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2020-01-23cpu: Consolidate and move the CPU's calls to TheISA::initCPU.Gabe Black
TheISA::initCPU is basically an ISA specific implementation of reset logic on architectural state. As such, it only needs to be called if we're not going to load a checkpoint, ie in initState. Also, since the implementation was the same across all CPUs, this change collapses all the individual implementations down into the base CPU class. Change-Id: Id68133fd7f31619c90bf7b3aad35ae20871acaa4 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24189 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2019-11-02arch,cpu: Move endianness conversion of inst bytes into the ISA.Gabe Black
It doesn't matter if the bytes are converted before or after they're fed into the decoder. The ISA already knows what endianness to use implicitly, and this frees the CPU which doesn't from having to worry about it. Change-Id: Id6574ee81bbf4f032c1d7b2901a664f2bd014fbc Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22343 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu: Get rid of the serviceInstCountEvents method.Gabe Black
This was useful when transitioning away from the CPU based comInstEventQueue, but now that objects backing the ThreadContexts have access to the underlying comInstEventQueue and can manipulate it directly, they don't need to do so through a generic interface. Getting rid of this function narrows and simplifies the interface. Change-Id: I202d466d266551675ef6792d38c658d8a8f1cb8b Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22113 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu: Access inst events through ThreadContext instead of the CPU.Gabe Black
Also delete the CPU interface. Change-Id: I62a6b0a9a303d672f4083bdedf393f9f6d07331f Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22109 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu: Make accesses to comInstEventQueue indirect through methods.Gabe Black
This lets us move the event queue itself around, or change how those services are provided. Change-Id: Ie36665b353cf9788968f253cf281a854a6eff4f4 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22107 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu,sim: Delegate PCEvent scheduling from Systems to ThreadContexts.Gabe Black
The System keeps track of what events are live so new ThreadContexts can have the same set of events as the other ThreadContexts. Change-Id: Id22bfa0af7592a43d97be1564ca067b08ac1de7c Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22106 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu: Make the ThreadContext a PCEventScope.Gabe Black
Both the thread and system's PCEventQueue are checked when appropriate. Change-Id: I16c371339c91a37b5641860d974e546a30e23e13 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22105 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-25cpu: Pass the address to check into the PCEventQueue service method.Gabe Black
This prevents having to access it from within the ThreadContext. Change-Id: I34f5815a11201b8fc41871c18bdbbcd0f40305cf Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22102 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-17cpu: Get rid of load count based events.Gabe Black
This was initially added in 2003 and only supported in the simple CPUs. It's oddly specific since there are no other similar event queues for, for instance, stores, branches, system calls, etc. Given that this seems like a historical oddity which is only partially supported and would be very hard to support on more diverse CPU types like KVM or fast model which don't generally have hooks for counts of specific instruction types. Change-Id: I29209b7ffcf896cf424b71545c9c7546f439e2b9 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21780 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-10-15sim,cpu: Get rid of the unused instEventQueue.Gabe Black
This queue was set up to allow triggering events based on the total number of instructions executed at the system level, and was added in a change which added a number of things to support McPAT. No code checked into gem5 actually schedules an event on that queue, and no code in McPAT (which seems to have gone dormant) either downloadable from github or found in ext modify gem5 in a way that makes it use the instEventQueue. Also, the KVM CPU does not interact with the instEventQueue correctly. While it does check the per-thread instruction event queue when deciding how long to run, it does not check the instEventQueue. It will poke it to run events when it stops for other reasons, but it may (and likely will) have run beyond the point where it was supposed to stop. Since this queue doesn't seem to actually be used for anything, isn't being used properly in all cases anyway, and adds overhead to all the CPU models, this change eliminates it. Change-Id: I0e126df14788c37a6d58ca9e1bb2686b70e60d88 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21783 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2019-05-11cpu,mem: Add support for partial loads/stores and wide mem. accessesGiacomo Gabrielli
