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2011-10-31SE/FS: Make the functions available from the TC consistent between SE and FS.Gabe Black
2011-10-30SE/FS: Make getProcessPtr available in both modes, and get rid of FULL_SYSTEMs.Gabe Black
2011-10-16SE/FS: Include getMemPort in FS.Gabe Black
2011-10-16SE/FS: Build/expose vport in SE mode.Gabe Black
2011-10-16CPU: Make physPort and getPhysPort available in SE mode.Gabe Black
2011-09-09Decode: Pull instruction decoding out of the StaticInst class into its own.Gabe Black
This change pulls the instruction decoding machinery (including caches) out of the StaticInst class and puts it into its own class. This has a few intrinsic benefits. First, the StaticInst code, which has gotten to be quite large, gets simpler. Second, the code that handles decode caching is now separated out into its own component and can be looked at in isolation, making it easier to understand. I took the opportunity to restructure the code a bit which will hopefully also help. Beyond that, this change also lays some ground work for each ISA to have its own, potentially stateful decode object. We'd be able to include less contextualizing information in the ExtMachInst objects since that context would be applied at the decoder. Also, the decoder could "know" ahead of time that all the instructions it's going to see are going to be, for instance, 64 bit mode, and it will have one less thing to check when it decodes them. Because the decode caching mechanism has been separated out, it's now possible to have multiple caches which correspond to different types of decoding context. Having one cache for each element of the cross product of different configurations may become prohibitive, so it may be desirable to clear out the cache when relatively static state changes and not to have one for each setting. Because the decode function is no longer universally accessible as a static member of the StaticInst class, a new function was added to the ThreadContexts that returns the applicable decode object.
2011-04-15includes: sort all includesNathan Binkert
2010-10-31ISA,CPU,etc: Create an ISA defined PC type that abstracts out ISA behaviors.Gabe Black
This change is a low level and pervasive reorganization of how PCs are managed in M5. Back when Alpha was the only ISA, there were only 2 PCs to worry about, the PC and the NPC, and the lsb of the PC signaled whether or not you were in PAL mode. As other ISAs were added, we had to add an NNPC, micro PC and next micropc, x86 and ARM introduced variable length instruction sets, and ARM started to keep track of mode bits in the PC. Each CPU model handled PCs in its own custom way that needed to be updated individually to handle the new dimensions of variability, or, in the case of ARMs mode-bit-in-the-pc hack, the complexity could be hidden in the ISA at the ISA implementation's expense. Areas like the branch predictor hadn't been updated to handle branch delay slots or micropcs, and it turns out that had introduced a significant (10s of percent) performance bug in SPARC and to a lesser extend MIPS. Rather than perpetuate the problem by reworking O3 again to handle the PC features needed by x86, this change was introduced to rework PC handling in a more modular, transparent, and hopefully efficient way. PC type: Rather than having the superset of all possible elements of PC state declared in each of the CPU models, each ISA defines its own PCState type which has exactly the elements it needs. A cross product of canned PCState classes are defined in the new "generic" ISA directory for ISAs with/without delay slots and microcode. These are either typedef-ed or subclassed by each ISA. To read or write this structure through a *Context, you use the new pcState() accessor which reads or writes depending on whether it has an argument. If you just want the address of the current or next instruction or the current micro PC, you can get those through read-only accessors on either the PCState type or the *Contexts. These are instAddr(), nextInstAddr(), and microPC(). Note the move away from readPC. That name is ambiguous since it's not clear whether or not it should be the actual address to fetch from, or if it should have extra bits in it like the PAL mode bit. Each class is free to define its own functions to get at whatever values it needs however it needs to to be used in ISA specific code. Eventually Alpha's PAL mode bit could be moved out of the PC and into a separate field like ARM. These types can be reset to a particular pc (where npc = pc + sizeof(MachInst), nnpc = npc + sizeof(MachInst), upc = 0, nupc = 1 as appropriate), printed, serialized, and compared. There is a branching() function which encapsulates code in the CPU models that checked if an instruction branched or not. Exactly what that means in the context of branch delay slots which can skip an instruction when not taken is ambiguous, and ideally this function and its uses can be eliminated. PCStates also generally know how to advance themselves in various ways depending on if they point at an instruction, a microop, or the last microop of a macroop. More on that later. Ideally, accessing all the PCs at once when setting them will improve performance of M5 even though more data needs to be moved around. This is because often all the PCs need to be manipulated together, and by getting them all at once you avoid multiple function calls. Also, the PCs of a particular thread will have spatial locality in the cache. Previously they were grouped by element in arrays which spread out accesses. Advancing the PC: The PCs