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2015-05-23base: Redesign internal frame buffer handlingAndreas Sandberg
Currently, frame buffer handling in gem5 is quite ad hoc. In practice, we pass around naked pointers to raw pixel data and expect consumers to convert frame buffers using the (broken) VideoConverter. This changeset completely redesigns the way we handle frame buffers internally. In summary, it fixes several color conversion bugs, adds support for more color formats (e.g., big endian), and makes the code base easier to follow. In the new world, gem5 always represents pixel data using the Pixel struct when pixels need to be passed between different classes (e.g., a display controller and the VNC server). Producers of entire frames (e.g., display controllers) should use the FrameBuffer class to represent a frame. Frame producers are expected to create one instance of the FrameBuffer class in their constructors and register it with its consumers once. Consumers are expected to check the dimensions of the frame buffer when they consume it. Conversion between the external representation and the internal representation is supported for all common "true color" RGB formats of up to 32-bit color depth. The external pixel representation is expected to be between 1 and 4 bytes in either big endian or little endian. Color channels are assumed to be contiguous ranges of bits within each pixel word. The external pixel value is scaled to an 8-bit internal representation using a floating multiplication to map it to the entire 8-bit range.
2015-05-15sim: Don't clear the active CPU vector in System::initStateAndreas Sandberg
The system class currently clears the vector of active CPUs in initState(). CPUs are added to the list by registerThreadContext() which is called from BaseCPU::init(). This obviously breaks when the System object is initialized after the CPUs. This changeset removes the offending clear() call since the list will be empty after it has been instantiated anyway.
2015-05-05syscall_emul: fix warn_once behaviorSteve Reinhardt
The current ignoreWarnOnceFunc doesn't really work as expected, since it will only generate one warning total, for whichever "warn-once" syscall is invoked first. This patch fixes that behavior by keeping a "warned" flag in the SyscallDesc object, allowing suitably flagged syscalls to warn exactly once per syscall.
2015-04-29arch, base, dev, kern, sym: FreeBSD supportRuslan Bukin
This adds support for FreeBSD/aarch64 FS and SE mode (basic set of syscalls only) Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-04-22syscall_emul: implement clock_gettime system callBrandon Potter
2015-04-22syscall_emul: update getrlimit to use warnBrandon Potter
Don't use std::cerr directly, and just return EINVAL instead of aborting.
2015-04-22syscall_emul: fix warning with wrong syscall nameBrandon Potter
Also nix extra whitespace.
2015-04-13sim: Use NULL instead of None for testing filenames.Nilay Vaish
The filenames are initialized with NULL. So the test should be checking for them to be == NULL instead == None.
2015-04-13sim: fix function for emulating dup()Nilay Vaish
The function was using the host fd to obtain the fd object from the simulated process.
2015-04-03sim: correct check for endianessRuslan Bukin
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-03-26sim: Update limit_event reuse to final versionCurtis Dunham
Matching final version on reviewboard.
2015-03-23sim: Reuse the same limit_event in simulate()Curtis Dunham
This patch accomplishes two things: 1. Makes simulate()'s GlobalSimLoopExitEvent a singleton reused across calls. This is slightly more efficient than recreating it every time. 2. Gives callers to simulate() (especially other simulators) a foolproof way of knowing that the simulation period ended successfully by hitting the limit event. They can call getLimitEvent() and compare it to the return value of simulate(). This change was motivated by an ongoing effort to integrate gem5 and SST, with SST as the master sim and gem5 as the slave sim.
2015-03-02mem: Split port retry for all different packet classesAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in stress-test scenarios. The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus, sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting. The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes the previously seen deadlocks.
2015-02-16mem: mmap the backing store with MAP_NORESERVEAndreas Hansson
This patch ensures we can run simulations with very large simulated memories (at least 64 TB based on some quick runs on a Linux workstation). In essence this allows us to efficiently deal with sparse address maps without having to implement a redirection layer in the backing store. This opens up for run-time errors if we eventually exhausts the hosts memory and swap space, but this should hopefully never happen.
2015-02-11sim: Move the BaseTLB to src/arch/generic/Andreas Sandberg
The TLB-related code is generally architecture dependent and should live in the arch directory to signify that. --HG-- rename : src/sim/BaseTLB.py => src/arch/generic/BaseTLB.py rename : src/sim/tlb.cc => src/arch/generic/tlb.cc rename : src/sim/tlb.hh => src/arch/generic/tlb.hh
2015-02-03sim: Remove test for non-NULL this in EventAndreas Sandberg
The method Event::initialized() tests if this != NULL as a part of the expression that tests if an event is initialized. The only case when this check could be false is if the method is called on a null pointer, which is illegal and leads to undefined behavior (such as eating your pets) according to the C++ standard. Because of this, modern compilers (specifically, recent versions of clang) warn about this which we treat as an error. This changeset removes the redundant check to fix said warning.
