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2014-01-24base: add support for probe points and common probesMatt Horsnell
The probe patch is motivated by the desire to move analytical and trace code away from functional code. This is achieved by the probe interface which is essentially a glorified observer model. What this means to users: * add a probe point and a "notify" call at the source of an "event" * add an isolated module, that is being used to carry out *your* analysis (e.g. generate a trace) * register that module as a probe listener Note: an example is given for reference in src/cpu/o3/simple_trace.[hh|cc] and src/cpu/SimpleTrace.py What is happening under the hood: * every SimObject maintains has a ProbeManager. * during initialization (src/python/m5/simulate.py) first regProbePoints and the regProbeListeners is called on each SimObject. this hooks up the probe point notify calls with the listeners. FAQs: Why did you develop probe points: * to remove trace, stats gathering, analytical code out of the functional code. * the belief that probes could be generically useful. What is a probe point: * a probe point is used to notify upon a given event (e.g. cpu commits an instruction) What is a probe listener: * a class that handles whatever the user wishes to do when they are notified about an event. What can be passed on notify: * probe points are templates, and so the user can generate probes that pass any type of argument (by const reference) to a listener. What relationships can be generated (1:1, 1:N, N:M etc): * there isn't a restriction. You can hook probe points and listeners up in a 1:1, 1:N, N:M relationship. They become useful when a number of modules listen to the same probe points. The idea being that you can add a small number of probes into the source code and develop a larger number of useful analysis modules that use information passed by the probes. Can you give examples: * adding a probe point to the cpu's commit method allows you to build a trace module (outputting assembler), you could re-use this to gather instruction distribution (arithmetic, load/store, conditional, control flow) stats. Why is the probe interface currently restricted to passing a const reference: * the desire, initially at least, is to allow an interface to observe functionality, but not to change functionality. * of course this can be subverted by const-casting. What is the performance impact of adding probes: * when nothing is actively listening to the probes they should have a relatively minor impact. Profiling has suggested even with a large number of probes (60) the impact of them (when not active) is very minimal (<1%).
2014-01-24config: Make the Clock a Tick parameter like Latency/FrequencyAndreas Hansson
This patch makes the Clock a TickParamValue just like Latency/Frequency. There is no longer any need to distinguish it (originally needed to support multiplication).
2014-01-03python: provide better error message for wrapped C++ methodsSteve Reinhardt
If you successfully export a C++ SimObject method, but try to invoke it from Python before the C++ object is created, you get a confusing error that says the attribute does not exist, making you question whether you successfully exported the method at all. In reality, your only problem is that you're calling the method too soon. This patch enhances the error message to give you a better clue.
2014-01-03python: don't die on assignment to cloned objectSteve Reinhardt
Updating the SimObject topology of a cloned hierarchy is a little dangerous, in that cloning is a "deep copy" and the clone does not inherit SimObject updates the same way it would inherit scalar variable assignments. However, because of various SimObject-valued proxy parameters, like 'memories', 'clk_domain', and 'system', it turns out that there are a number of implicit topology changes that happen at instantiation, which means that these changes are impossible to avoid. So in order to make cloning systems useful, this error has to go. Changing it to a warning produces a lot of noise, so it seems best just to delete it.
2013-12-03sim: reset stats after startupNilay Vaish
Currently statistics are reset after the initial / checkpoint state has been loaded. But ruby does some checkpoint processing in its startup() function. So the stats need to be reset after the startup() function has been called. This patch moves the class to stats.reset() to achieve this change in functionality.
2013-11-25sim: simulate with multiple threads and event queuesSteve Reinhardt ext:(%2C%20Nilay%20Vaish%20%3Cnilay%40cs.wisc.edu%3E%2C%20Ali%20Saidi%20%3CAli.Saidi%40ARM.com%3E)
This patch adds support for simulating with multiple threads, each of which operates on an event queue. Each sim object specifies which eventq is would like to be on. A custom barrier implementation is being added using which eventqs synchronize. The patch was tested in two different configurations: 1. ruby_network_test.py: in this simulation L1 cache controllers receive requests from the cpu. The requests are replied to immediately without any communication taking place with any other level. 2. twosys-tsunami-simple-atomic: this configuration simulates a client-server system which are connected by an ethernet link. We still lack the ability to communicate using message buffers or ports. But other things like simulation start and end, synchronizing after every quantum are working. Committed by: Nilay Vaish
2013-11-14tests: suppress output on switcheroo testsSteve Reinhardt
The output from the switcheroo tests is voluminous and (because it includes timestamps) highly sensitive to minor changes, leading to extremely large updates to the reference outputs. This patch addresses this problem by suppressing output from the tests. An internal parameter can be set to enable the output. Wiring that up to a command-line flag (perhaps even the rudimantary -v/-q options in m5/main.py) is left for future work.
