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2016-01-07dev: Distributed Ethernet link for distributed gem5 simulationsGabor Dozsa
Distributed gem5 (abbreviated dist-gem5) is the result of the convergence effort between multi-gem5 and pd-gem5 (from Univ. of Wisconsin). It relies on the base multi-gem5 infrastructure for packet forwarding, synchronisation and checkpointing but combines those with the elaborated network switch model from pd-gem5. --HG-- rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.cc rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.hh rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/dist_iface.cc rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/dist_iface.hh rename : src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/dist_packet.hh
2015-12-31mem: Make cache terminology easier to understandAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the name of a bunch of packet flags and MSHR member functions and variables to make the coherency protocol easier to understand. In addition the patch adds and updates lots of descriptions, explicitly spelling out assumptions. The following name changes are made: * the packet memInhibit flag is renamed to cacheResponding * the packet sharedAsserted flag is renamed to hasSharers * the packet NeedsExclusive attribute is renamed to NeedsWritable * the packet isSupplyExclusive is renamed responderHadWritable * the MSHR pendingDirty is renamed to pendingModified The cache states, Modified, Owned, Exclusive, Shared are also called out in the cache and MSHR code to make it easier to understand.
2015-12-10dev: Add missing SConscript in src/dev/i2cAndreas Sandberg
2015-12-10dev: Move storage devices to src/dev/storage/Andreas Sandberg
Move the IDE controller and the disk implementations to src/dev/storage. --HG-- rename : src/dev/DiskImage.py => src/dev/storage/DiskImage.py rename : src/dev/Ide.py => src/dev/storage/Ide.py rename : src/dev/SimpleDisk.py => src/dev/storage/SimpleDisk.py rename : src/dev/disk_image.cc => src/dev/storage/disk_image.cc rename : src/dev/disk_image.hh => src/dev/storage/disk_image.hh rename : src/dev/ide_atareg.h => src/dev/storage/ide_atareg.h rename : src/dev/ide_ctrl.cc => src/dev/storage/ide_ctrl.cc rename : src/dev/ide_ctrl.hh => src/dev/storage/ide_ctrl.hh rename : src/dev/ide_disk.cc => src/dev/storage/ide_disk.cc rename : src/dev/ide_disk.hh => src/dev/storage/ide_disk.hh rename : src/dev/ide_wdcreg.h => src/dev/storage/ide_wdcreg.h rename : src/dev/simple_disk.cc => src/dev/storage/simple_disk.cc rename : src/dev/simple_disk.hh => src/dev/storage/simple_disk.hh
2015-12-10dev: Move network devices to src/dev/net/Andreas Sandberg
--HG-- rename : src/dev/Ethernet.py => src/dev/net/Ethernet.py rename : src/dev/etherbus.cc => src/dev/net/etherbus.cc rename : src/dev/etherbus.hh => src/dev/net/etherbus.hh rename : src/dev/etherdevice.cc => src/dev/net/etherdevice.cc rename : src/dev/etherdevice.hh => src/dev/net/etherdevice.hh rename : src/dev/etherdump.cc => src/dev/net/etherdump.cc rename : src/dev/etherdump.hh => src/dev/net/etherdump.hh rename : src/dev/etherint.cc => src/dev/net/etherint.cc rename : src/dev/etherint.hh => src/dev/net/etherint.hh rename : src/dev/etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/etherlink.cc rename : src/dev/etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/etherlink.hh rename : src/dev/etherobject.hh => src/dev/net/etherobject.hh rename : src/dev/etherpkt.cc => src/dev/net/etherpkt.cc rename : src/dev/etherpkt.hh => src/dev/net/etherpkt.hh rename : src/dev/ethertap.cc => src/dev/net/ethertap.cc rename : src/dev/ethertap.hh => src/dev/net/ethertap.hh rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.cc => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.cc rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.hh rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe_defs.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe_defs.hh rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh rename : src/dev/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc rename : src/dev/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh rename : src/dev/multi_packet.cc => src/dev/net/multi_packet.cc rename : src/dev/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh rename : src/dev/ns_gige.cc => src/dev/net/ns_gige.cc rename : src/dev/ns_gige.hh => src/dev/net/ns_gige.hh rename : src/dev/ns_gige_reg.h => src/dev/net/ns_gige_reg.h rename : src/dev/pktfifo.cc => src/dev/net/pktfifo.cc rename : src/dev/pktfifo.hh => src/dev/net/pktfifo.hh rename : src/dev/sinic.cc => src/dev/net/sinic.cc rename : src/dev/sinic.hh => src/dev/net/sinic.hh rename : src/dev/sinicreg.hh => src/dev/net/sinicreg.hh rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.cc => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.cc rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.hh => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.hh