2014-12-19sim: prioritize async events; prevent starvationCurtis Dunham
If a time quantum event is the only one in the queue, async events (Ctrl-C, I/O, etc.) will never be processed. So process them first.
2015-01-25sim: Clean up InstRecordAli Saidi
Track memory size and flags as well as add some comments and consts.
2015-01-25cpu: Remove all notion that we know when the cpu is misspeculating.Ali Saidi
We have no way of knowing if a CPU model is on the wrong path with our execute-in-execute CPU models. Don't pretend that we do.
2015-01-03arm: Add unlinkat syscall implementationmike upton
added ARM aarch64 unlinkat syscall support, modeled on other <xxx>at syscalls. This gets all of the cpu2006 int workloads passing in SE mode on aarch64. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-12-27syscall_emul: Return correct writev valueJoel Hestness
According to Linux man pages, if writev is successful, it returns the total number of bytes written. Otherwise, it returns an error code. Instead of returning 0, return the result from the actual call to writev in the system call.
2014-11-24misc: Another round of static analysis fixupsAndreas Hansson
Mostly addressing uninitialised members.
2014-11-23mem: Page Table map api modificationAlexandru Dutu
This patch adds uncacheable/cacheable and read-only/read-write attributes to the map method of PageTableBase. It also modifies the constructor of TlbEntry structs for all architectures to consider the new attributes.
2014-11-23x86: Segment initialization to support KvmCPU in SEAlexandru Dutu
This patch sets up low and high privilege code and data segments and places them in the following order: cs low, ds low, ds, cs, in the GDT. Additionally, a syscall and page fault handler for KvmCPU in SE mode are defined. The order of the segment selectors in GDT is required in this manner for interrupt handling to work properly. Segment initialization is done for all the thread contexts.
2014-11-23kvm, x86: Adding support for SE mode executionAlexandru Dutu
This patch adds methods in KvmCPU model to handle KVM exits caused by syscall instructions and page faults. These types of exits will be encountered if KvmCPU is run in SE mode.
2014-09-02syscall_emul: add retry flag to SyscallReturnSteve Reinhardt
This hook allows blocking emulated system calls to indicate that they would block, but return control to the simulator so that the simulation does not hang. The actual retry functionality requires additional support, to be provided in a future changeset.
2014-10-22syscall_emul: minor style fix to LiveProcess constructorSteve Reinhardt
2014-10-22syscall_emul: devirtualize BaseBufferArg methodsSteve Reinhardt
Not clear why they were marked virtual to begin with, but that doesn't appear to be necessary.
2014-10-22syscall_emul: Put BufferArg classes in a separate header.Steve Reinhardt
Move the BufferArg classes that support syscall buffer args (i.e., pointers into simulated user space) out of syscall_emul.hh and into a new header syscall_emul_buf.hh so they are accessible to emulated driver implementations. Take the opportunity to add some comments as well.
2014-10-22syscall_emul: add EmulatedDriver objectSteve Reinhardt
Fake SE-mode device drivers can now be added by deriving from this abstract object.
2014-10-22sim: revert 6709bbcf564dNilay Vaish
The identifier SYS_getdents is not available on Mac OS X. Therefore, its use results in compilation failure. It seems there is no straight forward way to implement the system call getdents using readdir() or similar C functions. Hence the commit 6709bbcf564d is being rolled back.
2014-10-20x86: Fixes to avoid LTO warningsAndreas Hansson
This patch fixes a few minor issues that caused link-time warnings when using LTO, mainly for x86. The most important change is how the syscall array is created. Previously gcc and clang would complain that the declaration and definition types did not match. The organisation is now changed to match how it is done for ARM, moving the code that was previously in syscalls.cc into process.cc, and having a class variable pointing to the static array. With these changes, there are no longer any warnings using gcc 4.6.3 with LTO.