were previously managed entirely by the CPU which had to know about PC semantics, try to figure out which dimension to increment the PC in, what to set NPC/NNPC, etc. These decisions are best left to the ISA in conjunction with the PC type itself. Because most of the information about how to increment the PC (mainly what type of instruction it refers to) is contained in the instruction object, a new advancePC virtual function was added to the StaticInst class. Subclasses provide an implementation that moves around the right element of the PC with a minimal amount of decision making. In ISAs like Alpha, the instructions always simply assign NPC to PC without having to worry about micropcs, nnpcs, etc. The added cost of a virtual function call should be outweighed by not having to figure out as much about what to do with the PCs and mucking around with the extra elements. One drawback of making the StaticInsts advance the PC is that you have to actually have one to advance the PC. This would, superficially, seem to require decoding an instruction before fetch could advance. This is, as far as I can tell, realistic. fetch would advance through memory addresses, not PCs, perhaps predicting new memory addresses using existing ones. More sophisticated decisions about control flow would be made later on, after the instruction was decoded, and handed back to fetch. If branching needs to happen, some amount of decoding needs to happen to see that it's a branch, what the target is, etc. This could get a little more complicated if that gets done by the predecoder, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now. Variable length instructions: To handle variable length instructions in x86 and ARM, the predecoder now takes in the current PC by reference to the getExtMachInst function. It can modify the PC however it needs to (by setting NPC to be the PC + instruction length, for instance). This could be improved since the CPU doesn't know if the PC was modified and always has to write it back. ISA parser: To support the new API, all PC related operand types were removed from the parser and replaced with a PCState type. There are two warts on this implementation. First, as with all the other operand types, the PCState still has to have a valid operand type even though it doesn't use it. Second, using syntax like PCS.npc(target) doesn't work for two reasons, this looks like the syntax for operand type overriding, and the parser can't figure out if you're reading or writing. Instructions that use the PCS operand (which I've consistently called it) need to first read it into a local variable, manipulate it, and then write it back out. Return address stack: The return address stack needed a little extra help because, in the presence of branch delay slots, it has to merge together elements of the return PC and the call PC. To handle that, a buildRetPC utility function was added. There are basically only two versions in all the ISAs, but it didn't seem short enough to put into the generic ISA directory. Also, the branch predictor code in O3 and InOrder were adjusted so that they always store the PC of the actual call instruction in the RAS, not the next PC. If the call instruction is a microop, the next PC refers to the next microop in the same macroop which is probably not desirable. The buildRetPC function advances the PC intelligently to the next macroop (in an ISA specific way) so that that case works. Change in stats: There were no change in stats except in MIPS and SPARC in the O3 model. MIPS runs in about 9% fewer ticks. SPARC runs with 30%-50% fewer ticks, which could likely be improved further by setting call/return instruction flags and taking advantage of the RAS. TODO: Add != operators to the PCState classes, defined trivially to be !(a==b). Smooth out places where PCs are split apart, passed around, and put back together later. I think this might happen in SPARC's fault code. Add ISA specific constructors that allow setting PC elements without calling a bunch of accessors. Try to eliminate the need for the branching() function. Factor out Alpha's PAL mode pc bit into a separate flag field, and eliminate places where it's blindly masked out or tested in the PC.
2010-09-14CPU: Trim unnecessary includes from some common files.Gabe Black
This reduces the scope of those includes and makes it less likely for there to be a dependency loop. This also moves the hashing functions associated with ExtMachInst objects to be with the ExtMachInst definitions and out of utility.hh.
2010-09-13CPU: Get rid of the now unnecessary getInst/setInst family of functions.Gabe Black
This code is no longer needed because of the preceeding change which adds a StaticInstPtr parameter to the fault's invoke method, obviating the only use for this pair of functions.
2010-09-13Faults: Pass the StaticInst involved, if any, to a Fault's invoke method.Gabe Black
Also move the "Fault" reference counted pointer type into a separate file, sim/fault.hh. It would be better to name this less similarly to sim/faults.hh to reduce confusion, but fault.hh matches the name of the type. We could change Fault to FaultPtr to match other pointer types, and then changing the name of the file would make more sense.
2010-08-23ARM/O3: store the result of the predicate evaluation in DynInst or Threadstate.Min Kyu Jeong
THis allows the CPU to handle predicated-false instructions accordingly. This particular patch makes loads that are predicated-false to be sent straight to the commit stage directly, not waiting for return of the data that was never requested since it was predicated-false.
