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2014-01-24mem: Add support for a security bit in the memory systemGiacomo Gabrielli
This patch adds the basic building blocks required to support e.g. ARM TrustZone by discerning secure and non-secure memory accesses.
2014-01-24mem: track per-request latencies and access depths in the cache hierarchyMatt Horsnell
Add some values and methods to the request object to track the translation and access latency for a request and which level of the cache hierarchy responded to the request.
2013-02-15mem: Tighten up cache constness and scopingAndreas Hansson
This patch merely adopts a more strict use of const for the cache member functions and variables, and also moves a large portion of the member functions from public to protected.
2013-01-28cache: remove drainManager because it's not usedAnthony Gutierrez
the cache drainManager is set but never cleared, this is because the cache itself does not need to be drained and thus never triggers a signalDrainDone(). because the drainManager variable is not used properly and does not appear to be necessary it has been removed with this patch.
2012-11-02mem: Add support for writing back and flushing cachesAndreas Sandberg
This patch adds support for the following optional drain methods in the classical memory system's cache model: memWriteback() - Write back all dirty cache lines to memory using functional accesses. memInvalidate() - Invalidate all cache lines. Dirty cache lines are lost unless a writeback is requested. Since memWriteback() is called when checkpointing systems, this patch adds support for checkpointing systems with caches. The serialization code now checks whether there are any dirty lines in the cache. If there are dirty lines in the cache, the checkpoint is flagged as bad and a warning is printed.
2012-11-02sim: Move the draining interface into a separate base classAndreas Sandberg
This patch moves the draining interface from SimObject to a separate class that can be used by any object needing draining. However, objects not visible to the Python code (i.e., objects not deriving from SimObject) still depend on their parents informing them when to drain. This patch also gets rid of the CountedDrainEvent (which isn't really an event) and replaces it with a DrainManager.
2012-10-15Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchyAndreas Hansson
This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations. The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.
2012-10-15Mem: Use cycles to express cache-related latenciesAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the cache-related latencies from an absolute time expressed in Ticks, to a number of cycles that can be scaled with the clock period of the caches. Ultimately this patch serves to enable future work that involves dynamic frequency scaling. As an immediate benefit it also makes it more convenient to specify cache performance without implicitly assuming a specific CPU core operating frequency. The stat blocked_cycles that actually counter in ticks is now updated to count in cycles. As the timing is now rounded to the clock edges of the cache, there are some regressions that change. Plenty of them have very minor changes, whereas some regressions with a short run-time are perturbed quite significantly. A follow-on patch updates all the statistics for the regressions.
2012-09-25Cache: add a response latency to the cachesMrinmoy Ghosh
In the current caches the hit latency is paid twice on a miss. This patch lets a configurable response latency be set of the cache for the backward path.
2012-08-22Port: Extend the QueuedPort interface and use where appropriateAndreas Hansson
This patch extends the queued port interfaces with methods for scheduling the transmission of a timing request/response. The methods are named similar to the corresponding sendTiming(Snoop)Req/Resp, replacing the "send" with "sched". As the queues are currently unbounded, the methods always succeed and hence do not return a value. This functionality was previously provided in the subclasses by calling PacketQueue::schedSendTiming with the appropriate parameters. With this change, there is no need to introduce these extra methods in the subclasses, and the use of the queued interface is more uniform and explicit.
2012-07-09Port: Move retry from port base class to Master/SlavePortAndreas Hansson
This patch is the last part of moving all protocol-related functionality out of the Port base class. All the send/recv functions are already moved, and the retry (which still governs all the timing transport functions) is the only part that remained in the base class. The only point where this currently causes a bit of inconvenience is in the bus where the retry list is global and holds Port pointers (not Master/SlavePort). This is about to change with the split into a request/response bus and will soon be removed anyway. The patch has no impact on any regressions.
