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2017-03-21python: Automatically disable listeners in batch setupsAndreas Sandberg
Determine if gem5 is running in a batch environment by checking if STDIN is wired to a TTY or not. If the simulator is running in a batch environment, disable all listeners by default. This behavior can be overridden using the --enable-listeners option. Change-Id: I404c709135339144216bf08a2769c016c543333c Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sean McGoogan <sean.mcgoogan@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2322 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-02-27base: Refactor logging to make log level selection cleanerAndreas Sandberg
It's currently possible to change the log level in gem5 by tweaking a set of global variables. These variables are currently exposed to Python using SWIG. This mechanism is far from ideal for two reasons: First, changing the log level requires that the Python world enables or disables individual levels. Ideally, this should be a single call where a log level is selected. Second, exporting global variables is poorly supported by most Python frameworks. SWIG puts variables in their own namespace and PyBind doesn't seem to support it at all. This changeset refactors the logging code to create a more abstract interface. Each log level is associated with an instance of a Logger class. This class contains common functionality, an enable flag, and a verbose flag. Available LogLevels are described by the LogLevel class. Lower log levels are used for more critical messages (PANIC being level 0) and higher levels for less critical messages. The highest log level that is printed is controlled by calling Logger:setLevel(). Change-Id: I31e44299d242d953197a8e62679250c91d6ef776 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-02-27python: Add a generalized mechanism to configure statsAndreas Sandberg
Add a mechanism to configure the stat output format using a URL-like syntax. This makes it possible to specify both an output format (currently, only text is supported) and override default parameters. On the Python-side, this is implemented using a helper function (m5.stats.addStatVisitor) that adds a visitor to the list of active stat visitors. The helper function parses a URL-like stat specification to determine the stat output type. Optional parameters can be specified to change how stat visitors behave. For example, to output stats in text format without stat descriptions: m5.stats.addStatVisitor("text://stats.txt?desc=False") From the command line: gem5.opt --stats-file="text://stats.txt?desc=False" Internally, the stat framework uses the _url_factory decorator to wrap a Python function with the fn(path, **kwargs) signature in a function that takes a parsed URL as its only argument. The path and keyword arguments are automatically derived from the URL in the wrapper function. New output formats can be registered in the m5.stats.factories dictionary. This dictionary contains a mapping between format names (URL schemes) and factory methods. To retain backwards compatibility, the code automatically assumes that the user wants text output if no format has been specified (i.e., when specifying a plain path). Change-Id: Ic4dce93ab4ead07ffdf71e55a22ba0ae5a143061 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ilias Vougioukas <ilias.vougioukas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
2017-02-10misc: Add Python.h header to pyevents.hhJason Lowe-Power
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-02-07style: Force Python.h to be included before main headerAndreas Sandberg
Python's header files set various compiler macros (e.g., _XOPEN_SOURCE) unconditionally. This triggers preprocessor warnings that end up being treated as errors. The Python integration manual [1] strongly recommends that Python.h is included before any system header. The style guide used to mandate that Python.h is included first in any file that needs it. This requirement was changed to always include a source file's main header first, which ended up triggering these errors. This change updates the style checker to always include Python.h before the main header file. [1] https://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html Change-Id: Id6a4f7fc64a336a8fd26691a0ca682abeb1d1579 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves PĂ©neau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
2017-01-27python: Move native wrappers to the _m5 namespaceAndreas Sandberg
Swig wrappers for native objects currently share the _m5.internal name space with Python code. This is undesirable if we ever want to switch from Swig to some other framework for native binding (e.g., PyBind11 or Boost::Python). This changeset moves all of such wrappers to the _m5 namespace, which is now reserved for native code. Change-Id: I2d2bc12dbc05b57b7c5a75f072e08124413d77f3 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-11-09style: [patch 3/22] reduce include dependencies in some headersBrandon Potter
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.
