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2013-08-20cpu: Fix timing CPU isDrained comment formattingAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes up the comment formatting for isDrained in the timing CPU.
2013-08-19cpu: Accurately count idle cycles for simple cpuLena Olson
Added a couple missing updates to the notIdleFraction stat. Without these, it sometimes gives a (not) idle fraction that is greater than 1 or less than 0.
2013-08-19cpu: Fix timing CPU drain checkAndreas Hansson
This patch modifies the SimpleTimingCPU drain check to also consider the fetch event. Previously, there was an assumption that there is never a fetch event scheduled if the CPU is not executing microcode. However, when a context is activated, a fetch even is scheduled, and microPC() is zero.
2013-07-18mem: Set the cache line size on a system levelAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the notion of a peer block size and instead sets the cache line size on the system level. Previously the size was set per cache, and communicated through the interconnect. There were plenty checks to ensure that everyone had the same size specified, and these checks are now removed. Another benefit that is not yet harnessed is that the cache line size is now known at construction time, rather than after the port binding. Hence, the block size can be locally stored and does not have to be queried every time it is used. A follow-on patch updates the configuration scripts accordingly.
2013-05-30cpu: Make hash struct instead of class to please clangAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the type of the hash function for BasicBlockRanges to match the original definition of the templatized type. Without this, clang raises a warning and combined with the "-Werror" flag this causes compilation to fail.
2013-04-22sim: separate nextCycle() and clockEdge() in clockedObjectsDam Sunwoo
Previously, nextCycle() could return the *current* cycle if the current tick was already aligned with the clock edge. This behavior is not only confusing (not quite what the function name implies), but also caused problems in the drainResume() function. When exiting/re-entering the sim loop (e.g., to take checkpoints), the CPUs will drain and resume. Due to the previous behavior of nextCycle(), the CPU tick events were being rescheduled in the same ticks that were already processed before draining. This caused divergence from runs that did not exit/re-entered the sim loop. (Initially a cycle difference, but a significant impact later on.) This patch separates out the two behaviors (nextCycle() and clockEdge()), uses nextCycle() in drainResume, and uses clockEdge() everywhere else. Nothing (other than name) should change except for the drainResume timing.
2013-04-22cpu: generate SimPoint basic block vector profilesDam Sunwoo
This patch is based on http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/1474/ originally written by Mitch Hayenga. Basic block vectors are generated (simpoint.bb.gz in simout folder) based on start and end addresses of basic blocks. Some comments to the original patch are addressed and hooks are added to create and resume from checkpoints based on instruction counts dictated by external SimPoint analysis tools. SimPoint creation/resuming options will be implemented as a separate patch.
2013-03-26cpu: Remove CpuPort and use MasterPort in the CPU classesAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the port in the CPU classes to use MasterPort instead of the derived CpuPort. The functions of the CpuPort are now distributed across the relevant subclasses. The port accessor functions (getInstPort and getDataPort) now return a MasterPort instead of a CpuPort. This simplifies creating derivative CPUs that do not use the CpuPort.
2013-02-15sim: Add a system-global option to bypass cachesAndreas Sandberg
Virtualized CPUs and the fastmem mode of the atomic CPU require direct access to physical memory. We currently require caches to be disabled when using them to prevent chaos. This is not ideal when switching between hardware virutalized CPUs and other CPU models as it would require a configuration change on each switch. This changeset introduces a new version of the atomic memory mode, 'atomic_noncaching', where memory accesses are inserted into the memory system as atomic accesses, but bypass caches. To make memory mode tests cleaner, the following methods are added to the System class: * isAtomicMode() -- True if the memory mode is 'atomic' or 'direct'. * isTimingMode() -- True if the memory mode is 'timing'. * bypassCaches() -- True if caches should be bypassed. The old getMemoryMode() and setMemoryMode() methods should never be used from the C++ world anymore.
2013-02-15cpu: Refactor memory system checksAndreas Sandberg
CPUs need to test that the memory system is in the right mode in two places, when the CPU is initialized (unless it's switched out) and on a drainResume(). This led to some code duplication in the CPU models. This changeset introduces the verifyMemoryMode() method which is called by BaseCPU::init() if the CPU isn't switched out. The individual CPU models are responsible for calling this method when resuming from a drain as this code is CPU model specific.
