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2013-01-12x86: Changes to decoder, corrects 9376Nilay Vaish
The changes made by the changeset 9376 were not quite correct. The patch made changes to the code which resulted in decoder not getting initialized correctly when the state was restored from a checkpoint. This patch adds a startup function to each ISA object. For x86, this function sets the required state in the decoder. For other ISAs, the function is empty right now.
2013-01-07arch: Move the ISA object to a separate sectionAndreas Sandberg
After making the ISA an independent SimObject, it is serialized automatically by the Python world. Previously, this just resulted in an empty ISA section. This patch moves the contents of the ISA to that section and removes the explicit ISA serialization from the thread contexts, which makes it behave like a normal SimObject during serialization. Note: This patch breaks checkpoint backwards compatibility! Use the cpt_upgrader.py utility to upgrade old checkpoints to the new format.
2013-01-07arch: Add support for invalidating TLBs when drainingAndreas Sandberg
This patch adds support for the memInvalidate() drain method. TLB flushing is requested by calling the virtual flushAll() method on the TLB. Note: This patch renames invalidateAll() to flushAll() on x86 and SPARC to make the interface consistent across all supported architectures.
2013-01-07arch: Make the ISA class inherit from SimObjectAndreas Sandberg
The ISA class on stores the contents of ID registers on many architectures. In order to make reset values of such registers configurable, we make the class inherit from SimObject, which allows us to use the normal generated parameter headers. This patch introduces a Python helper method, BaseCPU.createThreads(), which creates a set of ISAs for each of the threads in an SMT system. Although it is currently only needed when creating multi-threaded CPUs, it should always be called before instantiating the system as this is an obvious place to configure ID registers identifying a thread/CPU.
2013-01-04X86: Move address based decode caching in front of the predecoder.Gabe Black
The predecoder in x86 does a lot of work, most of which can be skipped if the decoder cache is put in front of it. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2012-12-30x86: implement x87 fp instruction fnstswNilay Vaish
This patch implements the fnstsw instruction. The code was originally written by Vince Weaver. Gabe had made some comments about the code, but those were never addressed. This patch addresses those comments.
2010-08-17x86: minor checkpointing bug fixesSteve Reinhardt
2009-11-04build: fix compile problems pointed out by gcc 4.4Nathan Binkert
2009-07-17X86: Shift some register flattening work into the decoder.Gabe Black
2009-07-09X86: Fold the MiscRegFile all the way into the ISA object.Gabe Black
2009-07-08Registers: Add an ISA object which replaces the MiscRegFile.Gabe Black
This object encapsulates (or will eventually) the identity and characteristics of the ISA in the CPU.