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2015-08-04mem: Move trace functionality from the CommMonitor to a probeAndreas Sandberg
This changeset moves the access trace functionality from the CommMonitor into a separate probe. The probe can be hooked up to any component that exports probe points of the type ProbePoints::Packet. This patch moves the dependency on Google's Protocol Buffers library from the CommMonitor to the MemTraceProbe, which means that the CommMonitor (including stack distance profiling) no long depends on it.
2015-08-04mem: Redesign the stack distance calculator as a probeAndreas Sandberg
This changeset removes the stack distance calculator hooks from the CommMonitor class and implements a stack distance calculator as a memory system probe instead. The probe can be hooked up to any component that exports probe points of the type ProbePoints::Packet.
2015-07-30tests: Add Minor to the ARM full switcheroo testsAndreas Sandberg
Add the Minor CPU to the RealView and RealView64 full switcheroo tests.
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.
2015-07-07tests: Skip SPARC tests if the required binaries are missingAndreas Sandberg
The full-system SPARC tests depend on several binaries that aren't generally available to the wider community. Flag the tests as skipped instead of failed if these binaries can't be found.
2015-07-03mem: Allow read-only caches and check complianceAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a parameter to the BaseCache to enable a read-only cache, for example for the instruction cache, or table-walker cache (not for x86). A number of checks are put in place in the code to ensure a read-only cache does not end up with dirty data. A follow-on patch adds suitable read requests to allow a read-only cache to explicitly ask for clean data.
2015-03-19test, arm: Add scripts to test checkpointsAndreas Sandberg
Add a set of scripts to automatically test checkpointing in the regression framework. The checkpointing tests are similar to the switcheroo tests, but instead of switching between CPUs, they checkpoint the system and restore from the checkpoint again. This is done at regular intervals, typically while booting Linux. The implementation is fairly straight forward, with the exception that we have to work around gem5's inability to restore from a checkpoint after a system has been instantiated. We work around this by forking off child processes that does the actual simulation and never instantiate a system in the parent process unless a maximum checkpoint count is reached (in which case we just simulate the system to completion in the parent). Checkpoint testing is currently only enabled 32- and 64-bit ARM systems using atomic CPUs. Note: An unfortunate side-effect of forking is that every new process will overwrite the stats and terminal output from the previous process. This means that the output directory only contains data from the last checkpoint.
2015-03-02mem: Move crossbar default latencies to subclassesAndreas Hansson
This patch introduces a few subclasses to the CoherentXBar and NoncoherentXBar to distinguish the different uses in the system. We use the crossbar in a wide range of places: interfacing cores to the L2, as a system interconnect, connecting I/O and peripherals, etc. Needless to say, these crossbars have very different performance, and the clock frequency alone is not enough to distinguish these scenarios. Instead of trying to capture every possible case, this patch introduces dedicated subclasses for the three primary use-cases: L2XBar, SystemXBar and IOXbar. More can be added if needed, and the defaults can be overridden.
2015-02-11cpu: Tidy up the MemTest and make false sharing more obviousAndreas Hansson
The MemTest class really only tests false sharing, and as such there was a lot of old cruft that could be removed. This patch cleans up the tester, and also makes it more clear what the assumptions are. As part of this simplification the reference functional memory is also removed. The regression configs using MemTest are updated to reflect the changes, and the stats will be bumped in a separate patch. The example config will be updated in a separate patch due to more extensive re-work. In a follow-on patch a new tester will be introduced that uses the MemChecker to implement true sharing.
2015-01-20tests: Remove deprecated InOrderCPU testsAndreas Hansson
This patch removes the three MIPS and SPARC regressions that use the deprecated InOrderCPU. This is the first step in completely removing the code from the tree, avoiding confusion, and focusing all development efforts on the MinorCPU. Brave new world.
2014-12-23tests: Add a regression for the stack distance calculatorAndreas Hansson
Re-use the existing traffic generator regression, and enable the stack distance calculation in the comm monitor, along with the verification stack. The traffic generator config is also tuned to not increase the run-time too much (and actually have some address re-use).
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.
2014-11-06ruby: single physical memory in fs modeNilay Vaish
Both ruby and the system used to maintain memory copies. With the changes carried for programmed io accesses, only one single memory is required for fs simulations. This patch sets the copy of memory that used to reside with the system to null, so that no space is allocated, but address checks can still be carried out. All the memory accesses now source and sink values to the memory maintained by ruby.
2014-10-29arm, tests: Update config files to more recent kernels and create 64-bit ↵Ali Saidi
regressions. This changes the default ARM system to a Versatile Express-like system that supports 2GB of memory and PCI devices and updates the default kernels/file-systems for AArch64 ARM systems (64-bit) to support up to 32GB of memory and PCI devices. Some platforms that are no longer supported have been pruned from the configuration files. In addition a set of 64-bit ARM regressions have been added to the regression system.
