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2012-11-16sim: have a curTick per eventqNilay Vaish
This patch adds a _curTick variable to an eventq. This variable is updated whenever an event is serviced in function serviceOne(), or all events upto a particular time are processed in function serviceEvents(). This change helps when there are eventqs that do not make use of curTick for scheduling events.
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.
2012-10-15Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchyAndreas Hansson
This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations. The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.
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
2012-06-05sim: Remove FastAllocAli Saidi
While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular malloc it isn't thread safe. After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 12% over libc malloc when running twolf for ARM.
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).
2012-05-10stats: track if the stats have been enabled and prevent requesting master idAli Saidi
Track the point in the initialization where statistics have been registered. After this point registering new masterIds can no longer work as some SimObjects may have sized stats vectors based on the previous value. If someone tries to register a masterId after this point the simulator executes fatal().
2012-04-14Regression: Add ANSI colours to highlight test statusAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a very basic pretty-printing of the test status (passed or failed) to highlight failing tests even more: green for passed, and red for failed. The printing only uses ANSI it the target output is a tty and supports ANSI colours. Hence, any regression scripts that are outputting to files or sending e-mails etc should still be fine.
2012-04-06python: added __nonzero__ function to SimObject Bool paramsBrad Beckmann
2012-04-05Python: Make the All proxy traverse SimObject children as wellAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the behaviour of the All proxy parameter to not only consider the direct children, but also do a pre-order depth-first traversal of the object tree and append all results from the children. This is used in a later patch to find all the memories in the system, independent of where they are located in the hierarchy.
2012-03-30MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++William Wang
This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++ code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects. The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations are to come in later patches. The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be a valid return value. The default implementation of these two functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal. The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort (avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.
2012-03-21Python: Fix a conditional expression that requires Python 2.5Andreas Hansson
This patch changes a conditional expression to a conventional if/else block, which does not require Python >= 2.5.
2012-03-19gcc: Clean-up of non-C++0x compliant code, first stepsAndreas Hansson
This patch cleans up a number of minor issues aiming to get closer to compliance with the C++0x standard as interpreted by gcc and clang (compile with std=c++0x and -pedantic-errors). In particular, the patch cleans up enums where the last item was succeded by a comma, namespaces closed by a curcly brace followed by a semi-colon, and the use of the GNU-extension typeof (replaced by templated functions). It does not address variable-length arrays, zero-size arrays, anonymous structs, range expressions in switch statements, and the use of long long. The generated CPU code also has a large number of issues that remain to be fixed, mainly related to overflows in implicit constant conversion (due to shifts).
2012-03-19scripts: Fix to ensure that port connection count is always setAndreas Hansson
This patch ensures that the port connection count is set to zero in those cases when the port is not connected.
2012-02-29SWIG: Ensure ptrdiff_t is a known type in gcc >= 4.6.1Andreas Hansson
This patch fixes a compilation error that occurs with gcc >= 4.6.1, caused by swig not including cstddef and not using the std:: namespace prefix for ptrdiff_t. There is an old patch, http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/913/ that no longer applies cleanly and this might be re-iterating the same issue. We work around the problem by always enforcing the inclusion of cstddef in all swig interface declarations, and also by explicitly using std::ptrdiff_t.
2012-02-20SimObject: make get_config_as_dict() tolerate undefined paramsSteve Reinhardt
Without this patch, undefined params cause a cryptic KeyError in multidict inside get_config_as_dict(). This patch lets undefined params through get_config_as_dict() so they can once again generate meaningful error messages later on in the configuration process.
2012-02-13MEM: Pass the ports from Python to C++ using the Swig paramsAndreas Hansson
This patch adds basic information about the ports in the parameter classes to be passed from the Python world to the corresponding C++ object. Currently, the only information passed is the number of connected peers, which for a Port is either 0 or 1, and for a VectorPort reflects the size of the VectorPort. The default port of the bus had to be renamed to avoid using the name "default" as a field in the parameter class. It is possible to extend the Swig'ed information further and add e.g. a pair with a description and size.
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.
2012-01-31Merge 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.
2012-01-28Merge 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
2012-01-17MEM: Removing the default port peer from Python portsAndreas Hansson
In preparation for the introduction of Master and Slave ports, this patch removes the default port parameter in the Python port and thus forces the argument list of the Port to contain only the description. The drawback at this point is that the config port and dma port of PCI and DMA devices have to be connected explicitly. This is key for future diversification as the pio and config port are slaves, but the dma port is a master.
2012-01-10Automated merge with ssh://repo.gem5.org/gem5Ali Saidi
2012-01-10config: Fix json output for Python lt 2.6.Ali Saidi
2012-01-09Config: Fix issue with JSON outputAli Saidi
2012-01-09sim: Enable sampling of run-time for code-sections marked using pseudo insts.Prakash Ramrakhyani
This patch adds a mechanism to collect run time samples for specific portions of a benchmark, using work_begin and work_end pseudo instructions.It also enhances the histogram stat to report geometric mean.
2012-01-09config: support outputing a pickle of the configuration treeAli Saidi
2012-01-09SWIG: Make gem5 compile and link with swig 2.0.4Andreas Hansson
To make gem5 compile and run with swig 2.0.4 a few minor fixes are necessary, the fail label issues by swig must not be treated as an error by gcc (tested with gcc 4.2.1), and the vector wrappers must have SWIGPY_SLICE_ARG defined which happens in pycontainer.swg, included through std_container.i. By adding the aforementioned include to the vector wrappers everything seems to work.
2012-01-07Merge with main repository.Gabe Black