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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.
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This patch continues the unification of how the different CPU models
create and share their instruction and data ports. Most importantly,
it forces every CPU to have an instruction and a data port, and gives
these ports explicit getters in the BaseCPU (getDataPort and
getInstPort). The patch helps in simplifying the code, make
assumptions more explicit, andfurther ease future patches related to
the CPU ports.
The biggest changes are in the in-order model (that was not modified
in the previous unification patch), which now moves the ports from the
CacheUnit to the CPU. It also distinguishes the instruction fetch and
load-store unit from the rest of the resources, and avoids the use of
indices and casting in favour of keeping track of these two units
explicitly (since they are always there anyways). The atomic, timing
and O3 model simply return references to their already existing ports.
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Change RAS to fix issues with predicated call/return instructions.
Handled all cases in the life of a predicated call and return instruction.
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1. Updates the Branch Predictor correctly to the state
just after a mispredicted branch, if a squash occurs.
2. If a BTB does not find an entry, the branch is predicted not taken.
The global history is modified to correctly reflect this prediction.
3. Local history is now updated at the fetch stage instead of
execute stage.
4. In the Update stage of the branch predictor the local predictors are
now correctly updated according to the state of local history during
fetch stage.
This patch also improves performance by as much as 17% on some benchmarks
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This change adds a master id to each request object which can be
used identify every device in the system that is capable of issuing a request.
This is part of the way to removing the numCpus+1 stats in the cache and
replacing them with the master ids. This is one of a series of changes
that make way for the stats output to be changed to python.
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The delayed commit flag is used in conjunction with interrupt pending flag to
figure out whether or not fetch stage should get more instructions. This patch
clears this flag when instructions are squashed. Also, in case an interrupt is
pending, currently it is not possible to access the instruction cache. This
patch allows accessing the cache in case this flag is set.
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The condition for handling interrupts is to check whether or not the cpu's
instruction list is empty. As observed, this can lead to cases in which even
though the instruction list is empty, interrupts are handled when they should
not be. The condition is being strengthened so that interrupts get handled only
when the last committed microop did not had IsDelayedCommit set.
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This patch adds a function to the ROB that will get the squashing instruction
from the ROB's list of instructions. This squashing instruction is used for
figuring out the macroop from which the fetch stage should fetch the microops.
Further, a check has been added that if the instructions are to be fetched
from the cache maintained by the fetch stage, then the data in the cache should
be valid and the PC of the thread being fetched from is same as the address of
the cache block.
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Because there are no longer architecture independent but specialized functions
in arch/XXX/faults.hh, code that isn't using the faults from a particular ISA
no longer needs to be able to include them through the switching header file
arch/faults.hh. By removing that header file (arch/faults.hh), the potential
interface between ISA code and non ISA code is narrowed.
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This patch adds the necessary flags to the SConstruct and SConscript
files for compiling using clang 2.9 and later (on Ubuntu et al and OSX
XCode 4.2), and also cleans up a bunch of compiler warnings found by
clang. Most of the warnings are related to hidden virtual functions,
comparisons with unsigneds >= 0, and if-statements with empty
bodies. A number of mismatches between struct and class are also
fixed. clang 2.8 is not working as it has problems with class names
that occur in multiple namespaces (e.g. Statistics in
kernel_stats.hh).
clang has a bug (http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7247) which
causes confusion between the container std::set and the function
Packet::set, and this is currently addressed by not including the
entire namespace std, but rather selecting e.g. "using std::vector" in
the appropriate places.
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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.
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This patch cleans up forward declarations and a member-function
prototype that still referred to the old FunctionalPort, VirtualPort
and TranslatingPort. There is no change in functionality.
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--HG--
rename : tests/long/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/config.ini => tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/long/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/simout => tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/long/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/stats.txt
rename : tests/long/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/system.pc.com_1.terminal => tests/long/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/x86/linux/pc-o3-timing/system.pc.com_1.terminal
rename : tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini => tests/long/se/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout => tests/long/se/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/long/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/long/se/00.gzip/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
rename : tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini => tests/long/se/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout => tests/long/se/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/long/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/long/se/10.mcf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
rename : tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini => tests/long/se/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout => tests/long/se/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/long/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/long/se/20.parser/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
rename : tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini => tests/long/se/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout => tests/long/se/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/long/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/long/se/70.twolf/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
rename : tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini => tests/quick/se/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/config.ini
rename : tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout => tests/quick/se/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/simout
rename : tests/quick/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt => tests/quick/se/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/o3-timing/stats.txt
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Try to decrease indentation, and remove some redundant FullSystem checks.