2012-05-01MEM: Separate requests and responses for timing accessesAndreas Hansson
This patch moves send/recvTiming and send/recvTimingSnoop from the Port base class to the MasterPort and SlavePort, and also splits them into separate member functions for requests and responses: send/recvTimingReq, send/recvTimingResp, and send/recvTimingSnoopReq, send/recvTimingSnoopResp. A master port sends requests and receives responses, and also receives snoop requests and sends snoop responses. A slave port has the reciprocal behaviour as it receives requests and sends responses, and sends snoop requests and receives snoop responses. For all MemObjects that have only master ports or slave ports (but not both), e.g. a CPU, or a PIO device, this patch merely adds more clarity to what kind of access is taking place. For example, a CPU port used to call sendTiming, and will now call sendTimingReq. Similarly, a response previously came back through recvTiming, which is now recvTimingResp. For the modules that have both master and slave ports, e.g. the bus, the behaviour was previously relying on branches based on pkt->isRequest(), and this is now replaced with a direct call to the apprioriate member function depending on the type of access. Please note that send/recvRetry is still shared by all the timing accessors and remains in the Port base class for now (to maintain the current bus functionality and avoid changing the statistics of all regressions). The packet queue is split into a MasterPort and SlavePort version to facilitate the use of the new timing accessors. All uses of the PacketQueue are updated accordingly. With this patch, the type of packet (request or response) is now well defined for each type of access, and asserts on pkt->isRequest() and pkt->isResponse() are now moved to the appropriate send member functions. It is also worth noting that sendTimingSnoopReq no longer returns a boolean, as the semantics do not alow snoop requests to be rejected or stalled. All these assumptions are now excplicitly part of the port interface itself.
2012-04-14MEM: Separate snoops and normal memory requests/responsesAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces port access methods that separates snoop request/responses from normal memory request/responses. The differentiation is made for functional, atomic and timing accesses and builds on the introduction of master and slave ports. Before the introduction of this patch, the packets belonging to the different phases of the protocol (request -> [forwarded snoop request -> snoop response]* -> response) all use the same port access functions, even though the snoop packets flow in the opposite direction to the normal packet. That is, a coherent master sends normal request and receives responses, but receives snoop requests and sends snoop responses (vice versa for the slave). These two distinct phases now use different access functions, as described below. Starting with the functional access, a master sends a request to a slave through sendFunctional, and the request packet is turned into a response before the call returns. In a system without cache coherence, this is all that is needed from the functional interface. For the cache-coherent scenario, a slave also sends snoop requests to coherent masters through sendFunctionalSnoop, with responses returned within the same packet pointer. This is currently used by the bus and caches, and the LSQ of the O3 CPU. The send/recvFunctional and send/recvFunctionalSnoop are moved from the Port super class to the appropriate subclass. Atomic accesses follow the same flow as functional accesses, with request being sent from master to slave through sendAtomic. In the case of cache-coherent ports, a slave can send snoop requests to a master through sendAtomicSnoop. Just as for the functional access methods, the atomic send and receive member functions are moved to the appropriate subclasses. The timing access methods are different from the functional and atomic in that requests and responses are separated in time and send/recvTiming are used for both directions. Hence, a master uses sendTiming to send a request to a slave, and a slave uses sendTiming to send a response back to a master, at a later point in time. Snoop requests and responses travel in the opposite direction, similar to what happens in functional and atomic accesses. With the introduction of this patch, it is possible to determine the direction of packets in the bus, and no longer necessary to look for both a master and a slave port with the requested port id. In contrast to the normal recvFunctional, recvAtomic and recvTiming that are pure virtual functions, the recvFunctionalSnoop, recvAtomicSnoop and recvTimingSnoop have a default implementation that calls panic. This is to allow non-coherent master and slave ports to not implement these functions.
2012-03-30MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++William Wang
This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++ code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects. The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations are to come in later patches. The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be a valid return value. The default implementation of these two functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal. The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort (avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.