This changeset adds support for partial (or masked) loads/stores, i.e. loads/stores that can disable accesses to individual bytes within the target address range. In addition, this changeset extends the code to crack memory accesses across most CPU models (TimingSimpleCPU still TBD), so that arbitrarily wide memory accesses are supported. These changes are required for supporting ISAs with wide vectors. Additional authors: - Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> - Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com> Change-Id: Ibad33541c258ad72925c0b1d5abc3e5e8bf92d92 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13518 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-04-30arch: cpu: Track kernel stats using the base ISA agnostic type.Gabe Black
Then cast to the ISA specific type when necessary. This removes (mostly) an ISA specific aspect to some of the interfaces. The ISA specific version of the kernel stats still needs to be constructed and stored in a few places which means that kernel_stats.hh still needs to be a switching arch header, for instance. In the future, I'd like to make the kernel its own object like the Process objects in SE mode, and then it would be able to instantiate and maintain its own stats. Change-Id: I8309d49019124f6bea1482aaea5b5b34e8c97433 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18429 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-04-28mem: Minimize the use of MemObject.Gabe Black
MemObject doesn't provide anything beyond its base ClockedObject any more, so this change removes it from most inheritance hierarchies. Occasionally MemObject is replaced with SimObject when I was fairly confident that the extra functionality of ClockedObject wasn't needed. Change-Id: Ic014ab61e56402e62548e8c831eb16e26523fdce Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18289 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-04-05cpu: Correctly account for executed instructions in simple cpusNikos Nikoleris
Change-Id: I53f34b2d9db6e4d2e03dde42a970764bb2a5e701 Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17730 Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-03-28cpu: Added a probe to notify the address of retired instructionsJavier Bueno
A probe is added to notify the address of each retired instruction. Change-Id: Iefc1b09d74b3aa0aa5773b17ba637bf51f5a59c9 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17632 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-02-08cpu: support atomic memory request type with AtomicOpFunctorTuan Ta
This patch enables all 4 CPU models (AtomicSimpleCPU, TimingSimpleCPU, MinorCPU and DerivO3CPU) to issue atomic memory (AMO) requests to memory system. Atomic memory instruction is treated as a special store instruction in all CPU models. In simple CPUs, an AMO request with an associated AtomicOpFunctor is simply sent to L1 dcache. In MinorCPU, an AMO request bypasses store buffer and waits for any conflicting store request(s) currently in the store buffer to retire before the AMO request is sent to the cache. AMO requests are not buffered in the store buffer, so their effects appear immediately in the cache. In DerivO3CPU, an AMO request is inserted in the store buffer so that it is delivered to the cache only after all previous stores are issued to the cache. Data forwarding between between an outstanding AMO in the store buffer and a subsequent load is not allowed since the AMO request does not hold valid data until it's executed in the cache. This implementation assumes that a target ISA implementation must insert enough memory fences as micro-ops around an atomic instruction to enforce a correct order of memory instructions with respect to its memory consistency model. Without extra memory fences, this implementation can allow AMOs and other memory instructions that do not conflict (i.e., not target the same address) to reorder. This implementation also assumes that atomic instructions execute within a cache line boundary since the cache for now is not able to execute an operation on two different cache lines in one single step. Therefore, ISAs like x86 that require multi-cache-line atomic instructions need to either use a pair of locking load and unlocking store or change the cache implementation to guarantee the atomicity of an atomic instruction. Change-Id: Ib8a7c81868ac05b98d73afc7d16eb88486f8cf9a Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8188 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2019-01-31arch: cpu: Rename *FloatRegBits* to *FloatReg*.Gabe Black
Now that there's no plain FloatReg, there's no reason to distinguish FloatRegBits with a special suffix since it's the only way to read or write FP registers. Change-Id: I3a60168c1d4302aed55223ea8e37b421f21efded Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14460 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-12-20arch, cpu: Remove float type accessors.Gabe Black
Use the binary accessors instead. Change-Id: Iff1877e92c79df02b3d13635391a8c2f025776a2 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14457 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2018-06-11misc: Using smart pointers for memory RequestsGiacomo Travaglini
