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The new version extracts all the x86 specific aspects of the class,
and builds the interface around a variable collection of template
arguments which are classes that represent the different levels of the
page table. The multilevel page table class is now much more ISA
independent.
Change-Id: Id42e168a78d0e70f80ab2438480cb6e00a3aa636
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7347
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Use the system object to allocate physical memory instead of manually
placing certain structures and then forcing the system to start other
allocations after them in physical memory.
Change-Id: Ie18c81645c3b648c64a6d7a649a0e50f7028f344
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7346
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
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Pass this constant into the page table constructor.
Change-Id: Icbf730f18d9dfcfebd10a196f7f799514728b0fb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7345
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
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Don't get it from a global constant declared in an ISA header file.
Change-Id: Ie19440abdd76500a5e12e6791e6f755ad9e95af3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7344
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Now that Nothing inherits from PageTableBase directly, it can be
merged into FuncPageTable. This change also takes the opportunity to
rename the combined class to EmulationPageTable which lets you know
that it's specifically for SE mode.
Also remove the page table entry cache since it doesn't seem to
actually improve performance. The TLBs likely absorb the majority of
the locality, essentially acting like a cache like they would in real
hardware.
Change-Id: If1bcb91aed08686603bf7bee37298c0eee826e13
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7342
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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KVM looks up translations using the image of the page table in the
guest's memory, but we don't have to. By maintaining that image in
addition to rather than instead of maintaining an abstract copy makes
our lookups faster, and ironically avoids duplicate implementation.
Change-Id: I9ff4cae6f7cf4027c3738b75f74eae50dde2fda1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7341
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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Using the architectural page table on x86 and the functional page table
on ARM, both with the twolf benchmark in SE mode, there was no
performance penalty for doing so, and again possibly a performance
improvement. By using a pointer instead of an inline instance, it's
possible for the actual type of the TLB entry to be hidden somewhat,
taking a step towards abstracting away another aspect of the ISAs.
Since the TLB entries are no longer overwritten and now need to be
allocated and freed, this change introduces return types from the
updateCache and eraseCacheEntry functions. These functions will return
the pointer to any entry which has been displaced from the cache which
the caller can either free or ignore, depending on whether the entry
has a purpose outside of the cache.
Because the functional page table stores its entries over a longer time
period, it will generally not delete the pointer returned from those
functions. The "architechtural" page table, ie the one which is backed
by memory, doesn't have any other use for the TlbEntrys and will delete
them. That leads to more news and deletes than there used to be.
To address that, and also to speed up the architectural page table in
general, it would be a good idea to augment the functional page table
with an image of the table in memory, instead of replacing it with one.
The functional page table would provide quick lookups and also avoid
having to translate page table entries to TLB entries, making
performance essentially equivalent to the functional case. The backing
page tables, which are primarily for consumption by the physical
hardware when in KVM, can be updated when mappings change but otherwise
left alone.
If we end up doing that, we could just let the ISA specific process
classes enable whatever additional TLB machinery they need, likely
a backing copy in memory, without any knowledge or involvement from
the ISA agnostic class. We would be able to get rid of the useArchPT
setting and the bits of code in the configs which set it.
Change-Id: I2e21945cd852bb1b3d0740fe6a4c5acbfd9548c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6983
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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This breaks one more architecture dependence outside of the ISAs.
Change-Id: I071f9ed73aef78e1cd1752247c183e30854b2d28
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6982
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
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CPUs have historically instantiated the architecture specific version
of the TLBs to avoid a virtual function call, making them a little bit
more dependent on what the current ISA is. Some simple performance
measurement, the x86 twolf regression on the atomic CPU, shows that
there isn't actually any performance benefit, and if anything the
simulator goes slightly faster (although still within margin of error)
when the TLB functions are virtual.
This change switches everything outside of the architectures themselves
to use the generic BaseTLB type, and then inside the ISA for them to
cast that to their architecture specific type to call into architecture
specific interfaces.
The ARM TLB needed the most adjustment since it was using non-standard
translation function signatures. Specifically, they all took an extra
"type" parameter which defaulted to normal, and translateTiming
returned a Fault. translateTiming actually doesn't need to return a
Fault because everywhere that consumed it just stored it into a
structure which it then deleted(?), and the fault is stored in the
Translation object when the translation is done.
A little more work is needed to fully obviate the arch/tlb.hh header,
so the TheISA::TLB type is still visible outside of the ISAs.
Specifically, the TlbEntry type is used in the generic PageTable which
lives in src/mem.
Change-Id: I51b68ee74411f9af778317eff222f9349d2ed575
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6921
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.
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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.
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This patch adds uncacheable/cacheable and read-only/read-write attributes to
the map method of PageTableBase. It also modifies the constructor of TlbEntry
structs for all architectures to consider the new attributes.
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The multi level page table was giving false positives for already mapped
translations. This patch fixes the bogus behavior.
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Trimmed down all the lines greater than 78 characters.
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This patch prunes unused values, and also unifies how the values are
defined (not using an enum for ALPHA), aligning the use of int vs Addr
etc.
The patch also removes the duplication of PageBytes/PageShift and
VMPageSize/LogVMPageSize. For all ISAs the two pairs had identical
values and the latter has been removed.
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This patch defines a multi-level page table class that stores the page table in
system memory, consistent with ISA specifications. In this way, cpu models that
use the actual hardware to execute (e.g. KvmCPU), are able to traverse the page
table.
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