2013-02-15cpu: Add CPU metadata om the Python classesAndreas Sandberg
The configuration scripts currently hard-code the requirements of each CPU. This is clearly not optimal as it makes writing new configuration scripts painful and adding new CPU models requires existing scripts to be updated. This patch adds the following class methods to the base CPU and all relevant CPUs: * memory_mode -- Return a string describing the current memory mode (invalid/atomic/timing). * require_caches -- Does the CPU model require caches? * support_take_over -- Does the CPU support CPU handover?
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.
2013-01-07cpu: Make sure that a drained atomic CPU isn't executing ucodeAndreas Sandberg
Currently, the atomic CPU can be in the middle of a microcode sequence when it is drained. This leads to two problems: * When switching to a hardware virtualized CPU, we obviously can't execute gem5 microcode. * Since curMacroStaticInst is populated when executing microcode, repeated switching between CPUs executing microcode leads to incorrect execution. After applying this patch, the CPU will be on a proper instruction boundary, which means that it is safe to switch to any CPU model (including hardware virtualized ones). This changeset fixes a bug where the multiple switches to the same atomic CPU sometimes corrupts the target state because of dangling pointers to the currently executing microinstruction. Note: This changeset moves tick event descheduling from switchOut() to drain(), which makes timing consistent between just draining a system and draining /and/ switching between two atomic CPUs. This makes debugging quite a lot easier (execution traces get the same timing), but the latency of the last instruction before a drain will not be accounted for correctly (it will always be 1 cycle). Note 2: This changeset removes so_state variable, the locked variable, and the tickEvent from checkpoints since none of them contain state that needs to be preserved across checkpoints. The so_state is made redundant because we don't use the drain state variable anymore, the lock variable should never be set when the system is drained, and the tick event isn't scheduled.
2013-01-07cpu: Make sure that a drained timing CPU isn't executing ucodeAndreas Sandberg
Currently, the timing CPU can be in the middle of a microcode sequence or multicycle (stayAtPC is true) instruction when it is drained. This leads to two problems: * When switching to a hardware virtualized CPU, we obviously can't execute gem5 microcode. * If stayAtPC is true we might execute half of an instruction twice when restoring a checkpoint or switching CPUs, which leads to an incorrect execution. After applying this patch, the CPU will be on a proper instruction boundary, which means that it is safe to switch to any CPU model (including hardware virtualized ones). This changeset also fixes a bug where the timing CPU sometimes switches out with while stayAtPC is true, which corrupts the target state after a CPU switch or checkpoint. Note: This changeset removes the so_state variable from checkpoints since the drain state isn't used anymore.
2013-01-07cpu: Rename defer_registration->switched_outAndreas Sandberg
The defer_registration parameter is used to prevent a CPU from initializing at startup, leaving it in the "switched out" mode. The name of this parameter (and the help string) is confusing. This patch renames it to switched_out, which should be more descriptive.
2013-01-07cpu: Correctly call parent on switchOut() and takeOverFrom()Andreas Sandberg
This patch cleans up the CPU switching functionality by making sure that CPU models consistently call the parent on switchOut() and takeOverFrom(). This has the following implications that might alter current functionality: * The call to BaseCPU::switchout() in the O3 CPU is moved from signalDrained() (!) to switchOut(). * A call to BaseSimpleCPU::switchOut() is introduced in the simple CPUs.
2013-01-07cpu: Check that the memory system is in the correct modeAndreas Sandberg
This patch adds checks to all CPU models to make sure that the memory system is in the correct mode at startup and when resuming after a drain. Previously, we only checked that the memory system was in the right mode when resuming. This is inadequate since this is a configuration error that should be detected at startup as well as when resuming. Additionally, since the check was done using an assert, it wasn't performed when NDEBUG was set (e.g., the fast target).
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>
2012-11-02sim: Move the draining interface into a separate base classAndreas Sandberg
This patch moves the draining interface from SimObject to a separate class that can be used by any object needing draining. However, objects not visible to the Python code (i.e., objects not deriving from SimObject) still depend on their parents informing them when to drain. This patch also gets rid of the CountedDrainEvent (which isn't really an event) and replaces it with a DrainManager.
2012-11-02sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfacesAndreas Sandberg
When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is used anywhere in the object hierarchy. This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do not use it.