2015-12-10dev: Move i2c functionality to src/dev/i2c/Andreas Sandberg
--HG-- rename : src/dev/I2C.py => src/dev/i2c/I2C.py rename : src/dev/i2cbus.cc => src/dev/i2c/bus.cc rename : src/dev/i2cbus.hh => src/dev/i2c/bus.hh rename : src/dev/i2cdev.hh => src/dev/i2c/device.hh
2015-12-10dev: Move the CopyEngine class to src/dev/pciAndreas Sandberg
--HG-- rename : src/dev/CopyEngine.py => src/dev/pci/CopyEngine.py rename : src/dev/copy_engine.cc => src/dev/pci/copy_engine.cc rename : src/dev/copy_engine.hh => src/dev/pci/copy_engine.hh rename : src/dev/copy_engine_defs.hh => src/dev/pci/copy_engine_defs.hh
2015-12-10dev: Move existing PCI device functionality to src/dev/pciAndreas Sandberg
Move pcidev.(hh|cc) to src/dev/pci/device.(hh|cc) and update existing devices to use the new header location. This also renames the PCIDEV debug flag to have a capitalization that is consistent with the PCI host and other devices. --HG-- rename : src/dev/Pci.py => src/dev/pci/PciDevice.py rename : src/dev/pcidev.cc => src/dev/pci/device.cc rename : src/dev/pcidev.hh => src/dev/pci/device.hh rename : src/dev/pcireg.h => src/dev/pci/pcireg.h
2015-09-18dev, arm: Add gem5 extensions to support more than 8 coresKarthik Sangaiah
Previous ARM-based simulations were limited to 8 cores due to limitations in GICv2 and earlier. This changeset adds a set of gem5-specific extensions that enable support for up to 256 cores. When the gem5 extensions are enabled, the GIC uses CPU IDs instead of a CPU bitmask in the GIC's register interface. To OS can enable the extensions by setting bit 0x200 in ICDICTR. This changeset is based on previous work by Matt Evans.
2015-12-05dev: Rewrite PCI host functionalityAndreas Sandberg
The gem5's current PCI host functionality is very ad hoc. The current implementations require PCI devices to be hooked up to the configuration space via a separate configuration port. Devices query the platform to get their config-space address range. Un-mapped parts of the config space are intercepted using the XBar's default port mechanism and a magic catch-all device (PciConfigAll). This changeset redesigns the PCI host functionality to improve code reuse and make config-space and interrupt mapping more transparent. Existing platform code has been updated to use the new PCI host and configured to stay backwards compatible (i.e., no guest-side visible changes). The current implementation does not expose any new functionality, but it can easily be extended with features such as automatic interrupt mapping. PCI devices now register themselves with a PCI host controller. The host controller interface is defined in the abstract base class PciHost. Registration is done by PciHost::registerDevice() which takes the device, its bus position (bus/dev/func tuple), and its interrupt pin (INTA-INTC) as a parameter. The registration interface returns a PciHost::DeviceInterface that the PCI device can use to query memory mappings and signal interrupts. The host device manages the entire PCI configuration space. Accesses to devices decoded into the devices bus position and then forwarded to the correct device. Basic PCI host functionality is implemented in the GenericPciHost base class. Most platforms can use this class as a basic PCI controller. It provides the following functionality: * Configurable configuration space decoding. The number of bits dedicated to a device is a prameter, making it possible to support both CAM, ECAM, and legacy mappings. * Basic interrupt mapping using the interruptLine value from a device's configuration space. This behavior is the same as in the old implementation. More advanced controllers can override the interrupt mapping method to dynamically assign host interrupts to PCI devices. * Simple (base + addr) remapping from the PCI bus's address space to physical addresses for PIO, memory, and DMA.
