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2011-10-22SE: move page allocation from PageTable to ProcessSteve Reinhardt
PageTable supported an allocate() call that called back through the Process to allocate memory, but did not have a method to map addresses without allocating new pages. It makes more sense for Process to do the allocation, so this method was renamed allocateMem() and moved to Process, and uses a new map() call on PageTable. The remaining uses of the process pointer in PageTable were only to get the name and the PID, so by passing these in directly in the constructor, we can make PageTable completely independent of Process.
2011-06-02scons: rename TraceFlags to DebugFlagsNathan Binkert
2011-04-15trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vectorNathan Binkert
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that --trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help
2011-04-15includes: sort all includesNathan Binkert
2011-04-04ARM: Fix multiplication error in udelayAli Saidi
2011-03-17ARM: Detect and skip udelay() functions in linux kernel.Ali Saidi
This change speeds up booting, especially in MP cases, by not executing udelay() on the core but instead skipping ahead tha amount of time that is being delayed.
2011-03-17O3: Send instruction back to fetch on squash to seed predecoder correctly.Ali Saidi
2011-01-07Replace curTick global variable with accessor functions.Steve Reinhardt
This step makes it easy to replace the accessor functions (which still access a global variable) with ones that access per-thread curTick values.
2011-01-03Make commenting on close namespace brackets consistent.Steve Reinhardt
Ran all the source files through 'perl -pi' with this script: s|\s*(};?\s*)?/\*\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*\*/(\s*})?|} // namespace $3|; s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*|} // namespace $2\n|; s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(\S+)\s*namespace\s*|} // namespace $1\n|; Also did a little manual editing on some of the arch/*/isa_traits.hh files and src/SConscript.
2010-11-19SCons: Support building without an ISAAli Saidi
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.
2010-10-01Debug: Implement getArgument() and function skipping for ARM.Ali Saidi
In the process make add skipFuction() to handle isa specific function skipping instead of ifdefs and other ugliness. For almost all ABIs, 64 bit arguments can only start in even registers. Size is now passed to getArgument() so that 32 bit systems can make decisions about register selection for 64 bit arguments. The number argument is now passed by reference because getArgument() will need to change it based on the size of the argument and the current argument number. For ARM, if the argument number is odd and a 64-bit register is requested the number must first be incremented to because all 64 bit arguments are passed in an even argument register. Then the number will be incremented again to access both halves of the argument.
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.
2010-09-10style: fix sorting of includes and whitespace in some filesNathan Binkert
2010-05-06macos: MacOS has deprecated getdirentries, so just disable the code.Nathan Binkert
Hopefully it isn't used much
2009-11-14SE: Fix SE mode OS X compilation.Ali Saidi
2009-11-04build: fix compile problems pointed out by gcc 4.4Nathan Binkert
2009-10-30Syscalls: Make system calls access arguments like a stack, not an array.Gabe Black
When accessing arguments for a syscall, the position of an argument depends on the policies of the ISA, how much space preceding arguments took up, and the "alignment" of the index for this particular argument into the number of possible storate locations. This change adjusts getSyscallArg to take its index parameter by reference instead of value and to adjust it to point to the possible location of the next argument on the stack, basically just after the current one. This way, the rules for the new argument can be applied locally without knowing about other arguments since those have already been taken into account implicitly. All system calls have also been changed to reflect the new interface. In a number of cases this made the implementation clearer since it encourages arguments to be collected in one place in order and then used as necessary later, as opposed to scattering them throughout the function or using them in place in long expressions. It also discourages using getSyscallArg over and over to retrieve the same value when a temporary would do the job.
2009-10-24syscall: Implementation of the time system call.Timothy M. Jones
2009-10-24syscall: Implementation of the times system callTimothy M. Jones
2009-10-02SE mode: Make the direction anonymous mmaps move through memory configurable.Gabe Black
2009-09-23arch: nuke arch/isa_specific.hh and move stuff to generated config/the_isa.hhNathan Binkert
2009-07-08Alpha: Pull the MiscRegFile fully into the ISA object.Gabe Black
2009-07-08Registers: Eliminate the ISA defined RegFile class.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.