2012-09-25ARM: Squash outstanding walks when instructions are squashed.Ali Saidi
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
2012-08-28Clock: Add a Cycles wrapper class and use where applicableAndreas Hansson
This patch addresses the comments and feedback on the preceding patch that reworks the clocks and now more clearly shows where cycles (relative cycle counts) are used to express time. Instead of bumping the existing patch I chose to make this a separate patch, merely to try and focus the discussion around a smaller set of changes. The two patches will be pushed together though. This changes done as part of this patch are mostly following directly from the introduction of the wrapper class, and change enough code to make things compile and run again. There are definitely more places where int/uint/Tick is still used to represent cycles, and it will take some time to chase them all down. Similarly, a lot of parameters should be changed from Param.Tick and Param.Unsigned to Param.Cycles. In addition, the use of curTick is questionable as there should not be an absolute cycle. Potential solutions can be built on top of this patch. There is a similar situation in the o3 CPU where lastRunningCycle is currently counting in Cycles, and is still an absolute time. More discussion to be had in other words. An additional change that would be appropriate in the future is to perform a similar wrapping of Tick and probably also introduce a Ticks class along with suitable operators for all these classes.
2012-08-28Clock: Rework clocks to avoid tick-to-cycle transformationsAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces the notion of a clock update function that aims to avoid costly divisions when turning the current tick into a cycle. Each clocked object advances a private (hidden) cycle member and a tick member and uses these to implement functions for getting the tick of the next cycle, or the tick of a cycle some time in the future. In the different modules using the clocks, changes are made to avoid counting in ticks only to later translate to cycles. There are a few oddities in how the O3 and inorder CPU count idle cycles, as seen by a few locations where a cycle is subtracted in the calculation. This is done such that the regression does not change any stats, but should be revisited in a future patch. Another, much needed, change that is not done as part of this patch is to introduce a new typedef uint64_t Cycle to be able to at least hint at the unit of the variables counting Ticks vs Cycles. This will be done as a follow-up patch. As an additional follow up, the thread context still uses ticks for the book keeping of last activate and last suspend and this should probably also be changed into cycles as well.
2012-08-22Packet: Remove NACKs from packet and its use in endpointsAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the NACK frrom the packet as there is no longer any module in the system that issues them (the bridge was the only one and the previous patch removes that). The handling of NACKs was mostly avoided throughout the code base, by using e.g. panic or assert false, but in a few locations the NACKs were actually dealt with (although NACKs never occured in any of the regressions). Most notably, the DMA port will now never receive a NACK and the backoff time is thus never changed. As a consequence, the entire backoff mechanism (similar to a PCI bus) is now removed and the DMA port entirely relies on the bus performing the arbitration and issuing a retry when appropriate. This is more in line with e.g. PCIe. Surprisingly, this patch has no impact on any of the regressions. As mentioned in the patch that removes the NACK from the bridge, a follow-up patch should change the request and response buffer size for at least one regression to also verify that the system behaves as expected when the bridge fills up.
2012-08-15O3,ARM: fix some problems with drain/switchout functionality and add Drain ↵Anthony Gutierrez
DPRINTFs This patch fixes some problems with the drain/switchout functionality for the O3 cpu and for the ARM ISA and adds some useful debug print statements. This is an incremental fix as there are still a few bugs/mem leaks with the switchout code. Particularly when switching from an O3CPU to a TimingSimpleCPU. However, when switching from O3 to O3 cores with the ARM ISA I haven't encountered any more assertion failures; now the kernel will typically panic inside of simulation.
2012-07-09Port: Align port names in C++ and PythonAndreas Hansson
This patch is a first step to align the port names used in the Python world and the C++ world. Ultimately it serves to make the use of config.json together with output from the simulation easier, including post-processing of statistics. Most notably, the CPU, cache, and bus is addressed in this patch, and there might be other ports that should be updated accordingly. The dash name separator has also been replaced with a "." which is what is used to concatenate the names in python, and a separation is made between the master and slave port in the bus.
2012-07-09Port: Move retry from port base class to Master/SlavePortAndreas Hansson
This patch is the last part of moving all protocol-related functionality out of the Port base class. All the send/recv functions are already moved, and the retry (which still governs all the timing transport functions) is the only part that remained in the base class. The only point where this currently causes a bit of inconvenience is in the bus where the retry list is global and holds Port pointers (not Master/SlavePort). This is about to change with the split into a request/response bus and will soon be removed anyway. The patch has no impact on any regressions.