2015-12-04dev, arm: Disable R/B swap in HDLCD by defaultAndreas Sandberg
The HDLCD model implements a workaround that swaps the red and blue channels. This works around an issue in certain old kernels. The new driver doesn't seem to have this behavior, so disable the workaround by default and enable it in the affected platforms.
2015-12-04dev, arm: Split MCC and DCC subsystemsAndreas Sandberg
Devices behind the Versatile Express configuration controllers are currently all lumped into one SimObject. This will make DTB generation challenging since the DTB assumes them to be in different parts of the hierarchy. It also makes it hard to model other CoreTiles without also replicating devices from the motherboard. This changeset splits the VExpressCoreTileCtrl into two subsystems: VExpressMCC for all motherboard-related devices and CoreTile2A15DCC for Core Tile specific devices.
2015-12-03dev, mips: Remove the unused MaltaPChip classAndreas Sandberg
The MaltaPChip class is currently unused and identical (except for the class name) to the TsunamiPChip. If someone decides to implement PCI for Malta, they should make sure to share code with the Tsunami implementation if they are similar.
2015-11-24dev: Remove unnecessary header includeAndreas Sandberg
--HG-- extra : rebase_source : 64046371962e98413757bc3ab0c0d48dfb11ff1e
2015-11-22arm, dev: Fix flash model serialization code typosGeoffrey Blake
The flash model has typos in its serialization code for unknownPages, locationTable, blockValidEntries, and blockEmptyEntries arrays where it would save each entry in the array under the same name in the checkpoint. This patch fixes these typos.
2015-11-11dev, arm: Initialized the iccrpr register in the GICAndreas Sandberg
The IICRPR register in the GIC is currently not being initialized when the GIC is instantiated. Initialize to the value mandated by the architecture specification.
2015-11-05dev: Add basic checkpoint support to VirtIO9PProxy deviceSascha Bischoff
This patch adds very basic checkpoint support for the VirtIO9PProxy device. Previously, attempts to checkpoint gem5 with a present 9P device caused gem5 to fatal as none of the state is tracked. We still do not track any state, but we replace the fatal with a warning which is triggered if the device has been used by the guest system. In the event that it has not been used, we assume that no state is lost during checkpointing. The warning is triggered on both a serialize and an unserialize to ensure maximum visibility for the user.
2015-11-09dev: Remove unused header includesAndreas Sandberg
Devices should never need to include dev/pciconfall.hh. --HG-- extra : amend_source : 3a6e56485d432b49e2af22407982fa785c0ccb68
2015-11-09dev: Don't access the platform directly in PCI devicesAndreas Sandberg
Cleanup PCI devices to avoid using the PciDevice::platform pointer directly. The PCI-specific functionality provided by the Platform should be accessed through the wrappers in PciDevice.
2015-11-06mem: Use the packet delays and do not just zero them outAndreas Hansson
This patch updates the I/O devices, bridge and simple memory to take the packet header and payload delay into account in their latency calculations. In all cases we add the header delay, i.e. the accumulated pipeline delay of any crossbars, and the payload delay needed for deserialisation of any payload. Due to the additional unknown latency contribution, the packet queue of the simple memory is changed to use insertion sorting based on the time stamp. Moreover, since the memory hands out exclusive (non shared) responses, we also need to ensure ordering for reads to the same address.
2015-10-29dev: Fix segfault in flash deviceSascha Bischoff
Fix a bug in which the flash device would write out of bounds and could either trigger a segfault and corrupt the memory of other objects. This was caused by using pageSize in the place of pagesPerBlock when running the garbage collector. Also, added an assert to flag this condition in the future.
2015-10-29dev: Fix draining for UFSHostDevice and FlashDeviceSascha Bischoff
This patch fixes the drain logic for the UFSHostDevice and the FlashDevice. In the case of the FlashDevice, the logic for CheckDrain needed to be reversed, whilst in the case of the UFSHostDevice check drain was never being called. In both cases the system would never complete draining if the initial attampt to drain failed.