2012-03-22MEM: Split SimpleTimingPort into PacketQueue and portsAndreas Hansson
This patch decouples the queueing and the port interactions to simplify the introduction of the master and slave ports. By separating the queueing functionality from the port itself, it becomes much easier to distinguish between master and slave ports, and still retain the queueing ability for both (without code duplication). As part of the split into a PacketQueue and a port, there is now also a hierarchy of two port classes, QueuedPort and SimpleTimingPort. The QueuedPort is useful for ports that want to leave the packet transmission of outgoing packets to the queue and is used by both master and slave ports. The SimpleTimingPort inherits from the QueuedPort and adds the implemention of recvTiming and recvFunctional through recvAtomic. The PioPort and MessagePort are cleaned up as part of the changes. --HG-- rename : src/mem/tport.cc => src/mem/packet_queue.cc rename : src/mem/tport.hh => src/mem/packet_queue.hh
2012-03-09cache: Allow main memory to be at disjoint address ranges.Ali Saidi
2012-02-24MEM: Simplify cache ports preparing for master/slave splitAndreas Hansson
This patch splits the two cache ports into a master (memory-side) and slave (cpu-side) subclass of port with slightly different functionality. For example, it is only the CPU-side port that blocks incoming requests, and only the memory-side port that schedules send events outside of what the transmit list dictates. This patch simplifies the two classes by relying further on SimpleTimingPort and also generalises the latter to better accommodate the changes (introducing trySendTiming and scheduleSend). The memory-side cache port overrides sendDeferredPacket to be able to not only send responses from the transmit list, but also send requests based on the MSHRs. A follow on patch further simplifies the SimpleTimingPort and the cache ports.
2012-02-12mem: fix cache stats to use request ids correctlyDam Sunwoo
This patch fixes the cache stats to use the new request ids. Cache stats also display the requestor names in the vector subnames. Most cache stats now include "nozero" and "nonan" flags to reduce the amount of excessive cache stat dump. Also, simplified incMissCount()/incHitCount() functions.
2012-01-31Merge with head, hopefully the last time for this batch.Gabe Black
2012-01-31clang: Enable compiling gem5 using clang 2.9 and 3.0Koan-Sin Tan
This patch adds the necessary flags to the SConstruct and SConscript files for compiling using clang 2.9 and later (on Ubuntu et al and OSX XCode 4.2), and also cleans up a bunch of compiler warnings found by clang. Most of the warnings are related to hidden virtual functions, comparisons with unsigneds >= 0, and if-statements with empty bodies. A number of mismatches between struct and class are also fixed. clang 2.8 is not working as it has problems with class names that occur in multiple namespaces (e.g. Statistics in kernel_stats.hh). clang has a bug (http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7247) which causes confusion between the container std::set and the function Packet::set, and this is currently addressed by not including the entire namespace std, but rather selecting e.g. "using std::vector" in the appropriate places.
2012-01-31MEM: Remove the otherPort from the cache portsAndreas Hansson
This patch is a very straight-forward simplification, removing the unecessary otherPort pointer from the cache port. The pointer was only used to forward range changes, and the address range is fixed for the cache. Removing the pointer simplifies the transition to master/slave ports.
2012-01-28Merge with the main repo.Gabe Black
--HG-- rename : src/mem/vport.hh => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.hh rename : src/mem/translating_port.cc => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.cc rename : src/mem/translating_port.hh => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.hh
2012-01-17MEM: Separate queries for snooping and address rangesAndreas Hansson
This patch simplifies the address-range determination mechanism and also unifies the naming across ports and devices. It further splits the queries for determining if a port is snooping and what address ranges it responds to (aiming towards a separation of cache-maintenance ports and pure memory-mapped ports). Default behaviours are such that most ports do not have to define isSnooping, and master ports need not implement getAddrRanges.
2011-11-18SE/FS: Get rid of includes of config/full_system.hh.Gabe Black
2011-11-07SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in mem.Gabe Black
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
2011-03-17Mem: Fix issue with dirty block being lost when entire block transferred to ↵Ali Saidi
non-cache. This change fixes the problem for all the cases we actively use. If you want to try more creative I/O device attachments (E.g. sharing an L2), this won't work. You would need another level of caching between the I/O device and the cache (which you actually need anyway with our current code to make sure writes propagate). This is required so that you can mark the cache in between as top level and it won't try to send ownership of a block to the I/O device. Asserts have been added that should catch any issues.
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.
2010-09-10style: fix sorting of includes and whitespace in some filesNathan Binkert
2010-09-09cache: coherence protocol enhancements & bug fixesSteve Reinhardt
Allow lower-level caches (e.g., L2 or L3) to pass exclusive copies to higher levels (e.g., L1). This eliminates a lot of unnecessary upgrade transactions on read-write sequences to non-shared data. Also some cleanup of MSHR coherence handling and multiple bug fixes.
