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2018-03-15x86: Add bitfields which can gather/scatter bases and limits.Gabe Black
Add bitfields which can gather/scatter base and limit fields within "normal" segment descriptors, and in TSS descriptors which have the same bitfields in the same positions for those two values. This centralizes the code which manages those bitfields and makes it less likely that a local implementation will be buggy. Change-Id: I9809aa626fc31388595c3d3b225c25a0ec6a1275 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7661 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-01-23x86, mem: Rewrite the multilevel page table class.Gabe Black
The new version extracts all the x86 specific aspects of the class, and builds the interface around a variable collection of template arguments which are classes that represent the different levels of the page table. The multilevel page table class is now much more ISA independent. Change-Id: Id42e168a78d0e70f80ab2438480cb6e00a3aa636 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7347 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-01-20x86, mem: Don't try to force physical addresses on the system.Gabe Black
Use the system object to allocate physical memory instead of manually placing certain structures and then forcing the system to start other allocations after them in physical memory. Change-Id: Ie18c81645c3b648c64a6d7a649a0e50f7028f344 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7346 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2018-01-20x86, mem: Get rid of PageTableOps::getBasePtr.Gabe Black
Pass this constant into the page table constructor. Change-Id: Icbf730f18d9dfcfebd10a196f7f799514728b0fb Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7345 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
2018-01-20x86, mem: Pass the multi level page table layout in as a parameter.Gabe Black
Don't get it from a global constant declared in an ISA header file. Change-Id: Ie19440abdd76500a5e12e6791e6f755ad9e95af3 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7344 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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>
2018-01-11arch,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>
2017-03-09style: Correct some style issuesBrandon Potter
This changeset fixes line alignment issues, spacing, spelling, etc. for files that are used during SE Mode. Change-Id: Ie61b8d0eb4ebb5af554d72f1297808027833616e Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2264 Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Michael LeBeane <Michael.Lebeane@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
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.
2017-02-27x86: remove unnecessary parameter from functionsBrandon Potter
2015-07-20syscall_emul: [patch 13/22] add system call retry capabilityBrandon Potter
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.
2016-11-09syscall_emul: [patch 9/22] remove unused global variable (num_processes)Brandon Potter
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.
2016-11-09syscall_emul: [patch 2/22] move SyscallDesc into its own .hh and .ccBrandon Potter
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
2016-11-09style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includesBrandon Potter
2016-10-26hsail,gpu-compute: fixes to appease clang++Tony Gutierrez
fixes to appease clang++. tested on: Ubuntu clang version 3.5.0-4ubuntu2~trusty2 (tags/RELEASE_350/final) (based on LLVM 3.5.0) Ubuntu clang version 3.6.0-2ubuntu1~trusty1 (tags/RELEASE_360/final) (based on LLVM 3.6.0) the fixes address the following five issues: 1) the exec continuations in gpu_static_inst.hh were marked as protected when they should be public. here we mark them as public 2) the Abs instruction uses std::abs() in its execute method. because Abs is templated, it can also operate on U32 and U64, types, which cause Abs::execute() to pass uint32_t and uint64_t types to std::abs() respectively. this triggers a warning because std::abs() has no effect in this case. to rememdy this we add template specialization for the execute() method of Abs when its template paramter is U32 or U64. 3) Some potocols that utilize the code in cprintf.hh were missing includes to BoolVec.hh, which defines operator<< for the BoolVec type. This would cause issues when the generated code would try to pass a BoolVec type to a method in cprintf.hh that used operator<< on an instance of a BoolVec. 4) Surprise, clang doesn't like it when you clobber all the bits in a newly allocated object. I.e., this code: tlb = new GpuTlbEntry\[size\]; std::memset(tlb, 0, sizeof(GpuTlbEntry) \* size); Let's use std::vector to track the TLB entries in the GpuTlb now... 5) There were a few variables used only in DPRINTFs, so we mark them with M5_VAR_USED.
2016-03-17base: support dynamic loading of Linux ELF objects in SE modeBrandon Potter
2016-03-17syscall_emul: update x86 mmap base addressBrandon 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.
2016-03-17syscall_emul: fix bugs for mmap2 system call and x86-32 syscallsBrandon Potter
2016-02-06syscall_emul: fix bug in aux vector initializationSteve Reinhardt
Writing 16 bytes from an 8-byte source value is a bad idea. This doesn't appear to have broken anything, but showed up as spurious differences when tracediffing runs.
2016-02-06style: fix missing spaces in control statementsSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.
2016-02-06style: remove trailing whitespaceSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.
2014-12-02x86: Clean up style in process.cc.Gabe Black
2014-11-23x86: Segment initialization to support KvmCPU in SEAlexandru Dutu
This patch sets up low and high privilege code and data segments and places them in the following order: cs low, ds low, ds, cs, in the GDT. Additionally, a syscall and page fault handler for KvmCPU in SE mode are defined. The order of the segment selectors in GDT is required in this manner for interrupt handling to work properly. Segment initialization is done for all the thread contexts.
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
2013-04-23x86: corrects vsyscall address for gettimeofdayMichael Levenhagen
The vsyscall address for gettimeofday is 0xffffffffff600000ul. The offset therefore should be 0x0 instead of 0x410. This can be cross checked with the file sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/gettimeofday.c in source of glibc. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2012-05-27X86: Move the GDT down to where it can be accessed in 32 bit mode.Gabe Black
The GDT can be accessed by user level software running in compatibility mode by moving segment selectors into segment registers. The GDT needs to be set up at an address accessible in this mode.
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
2011-04-15includes: sort all includesNathan Binkert
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.
2010-08-23X86: Create a directory for files that define register indexes.Gabe Black
This is to help tidy up arch/x86. These files should not be used external to the ISA. --HG-- rename : src/arch/x86/apicregs.hh => src/arch/x86/regs/apic.hh rename : src/arch/x86/floatregs.hh => src/arch/x86/regs/float.hh rename : src/arch/x86/intregs.hh => src/arch/x86/regs/int.hh rename : src/arch/x86/miscregs.hh => src/arch/x86/regs/misc.hh rename : src/arch/x86/segmentregs.hh => src/arch/x86/regs/segment.hh
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().
2010-05-23copyright: Change HP copyright on x86 code to be more friendlyNathan Binkert
2010-05-03X86: Update the base aux vector X86 processes install.Gabe Black
2009-11-08compile: wrap 64bit numbers with ULL() so 32bit compiles workNathan Binkert
In the isa_parser, we need to check case statements.
2009-11-04X86: Enable x86_64 vsyscall supportVince Weaver
64-bit vsyscall is different than 32-bit. There are only two syscalls, time and gettimeofday. On a real system, there is complicated code that implements these without entering the kernel. That would be complicated to implement in m5. Instead we just place code that calls the regular syscalls (this is how tools such as valgrind handle this case). This is needed for the perlbmk spec2k benchmark.
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.
2009-10-02X86: Make successive anonymous mmaps move down in 32 bit SE mode Linux.Gabe Black
2009-08-17X86: Initialize the MXCSR in SE mode.Gabe Black
2009-07-19X86: Move a displaced comment back to where it goes.Gabe Black