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2012-03-09cache: Allow main memory to be at disjoint address ranges.Ali Saidi
2012-03-06build scripts: Made minor modifications to reduce build overhead time.Marc Orr
1. --implicit-cache behavior is default. 2. makeEnv in src/SConscript is conditionally called. 3. decider set to MD5-timestamp 4. NO_HTML build option changed to SLICC_HTML (defaults to False)
2012-03-02Ruby: Rename RubyPort::sendTiming to avoid overriding base classAndreas Hansson
This patch renames the sendTiming member function in the RubyPort to avoid inadvertently hiding Port::sendTiming (discovered through some rather painful debugging). The RubyPort does, in fact, rely on the functionality of the queued port and the implementation merely schedules a send the next cycle. The new name for the member function is sendNextCycle to better reflect this behaviour. In the unlikely event that we ever shift to using C++11 the member functions in Port should have a "final" identifier to prevent any overriding in derived classes.
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.
2012-02-29MEM: Make all the port proxy members constAndreas Hansson
This is a trivial patch that merely makes all the member functions of the port proxies const. There is no good reason why they should not be, and this change only serves to make it explicit that they are not modified through their use.
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.
2012-02-24MEM: Prepare mport for master/slave splitAndreas Hansson
This patch simplifies the mport in preparation for a split into a master and slave role for the message ports. In particular, sendMessageAtomic was only used in a single location and similarly so sendMessageTiming. The affected interrupt device is updated accordingly.
2012-02-24MEM: Move all read/write blob functions from Port to PortProxyAndreas Hansson
This patch moves the readBlob/writeBlob/memsetBlob from the Port class to the PortProxy class, thus making a clear separation of the basic port functionality (recv/send functional/atomic/timing), and the higher-level functional accessors available on the port proxies. There are only a few places in the code base where the blob functions were used on ports, and they are all for peeking into the memory system without making a normal memory access (in the memtest, and the malta and tsunami pchip). The memtest also exemplifies how easy it is to create a non-translating proxy if desired. The malta and tsunami pchip used a slave port to perform a functional read, and this is now changed to rely on the physProxy of the system (to which they already have a pointer).
2012-02-24MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointersAndreas Hansson
This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this clear. The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact the code would break and that is how this patch started out). Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only done in the locations affected by the proxies.
2012-02-24MEM: Move port creation to the memory object(s) constructionAndreas Hansson
This patch moves all port creation from the getPort method to be consistently done in the MemObject's constructor. This is possible thanks to the Swig interface passing the length of the vector ports. Previously there was a mix of: 1) creating the ports as members (at object construction time) and using getPort for the name resolution, or 2) dynamically creating the ports in the getPort call. This is now uniform. Furthermore, objects that would not be complete without a port have these ports as members rather than having pointers to dynamically allocated ports. This patch also enables an elaboration-time enumeration of all the ports in the system which can be used to determine the masterId.
2012-02-24CPU: Round-two unifying instr/data CPU ports across modelsAndreas Hansson
This patch continues the unification of how the different CPU models create and share their instruction and data ports. Most importantly, it forces every CPU to have an instruction and a data port, and gives these ports explicit getters in the BaseCPU (getDataPort and getInstPort). The patch helps in simplifying the code, make assumptions more explicit, andfurther ease future patches related to the CPU ports. The biggest changes are in the in-order model (that was not modified in the previous unification patch), which now moves the ports from the CacheUnit to the CPU. It also distinguishes the instruction fetch and load-store unit from the rest of the resources, and avoids the use of indices and casting in favour of keeping track of these two units explicitly (since they are always there anyways). The atomic, timing and O3 model simply return references to their already existing ports.
2012-02-24MEM: Fatal when no port can be found for an addressAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a check in the findPort method to ensure that an invalid port id is never returned. Previously this could happen if no default port was set, and no address matched the request, in which case -1 was returned causing a SEGFAULT when using the id to index in the port array. To clean things up further a symbolic name is added for the invalid port id.
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
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2012-02-10Ruby: Remove isTagPresent() calls from Sequencer.ccNilay Vaish
This patch removes the calls to isTagPresent() from Sequencer.cc. These calls are made just for setting the cache block to have been most recently used. The calls have been folded in to the function setMRU().
2012-02-10MESI: Add queues for stalled requestsNilay Vaish
This patch adds support for stalling the requests queued up at different controllers for the MESI CMP directory protocol. Earlier the controllers would recycle the requests using some fixed latency. This results in younger requests getting serviced first at times, and can result in starvation. Instead all the requests that need a particular block to be in a stable state are moved to a separate queue, where they wait till that block returns to a stable state and then they are processed.
2012-02-09MEM: Remove onRetryList from BusPort and rely on retryListAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the onRetryList field from the BusPort class and entirely relies on the retryList which holds all ports that are waiting to retry. The onRetryList field and the retryList were previously used with overloaded functionalities and only one is really needed (there were also checks to assert they held the same information). After this patch the bus ports will be split into master and slave ports and this simplifies that transition.
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.
2012-01-31CheckerCPU: Re-factor CheckerCPU to be compatible with current gem5Geoffrey Blake
Brings the CheckerCPU back to life to allow FS and SE checking of the O3CPU. These changes have only been tested with the ARM ISA. Other ISAs potentially require modification.
