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2019-01-23arm: Replace MiscReg with RegVal in utility.(hh|cc).Gabe Black
These uses snuck in after the previous pass which made this switch in the rest of these files. Change-Id: Ie891c6ec393a65f1c57c54301f0a2bb920d38bb0 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15795 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-01-16arch-arm: Read VMPIDR instead of MPIDR when EL2 is EnabledGiacomo Travaglini
Trying to read MPIDR(_EL1) from EL1, should return the value of VMPIDR_EL2 if EL2 is enabled. This patch is modifying the utility function for reading MPIDR in order to match this behaviour for both AArch32 and AArch64. Change-Id: I32c2d4d5052f509e6e0542a5314844164221c6a3 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/15617 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-12-20arch, cpu: Remove float type accessors.Gabe Black
Use the binary accessors instead. Change-Id: Iff1877e92c79df02b3d13635391a8c2f025776a2 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14457 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-10-26arch-arm: Refactor AArch64 MSR/MRS trappingGiacomo Travaglini
This patch refactors AArch64 MSR/MRS trapping, by moving the trapping helpers in arch/arm/utility and in the isa code into a MiscRegOp64 class. This class is the Base class for a generic AArch64 instruction which is making use of system registers (MiscReg), like MSR,MRS,SYS. The common denominator or those instruction is the chance that the system register access is trapped to an upper Exception level. MiscRegOp64 is providing that feature. What do we gain? Other "pseudo" instructions, like access to implementation defined registers can inherit from this class to make use of the trapping functionalities even if there is no data movement between GPRs and system register. Change-Id: I0924354db100de04f1079a1ab43d4fd32039e08d 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/13778 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-10-26arch-arm: Trap to EL2 only if not in Secure StateGiacomo Travaglini
MRS/MSR Instructions should trap to EL2 only if we are in non-Secure state since at the current implementation (Armv8.0) there is no Secure EL2. Change-Id: I93af415fbcbd19a470752adf6afc92e520e9645d 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/13777 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-10-26arch-arm: CPTR_EL3.TCPAC traps EL2 accesses to CPACR_EL1Giacomo Travaglini
According to the arm arm, CPTR_EL3.TCPAC traps EL2 accesses to the CPTR_EL2 or HCPTR, and EL2 and EL1 accesses to the CPACR_EL1 or CPACR, are trapped to EL3, unless they are trapped by CPTR_EL2.TCPAC. Change-Id: I637be35b29db39f044dda0c6cc4fe986c9620371 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/13775 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-10-01arch-arm: Implement AArch64 ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1 registerGiacomo Travaglini
This patch implements AArch64 Memory Model Feature Register 2 (from ARMv8.2) Change-Id: I16d9acaf620fac6d1206e208bd143daec1657daf Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/13066 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-06-22arch-arm: BadMode checking if corresponding EL is implementedGiacomo Travaglini
The old utility function called badMode was only checking if the mode passed as an argument was a recognized mode. It was not checking if the corresponding mode/EL was implemented. That function has been renamed to unknownMode and a new badMode has been introduced. This is used by the cpsrWriteByInstruction function. In this way any try to change the execution mode won't succeed if the mode hasn't been implemented. Change-Id: Ibfe385c5465b904acc0d2eb9647710891d72c9df Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11196 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-05-29arch-arm: MPIDR.MT = 1 in a multithreaded systemGiacomo Travaglini
MPIDR.MT Indicates whether the lowest level of affinity consists of logical PEs that are implemented using a multithreading type approach Change-Id: Ia5e6e65577729c7826227c4574ce690f76454edc Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10502 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-03-12arch-arm: Implement missing aarch32 TLBI registersGiacomo Travaglini
In the pool of TLB Invalidate system register a category of instruction was missing: the ones operating on entries added to the TLB during the last level only of a table walk. (E.g. TLBIVMAL). This patch is not considering this matching criteria when invalidating the entries and it is rather performing the invalidation on all levels. Change-Id: I5f2186cfdd73793e76c90b260f7128be187903fe Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8821 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-02-07arch-arm: ELUsingAArch32K from armarm pseudocodeGiacomo Travaglini
This patch implements the ELUsingAArch32K pseudocode, which is returning true if the provided Exception Level is using A32 ISA, but it is not panicking (quitting simulation) if the information is unknown (see documentation). The panicking is the current behaviour of the ELIs32 utility in gem5. Change-Id: Iad7b56077d7e0f8ee223b5b9593cb8097f26bb29 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7222 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-02-07arch-arm: isSecureBelow from armarm pseudocodeGiacomo Travaglini