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This patch makes O3's LSQ maintain total order between stores. Essentially
only the store at the head of the store buffer is allowed to be in flight.
Only after that store completes, the next store is issued to the memory
system. By default, the x86 architecture will have TSO.
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--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
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This patch simplifies the address-range determination mechanism and
also unifies the naming across ports and devices. It further splits
the queries for determining if a port is snooping and what address
ranges it responds to (aiming towards a separation of
cache-maintenance ports and pure memory-mapped ports). Default
behaviours are such that most ports do not have to define isSnooping,
and master ports need not implement getAddrRanges.
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This patch performs minimal changes to move the instruction and data
ports from specialised subclasses to the base CPU (to the largest
degree possible). Ultimately it servers to make the CPU(s) have a
well-defined interface to the memory sub-system.
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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
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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
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--HG--
extra : rebase_source : f9e22de341493a25ac6106c16ac35c61c128a080
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There are two lines in O3CPU.py that set the dcache and icache
tgts_per_mshr to 20, ignoring any pre-configured value of tgts_per_mshr.
This patch removes these hardcoded lines from O3CPU.py and sets the default
L1 cache mshr targets to 20.
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extra : rebase_source : 6f92d950e90496a3102967442814e97dc84db08b
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extra : rebase_source : 043b9307eef3c5b87f8e6370765641e016ed1fa7
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And by "everything" I mean all the quick regressions.
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This patch makes O3 CPU work along with the Ruby memory model. Ruby
overwrites the senderState pointer with another pointer. The pointer
is restored only when Ruby gets done with the packet. LSQ makes use of
senderState just after sendTiming() returns. But the dynamic_cast returns
a NULL pointer since Ruby's senderState pointer is from a different class.
Storing the senderState pointer before calling sendTiming() does away with
the problem.
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Initialize flags via the Event constructor instead of calling
setFlags() in the body of the derived class's constructor. I
forget exactly why, but this made life easier when implementing
multi-queue support.
Also rename Event::getFlags() to isFlagSet() to better match
common usage, and get rid of some unused Event methods.
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In FS mode the syscall function will panic, but the interface will be
consistent and code which calls syscall can be compiled in. This will allow,
for instance, instructions that use syscall to be built unconditionally but
then not returned by the decoder.
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Only create a memory ordering violation when the value could have changed
between two subsequent loads, instead of just when loads go out-of-order
to the same address. While not very common in the case of Alpha, with
an architecture with a hardware table walker this can happen reasonably
frequently beacuse a translation will miss and start a table walk and
before the CPU re-schedules the faulting instruction another one will
pass it to the same address (or cache block depending on the dendency
checking).
This patch has been tested with a couple of self-checking hand crafted
programs to stress ordering between two cores.
The performance improvement on SPEC benchmarks can be substantial (2-10%).
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This change pulls the instruction decoding machinery (including caches) out of
the StaticInst class and puts it into its own class. This has a few intrinsic
benefits. First, the StaticInst code, which has gotten to be quite large, gets
simpler. Second, the code that handles decode caching is now separated out
into its own component and can be looked at in isolation, making it easier to
understand. I took the opportunity to restructure the code a bit which will
hopefully also help.
Beyond that, this change also lays some ground work for each ISA to have its
own, potentially stateful decode object. We'd be able to include less
contextualizing information in the ExtMachInst objects since that context
would be applied at the decoder. Also, the decoder could "know" ahead of time
that all the instructions it's going to see are going to be, for instance, 64
bit mode, and it will have one less thing to check when it decodes them.
Because the decode caching mechanism has been separated out, it's now possible
to have multiple caches which correspond to different types of decoding
context. Having one cache for each element of the cross product of different
configurations may become prohibitive, so it may be desirable to clear out the
cache when relatively static state changes and not to have one for each
setting.
Because the decode function is no longer universally accessible as a static
member of the StaticInst class, a new function was added to the ThreadContexts
that returns the applicable decode object.
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