2009-09-23arch: nuke arch/isa_specific.hh and move stuff to generated config/the_isa.hhNathan Binkert
2009-07-08Registers: Add a registers.hh file as an ISA switched header.Gabe Black
This file is for register indices, Num* constants, and register types. copyRegs and copyMiscRegs were moved to utility.hh and utility.cc. --HG-- rename : src/arch/alpha/regfile.hh => src/arch/alpha/registers.hh rename : src/arch/arm/regfile.hh => src/arch/arm/registers.hh rename : src/arch/mips/regfile.hh => src/arch/mips/registers.hh rename : src/arch/sparc/regfile.hh => src/arch/sparc/registers.hh rename : src/arch/x86/regfile.hh => src/arch/x86/registers.hh
2009-07-08Registers: Eliminate the ISA defined RegFile class.Gabe Black
2009-07-08Registers: Get rid of the float register width parameter.Gabe Black
2009-07-08Registers: Add an ISA object which replaces the MiscRegFile.Gabe Black
This object encapsulates (or will eventually) the identity and characteristics of the ISA in the CPU.
2009-05-26types: add a type for thread IDs and try to use it everywhereNathan Binkert
2009-05-17includes: sort includes againNathan Binkert
2009-05-17types: Move stuff for global types into src/base/types.hhNathan Binkert
--HG-- rename : src/sim/host.hh => src/base/types.hh
2009-04-15Get rid of the Unallocated thread context state.Steve Reinhardt
Basically merge it in with Halted. Also had to get rid of a few other functions that called ThreadContext::deallocate(), including: - InOrderCPU's setThreadRescheduleCondition. - ThreadContext::exit(). This function was there to avoid terminating simulation when one thread out of a multi-thread workload exits, but we need to find a better (non-cpu-centric) way.
2009-04-08tlb: Don't separate the TLB classes into an instruction TLB and a data TLBGabe Black
2009-02-27Processes: Make getting and setting system call arguments part of a process ↵Gabe Black
object.
2009-01-19thread_context: move getSystemPtr so SE mode can get to it.Nathan Binkert
There was really no reason that it should be FS only.
2008-11-04get rid of all instances of readTid() and getThreadNum(). Unify and eliminateLisa Hsu
redundancies with threadId() as their replacement.
2008-11-02Add in Context IDs to the simulator. From now on, cpuId is almost never used,Lisa Hsu
the primary identifier for a hardware context should be contextId(). The concept of threads within a CPU remains, in the form of threadId() because sometimes you need to know which context within a cpu to manipulate.
2008-11-02make BaseCPU the provider of _cpuId, and cpuId() instead of being scatteredLisa Hsu
across the subclasses. generally make it so that member data is _cpuId and accessor functions are cpuId(). The ID val comes from the python (default -1 if none provided), and if it is -1, the index of cpuList will be given. this has passed util/regress quick and se.py -n4 and fs.py -n4 as well as standard switch.
2008-10-12Get rid of old RegContext code.Gabe Black
2008-10-09CPU: Fix where setMicroPC was being called instead of setNextMicroPC.Gabe Black
2008-07-01Remove delVirtPort() and make getVirtPort() only return cached version.Ali Saidi
2008-07-01Make the cached virtPort have a thread context so it can do everything that ↵Ali Saidi
a newly created one can.
2007-11-15add MicroPC functions back to thread contextKorey Sewell
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2007-11-15Get MIPS simple regression working. Take out unecessary functions ↵Korey Sewell
"setShadowSet", "CacheOp" --HG-- extra : convert_revision : a9ae8a7e62c27c2db16fd3cfa7a7f0bf5f0bf8ea
2007-11-13Add in files from merge-bare-iron, get them compiling in FS and SE modeKorey Sewell
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : d4e19afda897bc3797868b40469ce2ec7ec7d251
2007-11-08CPU: Add function to explictly compare thread contexts after copying.Ali Saidi
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2007-08-26Address Translation: Make SE mode use an actual TLB/MMU for translation like FS.Gabe Black
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2007-06-22mips import pt. 1Korey Sewell
src/arch/mips/SConscript: "mips import pt.1". --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 2e393341938bebf32fb638a209262d074fad4cc1
2007-03-07*MiscReg->*MiscRegNoEffect, *MiscRegWithEffect->*MiscRegAli Saidi
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : f799b65f1b2a6bf43605e6870b0f39b473dc492b
2007-02-28Make trap instructions always generate TrapInstruction Fault objects which ↵Gabe Black
call into the Process object to handle system calls. Refactored the Process objects, and move the handler code into it's own file, and add some syscalls which are used in a natively compiled hello world. Software traps with trap number 3 (not syscall number 3) are supposed to cause the register windows to be flushed but are ignored right now. Finally, made uname for SPARC report a 2.6.12 kernel which is what m22-018.pool happens to be running. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : ea873f01c62234c0542f310cc143c6a7c76ade94
2006-12-06Merge zizzer:/bk/newmemGabe Black
into zower.eecs.umich.edu:/eecshome/m5/newmem src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh: Hand Merge --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 6984db90d5b5ec71c31f1c345f5a77eed540059e
2006-12-06Flattening and syscallReturn fixesGabe Black