2014-09-20tests: Use more representative configs for ARM testsAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the CPU and cache configurations used in the ARM SE and FS regressions to make them more representative, and also get better code coverage by exercising different replacement policies and use an L2 prefetcher.
2014-09-20mem: Rename Bus to XBar to better reflect its behaviourAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the name of the Bus classes to XBar to better reflect the actual timing behaviour. The actual instances in the config scripts are not renamed, and remain as e.g. iobus or membus. As part of this renaming, the code has also been clean up slightly, making use of range-based for loops and tidying up some comments. The only changes outside the bus/crossbar code is due to the delay variables in the packet. --HG-- rename : src/mem/Bus.py => src/mem/XBar.py rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.cc => src/mem/coherent_xbar.cc rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.hh => src/mem/coherent_xbar.hh rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.cc => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.cc rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.hh => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.hh rename : src/mem/bus.cc => src/mem/xbar.cc rename : src/mem/bus.hh => src/mem/xbar.hh
2014-09-20tests: Add a memtest version using the ideal SnoopFilterAndreas Hansson
This patch adds a basic regression test for the snoop filter. --HG-- rename : tests/configs/memtest.py => tests/configs/memtest-filter.py
2014-09-03alpha: Stop using 'inorder' and rely entirely on 'minor'Andreas Hansson
This patch avoids building the 'inorder' CPU model for any permutation of ALPHA, and also removes the ALPHA regressions using the 'inorder' CPU. The 'minor' CPU is already providing a broader test coverage.
2014-09-03tests: Use O3_ARM_v7a config for full-system ARM regressionsAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the CPU configuration used for the full-system ARM regressions to increase the test coverage. Note that it is only the core configuration, and not the caches etc.
2014-09-01ruby: Fixes clock domains in configuration filesEmilio Castillo ext:(%2C%20Nilay%20Vaish%20%3Cnilay%40cs.wisc.edu%3E)
This patch fixes scripts related to ruby by adding the ruby clock domain. Now the L1 controllers and the Sequencer shares the cpu clock domain, while the rest of the components use the ruby clock domain. Before this patch, running simulations with the cpu clock set at 2GHz or 1GHz will output the same time results and could distort power measurements. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-07-23cpu: Minor CPU add regression tests for ARM and ALPHAAndrew Bardsley
This patch adds regression tests results and test harnesses for the Minor CPU on ARM and ALPHA.
2014-05-09tests: Reflect name change in DRAM testsAndreas Hansson
This patch reflects the recent name change in the DRAM TrafficGen tests and also tidies up the test directory. --HG-- rename : tests/configs/tgen-simple-dram.py => tests/configs/tgen-dram-ctrl.py rename : tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-simple-dram/config.ini => tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-dram-ctrl/config.ini rename : tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-simple-dram/simerr => tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-dram-ctrl/simerr rename : tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-simple-dram/simout => tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-dram-ctrl/simout rename : tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-simple-dram/stats.txt => tests/quick/se/70.tgen/ref/null/none/tgen-dram-ctrl/stats.txt rename : tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-simple-dram.cfg => tests/quick/se/70.tgen/tgen-dram-ctrl.cfg
2014-05-09mem: Auto-generate CommMonitor trace file namesSascha Bischoff
Splits the CommMonitor trace_file parameter into three parameters. Previously, the trace was only enabled if the trace_file parameter was set, and would be written to this file. This patch adds in a trace_enable and trace_compress parameter to the CommMonitor. No trace is generated if trace_enable is set to False. If it is set to True, the trace is written to a file based on the name of the SimObject in the simulation hierarchy. For example, system.cluster.il1_commmonitor.trc. This filename can be overridden by additionally specifying a file name to the trace_file parameter (more on this later). The trace_compress parameter will append .gz to any filename if set to True. This enables compression of the generated traces. If the file name already ends in .gz, then no changes are made. The trace_file parameter will override the name set by the trace_enable parameter. In the case that the specified name does not end in .gz but trace_compress is set to true, .gz is appended to the supplied file name.
2014-03-20config: ruby: rename _cpu_ruby_ports to _cpu_portsNilay Vaish
2014-03-20config: remove ruby_fs.pyNilay Vaish
The patch removes the ruby_fs.py file. The functionality is being moved to fs.py. This would being ruby fs simulations in line with how ruby se simulations are started (using --ruby option). The alpha fs config functions are being combined for classing and ruby memory systems. This required renaming the piobus in ruby to iobus. So, we will have stats being renamed in the stats file for ruby fs regression.