2012-06-08Timing CPU: Remove a redundant port pointerAndreas Hansson
This patch is trivial and merely prunes a pointer that was never set or used.
2012-06-05cpu: Don't init simple and inorder CPUs if they are defered.Anthony Gutierrez
initCPU() will be called to initialize switched out CPUs for the simple and inorder CPU models. this patch prevents those CPUs from being initialized because they should get their state from the active CPU when it is switched out.
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
2012-05-25Decode: Make the Decoder class defined per ISA.Gabe Black
--HG-- rename : src/cpu/decode.cc => src/arch/generic/decoder.cc rename : src/cpu/decode.hh => src/arch/generic/decoder.hh
2012-05-01MEM: Separate requests and responses for timing accessesAndreas Hansson
This patch moves send/recvTiming and send/recvTimingSnoop from the Port base class to the MasterPort and SlavePort, and also splits them into separate member functions for requests and responses: send/recvTimingReq, send/recvTimingResp, and send/recvTimingSnoopReq, send/recvTimingSnoopResp. A master port sends requests and receives responses, and also receives snoop requests and sends snoop responses. A slave port has the reciprocal behaviour as it receives requests and sends responses, and sends snoop requests and receives snoop responses. For all MemObjects that have only master ports or slave ports (but not both), e.g. a CPU, or a PIO device, this patch merely adds more clarity to what kind of access is taking place. For example, a CPU port used to call sendTiming, and will now call sendTimingReq. Similarly, a response previously came back through recvTiming, which is now recvTimingResp. For the modules that have both master and slave ports, e.g. the bus, the behaviour was previously relying on branches based on pkt->isRequest(), and this is now replaced with a direct call to the apprioriate member function depending on the type of access. Please note that send/recvRetry is still shared by all the timing accessors and remains in the Port base class for now (to maintain the current bus functionality and avoid changing the statistics of all regressions). The packet queue is split into a MasterPort and SlavePort version to facilitate the use of the new timing accessors. All uses of the PacketQueue are updated accordingly. With this patch, the type of packet (request or response) is now well defined for each type of access, and asserts on pkt->isRequest() and pkt->isResponse() are now moved to the appropriate send member functions. It is also worth noting that sendTimingSnoopReq no longer returns a boolean, as the semantics do not alow snoop requests to be rejected or stalled. All these assumptions are now excplicitly part of the port interface itself.
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.
2012-04-14MEM: Remove the Broadcast destination from the packetAndreas Hansson
This patch simplifies the packet by removing the broadcast flag and instead more firmly relying on (and enforcing) the semantics of transactions in the classic memory system, i.e. request packets are routed from a master to a slave based on the address, and when they are created they have neither a valid source, nor destination. On their way to the slave, the request packet is updated with a source field for all modules that multiplex packets from multiple master (e.g. a bus). When a request packet is turned into a response packet (at the final slave), it moves the potentially populated source field to the destination field, and the response packet is routed through any multiplexing components back to the master based on the destination field. Modules that connect multiplexing components, such as caches and bridges store any existing source and destination field in the sender state as a stack (just as before). The packet constructor is simplified in that there is no longer a need to pass the Packet::Broadcast as the destination (this was always the case for the classic memory system). In the case of Ruby, rather than using the parameter to the constructor we now rely on setDest, as there is already another three-argument constructor in the packet class. In many places where the packet information was printed as part of DPRINTFs, request packets would be printed with a numeric "dest" that would always be -1 (Broadcast) and that field is now removed from the printing.
