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This patch introduces a high-speed template function for mirroring the
bits (MSB=>LSB) in a variable length word. The function is achieving
high performances since it is using a look-up table.
Change-Id: Ib0d0480e68d902f25655f74d243de305103eff75
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5261
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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std::make_unique is not available for C++11 compilers, and it has been
introduced only in C++14. Since gem5 is not officially supporting the
latter at the moment, this patch allows to use it in gem5 if including
base/compiler.hh. If compiled under C++14, std::make_unique will be
used instead.
Change-Id: Ibf1897fad0a1eb1cb0c683cc25170feaa6841997
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5201
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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When asynchronous IO fails, gem5 currently just says it failed and quits, and
doesn't give any more information about which step failed, or what
specifically about it failed.
This change adds two helpers which will attempt the fcntl, check for error
conditions, and in the event of a failure, include a message describing the
error code and what the arguments to fcntl were.
Change-Id: I316478172ab2aefd3788279dbc12744791385cd5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4320
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Change-Id: If3e4329204f27eda96b50ec6ac279ebc6ef23d99
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3921
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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By setting the BaseCPU parameter wait_for_dbg_connection, the GDB
server blocks during initialisation waiting for the remote debugger to
connect before starting the simulated CPU.
Change-Id: I4d62c68ce9adf69344bccbb44f66e30b33715a1c
[ Update info message to include remote GDB port, rename param. ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3963
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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Previously the directory covered a flat address range that always
started from address 0. This change adds a vector of address ranges
with interleaving and hashing that each directory keeps track of and
the necessary flexibility to support systems with non continuous
memory ranges.
Change-Id: I6ea1c629bdf4c5137b7d9c89dbaf6c826adfd977
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2903
Reviewed-by: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Some of the macros, notably panic, uses exit(). Callers shouldn't have to
know that or have coincidentally included cstdlib, the provider of exit,
themselves.
Change-Id: I634602ed1795dcc8897b4bddb1167c96763acc18
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3601
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Compiling gem5 with recent version of clang (4 and 5) triggers
warnings that are treated as errors:
* Global templatized static functions result in a warning if they
are not used. These should either be declared as static inline or
without the static identifier to avoid the warning.
* Some templatized classes contain static variables. The
instantiated versions of these variables / templates need to be
explicitly declared to avoid a compiler warning.
Change-Id: Ie8261144836e94ebab7ea04ccccb90927672c257
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3420
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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The new version modularizes the implementation of the various commands,
gets rid of dynamic allocation of the register cache, fixes some small
style problems, and uses exceptions to simplify error handling internal to
the GDB stub.
Change-Id: Iff3548373ce4adfb99106a810f5713b769df89b2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3280
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Shingarov <shingarov@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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If the client does something bad, don't kill the whole simulation, just
complain, drop the client and keep going.
Change-Id: I824f2d121e2fe03cdf4323a25c192b68e0370acc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3200
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Currently, if the remote gdb stub fails to read a byte from an incoming
packet because the connection has been dropped, the read call will return
anyway and the calling code will have no way to know something bad
happened. It might reattempt the read over and over again waiting for some
particular byte, doomed to never make forward progress.
This change modifies the remote GDB code so that if a read or write call
fails, it will instead detach from the debugger and continue. Before this
change, When simulating a port scan, ie connecting to the debugger port
and then immediately dropping the connection using this command:
nc -v -n -z -w 1 127.0.0.1 7000
gem5 would enter the previously described death spiral. After it, gem5
detaches from the bad connection and resumes execution. Subsequently
attaching with gdb was successful.
This code is written in a C centric style, and would benefit from some
refactoring.
Change-Id: Ie3c0bb35b9cfe3671d0f731e3907548bae0d292f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3180
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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The loopback device will allow access to various services like remote GDB
debugging, connecting to the terminal, etc., without letting external
agents like port scanners connect and disrupting the simulation.
Change-Id: I76dccbf152fa278ae9f342b25f7e345a1329fbe4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3080
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Remove SWIG guards and SWIG-specific C++ code.
Change-Id: Icaad6720513b6f48153727ef3f70e0dba0df4bee
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2921
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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When setting the size of a PCI BAR, the kernel only supports powers of
two (as per the PCI spec). Previously, the size was incorrectly read
by the kernel, and the address ranges assigned to the PCI devices
could overlap, resulting in gem5 crashes. We now round up to the next
power of two.
Kudos to Sergei Trofimov who helped to debug this issue!
Change-Id: I54ca399b62ea07c09d4cd989b17dfa670e841bbe
Reviewed-by: Anouk Van Laer <anouk.vanlaer@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergei Trofimov <sergei.trofimov@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2580
Reviewed-by: Paul Rosenfeld <prosenfeld@micron.com>
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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>
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See a06a46f and a854373.