2013-11-01sim: Clarify the difference between tracing and debuggingAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the name the command-line options related to debug output to all start with "debug" rather than being a mix of that and "trace". It also makes it clear that the breakpoint time is specified in ticks and not in cycles.
2013-10-31config: Fix handling of parents for simobject vectorsGeoffrey Blake
SimObjectVector objects did not provide the same interface to the _parent attribute through get_parent() like a normal SimObject. It also handled assigning a _parent incorrectly if objects in a SimObjectVector were changed post-creation, leading to errors later when the simulator tried to execute. This patch fixes these two omissions.
2013-10-17config: Fix ommission of number base in ethernet address paramGeoffrey Blake
The ethernet address param tries to convert a hexadecimal string using int() in python, which defaults to base 10, need to specify base 16 in this case.
2013-10-17config: Fix for port references generated multiple timesGeoffrey Blake
SimObjects are expected to only generate one port reference per port belonging to them. There is a subtle bug with using "not" here as a VectorPort is seen as not having a reference if it is either None or empty as per Python docs sec 9.9 for Standard operators. Intended behavior is to only check if we have not created the reference.
2013-09-18swig: Fix issue with circular import in 2.0.9/2.0.10Andreas Hansson
This patch fixes an issue which prevented gem5 from running when built using swig 2.0.9 and 2.0.10. The generated event.py tried to import m5.internal which in turn relied on importing event. This patch seems to fix the problem, and so far has not caused any other issues.
2013-09-04util: Add ini string as tooltip info in dot outputAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the config ini string as a tooltip that can be displayed in most browsers rendering the resulting svg. Certain characters are modified for HTML output. Tested on chrome and firefox.
2013-09-04util: Add colours to the dot outputAndreas Hansson
This patch is adding a splash of colour to the dot output to make it easier to distinguish objects of different types. As a bonus, the pastel-colour palette also makes the output look like a something from the 21st century.
2013-09-04util: Add class name to dot graph and output to svgAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the class name to the label, creates some more space by increasing the rank separation, and additionally outputs the graph as an editable SVG in addition to the PDF.
2013-08-19power: Add voltage domains to the clock domainsAkash Bagdia
This patch adds the notion of voltage domains, and groups clock domains that operate under the same voltage (i.e. power supply) into domains. Each clock domain is required to be associated with a voltage domain, and the latter requires the voltage to be explicitly set. A voltage domain is an independently controllable voltage supply being provided to section of the design. Thus, if you wish to perform dynamic voltage scaling on a CPU, its clock domain should be associated with a separate voltage domain. The current implementation of the voltage domain does not take into consideration cases where there are derived voltage domains running at ratio of native voltage domains, as with the case where there can be on-chip buck/boost (charge pumps) voltage regulation logic. The regression and configuration scripts are updated with a generic voltage domain for the system, and one for the CPUs.
2013-07-18sim: Make MaxTick in Python match the one in C++Andreas Hansson
This patch aligns the MaxTick in Python with the one in C++. Thus, both reflect the maximum value that an unsigned 64-bit integer can have.
2013-06-27config: Remove Clock parameter multiplicationAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the multiplication operator support for Clock parameters as this functionality is now achieved by creating derived clock domains. Nate, this one is for you.
2013-02-19x86: Move APIC clock divider to PythonAndreas Hansson
This patch moves the 16x APIC clock divider to the Python code to avoid the post-instantiation modifications to the clock. The x86 APIC was the only object setting the clock after creation time and this required some custom functionality and configuration. With this patch, the clock multiplier is moved to the Python code and the objects are instantiated with the appropriate clock.