2012-01-30Merge with main repository.Gabe Black
2012-01-30MEM: Make the RubyPort physMemPort a PioPort instead of M5PortAndreas Hansson
This patch makes the physMemPort of the RubyPort a PioPort rather than an M5Port. This reflects the fact that the M5Port and PioPort have different roles. The M5Port is really a coherent slave that is connected to the CPUs and other coherent masters of the system, e.g. DMA ports. The PioPort, on the other hand, is a master port that is connected to the memory and other slaves, for example the pio devices. This simplifies future changes into master/slave ports and is consistent with the port roles throughout the system.
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
2012-01-16Merge yet again with the main repository.Gabe Black
2012-01-12Fix memory corruption issue with CopyStringOut()Mitchell Hayenga
CopyStringOut() improperly indexed setting the null character, would result in zeroing a random byte of memory after(out of bounds) the character array.
2012-01-25Mem: Add simple bandwidth stats to PhysicalMemoryAli Saidi
2012-01-23O3, Ruby: Forward invalidations from Ruby to O3 CPUNilay Vaish
This patch implements the functionality for forwarding invalidations and replacements from the L1 cache of the Ruby memory system to the O3 CPU. The implementation adds a list of ports to RubyPort. Whenever a replacement or an invalidation is performed, the L1 cache forwards this to all the ports, which is the LSQ in case of the O3 CPU.
2012-01-23MemCmd: Add a command for invalidation requests to LSQNilay Vaish
This command will be sent from the memory system (Ruby) to the LSQ of an O3 CPU so that the LSQ, if it needs to, invalidates the address in the request packet.
2012-01-17MEM: Make the bus default port yet another portAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the idiosyncratic nature of the default bus port and makes it yet another port in the list of interfaces. Rather than having a specific pointer to the default port we merely track the identifier of this port. This change makes future port diversification easier and overall cleans up the bus code.
2012-01-17MEM: Make the bus bridge unidirectional and fixed address rangeAndreas Hansson
This patch makes the bus bridge uni-directional and specialises the bus ports to be a master port and a slave port. This greatly simplifies the assumptions on both sides as either port only has to deal with requests or responses. The following patches introduce the notion of master and slave ports, and would not be possible without this split of responsibilities. In making the bridge unidirectional, the address range mechanism of the bridge is also changed. For the cases where communication is taking place both ways, an additional bridge is needed. This causes issues with the existing mechanism, as the busses cannot determine when to stop iterating the address updates from the two bridges. To avoid this issue, and also greatly simplify the specification, the bridge now has a fixed set of address ranges, specified at creation time.
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: Remove the notion of the default portAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the default port and instead relies on the peer being set to NULL initially. The binding check (i.e. is a port connected or not) will eventually be moved to the init function of the modules.
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: Add port proxies instead of non-structural portsAndreas Hansson
Port proxies are used to replace non-structural ports, and thus enable all ports in the system to correspond to a structural entity. This has the advantage of accessing memory through the normal memory subsystem and thus allowing any constellation of distributed memories, address maps, etc. Most accesses are done through the "system port" that is used for loading binaries, debugging etc. For the entities that belong to the CPU, e.g. threads and thread contexts, they wrap the CPU data port in a port proxy. The following replacements are made: FunctionalPort > PortProxy TranslatingPort > SETranslatingPortProxy VirtualPort > FSTranslatingPortProxy --HG-- rename : src/mem/vport.cc => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.cc 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
2012-01-17Ruby: Change the access permissions for MOESI hammerAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the access permission for the WB_E_W state from Busy to Read_Write to avoid having issues in follow-on patches with functional accesses going through Ruby. This change was made after consultation with all involved parties and is more of a work-around than a fix.
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.
2012-01-12PerfectCacheMemory: Remove references to CacheMsgNilay Vaish
The definition for the class CacheMsg was removed long back. Some declaration had still survived, which was recently removed. Since the PerfectCacheMemory class relied on this particular declaration, its absence let to compilation breaking down. Hence this patch.
2012-01-11Packet: Put back part of the assertAli Saidi
2012-01-11Packet: Remove meaningless assert statementAli Saidi
2012-01-11Ruby: Resurrect Cache Warmup CapabilityNilay Vaish
This patch resurrects ruby's cache warmup capability. It essentially makes use of all the infrastructure that was added to the controllers, memories and the cache recorder.
2012-01-11Ruby Debug Flags: Remove one, add anotherNilay Vaish
The flag RubyStoreBuffer is being removed, instead RubySystem is being added
2012-01-11Ruby Port: Add a list of cpu ports attached to this portNilay Vaish
2012-01-11Ruby EventQueue: Remove unused functionsNilay Vaish
2012-01-11Ruby Sparse Memory: Add function for collating blocksNilay Vaish
This patch adds function to the Sparse Memory so that the blocks can be recorded in a cache trace. The blocks are added to the cache recorder which can later write them into a file.
2012-01-11Ruby: Add infrastructure for recording cache contentsNilay Vaish
This patch changes CacheRecorder, CacheMemory, CacheControllers so that the contents of a cache can be recorded for checkpointing purposes.