2015-10-23x86: Add missing explicit overrides for X86 devicesAndreas Hansson
Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/X86/gem5.opt on OSX.
2015-10-23arm: Add missing explicit overrides for ARM devicesAndreas Hansson
Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/ARM/gem5.opt on OSX.
2015-10-12misc: Add explicit overrides and fix other clang >= 3.5 issuesAndreas Hansson
This patch adds explicit overrides as this is now required when using "-Wall" with clang >= 3.5, the latter now part of the most recent XCode. The patch consequently removes "virtual" for those methods where "override" is added. The latter should be enough of an indication. As part of this patch, a few minor issues that clang >= 3.5 complains about are also resolved (unused methods and variables).
2015-10-12misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific definesAndreas Hansson
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.
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.
2015-09-29arch, x86: Delete packet in IntDevice::recvResponseJoel Hestness
IntDevice::recvResponse is called from two places in current mainline: (1) the short circuit path of X86ISA::IntDevice::IntMasterPort::sendMessage for atomic mode, and (2) the full request->response path to and from the x86 interrupts device (finally called from MessageMasterPort::recvTimingResp). In the former case, the packet was deleted correctly, but in the latter case, the packet and request leak. To fix the leak, move request and packet deletion into IntDevice inherited class implementations of recvResponse.
2015-09-15dev: IDE Disk: Handle bad IDE image sizeDongxue Zhang
Handle bad IDE disk image size 0. When image size is 0, gem5 will cause an exception with log "Floating point exception (core dumped)". Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-09-11dev: Add an underrun statistic to the HDLCD controllerAndreas Sandberg
Add a stat that counts buffer underruns in the HDLCD controller. The stat counts at most one underrun per frame since the controller aborts the current frame if it underruns.
2015-09-11dev, arm: Rewrite the HDLCD controllerAndreas Sandberg
Rewrite the HDLCD controller to use the new DMA engine and pixel pump. This fixes several bugs in the current implementation: * Broken/missing interrupt support (VSync, underrun, DMA end) * Fragile resolution changes (changing resolutions used to cause assertion errors). * Support for resolutions with a width that isn't divisible by 32. * The pixel clock can now be set dynamically. This breaks checkpoint compatibility. Checkpoints can be upgraded with the checkpoint conversion script. However, upgraded checkpoints won't contain the state of the current frame. That means that HDLCD controllers restoring from a converted checkpoint immediately start drawing a new frame (i.e, expect timing differences).
2015-09-01dev: Remove auto-serialization dependency in EtherLinkAndreas Sandberg
EtherLink currently uses a fire-and-forget link delay event that delays sending of packets by a fixed number of ticks. In order to serialize this event, it relies on the event queue's auto serialization support. However, support for event auto serialization has been broken for more than two years, which means that checkpoints of multi-system setups are likely to drop in-flight packets. This changeset the replaces rewrites this part of the EtherLink to use a packet queue instead. The queue contains a (tick, packet) tuple. The tick indicates when the packet will be ready. Instead of relying on event autoserialization, we now explicitly serialize the packet queue in the EhterLink::Link class. Note that this changeset changes the way in-flight packages are serialized. Old checkpoints will still load, but in-flight packets will be dropped (just as before). There has been no attempt to upgrade checkpoints since this would actually change the behavior of existing checkpoints.
2015-08-07dev: Implement a simple display timing generatorAndreas Sandberg
Timing generator for a pixel-based display. The timing generator is intended for display processors driving a standard rasterized display. The simplest possible display processor needs to derive from this class and override the nextPixel() method to feed the display with pixel data. Pixels are ordered relative to the top left corner of the display. Scan lines appear in the following order: * Vertical Sync (starting at line 0) * Vertical back porch * Visible lines * Vertical front porch Pixel order within a scan line: * Horizontal Sync * Horizontal Back Porch * Visible pixels * Horizontal Front Porch All events in the timing generator are automatically suspended on a drain() request and restarted on drainResume(). This is conceptually equivalent to clock gating when the pixel clock while the system is draining. By gating the pixel clock, we prevent display controllers from disturbing a memory system that is about to drain.