2009-06-04types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsignedNathan Binkert
2009-05-17includes: sort includes againNathan Binkert
2009-05-17includes: use base/types.hh not inttypes.h or stdint.hNathan 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.
2009-03-05stats: Fix all stats usages to deal with template fixesNathan Binkert
2009-02-27Processes: Make getting and setting system call arguments part of a process ↵Gabe Black
object.
2009-01-17Fix issue 326: glibc non-deterministic because it reads /procAli Saidi
2009-01-13SCons: centralize the Dir() workaround for newer versions of scons.Nathan Binkert
Scons bug id: 2006 M5 Bug id: 308
2008-11-02Make it so that all thread contexts are registered with the System, even inLisa Hsu
SE. Process still keeps track of the tc's it owns, but registration occurs with the System, this eases the way for system-wide context Ids based on registration.
2008-09-27style: Make a style pass over the whole arch/alpha directory.Nathan Binkert
2008-09-27alpha: Get rid fo the namespace called EV5.Nathan Binkert
We're never going to do an alpha platform other than the one we've got.
2008-09-26Use logical operator instead of bitwise operator for correctness.Nathan Binkert
2008-09-10style: Remove non-leading tabs everywhere they shouldn't be. Developers ↵Ali Saidi
should configure their editors to not insert tabs
2008-06-11SCons: Fix more SCons version issuesAli Saidi
2008-05-20SCons: Fixing SCons bug 2006 issues for non-alpha ISAsStephen Hines
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 26e3edef06d6f82aaf162825c151d18faadd6e72
2008-05-06SCons: More scons fixing for SCons bug 2006Ali Saidi
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : d3656ab1e3c18251d4bcf6f5a31103d4b2dfdc43
2007-10-31String constant const-ness changes to placate g++ 4.2.Steve Reinhardt
Also some bug fixes in MIPS ISA uncovered by g++ warnings (Python string compares don't work in C++!). --HG-- extra : convert_revision : b347cc0108f23890e9b73b3ee96059f0cea96cf6
2007-10-31Traceflags: Add SCons function to created a traceflag instead of having one ↵Ali Saidi
file with them all. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 427f6bd8f050861ace3bc0d354a1afa5fc8319e6
2007-10-31Linux Support: Finally update vptr for new memory system.Ali Saidi
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 8b4927431189abc12201d13428a31b746cdb7dee
2007-08-01Arguments: Get rid of duplicate code for the Arguments class in each ↵Ali Saidi
architecture. Move the argument files to src/sim and add a utility.cc file with a function getArguments() that returns the given argument in the architecture specific fashion. getArguments() was getArg() is the architecture specific Argument class and has had all magic numbers replaced with meaningful constants. Also add a function to the Argument class for testing if an argument is NULL. --HG-- rename : src/arch/alpha/arguments.cc => src/sim/arguments.cc rename : src/arch/alpha/arguments.hh => src/sim/arguments.hh extra : convert_revision : 8b93667bafaa03b52aadb64d669adfe835266b8e
2007-07-26X86: Fix argument register indexing.Gabe Black
Code was assuming that all argument registers followed in order from ArgumentReg0. There is now an ArgumentReg array which is indexed to find the right index. There is a constant, NumArgumentRegs, which can be used to protect against using an invalid ArgumentReg. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : f448a3ca4d6adc3fc3323562870f70eec05a8a1f
2007-05-21Change getDeviceAddressRanges to use bool for snoop arg.Steve Reinhardt
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 832e52ba80cbab2f5bb6d5b5977a499d41b4d638
2007-05-01change the way dprintf works so the cache accesses required to fulfill the ↵Ali Saidi
dprintf aren't show in between the Cycle: name: printing and the actual formatted string being printed --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 8876ba938ba971f854bab490c9af10db039a2e83
2007-04-30always skip the debugprintf function (DebugPrintf traceflag shouldn't ↵Ali Saidi
matter). Otherwise, when you turn on debugprintf alters the execution --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 1c9a665e3b7234cacf06c31d2e7886244a9e82bc