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The logic that determines which syscall to call was built into the
implementation of faults/exceptions or even into the instruction
decoder, but that logic can depend on what OS is being used, and
sometimes even what version, for example 32bit vs. 64bit.
This change pushes that logic up into the Process objects since those
already handle a lot of the aspects of emulating the guest OS. Instead,
the ISA or fault implementations just notify the rest of the system
that a nebulous syscall has happened, and that gets propogated upward
until the process does something with it. That's very analogous to how
a system call would work on a real machine.
When a system call happens, the low level component which detects that
should call tc->syscall(&fault), where tc is the relevant thread (or
execution) context, and fault is a Fault which can ultimately be set
by the system call implementation.
The TC implementor (probably a CPU) will then have a chance to do
whatever it needs to to handle a system call. Currently only O3 does
anything special here. That implementor will end up calling the
Process's syscall() method.
Once in Process::syscall, the process object will use it's contextual
knowledge to determine what system call is being requested. It then
calls Process::doSyscall with the right syscall number, where doSyscall
centralizes the common mechanism for actually retrieving and calling
into the system call implementation.
Jira Issue: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-187
Change-Id: I937ec1ef0576142c2a182ff33ca508d77ad0e7a1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23176
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
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There is a check on a global flag denoting that the simulator
has been configured to run in fullsystem mode. The check is
conducted at runtime during calls to syscall methods.
The high-level models are checking the flag when the check
could be conducted further down the call chain (nearer to the
actual Process invocation). Moving the checks should result
in less copy-pasta as new models are developed. It might be
argued that the checks should stay in place since an error
would detected earlier; that may be true, but the error
would be the same and the simulation should fail in either
case. This arrangement requires fewer lines of code.
The changeset also changes the check into a fatal error
instead of a panic since usage (in fs mode) should result
in immediate corruption.
Change-Id: If387e27f166ac1374f3fe8b7befe3546e69adba7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23240
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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This conditional compilation was unnecessary and makes gem5 more
brittle and harder to understand.
Change-Id: I63abaf2668252c988cdd4626ff6a462eb6f54b04
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22544
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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If the number of one of the register types is zero (useful on ARM in
the near future), memset will complain that it's given the length of
the array without multiplying by the size of the array elements. This
is a false positive since the length of the array and the number of
elements are both zero.
To avoid that warning/error and to simplify and update the SimpleThread
class slightly, this change replaces the C style arrays with
std::array.
Change-Id: Ifedd081a1940a578765c4d585e623236008ace67
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22523
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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This was only used by the KVM CPU, and it has access to all it needs to
figure out that value locally without requiring all the ThreadContexts
to implement an equivalent function.
Change-Id: I17a14ce669db2519edf129db761ebd8dc3bd4129
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22114
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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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>
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This switches to letting the ThreadContexts use a thread based/local
comInstEventQueue instead of falling back to the CPU's array. Because
the implementation is no longer shared and it's not given where the
comInstEventQueue (or other implementation) should be accessed, the
default implementation has been removed.
Also, because nobody is using the CPU's array of event queues, those
have been removed.
Change-Id: I515e6e00a2174067a928c33ef832bc5c840bdf7f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22110
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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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>
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These two functions were performing the same function but had two
different names for historical reasons. This change merges them
together, keeping the getVirtProxy name to be consistent with the
getPhysProxy method used to get a non-translating proxy port.
Change-Id: Idd83c6b899f9343795075b030ccbc723a79e52a4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18581
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This is a step towards merging the accessors for SE and FS modes.
Change-Id: I76818ab88b97097ac363e243be9cc1911b283090
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18579
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This changeset introduces a new predicate to guard memory accesses.
The most immediate use for this is to allow proper handling of
predicated-false vector contiguous loads and predicated-false
micro-ops of vector gather loads (added in separate changesets).
Change-Id: Ice6894fe150faec2f2f7ab796a00c99ac843810a
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17991
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Wang <radwang@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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This is now handled within the ISA description.
Change-Id: Ie409bb46d102e59d4eb41408d9196fe235626d32
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18434
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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This mechanism is specific to Alpha and doesn't belong sprinkled around
the CPU's generic mechanisms.
Change-Id: I87904d1a08df2b03eb770205e2c4b94db25201a1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18432
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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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>
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Change-Id: I731d3ef021596450ac307461f215760a148bb28a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18348
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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Replace it with direct inheritance from the ThreadContext class in the
SimpleThread class which was the only place it was used.
Also take the opportunity to use some specialized types instead of
ints, etc., add some consts, and fix some style issues.
Change-Id: I5d2cfa87b20dc43615e33e6755c9d016564e9c0e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18048
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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This patch is adding a ISA* getter to the TC interface
Change-Id: Ib8ddc5d8fdd44e782f50a2ad15878a6bcf931e58
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16462
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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Most architectures weren't using the CCReg type, and in x86 and arm
it was already a uint64_t.
Change-Id: I0b3d5e690e6b31db6f2627f449c89bde0f6750a6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14515
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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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>
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Latest-gen. vector/SIMD extensions, including the Arm Scalable Vector
Extension (SVE), introduce the notion of a predicate register file.
This changeset adds this feature across architectures and CPU models.
Change-Id: Iebcadbad89c0a582ff8b1b70de353305db603946
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13715
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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These values are all basic integers (specifically uint64_t now), and
so passing them by const & is actually less efficient since there's a
extra level of indirection and an extra value, and the same sized value
(a 64 bit pointer vs. a 64 bit int) is being passed around.
Change-Id: Ie9956b8dc4c225068ab1afaba233ec2b42b76da3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13626
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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These types are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. There are
some remaining types, specifically the vector registers and the CCReg.
I'm less familiar with these new types of registers, and so will look
at getting rid of them at some later time.