2015-08-07arm: Add support for programmable oscillatorsAndreas Sandberg
Add support for oscillators that can be programmed using the RealView / Versatile Express configuration interface. These oscillators are typically used for things like the pixel clock in the display controller. The default configurations support the oscillators from a Versatile Express motherboard (V2M-P1) with a CoreTile Express A15x2.
2015-08-07dev: Add a simple DMA engine that can be used by devicesAndreas Sandberg
Add a simple DMA engine that sits behind a FIFO. This engine can be used by devices that need to read large amounts of data (e.g., display controllers). Most aspects of the controller, such as FIFO size, maximum number of in-flight accesses, and maximum request sizes can be configured. The DMA copies blocks of data into its FIFO. Transfers are initiated with a call to startFill() command that takes a start address and a size. Advanced users can create a derived class that overrides the onEndOfBlock() callback that is triggered when the last request to a block has been issued. At this point, the DMA engine is ready to start fetching a new block of data, potentially from a different address range. The DMA engine stops issuing new requests while it is draining. Care must be taken to ensure that devices that are fed by a DMA engine are suspended while the system is draining to avoid buffer underruns.
2015-08-07base: Rewrite the CircleBuf to fix bugs and add serializationAndreas Sandberg
The CircleBuf class has at least one bug causing it to overwrite the wrong elements when wrapping. The current code has a lot of unused functionality and duplicated code. This changeset replaces the old implementation with a new version that supports serialization and arbitrary types in the buffer (not just char).
2015-08-07dev, x86: Fix serialization bug in the i8042 deviceAndreas Sandberg
The i8042 device drops the contents of a PS2 device's buffer when serializing, which results in corrupted PS2 state when continuing simulation after a checkpoint. This changeset fixes this bug and transitions the i8042 model to use the new serialization API that requires the serialize() method to be const.
2015-08-07dev: Make serialization in Sinic constantAndreas Sandberg
This changeset transitions the Sinic device to the new serialization framework that requires the serialization method to be constant.
2015-08-07base: Declare a type for context IDsAndreas Sandberg
Context IDs used to be declared as ad hoc (usually as int). This changeset introduces a typedef for ContextIDs and a constant for invalid context IDs.
2015-07-15dev: add support for multi gem5 runsGabor Dozsa
Multi gem5 is an extension to gem5 to enable parallel simulation of a distributed system (e.g. simulation of a pool of machines connected by Ethernet links). A multi gem5 run consists of seperate gem5 processes running in parallel (potentially on different hosts/slots on a cluster). Each gem5 process executes the simulation of a component of the simulated distributed system (e.g. a multi-core board with an Ethernet NIC). The patch implements the "distributed" Ethernet link device (dev/src/multi_etherlink.[hh.cc]). This device will send/receive (simulated) Ethernet packets to/from peer gem5 processes. The interface to talk to the peer gem5 processes is defined in dev/src/multi_iface.hh and in tcp_iface.hh. There is also a central message server process (util/multi/tcp_server.[hh,cc]) which acts like an Ethernet switch and transfers messages among the gem5 peers. A multi gem5 simulations can be kicked off by the util/multi/gem5-multi.sh wrapper script. Checkpoints are supported by multi-gem5. The checkpoint must be initiated by a single gem5 process. E.g., the gem5 process with rank 0 can take a checkpoint from the bootscript just before it invokes 'mpirun' to launch an MPI test. The message server process will notify all the other peer gem5 processes and make them take a checkpoint, too (after completing a global synchronisation to ensure that there are no inflight messages among gem5).
2015-07-07dev, arm: Add a device model that uses the NoMali modelAndreas Sandberg
Add a simple device shim that interfaces with the NoMali model library. The gem5 side of the interface supports Mali T60x/T62x/T760 GPUs. This device model pretends to be a Mali GPU, but doesn't render anything and executes in zero time.