2016-11-09style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includesBrandon Potter
2017-01-03python: Don't use Swig to cast statsAndreas Sandberg
Call the stat visitor from the stat itself rather than casting stats in Python. This reduces the number of ways visitors are called. Change-Id: Ic4d0b7b32e3ab9897b9a34cd22d353f4da62d738 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Joe Gross <joseph.gross@amd.com>
2017-01-03sim: Remove redundant export_method_cxx_predeclsAndreas Sandberg
The headers declared in export_method_cxx_predecls are redundant since a SimObject's main header is automatically included. Change-Id: Ied9e84630b36960e54efe91d16f8c66fba7e0da0 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Joe Gross <joseph.gross@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2016-12-19python: Export periodicStatDumpAndreas Sandberg
Some configuration scripts need periodic stat dumps. One of the ways this can be achieved is by using the pariodicStatDump helper function. This function was previously only exported in the internal name space. Export it as a normal function in m5.stat instead. Change-Id: Ic88bf1fd33042a62ab436d5944d8ed778264ac98 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
2016-09-15base: eliminate ipython warningCurtis Dunham
Change-Id: I3e282baeb969b6bb9534813a2f433d68246c0669 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2016-09-13misc: Remove FullSystem check for networking componentsMichael LeBeane
Ethernet devices are currently only hooked up if running in FS mode. Much of the Ethernet networking code is generic and can be used to build non-Ethernet device models. Some of these device models do not require a complex driver stack and can be built to use an EmulatedDriver in SE mode. This patch enables etherent interfaces to properly connect regardless of whether the simulation is in FS or SE mode.
2016-09-13base: Output all AddrRange parameters to config.iniMatt Poremba
Currently only 'start' and 'end' of AddrRange are printed in config.ini. This causes address ranges to be overlapping when loading a c++-only config with interleaved addresses using CxxConfigManger. This patch adds prints for the interleave and XOR bits to config.ini such that address ranges are properly setup with cxx config.
2016-05-27power: Allow voltage to be configured via cmd lineAkash Bagdia
--- src/python/m5/params.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
2016-04-06misc: Bail out of DVFS dot if we cannot resolve the domainsSascha Bischoff
This changeset updates the dot output to bail out if it is unable to resolve the voltage or clock domains (which will cause it to raise an AttributeError). Additionally, the DVFS dot output is disabled by default for speed purposes. Minor fixup for 0aeca8f.
2015-12-15misc: Add secondary dot output for DVFS domainsSascha Bischoff
This patch adds a secondary dot output file which shows the DVFS domains. This has been done separately for now to avoid cluttering the already existing diagram. Due to the way that the clock domains are assigned to components in gem5, this output must be generated after the C++ objects have been instantiated. This further motivates the need to generate this file separately to the current dot output, and not to replace it entirely.
2016-03-30misc: Don't build region.py as a PySourceAndreas Sandberg
The style refactor change (style: Refactor the style checker as a Python package) moved region.py from src/python/m5/util/ to util/style/. The SConscript update accidentally got lost in that commit. This commit removes region.py from src/python/SConscript. Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> --HG-- extra : amend_source : f69b75bf636dd4a4232af3e10c29f7eaa4d59dc8
2016-03-30style: Refactor the style checker as a Python packageAndreas Sandberg
Refactor the style checker into a Python module that can be reused by command line tools that integrate with git. In particular: * Create a style package in util * Move style validators from style.py to the style/validators.py. * Move style verifiers from style.py to the style/verifiers.py. * Move utility functions (sort_includes, region handling, file_types) into the style package * Move generic code from style.py to style/style.py. Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com> --HG-- rename : util/style.py => util/hgstyle.py rename : util/sort_includes.py => util/style/sort_includes.py extra : rebase_source : ad6cf9b9a18c48350dfc7b7c77bea6c5344fb53c