2013-02-15base: Add warn() and inform() to m5.utils for use from pythonSascha Bischoff
This patch adds two fuctions to m5.util, warn and inform, which mirror those found in the C++ side of gem5. These are added in addition to the already existing m5.util.panic and m5.util.fatal which already mirror the C++ functionality. This ensures that warning and information messages generated by python are in the same format as those generated by C++. Occurrences of print "Warning: %s..." % name have been replaced with warn("%s...", name)
2013-02-15sim: Add a system-global option to bypass cachesAndreas Sandberg
Virtualized CPUs and the fastmem mode of the atomic CPU require direct access to physical memory. We currently require caches to be disabled when using them to prevent chaos. This is not ideal when switching between hardware virutalized CPUs and other CPU models as it would require a configuration change on each switch. This changeset introduces a new version of the atomic memory mode, 'atomic_noncaching', where memory accesses are inserted into the memory system as atomic accesses, but bypass caches. To make memory mode tests cleaner, the following methods are added to the System class: * isAtomicMode() -- True if the memory mode is 'atomic' or 'direct'. * isTimingMode() -- True if the memory mode is 'timing'. * bypassCaches() -- True if caches should be bypassed. The old getMemoryMode() and setMemoryMode() methods should never be used from the C++ world anymore.
2013-02-15config: Move CPU handover logic to m5.switchCpus()Andreas Sandberg
CPU switching consists of the following steps: 1. Drain the system 2. Switch out old CPUs (cpu.switchOut()) 3. Change the system timing mode to the mode the new CPUs require 4. Flush caches if switching to hardware virtualization 5. Inform new CPUs of the handover (cpu.takeOverFrom()) 6. Resume the system m5.switchCpus() previously only did step 2 & 5. Since information about the new processors' memory system requirements is now exposed, do all of the steps above. This patch adds automatic memory system switching and flush (if needed) to switchCpus(). Additionally, it adds optional draining to switchCpus(). This has the following implications: * changeToTiming and changeToAtomic are no longer needed, so they have been removed. * changeMemoryMode is only used internally, so it is has been renamed to be private. * switchCpus requires a reference to the system containing the CPUs as its first parameter. WARNING: This changeset breaks compatibility with existing configuration scripts since it changes the signature of m5.switchCpus().
2013-02-10base: Add support for newer versions of IPythonAndreas Sandberg
IPython is used for the interactive gem5 shell if it exists. IPython made API changes in version 0.11. This patch adds support for IPython version 0.11 and above. --HG-- extra : rebase_source : 5388d0919adb58d97f49a1a637db48cba61283a3
2013-02-10base: Fix broken IPython argument handlingAndreas Sandberg
Prior to this changeset, we used to clear sys.argv before entering the IPython shell. This caused some versions of IPython to crash because they assume argv[0] to exist. The correct way of overriding the arguments passed to IPython is to set the argv keyword argument when initializing the shell.
2013-01-07cpu: Introduce sanity checks when switching between CPUsAndreas Sandberg
This patch introduces the following sanity checks when switching between CPUs: * Check that the set of new and old CPUs do not overlap. Having an overlap between the set of new CPUs and the set of old CPUs is currently not supported. Doing such a switch used to result in the following assertion error: BaseCPU::takeOverFrom(BaseCPU*): \ Assertion `!new_itb_port->isConnected()' failed. * Check that all new CPUs are in the switched out state. * Check that all old CPUs are in the switched in state.
2013-01-07mem: Add interleaving bits to the address rangesAndreas Hansson
This patch adds support for interleaving bits for the address ranges. What was previously just a start and end address, now has an additional three fields, for the high bit, and number of bits to use for interleaving, and a match value to compare against. If the number of interleaving bits is set to zero it is effectively disabled. A number of convenience functions are added to the range to enquire about the interleaving, its granularity and the number of stripes it is part of.
2013-01-07config: Traverse lists when visiting children in all proxyAndreas Hansson
This patch makes the all proxy traverse any potential list that is encountered in the object hierarchy instead of only looking at children that are SimObjects. An example of where this is useful is when creating a multi-channel memory system as a list of controllers, whilst ensuring that the memories are still visible in the system.
2012-11-02sim: Add drain methods to request additional cleanup operationsAndreas Sandberg
This patch adds the following two methods to the Drainable base class: memWriteback() - Write back all dirty cache lines to memory using functional accesses. memInvalidate() - Invalidate memory system buffers. Dirty data won't be written back. Specifying calling memWriteback() after draining will allow us to checkpoint systems with caches. memInvalidate() can be used to drop memory system buffers in preparation for switching to an accelerated CPU model that bypasses the gem5 memory system (e.g., hardware virtualized CPUs). Note: This patch only adds the methods to Drainable, the code for flushing the TLB and the cache is committed separately.
2012-11-02sim: Add SWIG interface for SerializableAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds a SWIG interface for the Serializable class, which fixes a warning when compiling the SWIG interface for the event queue. Currently, the only method exported is the name() method.