2014-03-20ruby: no piobus in se modeNilay Vaish
Piobus was recently added to se scripts for ruby so that the interrupt controller can be connected to something (required since the interrupt controller sends address range messages). This patch removes the piobus and instead, the pio port of ruby port will now ignore the range change messages in se mode.
2014-02-24ruby: correct errors in changeset 4eec7bdde5b0Nilay Vaish
Couple of errors were discovered in 4eec7bdde5b0 which necessitated this patch. Firstly, we create interrupt controllers in the se mode, but no piobus was being created. RubyPort, which earlier used to ignore range changes now forwards those to the piobus. The lack of piobus resulted in segmentation fault. This patch creates a piobus even in se mode. It is not created only when some tester is running. Secondly, I had missed out on modifying port connections for other coherence protocols.
2014-02-23ruby: route all packets through ruby portNilay Vaish
Currently, the interrupt controller in x86 is connected to the io bus directly. Therefore the packets between the io devices and the interrupt controller do not go through ruby. This patch changes ruby port so that these packets arrive at the ruby port first, which then routes them to their destination. Note that the patch does not make these packets go through the ruby network. That would happen in a subsequent patch.
2014-01-03config, x86: move kernel specification from tests to FSConfig.pySteve Reinhardt
For some reason, the default x86 kernel is specified in tests/configs/x86_generic.py and not in configs/common/FSConfig.py, where the kernels for all the other ISAs are. This means that running configs/example/fs.py for x86 fails because no kernel is specified. Moving the specification over fixes this problem. There is another problem that this uncovers, which is that going past the init stage (i.e., past where the regression test stops) fails because the fsck test on the disk device fails, but that's a separate issue.
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.
2013-11-01test: Use SimpleMemory for atomic full-system testsAndreas Hansson
Keep it simple and use the SimpleMemory rather than the DRAM controller model for atomic full-system tests.
2013-08-20ruby: add option for number of transitions per cycleNilay Vaish
The number of transitions per cycle that a controller can carry out is a proxy for the number of ports that a controller has. This value is currently 32 which is way too high. The patch introduces an option for the number of ports and uses this option in the protocol files to set the number of transitions. The default value is being set to 4. None of the se regressions change. Ruby stats for the fs regression change and are being updated.
2013-08-19mem: Change AbstractMemory defaults to match the common caseAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the default parameter value of conf_table_reported to match the common case. It also simplifies the regression and config scripts to reflect this change.
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.
2013-08-19config: Move the memory instantiation outside FSConfigAndreas Hansson
This patch moves the instantiation of the memory controller outside FSConfig and instead relies on the mem_ranges to pass the information to the caller (e.g. fs.py or one of the regression scripts). The main motivation for this change is to expose the structural composition of the memory system and allow more tuning and configuration without adding a large number of options to the makeSystem functions. The patch updates the relevant example scripts to maintain the current functionality. As the order that ports are connected to the memory bus changes (in certain regresisons), some bus stats are shuffled around. For example, what used to be layer 0 is now layer 1. Going forward, options will be added to support the addition of multi-channel memory controllers.
2013-07-02regressions: update a couple of configsNilay Vaish
The configs for pc-simple-timing-ruby, t1000-simple-atomic had not been updated correctly in the patch 6e6cefc1db1f.
2013-06-27sim: Add the notion of clock domains to all ClockedObjectsAkash Bagdia
This patch adds the notion of source- and derived-clock domains to the ClockedObjects. As such, all clock information is moved to the clock domain, and the ClockedObjects are grouped into domains. The clock domains are either source domains, with a specific clock period, or derived domains that have a parent domain and a divider (potentially chained). For piece of logic that runs at a derived clock (a ratio of the clock its parent is running at) the necessary derived clock domain is created from its corresponding parent clock domain. For now, the derived clock domain only supports a divider, thus ensuring a lower speed compared to its parent. Multiplier functionality implies a PLL logic that has not been modelled yet (create a separate clock instead). The clock domains should be used as a mechanism to provide a controllable clock source that affects clock for every clocked object lying beneath it. The clock of the domain can (in a future patch) be controlled by a handler responsible for dynamic frequency scaling of the respective clock domains. All the config scripts have been retro-fitted with clock domains. For the System a default SrcClockDomain is created. For CPUs that run at a different speed than the system, there is a seperate clock domain created. This domain incorporates the CPU and the associated caches. As before, Ruby runs under its own clock domain. The clock period of all domains are pre-computed, such that no virtual functions or multiplications are needed when calling clockPeriod. Instead, the clock period is pre-computed when any changes occur. For this to be possible, each clock domain tracks its children.