2012-04-14MEM: Separate snoops and normal memory requests/responsesAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces port access methods that separates snoop request/responses from normal memory request/responses. The differentiation is made for functional, atomic and timing accesses and builds on the introduction of master and slave ports. Before the introduction of this patch, the packets belonging to the different phases of the protocol (request -> [forwarded snoop request -> snoop response]* -> response) all use the same port access functions, even though the snoop packets flow in the opposite direction to the normal packet. That is, a coherent master sends normal request and receives responses, but receives snoop requests and sends snoop responses (vice versa for the slave). These two distinct phases now use different access functions, as described below. Starting with the functional access, a master sends a request to a slave through sendFunctional, and the request packet is turned into a response before the call returns. In a system without cache coherence, this is all that is needed from the functional interface. For the cache-coherent scenario, a slave also sends snoop requests to coherent masters through sendFunctionalSnoop, with responses returned within the same packet pointer. This is currently used by the bus and caches, and the LSQ of the O3 CPU. The send/recvFunctional and send/recvFunctionalSnoop are moved from the Port super class to the appropriate subclass. Atomic accesses follow the same flow as functional accesses, with request being sent from master to slave through sendAtomic. In the case of cache-coherent ports, a slave can send snoop requests to a master through sendAtomicSnoop. Just as for the functional access methods, the atomic send and receive member functions are moved to the appropriate subclasses. The timing access methods are different from the functional and atomic in that requests and responses are separated in time and send/recvTiming are used for both directions. Hence, a master uses sendTiming to send a request to a slave, and a slave uses sendTiming to send a response back to a master, at a later point in time. Snoop requests and responses travel in the opposite direction, similar to what happens in functional and atomic accesses. With the introduction of this patch, it is possible to determine the direction of packets in the bus, and no longer necessary to look for both a master and a slave port with the requested port id. In contrast to the normal recvFunctional, recvAtomic and recvTiming that are pure virtual functions, the recvFunctionalSnoop, recvAtomicSnoop and recvTimingSnoop have a default implementation that calls panic. This is to allow non-coherent master and slave ports to not implement these functions.
2012-04-06MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memoriesAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous address range. All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory. To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut" accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and any potential ACPI tables. Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible re-organisation. --HG-- rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/AbstractMemory.py rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/SimpleMemory.py rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/abstract_mem.cc rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/abstract_mem.hh rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/simple_mem.cc rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/simple_mem.hh
2012-04-03Atomic: Remove the physmem_port and access memory directlyAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the physmem_port from the Atomic CPU and instead uses the system pointer to access the physmem when using the fastmem option. The system already keeps track of the physmem and the valid memory address ranges, and with this patch we merely make use of that existing functionality. As a result of this change, the overloaded getMasterPort in the Atomic CPU can be removed, thus unifying the CPUs.
2012-03-30MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++William Wang
This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++ code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects. The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations are to come in later patches. The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be a valid return value. The default implementation of these two functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal. The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort (avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.
2012-03-30CPU: Unify initMemProxies across CPUs and simulation modesAndreas Hansson
This patch unifies where initMemProxies is called, in the init() method of each BaseCPU subclass, before TheISA::initCPU is called. Moreover, it also ensures that initMemProxies is called in both full-system and syscall-emulation mode, thus unifying also across the modes. An additional check is added in the ThreadState to ensure that initMemProxies is only called once.
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.
2012-02-24CPU: Round-two unifying instr/data CPU ports across modelsAndreas Hansson
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.
2012-02-13MEM: Introduce the master/slave port roles in the Python classesAndreas Hansson
This patch classifies all ports in Python as either Master or Slave and enforces a binding of master to slave. Conceptually, a master (such as a CPU or DMA port) issues requests, and receives responses, and conversely, a slave (such as a memory or a PIO device) receives requests and sends back responses. Currently there is no differentiation between coherent and non-coherent masters and slaves. The classification as master/slave also involves splitting the dual role port of the bus into a master and slave port and updating all the system assembly scripts to use the appropriate port. Similarly, the interrupt devices have to have their int_port split into a master and slave port. The intdev and its children have minimal changes to facilitate the extra port. Note that this patch does not enforce any port typing in the C++ world, it merely ensures that the Python objects have a notion of the port roles and are connected in an appropriate manner. This check is carried when two ports are connected, e.g. bus.master = memory.port. The following patches will make use of the classifications and specialise the C++ ports into masters and slaves.
2012-02-12cpu: add separate stats for insts/ops both globally and per cpu modelAnthony Gutierrez
2012-02-12mem: Add a master ID to each request object.Ali Saidi
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.
2012-02-10SE/FS: Record the system pointer all the time for the simple CPU.Gabe Black
This pointer was only being stored in code that came from SE mode. The system pointer is always meaningful and available, so it should always be stored.
2012-02-07Faults: Turn off arch/faults.hhGabe Black
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.