This patch is changing the underlying type for RequestPtr from Request* to shared_ptr<Request>. Having memory requests being managed by smart pointers will simplify the code; it will also prevent memory leakage and dangling pointers. Change-Id: I7749af38a11ac8eb4d53d8df1252951e0890fde3 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10996 Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-06-11misc: Substitute pointer to Request with aliased RequestPtrGiacomo Travaglini
Every usage of Request* in the code has been replaced with the RequestPtr alias. This is a preparing patch for when RequestPtr will be the typdefed to a smart pointer to Request rather then a raw pointer to Request. Change-Id: I73cbaf2d96ea9313a590cdc731a25662950cd51a Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10995 Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
2017-12-22arch,cpu: "virtualize" the TLB interface.Gabe Black
CPUs have historically instantiated the architecture specific version of the TLBs to avoid a virtual function call, making them a little bit more dependent on what the current ISA is. Some simple performance measurement, the x86 twolf regression on the atomic CPU, shows that there isn't actually any performance benefit, and if anything the simulator goes slightly faster (although still within margin of error) when the TLB functions are virtual. This change switches everything outside of the architectures themselves to use the generic BaseTLB type, and then inside the ISA for them to cast that to their architecture specific type to call into architecture specific interfaces. The ARM TLB needed the most adjustment since it was using non-standard translation function signatures. Specifically, they all took an extra "type" parameter which defaulted to normal, and translateTiming returned a Fault. translateTiming actually doesn't need to return a Fault because everywhere that consumed it just stored it into a structure which it then deleted(?), and the fault is stored in the Translation object when the translation is done. A little more work is needed to fully obviate the arch/tlb.hh header, so the TheISA::TLB type is still visible outside of the ISAs. Specifically, the TlbEntry type is used in the generic PageTable which lives in src/mem. Change-Id: I51b68ee74411f9af778317eff222f9349d2ed575 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6921 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-12-08x86,misc: add additional info on faulting X86 instruction, fetched PCMatt Sinclair
Print faulting instruction for unmapped address panic in faults.cc and print extra info about corresponding fetched PC in base.cc. Change-Id: Id9e15d3e88df2ad6b809fb3cf9f6ae97e9e97e0f Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6461 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
2017-11-21cpu, cpu, sim: move Cycle probe updateJose Marinho
Move the code responsible for performing the actual probe point notify into BaseCPU. Use BaseCPU activateContext and suspendContext to keep track of sleep cycles. Create a probe point (ppActiveCycles) that does not count cycles where the processor was asleep. Rename ppCycles to ppAllCycles to reflect its nature. Change-Id: I1907ddd07d0ff9f2ef22cc9f61f5f46c630c9d66 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5762 Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-07-05arch: ISA parser additions of vector registersRekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla
Reiley's update :) of the isa parser definitions. My addition of the vector element operand concept for the ISA parser. Nathanael's modification creating a hierarchy between vector registers and its constituencies to the isa parser. Some fixes/updates on top to consider instructions as vectors instead of floating when they use the VectorRF. Some counters added to all the models to keep faithful counts. Change-Id: Id8f162a525240dfd7ba884c5a4d9fa69f4050101 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2706 Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2017-07-05cpu: Added interface for vector reg fileRekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla
This patch adds some more functionality to the cpu model and the arch to interface with the vector register file. This change consists mainly of augmenting ThreadContexts and ExecContexts with calls to get/set full vectors, underlying microarchitectural elements or lanes. Those are meant to interface with the vector register file. All classes that implement this interface also get an appropriate implementation. This requires implementing the vector register file for the different models using the VecRegContainer class. This change set also updates the Result abstraction to contemplate the possibility of having a vector as result. The changes also affect how the remote_gdb connection works. There are some (nasty) side effects, such as the need to define dummy numPhysVecRegs parameter values for architectures that do not implement vector extensions. Nathanael Premillieu's work with an increasing number of fixes and improvements of mine. Change-Id: Iee65f4e8b03abfe1e94e6940a51b68d0977fd5bb Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> [ Fix RISCV build issues and CC reg free list initialisation ] Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2705
2016-11-09style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includesBrandon Potter
2016-02-06style: fix missing spaces in control statementsSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.