2012-11-02python: Rename doDrain()->drain() and make it do the right thingAndreas Sandberg
There is no point in exporting the old drain() method in Simulate.py. It should only be used internally by doDrain(). This patch moves the old drain() method into doDrain() and renames doDrain() to drain().
2012-11-02sim: Reuse the code to change memory mode.Andreas Sandberg
changeToAtomic and changeToTiming both do essentially the same thing, they check the type of their input argument, drain the system, and switch to the desired memory mode. This patch moves all of that code to a separate method (changeMemoryMode) and calls that from both changeToAtomic and changeToTiming.
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.
2012-11-02sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfacesAndreas Sandberg
When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is used anywhere in the object hierarchy. This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do not use it.
2012-11-02Partly revert [4f54b0f229b5] and move draining to m5.changeToTimingAndreas Sandberg
Changeset 4f54b0f229b5 removed the call to doDrain in changeToTiming based on the assumption that the system does not need draining when running in atomic mode. This is a false assumption since at least the System class requires the system to be drained before it allows switching of memory modes. This patch reverts that part of the changeset.
2012-10-15Param: Fix proxy traversal to support chained proxiesAndreas Hansson
This patch modifies how proxies are traversed and unproxied to allow chained proxies. The issue that is solved manifested itself when a proxy during its evaluation ended up being hitting another proxy, and the second one got evaluated using the object that was originally used for the first proxy. For a more tangible example, see the following patch on making the default clock being inherited from the parent. In this patch, the CPU clock is a proxy Parent.clock, which is overridden in the system to be an actual value. This all works fine, but the AlphaLinuxSystem has a boot_cpu_frequency parameter that is Self.cpu[0].clock.frequency. When the latter is evaluated, it all happens relative to the current object of the proxy, i.e. the system. Thus the cpu.clock is evaluated as Parent.clock, but using the system rather than the cpu as the object to enquire.
2012-09-25Statistics: Add a function to configure periodic stats dumpingSascha Bischoff
This patch adds a function, periodicStatDump(long long period), which will dump and reset the statistics every period. This function is designed to be called from the python configuration scripts. This allows the periodic stats dumping to be configured more easilly at run time. The period is currently specified as a long long as there are issues passing Tick into the C++ from the python as they have conflicting definitions. If the period is less than curTick, the first occurance occurs at curTick. If the period is set to 0, then the event is descheduled and the stats are not periodically dumped. Due to issues when resumung from a checkpoint, the StatDump event must be moved forward such that it occues AFTER the current tick. As the function is called from the python, the event is scheduled before the system resumes from the checkpoint. Therefore, the event is moved using the updateEvents() function. This is called from simulate.py once the system has resumed from the checkpoint. NOTE: It should be noted that this is a fairly temporary patch which re-adds the capability to extract temporal information from the communication monitors. It should not be used at the same time as anything that relies on dumping the statistics based on in simulation events i.e. a context switch.
2012-09-25sim: Move CPU-specific methods from SimObject to the BaseCPU classAndreas Sandberg
2012-09-25sim: Remove SimObject::setMemoryModeAndreas Sandberg
Remove SimObject::setMemoryMode from the main SimObject class since it is only valid for the System class. In addition to removing the method from the C++ sources, this patch also removes getMemoryMode and changeTiming from SimObject.py and updates the simulation code to call the (get|set)MemoryMode method on the System object instead.
2012-09-19AddrRange: Transition from Range<T> to AddrRangeAndreas Hansson
This patch takes the final plunge and transitions from the templated Range class to the more specific AddrRange. In doing so it changes the obvious Range<Addr> to AddrRange, and also bumps the range_map to be AddrRangeMap. In addition to the obvious changes, including the removal of redundant includes, this patch also does some house keeping in preparing for the introduction of address interleaving support in the ranges. The Range class is also stripped of all the functionality that is never used. --HG-- rename : src/base/range.hh => src/base/addr_range.hh rename : src/base/range_map.hh => src/base/addr_range_map.hh
2012-09-19AddrRange: Simplify AddrRange params Python hierarchyAndreas Hansson
This patch simplifies the Range object hierarchy in preparation for an address range class that also allows striping (e.g. selecting a few bits as matching in addition to the range). To extend the AddrRange class to an AddrRegion, the first step is to simplify the hierarchy such that we can make it as lean as possible before adding the new functionality. The only class using Range and MetaRange is AddrRange, and the three classes are now collapsed into one.