Change-Id: Ide8f76b15c531286f61427330053b44074b8ac9b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13624
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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These are now accessed only as integer values.
Change-Id: I21ae6537ebbcbaa02890384194ee1ce001c092bb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14458
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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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>
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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>
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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
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With the hierarchical RegId there are a lot of functions that are
redundant now.
The idea behind the simplification is that instead of having the regId,
telling which kind of register read/write/rename/lookup/etc. and then
the function panic_if'ing if the regId is not of the appropriate type,
we provide an interface that decides what kind of register to read
depending on the register type of the given regId.
Change-Id: I7d52e9e21fc01205ae365d86921a4ceb67a57178
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2702
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simulations
Modifies the clone system call and adds execve system call. Requires allowing
processes to steal thread contexts from other processes in the same system
object and the ability to detach pieces of process state (such as MemState)
to allow dynamic sharing.
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This changeset adds functionality that allows system calls to retry without
affecting thread context state such as the program counter or register values
for the associated thread context (when system calls return with a retry
fault).
This functionality is needed to solve problems with blocking system calls
in multi-process or multi-threaded simulations where information is passed
between processes/threads. Blocking system calls can cause deadlock because
the simulator itself is single threaded. There is only a single thread
servicing the event queue which can cause deadlock if the thread hits a
blocking system call instruction.
To illustrate the problem, consider two processes using the producer/consumer
sharing model. The processes can use file descriptors and the read and write
calls to pass information to one another. If the consumer calls the blocking
read system call before the producer has produced anything, the call will
block the event queue (while executing the system call instruction) and
deadlock the simulation.
The solution implemented in this changeset is to recognize that the system
calls will block and then generate a special retry fault. The fault will
be sent back up through the function call chain until it is exposed to the
cpu model's pipeline where the fault becomes visible. The fault will trigger
the cpu model to replay the instruction at a future tick where the call has
a chance to succeed without actually going into a blocking state.
In subsequent patches, we recognize that a syscall will block by calling a
non-blocking poll (from inside the system call implementation) and checking
for events. When events show up during the poll, it signifies that the call
would not have blocked and the syscall is allowed to proceed (calling an
underlying host system call if necessary). If no events are returned from the
poll, we generate the fault and try the instruction for the thread context
at a distant tick. Note that retrying every tick is not efficient.
As an aside, the simulator has some multi-threading support for the event
queue, but it is not used by default and needs work. Even if the event queue
was completely multi-threaded, meaning that there is a hardware thread on
the host servicing a single simulator thread contexts with a 1:1 mapping
between them, it's still possible to run into deadlock due to the event queue
barriers on quantum boundaries. The solution of replaying at a later tick
is the simplest solution and solves the problem generally.
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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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This adds a vector register type. The type is defined as a std::array of a
fixed number of uint64_ts. The isa_parser.py has been modified to parse vector
register operands and generate the required code. Different cpus have vector
register files now.
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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.
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Finally took the plunge and made this apply to all ISAs, not just ARM.
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We have no way of knowing if a CPU model is on the wrong path with
our execute-in-execute CPU models. Don't pretend that we do.
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activate(), suspend(), and halt() used on thread contexts had an optional
delay parameter. However this parameter was often ignored. Also, when used,
the delay was seemily arbitrarily set to 0 or 1 cycle (no other delays were
ever specified). This patch removes the delay parameter and 'Events'
associated with them across all ISAs and cores. Unused activate logic
is also removed.
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Analogous to ee049bf (for x86). Requires a bump of the checkpoint version
and corresponding upgrader code to move the condition code register values
to the new register file.
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With ARMv8 support the same misc register id results in accessing different
registers depending on the current mode of the processor. This patch adds
the same orthogonality to the misc register file as the others (int, float, cc).
For all the othre ISAs this is currently a null-implementation.
Additionally, a system variable is added to all the ISA objects.
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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.
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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.
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The thread context handover code used to break when multiple handovers
were performed during the same quiesce period. Previously, the thread
contexts would assign the TC pointer in the old quiesce event to the
new TC. This obviously broke in cases where multiple switches were
performed within the same quiesce period, in which case the TC pointer
in the quiesce event would point to an old CPU.
The new implementation deschedules pending quiesce events in the old
TC and schedules a new quiesce event in the new TC. The code has been
refactored to remove most of the code duplication.
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The O3 CPU used to copy its thread context to a SimpleThread in order
to do serialization. This was a bit of a hack involving two static
SimpleThread instances and a magic constructor that was only used by
the O3 CPU.
This patch moves the ThreadContext serialization code into two global
procedures that, in addition to the normal serialization parameters,
take a ThreadContext reference as a parameter. This allows us to reuse
the serialization code in all ThreadContext implementations.
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Some architectures map registers differently depending on their mode
of operations. There is currently no architecture independent way of
accessing all registers. This patch introduces a flat register
interface to the ThreadContext class. This interface is useful, for
example, when serializing or copying thread contexts.
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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.
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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.
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--HG--
rename : src/cpu/decode.cc => src/arch/generic/decoder.cc
rename : src/cpu/decode.hh => src/arch/generic/decoder.hh
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This patch cleans up a number of minor issues aiming to get closer to
compliance with the C++0x standard as interpreted by gcc and clang
(compile with std=c++0x and -pedantic-errors). In particular, the
patch cleans up enums where the last item was succeded by a comma,
namespaces closed by a curcly brace followed by a semi-colon, and the
use of the GNU-extension typeof (replaced by templated functions). It
does not address variable-length arrays, zero-size arrays, anonymous
structs, range expressions in switch statements, and the use of long
long. The generated CPU code also has a large number of issues that
remain to be fixed, mainly related to overflows in implicit constant
conversion (due to shifts).
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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.
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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 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.
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