2010-06-15stats: only consider a formula initialized if there is a formulaNathan Binkert
2010-02-23cache: Make caches sharing aware and add occupancy stats.Lisa Hsu
On the config end, if a shared L2 is created for the system, it is parameterized to have n sharers as defined by option.num_cpus. In addition to making the cache sharing aware so that discriminating tag policies can make use of context_ids to make decisions, I added an occupancy AverageStat and an occ % stat to each cache so that you could know which contexts are occupying how much cache on average, both in terms of blocks and percentage. Note that since devices have context_id -1, having an array of occ stats that correspond to each context_id will break here, so in FS mode I add an extra bucket for device blocks. This bucket is explicitly not added in SE mode in order to not only avoid ugliness in the stats.txt file, but to avoid broken stats (some formulas break when a bucket is 0).
2009-09-26Minor cleanup: Use the blockAlign() method where it applies in the cache.Steve Reinhardt
2009-06-04types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsignedNathan Binkert
2009-05-17includes: use base/types.hh not inttypes.h or stdint.hNathan Binkert
2008-07-16mem: use single BadAddr responder per system.Steve Reinhardt
Previously there was one per bus, which caused some coherence problems when more than one decided to respond. Now there is just one on the main memory bus. The default bus responder on all other buses is now the downstream cache's cpu_side port. Caches no longer need to do address range filtering; instead, we just have a simple flag to prevent snoops from propagating to the I/O bus.
2009-03-05stats: Fix all stats usages to deal with template fixesNathan Binkert
2009-02-16Fixes to get prefetching working again.Steve Reinhardt
Apparently we broke it with the cache rewrite and never noticed. Thanks to Bao Yungang <baoyungang@gmail.com> for a significant part of these changes (and for inspiring me to work on the rest). Some other overdue cleanup on the prefetch code too.
2008-11-04get rid of all instances of readTid() and getThreadNum(). Unify and eliminateLisa Hsu
redundancies with threadId() as their replacement.
2008-02-10Fix #include lines for renamed cache files.Steve Reinhardt
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : b5008115dc5b34958246608757e69a3fa43b85c5
2008-02-10Rename cache files for brevity and consistency with rest of tree.Steve Reinhardt
--HG-- rename : src/mem/cache/base_cache.cc => src/mem/cache/base.cc rename : src/mem/cache/base_cache.hh => src/mem/cache/base.hh rename : src/mem/cache/cache_blk.cc => src/mem/cache/blk.cc rename : src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh => src/mem/cache/blk.hh rename : src/mem/cache/cache_builder.cc => src/mem/cache/builder.cc rename : src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc => src/mem/cache/mshr.cc rename : src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh => src/mem/cache/mshr.hh rename : src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc => src/mem/cache/mshr_queue.cc rename : src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh => src/mem/cache/mshr_queue.hh rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc => src/mem/cache/prefetch/base.cc rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.hh => src/mem/cache/prefetch/base.hh rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb_prefetcher.cc => src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb.cc rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb_prefetcher.hh => src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb.hh rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride_prefetcher.cc => src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride.cc rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride_prefetcher.hh => src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride.hh rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged_prefetcher.cc => src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged.cc rename : src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged_prefetcher.hh => src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged.hh rename : src/mem/cache/tags/base_tags.cc => src/mem/cache/tags/base.cc rename : src/mem/cache/tags/base_tags.hh => src/mem/cache/tags/base.hh rename : src/mem/cache/tags/Repl.py => src/mem/cache/tags/iic_repl/Repl.py rename : src/mem/cache/tags/repl/gen.cc => src/mem/cache/tags/iic_repl/gen.cc rename : src/mem/cache/tags/repl/gen.hh => src/mem/cache/tags/iic_repl/gen.hh rename : src/mem/cache/tags/repl/repl.hh => src/mem/cache/tags/iic_repl/repl.hh extra : convert_revision : ff7a35cc155a8d80317563c45cebe405984eac62