2015-09-30cpu,isa,mem: Add per-thread wakeup logicMitch Hayenga
Changes wakeup functionality so that only specific threads on SMT capable cpus are woken.
2015-09-30isa,cpu: Add support for FS SMT InterruptsMitch Hayenga
Adds per-thread interrupt controllers and thread/context logic so that interrupts properly get routed in SMT systems.
2015-09-30cpu: Add per-thread monitorsMitch Hayenga
Adds per-thread address monitors to support FullSystem SMT.
2015-09-30config,cpu: Add SMT support to Atomic and Timing CPUsMitch Hayenga
Adds SMT support to the "simple" CPU models so that they can be used with other SMT-supported CPUs. Example usage: this enables the TimingSimpleCPU to be used to warmup caches before swapping to detailed mode with the in-order or out-of-order based CPU models.
2015-07-07sim: Refactor the serialization base classAndreas Sandberg
Objects that are can be serialized are supposed to inherit from the Serializable class. This class is meant to provide a unified API for such objects. However, so far it has mainly been used by SimObjects due to some fundamental design limitations. This changeset redesigns to the serialization interface to make it more generic and hide the underlying checkpoint storage. Specifically: * Add a set of APIs to serialize into a subsection of the current object. Previously, objects that needed this functionality would use ad-hoc solutions using nameOut() and section name generation. In the new world, an object that implements the interface has the methods serializeSection() and unserializeSection() that serialize into a named /subsection/ of the current object. Calling serialize() serializes an object into the current section. * Move the name() method from Serializable to SimObject as it is no longer needed for serialization. The fully qualified section name is generated by the main serialization code on the fly as objects serialize sub-objects. * Add a scoped ScopedCheckpointSection helper class. Some objects need to serialize data structures, that are not deriving from Serializable, into subsections. Previously, this was done using nameOut() and manual section name generation. To simplify this, this changeset introduces a ScopedCheckpointSection() helper class. When this class is instantiated, it adds a new /subsection/ and subsequent serialization calls during the lifetime of this helper class happen inside this section (or a subsection in case of nested sections). * The serialize() call is now const which prevents accidental state manipulation during serialization. Objects that rely on modifying state can use the serializeOld() call instead. The default implementation simply calls serialize(). Note: The old-style calls need to be explicitly called using the serializeOld()/serializeSectionOld() style APIs. These are used by default when serializing SimObjects. * Both the input and output checkpoints now use their own named types. This hides underlying checkpoint implementation from objects that need checkpointing and makes it easier to change the underlying checkpoint storage code.
2014-11-14arm: Fixes based on UBSan and static analysisAndreas Hansson
Another churn to clean up undefined behaviour, mostly ARM, but some parts also touching the generic part of the code base. Most of the fixes are simply ensuring that proper intialisation. One of the more subtle changes is the return type of the sign-extension, which is changed to uint64_t. This is to avoid shifting negative values (undefined behaviour) in the ISA code.
2014-11-06x86 isa: This patch attempts an implementation at mwait.Marc Orr
Mwait works as follows: 1. A cpu monitors an address of interest (monitor instruction) 2. A cpu calls mwait - this loads the cache line into that cpu's cache. 3. The cpu goes to sleep. 4. When another processor requests write permission for the line, it is evicted from the sleeping cpu's cache. This eviction is forwarded to the sleeping cpu, which then wakes up. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-16cpu: Probe points for basic PMU statsAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds probe points that can be used to implement PMU counters for CPU stats. The following probes are supported: * BaseCPU::ppCycles / Cycles * BaseCPU::ppRetiredInsts / RetiredInsts * BaseCPU::ppRetiredLoads / RetiredLoads * BaseCPU::ppRetiredStores / RetiredStores * BaseCPU::ppRetiredBranches RetiredBranches
2014-09-20cpu: Remove unused deallocateContext callsMitch Hayenga
The call paths for de-scheduling a thread are halt() and suspend(), from the thread context. There is no call to deallocateContext() in general, though some CPUs chose to define it. This patch removes the function from BaseCPU and the cores which do not require it.
