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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: 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.