This patch introduces the inSecureBelow pseudocode function defined in the armarm documentation. It also replaces the inSecureState function call which was improperly used in ELIs32: we might be in secure state (EL3), but with non-secure lower ELs (SCR.NS = 1). Change-Id: I01febcb54392ad4e51e785b4d5153aeb3437c778 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Chuan Zhu <chuan.zhu@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7221 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2018-02-07arch-arm: Fix incorrect assumptions in ELIs64Chuan Zhu
The state of EL1 wasn't determined correctly when running in secure mode if virtualisation was enabled. This changset updates the implementation to match the canonical behavior from the ARM ARM. Change-Id: I7ed6f5c003617773603f678667aac069d73b6f62 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7141 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2017-12-22arch,cpu: "virtualize" the TLB interface.Gabe Black
CPUs have historically instantiated the architecture specific version of the TLBs to avoid a virtual function call, making them a little bit more dependent on what the current ISA is. Some simple performance measurement, the x86 twolf regression on the atomic CPU, shows that there isn't actually any performance benefit, and if anything the simulator goes slightly faster (although still within margin of error) when the TLB functions are virtual. This change switches everything outside of the architectures themselves to use the generic BaseTLB type, and then inside the ISA for them to cast that to their architecture specific type to call into architecture specific interfaces. The ARM TLB needed the most adjustment since it was using non-standard translation function signatures. Specifically, they all took an extra "type" parameter which defaulted to normal, and translateTiming returned a Fault. translateTiming actually doesn't need to return a Fault because everywhere that consumed it just stored it into a structure which it then deleted(?), and the fault is stored in the Translation object when the translation is done. A little more work is needed to fully obviate the arch/tlb.hh header, so the TheISA::TLB type is still visible outside of the ISAs. Specifically, the TlbEntry type is used in the generic PageTable which lives in src/mem. Change-Id: I51b68ee74411f9af778317eff222f9349d2ed575 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6921 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-07-05cpu: Added interface for vector reg fileRekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla
This patch adds some more functionality to the cpu model and the arch to interface with the vector register file. This change consists mainly of augmenting ThreadContexts and ExecContexts with calls to get/set full vectors, underlying microarchitectural elements or lanes. Those are meant to interface with the vector register file. All classes that implement this interface also get an appropriate implementation. This requires implementing the vector register file for the different models using the VecRegContainer class. This change set also updates the Result abstraction to contemplate the possibility of having a vector as result. The changes also affect how the remote_gdb connection works. There are some (nasty) side effects, such as the need to define dummy numPhysVecRegs parameter values for architectures that do not implement vector extensions. Nathanael Premillieu's work with an increasing number of fixes and improvements of mine. Change-Id: Iee65f4e8b03abfe1e94e6940a51b68d0977fd5bb Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> [ Fix RISCV build issues and CC reg free list initialisation ] Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2705
2016-11-09style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includesBrandon Potter
2016-08-02arm: Fix trapping to Hypervisor during MSR/MRS read/writeDylan Johnson
This patch restricts trapping to hypervisor only if we are in the correct exception level for the trap to happen. Change-Id: I0a382b6a572ef835ea36d2702b8a81b633bd3df0
2016-08-02arm: enable EL2 supportCurtis Dunham
Change-Id: I59fa4fae98c33d9e5c2185382e1411911d27d341
2016-06-02arm: Correctly check FP/SIMD access permission in aarch32Andreas Sandberg
The current implementation of aarch32 FP/SIMD in gem5 assumes that EL1 and higher are all 32-bit. This breaks interprocessing since an aarch64 EL1 uses different enable/disable bits. This change updates the permission checks to according to what is prescribed by the ARM ARM. Change-Id: Icdcef31b00644cfeebec00216b3993aa1de12b88 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nathanael Premillieu <nathanael.premillieu@arm.com>
2016-01-11scons: Enable -Wextra by defaultAndreas Hansson
Make best use of the compiler, and enable -Wextra as well as -Wall. There are a few issues that had to be resolved, but they are all trivial.
2015-09-30arm: SMT MPIDR SettingMitch Hayenga
Changes assignment of the MPIDR for multi-threaded systems only.
2015-07-28revert 5af8f40d8f2cNilay Vaish
2015-07-26cpu: implements vector registersNilay Vaish
This adds a vector register type. The type is defined as a std::array of a fixed number of uint64_ts. The isa_parser.py has been modified to parse vector register operands and generate the required code. Different cpus have vector register files now.
