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This changeset adds functionality that allows system calls to retry without
affecting thread context state such as the program counter or register values
for the associated thread context (when system calls return with a retry
fault).
This functionality is needed to solve problems with blocking system calls
in multi-process or multi-threaded simulations where information is passed
between processes/threads. Blocking system calls can cause deadlock because
the simulator itself is single threaded. There is only a single thread
servicing the event queue which can cause deadlock if the thread hits a
blocking system call instruction.
To illustrate the problem, consider two processes using the producer/consumer
sharing model. The processes can use file descriptors and the read and write
calls to pass information to one another. If the consumer calls the blocking
read system call before the producer has produced anything, the call will
block the event queue (while executing the system call instruction) and
deadlock the simulation.
The solution implemented in this changeset is to recognize that the system
calls will block and then generate a special retry fault. The fault will
be sent back up through the function call chain until it is exposed to the
cpu model's pipeline where the fault becomes visible. The fault will trigger
the cpu model to replay the instruction at a future tick where the call has
a chance to succeed without actually going into a blocking state.
In subsequent patches, we recognize that a syscall will block by calling a
non-blocking poll (from inside the system call implementation) and checking
for events. When events show up during the poll, it signifies that the call
would not have blocked and the syscall is allowed to proceed (calling an
underlying host system call if necessary). If no events are returned from the
poll, we generate the fault and try the instruction for the thread context
at a distant tick. Note that retrying every tick is not efficient.
As an aside, the simulator has some multi-threading support for the event
queue, but it is not used by default and needs work. Even if the event queue
was completely multi-threaded, meaning that there is a hardware thread on
the host servicing a single simulator thread contexts with a 1:1 mapping
between them, it's still possible to run into deadlock due to the event queue
barriers on quantum boundaries. The solution of replaying at a later tick
is the simplest solution and solves the problem generally.
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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.
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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.
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By default, doSyscall gets the values of six registers to be used for
system call arguments. RISC-V, by convention, only has four. Because
RISC-V's implementation of these indices is as arrays of integers rather
than as base indices plus offsets, trying to get the fifth argument
register's value will cause a crash. This patch fixes that by returning 0
for any index higher than 3.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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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.
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The class was crammed into syscall_emul.hh which has tons of forward
declarations and template definitions. To clean it up a bit, moved the
class into separate files and commented the class with doxygen style
comments. Also, provided some encapsulation by adding some accessors and
a mutator.
The syscallreturn.hh file was renamed syscall_return.hh to make it consistent
with other similarly named files in the src/sim directory.
The DPRINTF_SYSCALL macro was moved into its own header file with the
include the Base and Verbose flags as well.
--HG--
rename : src/sim/syscallreturn.hh => src/sim/syscall_return.hh
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RISC-V makes use of load-reserved and store-conditional instructions to
enable creation of lock-free concurrent data manipulation as well as
ACQUIRE and RELEASE semantics for memory ordering of LR, SC, and AMO
instructions (the latter of which do not follow LR/SC semantics). This
patch is a correction to patch 4, which added these instructions to the
implementation of RISC-V. It modifies locked_mem.hh and the
implementations of lr.w, sc.w, lr.d, and sc.d to apply the proper gem5
flags and return the proper values.
An important difference between gem5's LLSC semantics and RISC-V's LR/SC
ones, beyond the name, is that gem5 uses 0 to indicate failure and 1 to
indicate success, while RISC-V is the opposite. Strictly speaking, RISC-V
uses 0 to indicate success and nonzero to indicate failure where the
value would indicate the error, but currently only 1 is reserved as a
failure code by the ISA reference.
This is the seventh patch in the series which originally consisted of five
patches that added the RISC-V ISA to gem5. The original five patches added
all of the instructions and added support for more detailed CPU models and
the sixth patch corrected the implementations of Linux constants and
structs. There will be an eighth patch that adds some regression tests
for the instructions.
[Removed some commented-out code from locked_mem.hh.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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This is an add-on patch for the original series that implemented RISC-V
that improves the implementation of Linux emulation for SE mode. Basically
it cleans up linux/linux.hh by removing constants that haven't been
defined for the RISC-V Linux proxy kernel and rearranging the stat
struct so it aligns with RISC-V's implementation of it. It also adds
placeholders for system calls that have been given numbers in RISC-V
but haven't been given implementations yet. These system calls are
as follows:
- readlinkat
- sigprocmask
- ioctl
- clock_gettime
- getrusage
- getrlimit
- setrlimit
The first five patches implemented RISC-V with the base ISA and multiply,
floating point, and atomic extensions and added support for detailed
CPU models with memory timing.
