha's PAL mode bit could be moved out of the PC and into a separate field like ARM. These types can be reset to a particular pc (where npc = pc + sizeof(MachInst), nnpc = npc + sizeof(MachInst), upc = 0, nupc = 1 as appropriate), printed, serialized, and compared. There is a branching() function which encapsulates code in the CPU models that checked if an instruction branched or not. Exactly what that means in the context of branch delay slots which can skip an instruction when not taken is ambiguous, and ideally this function and its uses can be eliminated. PCStates also generally know how to advance themselves in various ways depending on if they point at an instruction, a microop, or the last microop of a macroop. More on that later. Ideally, accessing all the PCs at once when setting them will improve performance of M5 even though more data needs to be moved around. This is because often all the PCs need to be manipulated together, and by getting them all at once you avoid multiple function calls. Also, the PCs of a particular thread will have spatial locality in the cache. Previously they were grouped by element in arrays which spread out accesses. Advancing the PC: The PCs were previously managed entirely by the CPU which had to know about PC semantics, try to figure out which dimension to increment the PC in, what to set NPC/NNPC, etc. These decisions are best left to the ISA in conjunction with the PC type itself. Because most of the information about how to increment the PC (mainly what type of instruction it refers to) is contained in the instruction object, a new advancePC virtual function was added to the StaticInst class. Subclasses provide an implementation that moves around the right element of the PC with a minimal amount of decision making. In ISAs like Alpha, the instructions always simply assign NPC to PC without having to worry about micropcs, nnpcs, etc. The added cost of a virtual function call should be outweighed by not having to figure out as much about what to do with the PCs and mucking around with the extra elements. One drawback of making the StaticInsts advance the PC is that you have to actually have one to advance the PC. This would, superficially, seem to require decoding an instruction before fetch could advance. This is, as far as I can tell, realistic. fetch would advance through memory addresses, not PCs, perhaps predicting new memory addresses using existing ones. More sophisticated decisions about control flow would be made later on, after the instruction was decoded, and handed back to fetch. If branching needs to happen, some amount of decoding needs to happen to see that it's a branch, what the target is, etc. This could get a little more complicated if that gets done by the predecoder, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now. Variable length instructions: To handle variable length instructions in x86 and ARM, the predecoder now takes in the current PC by reference to the getExtMachInst function. It can modify the PC however it needs to (by setting NPC to be the PC + instruction length, for instance). This could be improved since the CPU doesn't know if the PC was modified and always has to write it back. ISA parser: To support the new API, all PC related operand types were removed from the parser and replaced with a PCState type. There are two warts on this implementation. First, as with all the other operand types, the PCState still has to have a valid operand type even though it doesn't use it. Second, using syntax like PCS.npc(target) doesn't work for two reasons, this looks like the syntax for operand type overriding, and the parser can't figure out if you're reading or writing. Instructions that use the PCS operand (which I've consistently called it) need to first read it into a local variable, manipulate it, and then write it back out. Return address stack: The return address stack needed a little extra help because, in the presence of branch delay slots, it has to merge together elements of the return PC and the call PC. To handle that, a buildRetPC utility function was added. There are basically only two versions in all the ISAs, but it didn't seem short enough to put into the generic ISA directory. Also, the branch predictor code in O3 and InOrder were adjusted so that they always store the PC of the actual call instruction in the RAS, not the next PC. If the call instruction is a microop, the next PC refers to the next microop in the same macroop which is probably not desirable. The buildRetPC function advances the PC intelligently to the next macroop (in an ISA specific way) so that that case works. Change in stats: There were no change in stats except in MIPS and SPARC in the O3 model. MIPS runs in about 9% fewer ticks. SPARC runs with 30%-50% fewer ticks, which could likely be improved further by setting call/return instruction flags and taking advantage of the RAS. TODO: Add != operators to the PCState classes, defined trivially to be !(a==b). Smooth out places where PCs are split apart, passed around, and put back together later. I think this might happen in SPARC's fault code. Add ISA specific constructors that allow setting PC elements without calling a bunch of accessors. Try to eliminate the need for the branching() function. Factor out Alpha's PAL mode pc bit into a separate flag field, and eliminate places where it's blindly masked out or tested in the PC.
2010-10-01ARM: Clean up use of TBit and JBit.Ali Saidi
Rather tha constantly using ULL(1) << PcXBitShift define those directly. Additionally, add some helper functions to further clean up the code.
2010-09-13Faults: Pass the StaticInst involved, if any, to a Fault's invoke method.Gabe Black
Also move the "Fault" reference counted pointer type into a separate file, sim/fault.hh. It would be better to name this less similarly to sim/faults.hh to reduce confusion, but fault.hh matches the name of the type. We could change Fault to FaultPtr to match other pointer types, and then changing the name of the file would make more sense.
2010-08-25ARM: Implement CPACR register and return Undefined Instruction when FP ↵Gabe Black
access is disabled.
2010-08-17sim: revamp unserialization procedureSteve Reinhardt
Replace direct call to unserialize() on each SimObject with a pair of calls for better control over initialization in both ckpt and non-ckpt cases. If restoring from a checkpoint, loadState(ckpt) is called on each SimObject. The default implementation simply calls unserialize() if there is a corresponding checkpoint section, so we get backward compatibility for existing objects. However, objects can override loadState() to get other behaviors, e.g., doing other programmed initializations after unserialize(), or complaining if no checkpoint section is found. (Note that the default warning for a missing checkpoint section is now gone.) If not restoring from a checkpoint, we call the new initState() method on each SimObject instead. This provides a hook for state initializations that are only required when *not* restoring from a checkpoint. Given this new framework, do some cleanup of LiveProcess subclasses and X86System, which were (in some cases) emulating initState() behavior in startup via a local flag or (in other cases) erroneously doing initializations in startup() that clobbered state loaded earlier by unserialize().
2010-06-02ARM: Fix SPEC2000 benchmarks in SE mode. With this patch allAli Saidi
Spec2k benchmarks seem to run with atomic or timing mode simple CPUs. Fixed up some constants, handling of 64 bit arguments, and marked a few more syscalls ignoreFunc.
2010-06-02ARM: Fixup native trace support and add some v7/recent stack codeAli Saidi
2010-06-02ARM: Move the mmap region to where Linux actually has it.Gabe Black
2010-06-02ARM: Allow ARM processes to start in Thumb mode.Gabe Black
2009-10-30Syscalls: Make system calls access arguments like a stack, not an array.Gabe Black
When accessing arguments for a syscall, the position of an argument depends on the policies of the ISA, how much space preceding arguments took up, and the "alignment" of the index for this particular argument into the number of possible storate locations. This change adjusts getSyscallArg to take its index parameter by reference instead of value and to adjust it to point to the possible location of the next argument on the stack, basically just after the current one. This way, the rules for the new argument can be applied locally without knowing about other arguments since those have already been taken into account implicitly. All system calls have also been changed to reflect the new interface. In a number of cases this made the implementation clearer since it encourages arguments to be collected in one place in order and then used as necessary later, as opposed to scattering them throughout the function or using them in place in long expressions. It also discourages using getSyscallArg over and over to retrieve the same value when a temporary would do the job.
2009-07-27ARM: Set up the initial stack frame to match a recent Linux.Gabe Black
2009-04-06Merge ARM into the head. ARM will compile but may not actually work.Gabe Black
2009-04-05arm: add ARM support to M5Stephen Hines