src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh: Use flattened indices src/cpu/simple_thread.hh: Use flattened indices, and pass a thread context to setSyscallReturn rather than a register file. src/cpu/thread_context.hh: The SyscallReturn class is no longer in arch/syscallreturn.hh --HG-- extra : convert_revision : ed84bb8ac5ef0774526ecd0d7270b0c60cd3708e
2006-11-29Change the connecting of the physPort and virtPort to the memory object ↵Kevin Lim
below the CPU to happen every time activateContext is called. The overhead is probably a little higher than necessary, but allows these connections to properly be made when there are CPUs that are inactive until they are switched in. Right now this introduces a minor memory leak as old physPorts and virtPorts are not deleted when new ones are created. A flyspray task has been created for this issue. It can not be resolved until we determine how the bus will handle giving out ID's to functional ports that may be deleted. src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc: src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc: src/cpu/simple/timing.cc: Change the setup of the physPort and virtPort to instead happen every time the CPU has a context activated. This is a little high overhead, but keeps it working correctly when the CPU does not have a physical memory attached to it until it switches in (like the case of switch CPUs). src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh: Change function from being called at init() to just being called whenever the memory ports need to be connected. src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh: Update this to not delete the port if it's the same as the virtPort. src/cpu/thread_context.hh: Change function from being called at init() to whenever the memory ports need to be connected. src/cpu/thread_state.cc: Instead of initializing the ports, simply connect them, deleting any old ports that might exist. This allows these functions to be called multiple times. src/cpu/thread_state.hh: Ports are no longer initialized, but rather connected at context activation time. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : e399ce5dfbd6ad658c953a7c9c7b69b89a70219e
2006-11-17Make an initialization pass for the thread context and set the ↵Ron Dreslinski
[phys,virt]Port correctly src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc: src/cpu/simple/timing.cc: Call the thread context initialization --HG-- extra : convert_revision : d7dc2a8b893dc670077b7f6150d4b710a1778620
2006-11-07Moved the switched version of kernel_stats.hh back to kern, and moved the ↵Gabe Black
base kernel_stats to base_kernel_stats --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 2a010d2eb7ea2586ff063b99b8bcde6eb1e8e017
2006-11-03Got rid of "inPalMode". Some places are still effectively checking if they ↵Gabe Black
are in PAL mode, however. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : b52d9642efc474eaf97437fa2df879efefa0062b
2006-11-01Adjustments for the AlphaTLB changing to AlphaISA::TLB and changing register ↵Gabe Black
file functions to not take faults --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 1cef0734462ee2e4db12482462c2ab3c134d3675
2006-10-31Put the Alpha tlb stuff into the AlphaISA namespace, and give the classes ↵Gabe Black
more neutral names. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 702c715b7516a16602172deb1b78d6a7ab848fd4
2006-08-11Pushed most of constants.hh back into isa_traits.hh and regfile.hh and ↵Gabe Black
created a seperate file for the syscallreturn class. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 9507ea1c09fda959f00aec9ec8ffb887ec8dd0f9
2006-07-07Fix so that O3CPU doesnt segfault on exit.Korey Sewell
Major thing was to not execute commit if there are no active threads in CPU. src/cpu/o3/alpha/thread_context.hh: call deallocate instead of deallocateContext src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh: dont run commit stage if there are no instructions src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc: add deallocate event, deactivateThread function, and edit deallocateContext. src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh: add deallocate event and add optional delay to deallocateContext src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh: optional delay for deallocate src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh: edit DPRINTFs to say Thread Context instead of Alpha TC src/cpu/thread_context.hh: optional delay src/sim/syscall_emul.hh: name stuff --HG-- extra : convert_revision : f4033e1f66b3043d30ad98dcc70d8b193dea70b6
2006-07-03Fix for FS O3CPU compile ... missing forward class declaration/header file ↵Korey Sewell
after files got split for ISA-independence src/cpu/o3/alpha/thread_context.hh: Use 'this' when accessing cpu src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh: add numActiveThreds function src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh: forward class declarations src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh: add quiesce event header file src/cpu/thread_context.hh: add exit() function to thread context (read comments in file) src/sim/syscall_emul.cc: adjust exitFunc syscall --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 323dc871e2b4f4ee5036be388ceb6634cd85a83e