2014-10-20sim: invalid alignment checks in mmap and mremapTom Jablin
Presently, the alignment checks in the mmap and mremap implementations in syscall_emul.hh are wrong. The checks are implemented as: if ((start % TheISA::PageBytes) != 0 || (length % TheISA::PageBytes) != 0) { warn("mmap failing: arguments not page-aligned: " "start 0x%x length 0x%x", start, length); return -EINVAL; } This checks that both the start and the length arguments of the mmap syscall are checked for page-alignment. However, the POSIX specification says: The off argument is constrained to be aligned and sized according to the value returned by sysconf() when passed _SC_PAGESIZE or _SC_PAGE_SIZE. When MAP_FIXED is specified, the application shall ensure that the argument addr also meets these constraints. The implementation performs mapping operations over whole pages. Thus, while the argument len need not meet a size or alignment constraint, the implementation shall include, in any mapping operation, any partial page specified by the range [pa,pa+len). So the length parameter should not be checked for page-alignment. By contrast, the current implementation fails to check the offset argument, which must be page aligned. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-20sim: mmap: correct behavior for fixed addressMichael Adler
Change mmap fixed address request to return an error if the mapping is impossible due to conflict instead of what I believe used to be silent corruption. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-20sim: implement getdents/getdents64 in user modeMichael Adler
Has been tested only for alpha. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-20x86: syscall: implementation of exit_groupSeverin Wischmann ext:(%2C%20Ioannis%20Ilkos%20%3Cioannis.ilkos09%40imperial.ac.uk%3E)
On exit_group syscall, we used to exit the simulator. But now we will only halt the execution of threads that belong to the group. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
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.
2014-10-16arch: Use shared_ptr for all FaultsAndreas Hansson
This patch takes quite a large step in transitioning from the ad-hoc RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr by adopting its use for all Faults. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications are mostly just replacing "new" with "make_shared".
2014-10-16dev: Use shared_ptr for Arguments::DataAndreas Hansson
This patch takes a first few steps in transitioning from the ad-hoc RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications are mainly introducing the use of make_shared. Note that the class could use unique_ptr rather than shared_ptr, was it not for the postfix increment and decrement operators.
2014-10-16arch,x86,mem: Dynamically determine the ISA for Ruby store checkAndreas Hansson
This patch makes the memory system ISA-agnostic by enabling the Ruby Sequencer to dynamically determine if it has to do a store check. To enable this check, the ISA is encoded as an enum, and the system is able to provide the ISA to the Sequencer at run time. --HG-- rename : src/arch/x86/insts/microldstop.hh => src/arch/x86/ldstflags.hh
2014-10-16mem: Dynamically determine page bytes in memory componentsAndreas Hansson
This patch takes a step towards an ISA-agnostic memory system by enabling the components to establish the page size after instantiation. The swap operation in the memory is now also allowing any granularity to avoid depending on the IntReg of the ISA.
2014-10-16cpu: Probe points for basic PMU statsAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds probe points that can be used to implement PMU counters for CPU stats. The following probes are supported: * BaseCPU::ppCycles / Cycles * BaseCPU::ppRetiredInsts / RetiredInsts * BaseCPU::ppRetiredLoads / RetiredLoads * BaseCPU::ppRetiredStores / RetiredStores * BaseCPU::ppRetiredBranches RetiredBranches
2014-10-16sim: Add typedefs for PMU probe pointsAndreas Sandberg
In order to show make PMU probe points usable across different PMU implementations, we want a common probe interface. This patch the namespace ProbePoins that contains typedefs for probe points that are shared between multiple SimObjects. It also adds typedefs for the PMU probe interface.
2014-10-16sim: Add support for serializing BitUnionXXAndreas Sandberg
BitUnion instances can normally not be used with the SERIALIZE_SCALAR and UNSERIALIZE_SCALAR macros due to the way they are converted between their storage type and their actual type. This changeset adds a set of parm(In|Out) functions specifically for gem5 bit unions to work around the issue.
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
2014-10-01misc: Fix issues identified by static analysisAndreas Hansson
Another bunch of issues addressed.
2014-09-27arch: Use const StaticInstPtr references where possibleAndreas Hansson
This patch optimises the passing of StaticInstPtr by avoiding copying the reference-counting pointer. This avoids first incrementing and then decrementing the reference-counting pointer.
2014-09-27misc: Fix a bunch of minor issues identified by static analysisAndreas Hansson
Add some missing initialisation, and fix a handful benign resource leaks (including some false positives).
2014-09-20alpha,arm,mips,power,x86,cpu,sim: Cleanup activate/deactivateMitch Hayenga
activate(), suspend(), and halt() used on thread contexts had an optional delay parameter. However this parameter was often ignored. Also, when used, the delay was seemily arbitrarily set to 0 or 1 cycle (no other delays were ever specified). This patch removes the delay parameter and 'Events' associated with them across all ISAs and cores. Unused activate logic is also removed.