2013-06-27config: Add a BaseSESystem builder for re-use in regressionsAndreas Hansson
This patch extends the existing system builders to also include a syscall-emulation builder. This builder is deployed in all syscall-emulation regressions that do not involve Ruby, i.e. o3-timing, simple-timing and simple-atomic, as well as the multi-processor regressions o3-timing-mp, simple-timing-mp and simple-atomic-mp (the latter are only used by SPARC at this point). The values chosen for the cache sizes match those that were used in the existing config scripts (despite being on the large side). Similarly, a mem_class parameter is added to the builder base class to enable simple-atomic to use SimpleMemory and o3-timing to use the default DDR3 configuration. Due to the different order the ports are connected, the bus stats get shuffled around for the multi-processor regressions. A separate patch bumps the port indices. Besides this, all behaviour is exactly the same.
2013-06-27config: Add a system clock command-line optionAkash Bagdia
This patch adds a 'sys_clock' command-line option and use it to assign clocks to the system during instantiation. As part of this change, the default clock in the System class is removed and whenever a system is instantiated a system clock value must be set. A default value is provided for the command-line option. The configs and tests are updated accordingly.
2013-06-27config: Remove redundant explicit setting of default clocksAkash Bagdia
This patch removes the explicit setting of the clock period for certain instances of CoherentBus, NonCoherentBus and IOCache where the specified clock is same as the default value of the system clock. As all the values used are the defaults, there are no performance changes. There are similar cases where the toL2Bus is set to use the parent CPU clock which is already the default behaviour. The main motivation for these simplifications is to ease the introduction of clock domains.
2013-05-30mem: More descriptive DRAM config namesAndreas Hansson
This patch changes the class names of the variuos DRAM configurations to better reflect what memory they are based on. The speed and interface width is now part of the name, and also the alias that is used to select them on the command line. Some minor changes are done to the actual parameters, to better reflect the named configurations. As a result of these changes the regressions change slightly and the stats will be bumped in a separate patch.
2013-04-28config: Added memory type to t1000 regressionAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the memory type parameter to the t1000 regression.
2013-04-23x86: regressions: add switcher full testNilay Vaish
2013-04-22config: Add a mem-type config option to se/fs scriptsAndreas Hansson
This patch enables selection of the memory controller class through a mem-type command-line option. Behind the scenes, this option is treated much like the cpu-type, and a similar framework is used to resolve the valid options, and translate the short-hand description to a valid class. The regression scripts are updated with a hardcoded memory class for the moment. The best solution going forward is probably to get the memory out of the makeSystem functions, but Ruby complicates things as it does not connect the memory controller to the membus. --HG-- rename : configs/common/CpuConfig.py => configs/common/MemConfig.py
2013-04-22tests: Add support for testing KVM-based CPUsAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds support for initializing a KVM VM in the BaseSystem test class and adds the following methods in run.py: require_file -- Test if a file exists and abort/skip if not. require_kvm -- Test if KVM support has been compiled into gem5 (i.e., BaseKvmCPU exists) and the KVM device exists on the host.
2013-04-22arm: Enable support for triggering a sim panic on kernel panicsAndreas Sandberg
Add the options 'panic_on_panic' and 'panic_on_oops' to the LinuxArmSystem SimObject. When these option are enabled, the simulator panics when the guest kernel panics or oopses. Enable panic on panic and panic on oops in ARM-based test cases.
2013-03-06ruby: remove the functional copy of memory in se modeNilay Vaish
This patch removes the functional copy of the memory that was maintained in the se mode. Now ruby itself will provide the data.
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().
2013-01-31mem: Add DDR3 and LPDDR2 DRAM controller configurationsAndreas Hansson
This patch moves the default DRAM parameters from the SimpleDRAM class to two different subclasses, one for DDR3 and one for LPDDR2. More can be added as we go forward. The regressions that previously used the SimpleDRAM are now using SimpleDDR3 as this is the most similar configuration.
2013-01-07tests: Add CPU switching testsAndreas Sandberg
This changeset adds a set of tests that stress the CPU switching code. It adds the following test configurations: * tsunami-switcheroo-full -- Alpha system (atomic, timing, O3) * realview-switcheroo-atomic -- ARM system (atomic<->atomic) * realview-switcheroo-timing -- ARM system (timing<->timing) * realview-switcheroo-o3 -- ARM system (O3<->O3) * realview-switcheroo-full -- ARM system (atomic, timing, O3) Reference data is provided for the 10.linux-boot test case. All of the tests trigger a CPU switch once per millisecond during the boot process. The in-order CPU model was not included in any of the tests as it does not support CPU handover.