Change-Id: Id66427db22b7d7764c218b9cd78d95db929f4127
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2224
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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It's currently possible to change the log level in gem5 by tweaking a
set of global variables. These variables are currently exposed to
Python using SWIG. This mechanism is far from ideal for two reasons:
First, changing the log level requires that the Python world enables
or disables individual levels. Ideally, this should be a single call
where a log level is selected. Second, exporting global variables is
poorly supported by most Python frameworks. SWIG puts variables in
their own namespace and PyBind doesn't seem to support it at all.
This changeset refactors the logging code to create a more abstract
interface. Each log level is associated with an instance of a Logger
class. This class contains common functionality, an enable flag, and a
verbose flag.
Available LogLevels are described by the LogLevel class. Lower log
levels are used for more critical messages (PANIC being level 0) and
higher levels for less critical messages. The highest log level that
is printed is controlled by calling Logger:setLevel().
Change-Id: I31e44299d242d953197a8e62679250c91d6ef776
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3802/
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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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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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ClockedObject was changed to require its regStats() to be called from every
child class. If you forget to do this, the error was indecipherable. This
patch makes the error more clear.
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Revamped version of garnet with more optimized single-cycle routers,
more configurability, and cleaner code.
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Instead of scheduling another event, this patch adds a warning in case gdb
is attached multiple times and the first attachement event has not been
processed yet.
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When loading a checkpoint, it's sometimes desirable to be able to test
whether an entry within a secion exists. This is currently done
automatically in the UNSERIALIZE_OPT_SCALAR macro, but it isn't
possible to do for arrays, containers, or enums. Instead of adding
even more macros, add a helper function (CheckpointIn::entryExists())
that tests for the presence of an entry.
Change-Id: I4b4646b03276b889fd3916efefff3bd552317dbc
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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This patch adds a total() function to the Vector2D
stat type. Similar to other stats such as Scalar or
Vector it is useful to be able to read the total for
a given stat.
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The ELF loader currently has an assertion that checks if the size of a
loaded .text secion is non-zero. This is useful in the general case as
an empty text section normally indicates that there is something
strange with the ELF file. However, asserting isn't very useful. This
changeset converts the assert into a warning that tells the user that
something strange is happening.
Change-Id: I313e17847b50a0eca00f6bd00a54c610d626c0f0
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
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The SymbolTable class currently assumes that at most one symbol can
point to a given address. If multiple symbols point to the same
address, only the first one gets added to the internal symbol table
since there is already a match in the address table.
This changeset converts the address table from a map into a multimap
to be able to handle cases where an address maps to multiple
symbols. Additionally, the insert method is changed to not fail if
there is a match in the address table.
Change-Id: I6b4f1d5560c21e49a4af33220efb2a8302961768
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
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The Terminal device currently uses the peek functionality in gem5's
circular buffer implementation to send existing buffered content on
the terminal when a new client attaches. This functionallity is
however not implemented correctly and re-sends the same block multiple
time.
Add the required functionality to peek with an offset into the
circular buffer and change the Terminal::accept() implementation to
send the buffered contents.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Radhika Jagtap <radhika.jagtap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Libraries are loaded into the process address space using the
mmap system call. Conveniently, this happens to be a good
time to update the process symbol table with the library's
incoming symbols so we handle the table update from within the
system call.
This works just like an application's normal symbols. The only
difference between a dynamic library and a main executable is
when the symbol table update occurs. The symbol table update for
an executable happens at program load time and is finished before
the process ever begins executing. Since dynamic linking happens
at runtime, the symbol loading happens after the library is
first loaded into the process address space. The library binary
is examined at this time for a symbol section and that section
is parsed for symbol types with specific bindings (global,
local, weak). Subsequently, these symbols are added to the table
and are available for use by gem5 for things like trace
generation.
Checkpointing should work just as it did previously. The address
space (and therefore the library) will be recorded and the symbol
table will be entirely recorded. (It's not possible to do anything
clever like checkpoint a program and then load the program back
with different libraries with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, because the
library becomes part of the address space after being loaded.)
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This changeset adds support for changing the simulator output
directory. This can be useful when the simulation goes through several
stages (e.g., a warming phase, a simulation phase, and a verification
phase) since it allows the output from each stage to be located in a
different directory. Relocation is done by calling core.setOutputDir()
from Python or simout.setOutputDirectory() from C++.
This change affects several parts of the design of the gem5's output
subsystem. First, files returned by an OutputDirectory instance (e.g.,
simout) are of the type OutputStream instead of a std::ostream. This
allows us to do some more book keeping and control re-opening of files
when the output directory is changed. Second, new subdirectories are
OutputDirectory instances, which should be used to create files in
that sub-directory.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>
[sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version]
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.
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Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.
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mem: support for gpu-style RMWs in ruby
This patch adds support for GPU-style read-modify-write (RMW) operations in
ruby. Such atomic operations are traditionally executed at the memory controller
(instead of through an L1 cache using cache-line locking).
Currently, this patch works by propogating operation functors through the memory
system.
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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.
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This patch replaces the gzstream zlib wrapper with the iostream3
wrapper provided as part of zlib contributions. The main reason for
the switch is to avoid including LGPL in the default gem5
build. iostream3 is provided under a more permissive license:
The code is provided "as is", with the permission to use, copy,
modify, distribute and sell it for any purpose without fee.