2015-11-26sim: Add support for forkingAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds forking capabilities to the gem5 python scripts. A fork method is added to simulate.py. This method is responsible for forking the simulator itself, and will direct all output files to a new output directory based on the fork sequence number. The default name of the output directory is the same as the parent with the suffix ".fN" added where N is the fork sequence number. The fork method provides the option to specify if the system should be drained prior to forking, or not. By default the system is drained to ensure that there are no in-flight transactions. When forking the simulator, the fork method returns the PID of the child process, or returns 0 if running in the child. This is in line with the standard Python forking interface. Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> [sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version] Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> [andreas.sandberg@arm.com: Updated to comply with modern draining semantics ] Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2015-11-26sim: Add support for notifying Drainable objects of a forkAndreas Sandberg
When forking a gem5 process, some objects need to clean up resources (mainly file descriptions) shared between the child and the parent of the fork. This changeset adds the notifyFork() method to Drainable, which is called in the child process. Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> [sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version] Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2015-11-27base: Add support for changing output directoriesAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds support for changing the simulator output directory. This can be useful when the simulation goes through several stages (e.g., a warming phase, a simulation phase, and a verification phase) since it allows the output from each stage to be located in a different directory. Relocation is done by calling core.setOutputDir() from Python or simout.setOutputDirectory() from C++. This change affects several parts of the design of the gem5's output subsystem. First, files returned by an OutputDirectory instance (e.g., simout) are of the type OutputStream instead of a std::ostream. This allows us to do some more book keeping and control re-opening of files when the output directory is changed. Second, new subdirectories are OutputDirectory instances, which should be used to create files in that sub-directory. Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> [sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version] Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2016-02-13configs: add command-line option to stop debug outputMichael LeBeane
This patch adds a --debug-end flag to main.py so that debug output can be stoped at a specified tick, while allowing the simulation to continue. It is useful in situations where you would like to produce a trace for a region of interest while still collecting stats for the entire run. This is in contrast to the currently existing --debug-break flag, which terminates the simulation at the tick.
2016-02-06style: fix missing spaces in control statementsSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.
2016-02-06style: remove trailing whitespaceSteve Reinhardt
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.
2016-01-17sim: fix redundant --debug-start help stringSteve Reinhardt
Just changes the metavar for --debug-start from TIME to TICK in cset 72046b9b3323 and didn't notice that the comment "must be in ticks" is now redundant.
2016-01-17sim: don't ignore SIG_TRAPSteve Reinhardt
By ignoring SIG_TRAP, using --debug-break <N> when not connected to a debugger becomes a no-op. Apparently this was intended to be a feature, though the rationale is not clear. If we don't ignore SIG_TRAP, then using --debug-break <N> when not connected to a debugger causes the simulation process to terminate at tick N. This is occasionally useful, e.g., if you just want to collect a trace for a specific window of execution then you can combine this with --debug-start to do exactly that. In addition to not ignoring the signal, this patch also updates the --debug-break help message and deletes a handful of unprotected calls to Debug::breakpoint() that relied on the prior behavior.