[Fixed incompatibility with changes made from patch 1.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Last of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch adds support for
timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that was missing in the last four,
which basically consists of handling timing-mode memory accesses and
telling the minor and detailed models what a no-op instruction should
be (addi zero, zero, 0).
Patches 1-4 introduced RISC-V and implemented the base instruction set,
RV64I, and added the multiply, floating point, and atomic memory
extensions, RV64MAFD.
[Fixed compatibility with edit from patch 1.]
[Fixed compatibility with hg copy edit from patch 1.]
[Fixed some style errors in locked_mem.hh.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Fourth of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch adds the RV64A
extension, which includes atomic memory instructions. These instructions
atomically read a value from memory, modify it with a value contained in a
source register, and store the original memory value in the destination
register and modified value back into memory. Because this requires two
memory accesses and GEM5 does not support two timing memory accesses in
a single instruction, each of these instructions is split into two micro-
ops: A "load" micro-op, which reads the memory, and a "store" micro-op,
which modifies and writes it back. Each atomic memory instruction also has
two bits that acquire and release a lock on its memory location.
Additionally, there are atomic load and store instructions that only either
load or store, but not both, and can acquire or release memory locks.
Note that because the current implementation of RISC-V only supports one
core and one thread, it doesn't make sense to make use of AMO instructions.
However, they do form a standard extension of the RISC-V ISA, so they are
included mostly as a placeholder for when multithreaded execution is
implemented. As a result, any tests for their correctness in a future
patch may be abbreviated.
Patch 1 introduced RISC-V and implemented the base instruction set, RV64I;
patch 2 implemented the integer multiply extension, RV64M; and patch 3
implemented the single- and double-precision floating point extensions,
RV64FD.
Patch 5 will add support for timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that
isn't present in patches 1-4.
[Added missing file amo.isa]
[Replaced information removed from initial patch that was missed during
division into multiple patches.]
[Fixed some minor formatting issues.]
[Fixed oversight where LR and SC didn't have both AQ and RL flags.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Third of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch adds the RV64FD
extensions, which include single- and double-precision floating point
instructions.
Patch 1 introduced RISC-V and implemented the base instruction set, RV64I
and patch 2 implemented the integer multiply extension, RV64M.
Patch 4 will implement the atomic memory instructions, RV64A, and patch
5 will add support for timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that is
missing from the first four patches.
[Fixed exception handling in floating-point instructions to conform better
to IEEE-754 2008 standard and behavior of the Chisel-generated RISC-V
simulator.]
[Fixed style errors in decoder.isa.]
[Fixed some fuzz caused by modifying a previous patch.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Second of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch adds the
RV64M extension, which includes integer multiply and divide instructions.
Patch 1 introduced RISC-V and implemented the base instruction set, RV64I.
Patch 3 will implement the floating point extensions, RV64FD; patch 4 will
implement the atomic memory instructions, RV64A; and patch 5 will add
support for timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that is missing from
the first four patches.
[Added mulw instruction that was missed when dividing changes among
patches.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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First of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch introduces the
base 64-bit ISA (RV64I) in src/arch/riscv for use with syscall emulation.
The multiply, floating point, and atomic memory instructions will be added
in additional patches, as well as support for more detailed CPU models.
The loader is also modified to be able to parse RISC-V ELF files, and a
"Hello world\!" example for RISC-V is added to test-progs.
Patch 2 will implement the multiply extension, RV64M; patch 3 will implement
the floating point (single- and double-precision) extensions, RV64FD;
patch 4 will implement the atomic memory instructions, RV64A, and patch 5
will add support for timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that is missing
from the first four patches (such as handling locked memory).
[Removed several unused parameters and imports from RiscvInterrupts.py,
RiscvISA.py, and RiscvSystem.py.]
[Fixed copyright information in RISC-V files copied from elsewhere that had
ARM licenses attached.]
[Reorganized instruction definitions in decoder.isa so that they are sorted
by opcode in preparation for the addition of ISA extensions M, A, F, D.]
[Fixed formatting of several files, removed some variables and
instructions that were missed when moving them to other patches, fixed
RISC-V Foundation copyright attribution, and fixed history of files
copied from other architectures using hg copy.]
[Fixed indentation of switch cases in isa.cc.]
[Reorganized syscall descriptions in linux/process.cc to remove large
number of repeated unimplemented system calls and added implmementations
to functions that have received them since it process.cc was first
created.]
[Fixed spacing for some copyright attributions.]
[Replaced the rest of the file copies using hg copy.]
[Fixed style check errors and corrected unaligned memory accesses.]
[Fix some minor formatting mistakes.]
Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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