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Currently, the wire format of register values in g- and G-packets is
modelled using a union of uint8/16/32/64 arrays. The offset positions
of each register are expressed as a "register count" scaled according
to the width of the register in question. This results in counter-
intuitive and error-prone "register count arithmetic", and some
formats would even be altogether unrepresentable in such model, e.g.
a 64-bit register following a 32-bit one would have a fractional index
in the regs64 array.
Another difficulty is that the array is allocated before the actual
architecture of the workload is known (and therefore before the correct
size for the array can be calculated).
With this patch I propose a simpler mechanism for expressing the
register set structure. In the new code, GdbRegCache is an abstract
class; its subclasses contain straightforward structs reflecting the
register representation. The determination whether to use e.g. the
AArch32 vs. AArch64 register set (or SPARCv8 vs SPARCv9, etc.) is made
by polymorphically dispatching getregs() to the concrete subclass.
The subclass is not instantiated until it is needed for actual
g-/G-packet processing, when the mode is already known.
This patch is not meant to be merged in on its own, because it changes
the contract between src/base/remote_gdb.* and src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*,
so as it stands right now, it would break the other architectures.
In this patch only the base and the ARM code are provided for review;
once we agree on the structure, I will provide src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*
for the other architectures; those patches could then be merged in
together.
Review Request: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3207/
Pushed by Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>
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--HG--
rename : src/dev/Ethernet.py => src/dev/net/Ethernet.py
rename : src/dev/etherbus.cc => src/dev/net/etherbus.cc
rename : src/dev/etherbus.hh => src/dev/net/etherbus.hh
rename : src/dev/etherdevice.cc => src/dev/net/etherdevice.cc
rename : src/dev/etherdevice.hh => src/dev/net/etherdevice.hh
rename : src/dev/etherdump.cc => src/dev/net/etherdump.cc
rename : src/dev/etherdump.hh => src/dev/net/etherdump.hh
rename : src/dev/etherint.cc => src/dev/net/etherint.cc
rename : src/dev/etherint.hh => src/dev/net/etherint.hh
rename : src/dev/etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/etherlink.cc
rename : src/dev/etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/etherlink.hh
rename : src/dev/etherobject.hh => src/dev/net/etherobject.hh
rename : src/dev/etherpkt.cc => src/dev/net/etherpkt.cc
rename : src/dev/etherpkt.hh => src/dev/net/etherpkt.hh
rename : src/dev/ethertap.cc => src/dev/net/ethertap.cc
rename : src/dev/ethertap.hh => src/dev/net/ethertap.hh
rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.cc => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.cc
rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.hh
rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe_defs.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe_defs.hh
rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc
rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh
rename : src/dev/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc
rename : src/dev/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh
rename : src/dev/multi_packet.cc => src/dev/net/multi_packet.cc
rename : src/dev/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh
rename : src/dev/ns_gige.cc => src/dev/net/ns_gige.cc
rename : src/dev/ns_gige.hh => src/dev/net/ns_gige.hh
rename : src/dev/ns_gige_reg.h => src/dev/net/ns_gige_reg.h
rename : src/dev/pktfifo.cc => src/dev/net/pktfifo.cc
rename : src/dev/pktfifo.hh => src/dev/net/pktfifo.hh
rename : src/dev/sinic.cc => src/dev/net/sinic.cc
rename : src/dev/sinic.hh => src/dev/net/sinic.hh
rename : src/dev/sinicreg.hh => src/dev/net/sinicreg.hh
rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.cc => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.cc
rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.hh => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.hh
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The writefile pseudo instruction uses OutputDirectory::create and
OutputDirectory::openFile to create the output files. However, by
default these will check the file extention for .gz, and create a gzip
compressed stream if the file ending matches. When writing out files,
we want to write them out exactly as they are in the guest simulation,
and never want to compress them with gzio. Additionally, this causes
m5 writefile to fail when checking the error flags for the output
steam.
With this patch we add an additional no_gz argument to
OutputDirectory::create and OutputDirectory::openFile which allows us
to override the gzip compression. Therefore, for m5 writefile we
disable the filename check, and always create a standard ostream.
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Add functionality to generate a back trace if gem5 crashes (SIGABRT or
SIGSEGV). The current implementation uses glibc's stack traversal
support if available and stubs out the call to print_backtrace()
otherwise.
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A few minor fixes to issues identified by the clang static analyzer.
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This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
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The DTRACE() macro tests both Trace::enabled and the specific flag. This
change uses the same administrative interface for enabling/disabling
tracing, but masks the SimpleFlags settings directly. This eliminates a
load for every DTRACE() test, e.g. DPRINTF.
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The CircleBuf class has at least one bug causing it to overwrite the
wrong elements when wrapping. The current code has a lot of unused
functionality and duplicated code. This changeset replaces the old
implementation with a new version that supports serialization and
arbitrary types in the buffer (not just char).
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