2012-09-12Standard Switch: Drain the system before switching CPUsJoel Hestness
When switching from an atomic CPU to any of the timing CPUs, a drain is unnecessary since no events are scheduled in atomic mode. However, when trying to switch CPUs starting with a timing CPU, there may be events scheduled. This change ensures that all events are drained from the system by calling m5.drain before switching CPUs.
2012-09-07sim: Remove the unused SimObject::regFormulas methodAndreas Sandberg
Simulation objects normally register derived statistics, presumably what regFormulas originally was meant for, in regStats(). This patch removes regRegformulas since there is no need to have a separate method call to register formulas.
2012-09-07Param: Transition to Cycles for relevant parametersAndreas Hansson
This patch is a first step to using Cycles as a parameter type. The main affected modules are the CPUs and the Ruby caches. There are definitely plenty more places that are affected, but this patch serves as a starting point to making the transition. An important part of this patch is to actually enable parameters to be specified as Param.Cycles which involves some changes to params.py.
2012-08-28Clock: Add a Cycles wrapper class and use where applicableAndreas Hansson
This patch addresses the comments and feedback on the preceding patch that reworks the clocks and now more clearly shows where cycles (relative cycle counts) are used to express time. Instead of bumping the existing patch I chose to make this a separate patch, merely to try and focus the discussion around a smaller set of changes. The two patches will be pushed together though. This changes done as part of this patch are mostly following directly from the introduction of the wrapper class, and change enough code to make things compile and run again. There are definitely more places where int/uint/Tick is still used to represent cycles, and it will take some time to chase them all down. Similarly, a lot of parameters should be changed from Param.Tick and Param.Unsigned to Param.Cycles. In addition, the use of curTick is questionable as there should not be an absolute cycle. Potential solutions can be built on top of this patch. There is a similar situation in the o3 CPU where lastRunningCycle is currently counting in Cycles, and is still an absolute time. More discussion to be had in other words. An additional change that would be appropriate in the future is to perform a similar wrapping of Tick and probably also introduce a Ticks class along with suitable operators for all these classes.
2012-07-10ruby: changes how Topologies are createdBrad Beckmann
Instead of just passing a list of controllers to the makeTopology function in src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/<Topo>.py we pass in a function pointer which knows how to make the topology, possibly with some extra state set in the configs/ruby/<protocol>.py file. Thus, we can move all of the files from network/topologies to configs/topologies. A new class BaseTopology is added which all topologies in configs/topologies must inheirit from and follow its API. --HG-- rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Crossbar.py => configs/topologies/Crossbar.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Mesh.py => configs/topologies/Mesh.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py => configs/topologies/MeshDirCorners.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Pt2Pt.py => configs/topologies/Pt2Pt.py rename : src/mem/ruby/network/topologies/Torus.py => configs/topologies/Torus.py
2012-06-05stats: Provide a mechanism to get a callback when stats are dumped.Mitchell Hayenga
This mechanism is useful for dumping output that is correlated with stats dumping, but isn't tracked by the gem5 statistics.
2012-05-23Config: Use the attribute naming and include ports in JSONAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the organisation of the JSON output slightly to make it easier to traverse and use the files. Most importantly, the hierarchical dictionaries now use keys that correspond to the attribute names also in the case of VectorParams (used to be e.f. "cpu0 cpu1"). It also adds the name and the path to each SimObject directory entry. Before this patch, to get cpu0, you would have to query dict['system']['cpu0 cpu1'][0] and this could be a dict with 'cpu0' : { cpu parameters }. Now you use dict['system']['cpu'][0] and get { cpu parameters } (where one is "name" : "cpu0"). Additionally this patch includes more verbose information about the ports, specifying their role, and using a JSON array rather than a concatenated string for the peer.
2012-05-23Config: Exit with fatal if a port is already connectedAndreas Hansson
This patch turns the existing warning into a fatal, as there should never be any cases where a (non-vector) port is assigned to and then later connected to something else. If this behaviour is allowed, as it used to be, there are cases where the wrong number of C++ ports are created when instantiating objects with VectorPorts (obviously that could be fixed, but the better approach is to simply not allow it).
2012-05-10DOT: improved dot-based system visualizationUri Wiener
Revised system visualization to reflect structure and memory hierarchy. Improved visualization: less congested and cluttered; more colorful. Nodes reflect components; directed edges reflect dirctional relation, from a master port to a slave port. Requires pydot.
2012-05-10DOT: fixed broken code for visualizing configuration using dotUri Wiener
Fixed broken code which visualizes the system configuration by generating a tree from each component's children, starting from root. Requires DOT (hence pydot).