2015-12-10dev: Move network devices to src/dev/net/Andreas Sandberg
--HG-- rename : src/dev/Ethernet.py => src/dev/net/Ethernet.py rename : src/dev/etherbus.cc => src/dev/net/etherbus.cc rename : src/dev/etherbus.hh => src/dev/net/etherbus.hh rename : src/dev/etherdevice.cc => src/dev/net/etherdevice.cc rename : src/dev/etherdevice.hh => src/dev/net/etherdevice.hh rename : src/dev/etherdump.cc => src/dev/net/etherdump.cc rename : src/dev/etherdump.hh => src/dev/net/etherdump.hh rename : src/dev/etherint.cc => src/dev/net/etherint.cc rename : src/dev/etherint.hh => src/dev/net/etherint.hh rename : src/dev/etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/etherlink.cc rename : src/dev/etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/etherlink.hh rename : src/dev/etherobject.hh => src/dev/net/etherobject.hh rename : src/dev/etherpkt.cc => src/dev/net/etherpkt.cc rename : src/dev/etherpkt.hh => src/dev/net/etherpkt.hh rename : src/dev/ethertap.cc => src/dev/net/ethertap.cc rename : src/dev/ethertap.hh => src/dev/net/ethertap.hh rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.cc => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.cc rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe.hh rename : src/dev/i8254xGBe_defs.hh => src/dev/net/i8254xGBe_defs.hh rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc rename : src/dev/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh rename : src/dev/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc rename : src/dev/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh rename : src/dev/multi_packet.cc => src/dev/net/multi_packet.cc rename : src/dev/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh rename : src/dev/ns_gige.cc => src/dev/net/ns_gige.cc rename : src/dev/ns_gige.hh => src/dev/net/ns_gige.hh rename : src/dev/ns_gige_reg.h => src/dev/net/ns_gige_reg.h rename : src/dev/pktfifo.cc => src/dev/net/pktfifo.cc rename : src/dev/pktfifo.hh => src/dev/net/pktfifo.hh rename : src/dev/sinic.cc => src/dev/net/sinic.cc rename : src/dev/sinic.hh => src/dev/net/sinic.hh rename : src/dev/sinicreg.hh => src/dev/net/sinicreg.hh rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.cc => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.cc rename : src/dev/tcp_iface.hh => src/dev/net/tcp_iface.hh
2015-12-01config: Fix broken SimObject listingAndreas Sandberg
The gem5 option '--list-sim-objects' is supposed to list all available SimObjects and their parameters. It currently chokes on SimObjects with parameters that have an object instance as their default value. This is caused by __str__ in SimObject trying to resolve its complete path. When the path resolution method reaches the parent object (a MetaSimObject since it hasn't been instantiated), it dies with a Python exception. This changeset adds a guard to stop path resolution if the parent object is a MetaSimObject.
2015-11-22config: Added missing types to JSON/INI Python readerAndrew Bardsley
Added the missing types EthernetAddr and Current to the JSON/INI file reader example configs/example/read_config.py. Also added __str__ to EthernetAddr to make values appear in the same form in JSON an INI files.
2015-10-06sim: print pid in output headerSteve Reinhardt
This information is useful if you have a bunch of simulations running and want to know which one to kill, but you've neglected to take advantage of the previous patch and embed the pid in your output path.
2015-09-30base: remove Trace::enabled flagCurtis Dunham
The DTRACE() macro tests both Trace::enabled and the specific flag. This change uses the same administrative interface for enabling/disabling tracing, but masks the SimpleFlags settings directly. This eliminates a load for every DTRACE() test, e.g. DPRINTF.
2015-08-14ruby: Expose MessageBuffers as SimObjectsJoel Hestness
Expose MessageBuffers from SLICC controllers as SimObjects that can be manipulated in Python. This patch has numerous benefits: 1) First and foremost, it exposes MessageBuffers as SimObjects that can be manipulated in Python code. This allows parameters to be set and checked in Python code to avoid obfuscating parameters within protocol files. Further, now as SimObjects, MessageBuffer parameters are printed to config output files as a way to track parameters across simulations (e.g. buffer sizes) 2) Cleans up special-case code for responseFromMemory buffers, and aligns their instantiation and use with mandatoryQueue buffers. These two special buffers are the only MessageBuffers that are exposed to components outside of SLICC controllers, and they're both slave ends of these buffers. They should be exposed outside of SLICC in the same way, and this patch does it. 3) Distinguishes buffer-specific parameters from buffer-to-network parameters. Specifically, buffer size, randomization, ordering, recycle latency, and ports are all specific to a MessageBuffer, while the virtual network ID and type are intrinsics of how the buffer is connected to network ports. The former are specified in the Python object, while the latter are specified in the controller *.sm files. Unlike buffer-specific parameters, which may need to change depending on the simulated system structure, buffer-to-network parameters can be specified statically for most or all different simulated systems.