2014-09-19arch: Pass faults by const reference where possibleAndreas Hansson
This patch changes how faults are passed between methods in an attempt to copy as few reference-counting pointer instances as possible. This should avoid unecessary copies being created, contributing to the increment/decrement of the reference counters.
2014-05-09cpu: add more instruction mix statisticsCurtis Dunham
For the o3, add instruction mix (OpClass) histogram at commit (stats also already collected at issue). For the simple CPUs we add a histogram of executed instructions
2014-02-09cpu: simple: Add support for using branch predictorsAndreas Sandberg
This changesets adds branch predictor support to the BaseSimpleCPU. The simple CPUs normally don't need a branch predictor, however, there are at least two cases where it can be desirable: 1) A simple CPU can be used to warm the branch predictor of an O3 CPU before switching to the slower O3 model. 2) The simple CPU can be used as a quick way of evaluating/debugging new branch predictors since it exposes branch predictor statistics. Limitations: * Since the simple CPU doesn't speculate, only one instruction will be active in the branch predictor at a time (i.e., the branch predictor will never see speculative branches). * The outcome of a branch prediction does not affect the performance of the simple CPU.
2013-10-15cpu: add a condition-code register classYasuko Eckert
Add a third register class for condition codes, in parallel with the integer and FP classes. No ISAs use the CC class at this point though.
2013-01-12base simple cpu: removes commented out code about cache opsNilay Vaish
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.
2013-01-07cpu: Unify the serialization code for all of the CPU modelsAndreas Sandberg
Cleanup the serialization code for the simple CPUs and the O3 CPU. The CPU-specific code has been replaced with a (un)serializeThread that serializes the thread state / context of a specific thread. Assuming that the thread state class uses the CPU-specific thread state uses the base thread state serialization code, this allows us to restore a checkpoint with any of the CPU models.
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.
2013-01-04Decoder: Remove the thread context get/set from the decoder.Gabe Black
This interface is no longer used, and getting rid of it simplifies the decoders and code that sets up the decoders. The thread context had been used to read architectural state which was used to contextualize the instruction memory as it came in. That was changed so that the state is now sent to the decoders to keep locally if/when it changes. That's significantly more efficient. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2012-09-19AddrRange: Transition from Range<T> to AddrRangeAndreas Hansson
This patch takes the final plunge and transitions from the templated Range class to the more specific AddrRange. In doing so it changes the obvious Range<Addr> to AddrRange, and also bumps the range_map to be AddrRangeMap. In addition to the obvious changes, including the removal of redundant includes, this patch also does some house keeping in preparing for the introduction of address interleaving support in the ranges. The Range class is also stripped of all the functionality that is never used. --HG-- rename : src/base/range.hh => src/base/addr_range.hh rename : src/base/range_map.hh => src/base/addr_range_map.hh
2012-05-26CPU: Merge the predecoder and decoder.Gabe Black
These classes are always used together, and merging them will give the ISAs more flexibility in how they cache things and manage the process. --HG-- rename : src/arch/x86/predecoder_tables.cc => src/arch/x86/decoder_tables.cc
2012-04-15CPU: Tidy up some formatting and a DPRINTF in the simple CPU base class.Gabe Black
Put the { on the same line as the if and put a space between the if and the open paren. Also, use the # format modifier which puts a 0x in front of hex values automatically. If the ExtMachInst type isn't integral and actually prints something more complicated, the # falls away harmlessly and we aren't left with a phantom 0x followed by a bunch of unrelated text.
2012-03-09CheckerCPU: Make CheckerCPU runtime selectable instead of compile selectableGeoffrey Blake
Enables the CheckerCPU to be selected at runtime with the --checker option from the configs/example/fs.py and configs/example/se.py configuration files. Also merges with the SE/FS changes.