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Prefetch requests issued from the L2 or below wouldn't check if valid data is
present higher in the system. If a prefetch into the L2 occured at the same
time as writeback from a higher-level cache the dirty data could be replaced
in by unmodified data in memory.
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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
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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.
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really needed.
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This step makes it easy to replace the accessor functions
(which still access a global variable) with ones that access
per-thread curTick values.
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Thanks to Joe Gross for finding/testing this.
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CLREX is the name of an ARM instruction, not a name for this generic flag.
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If we write back an exclusive copy, we now mark it
as such, so the cache receiving the writeback can
mark its copy as exclusive. This avoids some
unnecessary upgrade requests when a cache later
tries to re-acquire exclusive access to the block.
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Corrects an oversight in cset f97b62be544f. The fix there only
failed queued SCUpgradeReq packets that encountered an
invalidation, which meant that the upgrade had to reach the L2
cache. To handle pending requests in the L1 we must similarly
fail StoreCondReq packets too.
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We can't just obliviously return the first valid cache block
we find any more... see comments for details.
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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.
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when it in received
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the TLB
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not scheduled, as well as the transmit list being empty.
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This bug was introduced with the recent rework of SC
failure handling in cset f97b62be544f.
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Thanks to Joe Gross for pointing this out (again?).
Apologies to anyone who pointed it out earlier and
we didn't listen.
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Requires new "SCUpgradeReq" message that marks upgrades
for store conditionals, so downstream caches can fail
these when they run into invalidations.
See http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/197
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Only set the dirty bit when we actually write to a block
(not if we thought we might but didn't, as in a failed
SC or CAS). This requires makeing sure the dirty bit
stays set when we get an exclusive (writable) copy
in a cache-to-cache transfer from another owner, which
n turn requires copying the mem-inhibit flag from
timing-mode requests to their associated responses.
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Plus, a minor bugfix that neglects to update blk->contextSrc in certain cases on a cache insert.
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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).
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that the cache can make context-specific decisions within their various tag policy implementations.
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This prevents redundant prefetches from being issued, solving the
occasional 'needsExclusive && !blk->isWritable()' assertion failure
in cache_impl.hh that several people have run into.
Eliminates "prefetch_cache_check_push" flag, neither setting of
which really solved the problem.
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It's still broken in inorder.
Also enhance DPRINTFs in cache and physical memory so we
can see more easily whether it's getting set or not.
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--HG--
rename : src/sim/host.hh => src/base/types.hh
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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.
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