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Change-Id: Ia9cbb77115c741051c871526517bb7d8124a8051
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17873
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: I16e9a6169e7ad50601e460e221d6a05db1208783
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17872
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Change-Id: Id8e767afbb74f79b980d8160eefc13e7f529f1c3
Signed-off-by: Hoa Nguyen <hoanguyen@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/16889
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Note that continuous currently isn't used.
Change-Id: Ifcff88c8c4c75a9f630b97eaca22edd1681529c3
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17456
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I496a9f3a0156557415d455dd2ca54c92577ca5f5
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17455
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I1dceca80a425293d64f81b06ddff499363f18bc0
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17454
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: Idace0e9e71a484080fc581e232ce217b449085c1
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17453
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: Idc5ec9309a4ef3c0ad0c7e8b2df47294acc97ec4
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17451
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch also fixes a spelling mistake.
Change-Id: I8635216e512c10913a9cda54541d7e31e0d22a40
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17450
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I71b1e595765fed9e9f234c9722c33ac5348d4f11
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15999
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I42996ddc802ef279ab4970afc37cb0df25c04b08
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Akram <yazakram@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15857
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This change is needed to make sure that the DownloadedProgram fixture
does not fail, in case the test binaries are not stored in test-progs/
(e.g. in the case of cpu tests)
Change-Id: Icf96f2537b038502e78da560c7ccebc44984b509
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Akram <yazakram@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15856
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rutuja Govind Oza <roza@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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The original memtest is located at:
https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5/+/master/tests/configs/memtest.py
Change-Id: I58be6fb1675f6502d6644d502915df80aa197a4a
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15836
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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The original test is located at:
https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5/+/master/tests/configs/tgen-simple-mem.py
Change-Id: I13a58cfb3d01d08ef7c818fc00fb56ba126eb4b6
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15835
Reviewed-by: Rutuja Govind Oza <roza@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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The Makefiles for the pthreads test don't behave like typical
Makefiles that support cross compilation. Rewrite the Makefile to make
cross-compilation more convenient and add targets for aarch{32,64}.
Change-Id: I7cae378492681744b6bb11dd5af69db81ec54229
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16022
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Some tests are really just a wrapper around a test script in
configs/. Add a helper method to wrap these scripts to make sure they
are executed in a consistent environment. This wrapper sets up a
global environment that is identical to that created by main() when it
executes the script. Unlike the old wrappers, it updates the module
search path to make relative imports work correctly in Python 3.
Change-Id: Ie9f81ec4e2689aa8cf5ecb9fc8025d3534b5c9ca
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15976
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Most Ruby tests assume that the highest frequency in the system under
test is 1GHz and limits the global tick rate to this frequency. This
assumption is broken since the default Ruby configuration scripts
clock the CPU at 2Ghz, which results in warnings and sometimes
incorrect behaviour.
Change-Id: I4b204660862ce3b0ea4a13df42caacd4398fef8c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15975
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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At Ia49298304f658701ea0800bd79e08db404a655c3 we removed the default
kernel and DTB filenames from FSConfig.py.
However, the regression tests rely on that to find those blobs.
This commit restores those default filenames just for the config of the
regression tests.
Change-Id: I9d7d869b0087ee8a3b63088693f753a703ead5d6
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15957
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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tests/main.py was trying to find paths relative to itself using the
string __name__ (which was __main__) when it should have been using the
string __file__ which holds the name of the file being executed.
Change-Id: I5ff4c42fc7d8b75ff6b96c3cde61baf731d84738
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15675
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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The default python on MacOS doesn’t have an alias to python2.
The official python version supported in gem5 is Python2.7.
This patch updates the shabang according to the version required in gem5.
Change-Id: I9533c0f7858b5b3cab0ef101be1ee5cd718105b0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15375
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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The AtomicSimpleCPU used to be able to access memory directly to speed
up simulation if no caches are used. This is fine as long as no
switching between CPU models is required. In order to switch to a new
CPU model that requires caches, we currently need to checkpoint the
system and restore it into a new configuration. The new
'atomic_noncaching' memory mode provides a solution that avoids this
issue since caches are bypassed in this mode. This changeset removes
the old fastmem option from the AtomicSimpleCPU and introduces a new
CPU, NonCachingSimpleCPU, which derives from the AtomicSimpleCPU.
The NonCachingSimpleCPU uses the same mechanism as the AtomicSimpleCPU
used to use when accessing memory in when fastmem was enabled.
This changeset also introduces a new switcheroo test that tests
switching between a NonCachingSimpleCPU and a TimingSimpleCPU with
caches.
Change-Id: If01893f9b37528b14f530c11ce6f53c097582c21
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12419
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Add a test to print out stack contents for SE mode programs.
The test will print out argc, argv, envp, and some auxiliary
vectors.
Change-Id: I489d752ee40fde24c531d8918d0c050f4df936c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3440
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: Ia613ab580b880a463c9cf0dd63f61497db31fe75
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10121
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Change-Id: I92a589b267ce659b6fbcf710043436b84fcb1c63
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4423
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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Change-Id: I0753db61d6344b9ed95c0d90a1ab097de7e2af12
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4422
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
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This adds Makefiles for hello for ARM and x86 by leveraging docker and
dockcross. See https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross for more
information.
These Makefiles also allow for automatic uploading to the correct location
for users to download when running the new tests.
Change-Id: I7085000393cd5283502a7af362c85befda749181
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4883
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The new test library is split into two parts: The framework which resides
in ext/, and the gem5 helping components in /tests/gem5.
Change-Id: Ib4f3ae8d7eb96a7306335a3e739b7e8041aa99b9
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4421
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Update the hello test to have a sane return code.
