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2012-03-09cache: Allow main memory to be at disjoint address ranges.Ali Saidi
2012-03-01Cache: Fix an issue with LRU when bonus block is used to complete transaction.Ali Saidi
The block is never inserted because it's the one extra block in the cache, but it can be invalidated twice in a row. In that case the block doesn't have a new master id (beacuse it was never inserted), however it is valid and the accounting goes wrong at that point.
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.
2012-02-13MEM: Introduce the master/slave port roles in the Python classesAndreas Hansson
This patch classifies all ports in Python as either Master or Slave and enforces a binding of master to slave. Conceptually, a master (such as a CPU or DMA port) issues requests, and receives responses, and conversely, a slave (such as a memory or a PIO device) receives requests and sends back responses. Currently there is no differentiation between coherent and non-coherent masters and slaves. The classification as master/slave also involves splitting the dual role port of the bus into a master and slave port and updating all the system assembly scripts to use the appropriate port. Similarly, the interrupt devices have to have their int_port split into a master and slave port. The intdev and its children have minimal changes to facilitate the extra port. Note that this patch does not enforce any port typing in the C++ world, it merely ensures that the Python objects have a notion of the port roles and are connected in an appropriate manner. This check is carried when two ports are connected, e.g. bus.master = memory.port. The following patches will make use of the classifications and specialise the C++ ports into masters and slaves.
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.
2012-02-12mem: Add a master ID to each request object.Ali Saidi
This change adds a master id to each request object which can be used identify every device in the system that is capable of issuing a request. This is part of the way to removing the numCpus+1 stats in the cache and replacing them with the master ids. This is one of a series of changes that make way for the stats output to be changed to python.
2012-02-12prefetcher: Make prefetcher a sim object instead of it being a parameter on ↵Mrinmoy Ghosh
cache
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: Remove the functional ports from the memory systemWilliam Wang
The functional ports are no longer used and this patch cleans up the legacy that is still present in buses, memories, CPUs etc. Note that this does not refer to the class FunctionalPort (already removed), but rather ports with the name (and use) functional.
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.
2012-01-17MEM: Remove Port removeConn and MemObject deletePortRefsAndreas Hansson
Cleaning up and simplifying the ports and going towards a more strict elaboration-time creation and binding of the ports.
2012-01-17MEM: Simplify ports by removing EventManagerAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the inheritance of EventManager from the ports and moves all responsibility for event queues to the owner. Eventually the event manager should be the interface block, which could either be the structural owner or a subblock like a LSQ in the O3 CPU for example.
2012-01-17MEM: Differentiate functional cache accesses from CPU and memoryAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the functionalAccess member function in the cache model such that it is aware of what port the access came from, i.e. if it came from the CPU side or from the memory side. By adding this information, it is possible to respect the 'forwardSnoops' flag for snooping requests coming from the memory side and not forward them. This fixes an outstanding issue with the IO bus getting accesses that have no valid destination port and also cleans up future changes to the bus model.
2012-01-07Merge with main repository.Gabe Black
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
2011-10-31GCC: Get everything working with gcc 4.6.1.Gabe Black
And by "everything" I mean all the quick regressions.
2011-09-13Prefetch: Don't prefetch if address is in the write queue.Ali Saidi
Check that we're not currently writing back an address the prefetcher is trying to prefetch before issuing it. We previously checked the mshrQueue and the cache itself, but forgot to check the writeBuffer. This fixes a memory corrucption issue with an L2 prefetcher.
2011-09-01Fix build for gcc-4.2 opt/fastLisa Hsu
Even though the code is safe, compiler flags a warning here, which are treated as errors for fast/opt. I know it's redundant but it has no side effects and fixes the compile.
2011-08-19Mem: Put prefetcher notify call before packet is deleted.Ali Saidi
2011-08-19Prefetcher: Fix some memory leaks with the prefetcher.Ali Saidi
2011-07-15Mem: Fix issue with prefetches originating at non-L1 caches getting stale dataAli Saidi
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.
2011-06-02scons: rename TraceFlags to DebugFlagsNathan Binkert
2011-04-19stats: rename stats so they can be used as python expressionsNathan 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
2011-03-17Mem: 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.
2011-02-23Includes: Don't include isa_traits.hh and use the TheISA namespace unless ↵Ali Saidi
really needed.
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.
2010-11-19SCons: Support building without an ISAAli Saidi
2010-10-18cache: minor SC assertion fixSteve Reinhardt
Thanks to Joe Gross for finding/testing this.
2010-10-13Mem: Change the CLREX flag to CLEAR_LL.Gabe Black
CLREX is the name of an ARM instruction, not a name for this generic flag.
2010-09-21cache: improve coherence handling of writebacksSteve Reinhardt
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.
2010-09-10style: fix sorting of includes and whitespace in some filesNathan Binkert
2010-09-09cache: fail SC when invalidated while waiting for busSteve Reinhardt
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.
2010-09-09mem: fix functional accesses to deal with coherence changeSteve Reinhardt
We can't just obliviously return the first valid cache block we find any more... see comments for details.
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.
2010-08-26mem: fix m5.fast compile bug in previous csetSteve Reinhardt
2010-08-25cache: fix a bug in atomic multilevel snoopsSteve Reinhardt
2010-08-25mem: fix dumb typo in copyrightsSteve Reinhardt
2010-08-23MEM: Make CLREX a first class request operation and clear locks in caches ↵Gene Wu
when it in received
2010-08-23ARM: Make sure that software prefetch instructions can't change the state of ↵Gene Wu
the TLB
2010-08-23Compiler: Fixes for GCC 4.5.Ali Saidi
2010-07-22Port: Only indicate that a SimpleTimingPort is drained if its send event isTimothy M. Jones
not scheduled, as well as the transmit list being empty.
2010-07-08cache: fix bug in SC upgrade handlingSteve Reinhardt
This bug was introduced with the recent rework of SC failure handling in cset f97b62be544f.
2010-06-22cache: fix longstanding prefetcher bugSteve Reinhardt
Thanks to Joe Gross for pointing this out (again?). Apologies to anyone who pointed it out earlier and we didn't listen.
2010-06-16cache: fail store conditionals when upgrade loses raceSteve Reinhardt
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