2015-05-26arm: Make address translation faster with better cachingNathanael Premillieu
This patch adds better caching of the sys regs for AArch64, thus avoiding unnecessary calls to tc->readMiscReg(MISCREG_CPSR) in the non-faulting case.
2014-10-16arch: Use shared_ptr for all FaultsAndreas Hansson
This patch takes quite a large step in transitioning from the ad-hoc RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr by adopting its use for all Faults. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications are mostly just replacing "new" with "make_shared".
2014-04-29arm: use condition code registers for ARM ISACurtis Dunham
Analogous to ee049bf (for x86). Requires a bump of the checkpoint version and corresponding upgrader code to move the condition code register values to the new register file.
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.
2014-05-09cpu, arm: Allow the specification of a socket fieldAkash Bagdia
Allow the specification of a socket ID for every core that is reflected in the MPIDR field in ARM systems. This allows studying multi-socket / cluster systems with ARM CPUs.
2014-03-07arm: Fix uninitialised warning with gcc 4.8Stephan Diestelhorst
Small fix for a warning that prevents compilation with gcc 4.8.1 due to detecting that a variable might be uninitialised. The fix is to assign a safe default.
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
2013-10-15cpu: add a condition-code register classYasuko Eckert
Add a third register class for condition codes, in parallel with the integer and FP classes. No ISAs use the CC class at this point though.
2013-01-07arm: Remove the register mapping hack used when copying TCsAndreas Sandberg
In order to see all registers independent of the current CPU mode, the ARM architecture model uses the magic MISCREG_CPSR_MODE register to change the register mappings without actually updating the CPU mode. This hack is no longer needed since the thread context now provides a flat interface to the register file. This patch replaces the CPSR_MODE hack with the flat register interface.
2012-06-05cpu: Don't init simple and inorder CPUs if they are defered.Anthony Gutierrez
initCPU() will be called to initialize switched out CPUs for the simple and inorder CPU models. this patch prevents those CPUs from being initialized because they should get their state from the active CPU when it is switched out.
2012-03-09CheckerCPU: Make CheckerCPU runtime selectable instead of compile selectableGeoffrey Blake
Enables the CheckerCPU to be selected at runtime with the --checker option from the configs/example/fs.py and configs/example/se.py configuration files. Also merges with the SE/FS changes.
2012-03-09ARM: Don't reset CPUs that are going to be switched in.Ali Saidi
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.
2012-01-31Merge with head, hopefully the last time for this batch.Gabe Black
2012-01-31CheckerCPU: Re-factor CheckerCPU to be compatible with current gem5Geoffrey Blake
Brings the CheckerCPU back to life to allow FS and SE checking of the O3CPU. These changes have only been tested with the ARM ISA. Other ISAs potentially require modification.
2012-01-29Implement Ali's review feedback.Gabe Black
Try to decrease indentation, and remove some redundant FullSystem checks.
2012-01-28Merge with the main repo.Gabe Black
--HG-- 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
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
2011-11-02SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in the ARM ISA.Gabe Black
2011-05-04ARM: Add support for loading the a bootloader and configuring parameters for itAli Saidi
2011-04-04ARM: Fix checkpoint restoration into O3 CPU and the way O3 switchCpu works.Ali Saidi
This change fixes a small bug in the arm copyRegs() code where some registers wouldn't be copied if the processor was in a mode other than MODE_USER. Additionally, this change simplifies the way the O3 switchCpu code works by utilizing TheISA::copyRegs() to copy the required context information rather than the adhoc copying that goes on in the CPU model. The current code makes assumptions about the visibility of int and float registers that aren't true for all architectures in FS mode.
2011-03-24Arm: Get rid of unused and incomplete setCp15Register and readCp15Register.Gabe Black
2010-11-15ARM: Add support for GDB on ARMWilliam Wang
--HG-- rename : src/arch/alpha/remote_gdb.cc => src/arch/arm/remote_gdb.cc
2010-11-15ARM: Cache the misc regs at the TLB to limit readMiscReg() calls.Ali Saidi
2010-11-15ARM: Add support for switching CPUsAli Saidi
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.
2010-10-15GetArgument: Rework getArgument so that X86_FS compiles again.Gabe Black
When no size is specified for an argument, push the decision about what size to use into the ISA by passing a size of -1.