2015-07-07sim: Decouple draining from the SimObject hierarchyAndreas Sandberg
Draining is currently done by traversing the SimObject graph and calling drain()/drainResume() on the SimObjects. This is not ideal when non-SimObjects (e.g., ports) need draining since this means that SimObjects owning those objects need to be aware of this. This changeset moves the responsibility for finding objects that need draining from SimObjects and the Python-side of the simulator to the DrainManager. The DrainManager now maintains a set of all objects that need draining. To reduce the overhead in classes owning non-SimObjects that need draining, objects inheriting from Drainable now automatically register with the DrainManager. If such an object is destroyed, it is automatically unregistered. This means that drain() and drainResume() should never be called directly on a Drainable object. While implementing the new functionality, the DrainManager has now been made thread safe. In practice, this means that it takes a lock whenever it manipulates the set of Drainable objects since SimObjects in different threads may create Drainable objects dynamically. Similarly, the drain counter is now an atomic_uint, which ensures that it is manipulated correctly when objects signal that they are done draining. A nice side effect of these changes is that it makes the drain state changes stricter, which the simulation scripts can exploit to avoid redundant drains.
2015-07-07sim: Move mem(Writeback|Invalidate) to SimObjectAndreas Sandberg
The memWriteback() and memInvalidate() calls used to live in the Serializable interface. In this series of patches, the Serializable interface will be redesigned to make serialization independent of the object graph and always work on the entire simulator. This means that the Serialization interface won't be useful to perform maintenance of the caches in a sub-graph of the entire SimObject graph. This changeset moves these memory maintenance methods to the SimObject interface instead.
2015-07-07python: Remove redundant drain when changing memory modesAndreas Sandberg
When the Python helper code switches CPU models, it sometimes also needs to change the memory mode of the simulator. When this happens, it accidentally tried to drain the simulator despite having done so already. This changeset removes the redundant drain.
2015-07-07sim: Refactor the serialization base classAndreas Sandberg
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.
2015-03-23misc: quote args in echoed command lineSteve Reinhardt
Currently if there are shell special characters in a command-line argument, you can't copy and paste the echoed command line onto a shell prompt because the characters aren't quoted properly. This patch fixes that problem.
2015-02-03base: Add XOR-based hashed address interleavingAndreas Hansson
This patch extends the current address interleaving with basic hashing support. Instead of directly comparing a number of address bits with a matching value, it is now possible to use two independent set of address bits XOR'ed together. This avoids issues where strided address patterns are heavily biased to a subset of the interleaved ranges.
2015-02-03config: Fix typo in Float paramGeoffrey Blake
The Float param was not settable on the command line due to a typo in the class definition in python/m5/params.py. This corrects the typo and allows floats to be set on the command line as intended.
2014-12-23sim: fix reference counting of PythonEventCurtis Dunham
When gem5 is a slave to another simulator and the Python is only used to initialize the configuration (and not perform actual simulation), a "debug start" (--debug-start) event will get freed during or immediately after the initial Python frame's execution rather than remaining in the event queue. This tricky patch fixes the GC issue causing this.
2014-12-02scons: Ensure dictionary iteration is sorted by keyAndreas Hansson
This patch adds sorting based on the SimObject name or parameter name for all situations where we iterate over dictionaries. This should ensure a deterministic and consistent order across the host systems and hopefully avoid regression results differing across python versions.
2014-11-12sim: Sort SimObject descendants and portsAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes a number of occurences where the sorting order of the objects was implementation defined.
2014-11-06ruby: interface with classic memory controllerNilay Vaish
This patch is the final in the series. The whole series and this patch in particular were written with the aim of interfacing ruby's directory controller with the memory controller in the classic memory system. This is being done since ruby's memory controller has not being kept up to date with the changes going on in DRAMs. Classic's memory controller is more up to date and supports multiple different types of DRAM. This also brings classic and ruby ever more close. The patch also changes ruby's memory controller to expose the same interface.