2015-07-07sim: Refactor and simplify the drain APIAndreas Sandberg
The drain() call currently passes around a DrainManager pointer, which is now completely pointless since there is only ever one global DrainManager in the system. It also contains vestiges from the time when SimObjects had to keep track of their child objects that needed draining. This changeset moves all of the DrainState handling to the Drainable base class and changes the drain() and drainResume() calls to reflect this. Particularly, the drain() call has been updated to take no parameters (the DrainManager argument isn't needed) and return a DrainState instead of an unsigned integer (there is no point returning anything other than 0 or 1 any more). Drainable objects should return either DrainState::Draining (equivalent to returning 1 in the old system) if they need more time to drain or DrainState::Drained (equivalent to returning 0 in the old system) if they are already in a consistent state. Returning DrainState::Running is considered an error. Drain done signalling is now done through the signalDrainDone() method in the Drainable class instead of using the DrainManager directly. The new call checks if the state of the object is DrainState::Draining before notifying the drain manager. This means that it is safe to call signalDrainDone() without first checking if the simulator has requested draining. The intention here is to reduce the code needed to implement draining in simple objects.
2015-07-07sim: Decouple draining from the SimObject hierarchyAndreas Sandberg
Draining is currently done by traversing the SimObject graph and calling drain()/drainResume() on the SimObjects. This is not ideal when non-SimObjects (e.g., ports) need draining since this means that SimObjects owning those objects need to be aware of this. This changeset moves the responsibility for finding objects that need draining from SimObjects and the Python-side of the simulator to the DrainManager. The DrainManager now maintains a set of all objects that need draining. To reduce the overhead in classes owning non-SimObjects that need draining, objects inheriting from Drainable now automatically register with the DrainManager. If such an object is destroyed, it is automatically unregistered. This means that drain() and drainResume() should never be called directly on a Drainable object. While implementing the new functionality, the DrainManager has now been made thread safe. In practice, this means that it takes a lock whenever it manipulates the set of Drainable objects since SimObjects in different threads may create Drainable objects dynamically. Similarly, the drain counter is now an atomic_uint, which ensures that it is manipulated correctly when objects signal that they are done draining. A nice side effect of these changes is that it makes the drain state changes stricter, which the simulation scripts can exploit to avoid redundant drains.
2015-07-07sim: Make the drain state a global typed enumAndreas Sandberg
The drain state enum is currently a part of the Drainable interface. The same state machine will be used by the DrainManager to identify the global state of the simulator. Make the drain state a global typed enum to better cater for this usage scenario.
2015-07-07sim: Fix broken event unserializationAndreas Sandberg
Events expected to be unserialized using an event-specific unserializeEvent call. This call was never actually used, which meant the events relying on it never got unserialized (or scheduled after unserialization). Instead of relying on a custom call, we now use the normal serialization code again. In order to schedule the event correctly, the parrent object is expected to use the EventQueue::checkpointReschedule() call. This happens automatically for events that are serialized using the AutoSerialize mechanism.
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.
2015-06-09dev, arm: Include PIO size in AmbaDmaDevice constructorAndreas Sandberg
Make it possible to specify the size of the PIO space for an AMBA DMA device. Maintain backwards compatibility and default to zero.
2015-05-23arm, dev: Add support for a memory mapped generic timerAndreas Sandberg
There are cases when we don't want to use a system register mapped generic timer, but can't use the SP804. For example, when using KVM on aarch64, we want to intercept accesses to the generic timer, but can't do so if it is using the system register interface. In such cases, we need to use a memory-mapped generic timer. This changeset adds a device model that implements the memory mapped generic timer interface. The current implementation only supports a single frame (i.e., one virtual timer and one physical timer).
2015-05-23dev, arm: Add virtual timers to the generic timer modelAndreas Sandberg
The generic timer model currently does not support virtual counters. Virtual and physical counters both tick with the same frequency. However, virtual timers allow a hypervisor to set an offset that is subtracted from the counter when it is read. This enables the hypervisor to present a time base that ticks with virtual time in the VM (i.e., doesn't tick when the VM isn't running). Modern Linux kernels generally assume that virtual counters exist and try to use them by default.
2015-05-23dev, arm: Refactor and clean up the generic timer modelAndreas Sandberg
This changeset cleans up the generic timer a bit and moves most of the register juggling from the ISA code into a separate class in the same source file as the rest of the generic timer. It also removes the assumption that there is always 8 or fewer CPUs in the system. Instead of having a fixed limit, we now instantiate per-core timers as they are requested. This is all in preparation for other patches that add support for virtual timers and a memory mapped interface.