2014-10-16sim: EventQueue wakeup on events scheduled outside the event loopAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a 'wakeup' member function to EventQueue which should be called on an event queue whenever an event is scheduled on the event queue from outside code within the call tree of the gem5 event loop. This clearly isn't necessary for normal gem5 EventQueue operation but becomes the minimum necessary interface to allow hosting gem5's event loop onto other schedulers where there may be calls into gem5 from external code which schedules events onto an EventQueue between the current time and the time of the next scheduled event. The use case I have in mind is a SystemC hosting where the event loop is: while (more events) { wait(time_to_next_event or wakeup) setCurTick service events at this time } where the 'wait' needs to be woken up if time_to_next_event becomes shorter due to a scheduled event from SystemC arriving in a gem5 object. Requiring 'wakeup' to be called is a more efficient interface than requiring all gem5 event scheduling actions to affect the host scheduler. This interface could be located elsewhere, say on another global object, or by being passed by the host scheduler to objects which will schedule such events, but it seems cleanest to put it on EventQueue as it is actually a signal to the queue. EventQueue::wakeup is called for async_event events on event queue 0 as it's only important that *some* queue be triggered for such events.
2014-10-16base: Reimplement the DPRINTF mechanism in a Logger classAndrew Bardsley
This patch adds a Logger class encapsulating dprintf. This allows variants of DPRINTF logging to be constructed and substituted in place of the default behaviour. The Logger provides a logMessage(when, name, format, ...) member function like Trace::dprintf and a getOstream member function to use a raw ostream for logging. A class OstreamLogger is provided which generates the customary debugging output with Trace::OstreamLogger::logMessage being the old Trace::dprintf.
2014-10-16config: Add the ability to read a config file using C++ and PythonAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the ability to load in config.ini files generated from gem5 into another instance of gem5 built without Python configuration support. The intended use case is for configuring gem5 when it is a library embedded in another simulation system. A parallel config file reader is also provided purely in Python to demonstrate the approach taken and to provided similar functionality for as-yet-unknown use models. The Python configuration file reader can read both .ini and .json files. C++ configuration file reading: A command line option has been added for scons to enable C++ configuration file reading: --with-cxx-config There is an example in util/cxx_config that shows C++ configuration in action. util/cxx_config/README explains how to build the example. Configuration is achieved by the object CxxConfigManager. It handles reading object descriptions from a CxxConfigFileBase object which wraps a config file reader. The wrapper class CxxIniFile is provided which wraps an IniFile for reading .ini files. Reading .json files from C++ would be possible with a similar wrapper and a JSON parser. After reading object descriptions, CxxConfigManager creates SimObjectParam-derived objects from the classes in the (generated with this patch) directory build/ARCH/cxx_config CxxConfigManager can then build SimObjects from those SimObjectParams (in an order dictated by the SimObject-value parameters on other objects) and bind ports of the produced SimObjects. A minimal set of instantiate-replacing member functions are provided by CxxConfigManager and few of the member functions of SimObject (such as drain) are extended onto CxxConfigManager. Python configuration file reading (configs/example/read_config.py): A Python version of the reader is also supplied with a similar interface to CxxConfigFileBase (In Python: ConfigFile) to config file readers. The Python config file reading will handle both .ini and .json files. The object construction strategy is slightly different in Python from the C++ reader as you need to avoid objects prematurely becoming the children of other objects when setting parameters. Port binding also needs to be strictly in the same port-index order as the original instantiation.
2014-10-16config: Add a --without-python option to build processAndrew Bardsley
Add the ability to build libgem5 without embedded Python or the ability to configure with Python. This is a prelude to a patch to allow config.ini files to be loaded into libgem5 using only C++ which would make embedding gem5 within other simulation systems easier. This adds a few registration interfaces to things which cross between Python and C++. Namely: stats dumping and SimObject resolving
2014-10-11sim: draining bug for fast-forwaring multiple coresAndrew Lukefahr
fix draining bug where multiple cores hit max_insts_any_thread simultaneously Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-09config: Add Current as a parameter typeAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the Python parameter type Current, which is used for the DRAM power modelling (to start with). With this addition we avoid implicit unit assumptions.