Change-Id: I9576b71ee995d8aa410c4ed19d44cc4e9fad10ee
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4881
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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This patch adds a subset (rv64*) of RISC-V assembly tests. The original
riscv-test project can be found here:
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests. The riscv-test project is under the
BSD license (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests/blob/master/LICENSE)
and is maintained separately from gem5 project.
The tests have been slightly modified to work in gem5 SE mode:
(1) Removed a trap handler used in riscv-tests for bare-metal systems
(2) Instead of throwing an exception, the tests call the exit syscall
with
the exit code of
- '0' if SUCCESS
- Failed test case's number (non-zero) if FAILURE
The exit code can be captured after a simuation completes.
In addition to original RISC-V assembly tests, this patch adds several
assembly tests specifically for AMO, LR, SC and system calls. Those
tests target a multi-core system.
(1) rv64uamt: multi-threaded tests for A-extension instructions
(2) rv64samt: multi-threaded tests for clone and futex system calls
This patch also makes the style checker ignore RISC-V assembly test
directory. The assembly tests are maintained in an external project
that does not follow the gem5 coding conventions.
Please find more details in the README file included in this patch.
Change-Id: Id1015d9a2c6c7d0341fa8b81483289e5f0bfcec0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6703
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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This patch adds some pthread and C++11 std::thread unit tests.
Change-Id: I9706b542e5fa927a87c6e8ae2a6330fab7bb5d72
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8221
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
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The class re-uses the existing MSHR and write queue. At the moment
every single access is handled by the cache, even uncacheable
accesses, and nothing is forwarded.
This is a modified version of a changeset put together by Andreas
Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Change-Id: I41f7f9c2b8c7fa5ec23712a4446e8adb1c9a336a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8291
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
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Prior to this changeset the bootloader rom (instantiated as a
SimpleMemory) in ruby Arm systems was treated as an IO device and it
was fronted by a DMA controller. This changeset moves the bootloader
rom and adds it to the system as another memory with a dedicated
directory controller.
Change-Id: I094fed031cdef7f77a939d94f948d967b349b7e0
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8741
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Simple program that spawns threads equal to the number of CPU cores and
has some false sharing for testing coherence protocols.
Change-Id: I5be907fd6fea9a8b8e80b63785d186619be41354
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8901
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
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Some python files were still using deprecated print statement.
Change-Id: I19b1fe9c28650707f01725d40c87ad0538f9c5e6
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9141
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: I92060da4537e4ff1c0ff665f2f6ffc3850c50e88
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8892
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Starting with version 3, scons imposes using the print function instead
of the print statement in code it processes. To get things building
again, this change moves all python code within gem5 to use the
function version. Another change by another author separately made this
same change to the site_tools and site_init.py files.
Change-Id: I2de7dc3b1be756baad6f60574c47c8b7e80ea3b0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8761
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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This patch makes use of ImmOp's polymorphism to remove unnecessary
casting from the implementations of arithmetic instructions with
immediate operands and to remove the CUIOp format by combining it with
the CIOp format (compressed arithmetic instructions with immediate
operands). Interestingly, RISC-V specifies that instructions with
unsigned immediate operands still need to sign-extend the immediates
from 12 (or 20) bits to 64 bits, so that is left alone.
Change-Id: If20d70c1e90f379b9ed8a4155b2b9222b6defe16
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6401
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>
Maintainer: Alec Roelke <ar4jc@virginia.edu>
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This patch adds two regression tests that execute the script in the
configs dir for triggering low power mode transitions. A separate
test is required for each page policy because for close-adaptive
page policy the DRAM goes into the Precharge Power-down mode while
for open-adaptive page policy it goes into the Activate Power-down
mode.
Change-Id: Iad61af23f132db046f2857cc3ef64b2bf42cf5e4
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5726
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Change-Id: Ica08e93f3873a7eafd02fe7d44c3bdbf0ce7f6b7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5565
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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One configuration was missed in
"tests: Fix path for module imports in ARM system configs",
which this changeset remedies.
Change-Id: I705e64298a8251dcfefbdca927d61c9bbb8bbea7
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4940
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: I6fd660da3899de1f8c61bf012532ff0437467302
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4220
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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We currently fail the stat diff stage of tests if there are new
stats. This is usually undesirable since this would require any change
that adds a stat to also update the regressions.
Change-Id: Ieadebac6fd17534e1b49b6b9a1d56f037a423325
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3962
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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This patch updates the binaries and results for hello and insttest
regressions using the compressed extension.
Change-Id: I3d8f2248f490521d3e0dc05c48735cab82b1b04e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4042
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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This patch adds instruction tests for the RV64C extension
implementation. It also updates existing executables for the latest
riscv-tools now that they are compatible.
[Update for changes to parents.]
Change-Id: Id4cfd966a8cae39b0d728b02849622fd00ee7e0e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3862
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: I189b6462cc64f7cc6c1b7a6c2af1abb60e1854de
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3943
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: I1c88ba45e4fee3c254db06cac46045dfe6e68524
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3795
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Change-Id: I3d9c1249a2d39f20fb60c4d4e8af7d1d5731dbef
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2908
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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Previously ARM binaries were by default compiled with the MI_example
protocol. The MI_example protocol cannot properly support load/store
exclusive instructions and therefore it cannot be used to simulate
multicore ARM systems. This change changes to MOESI_CMP_directory as
the default ruby protocol for ARM systems.
Change-Id: I942d950ba466aea9a75f3d8764f9f3eddd0c3baa
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2906
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Update the "Hello, world!" executable for RISC-V to use the latest GNU
Linux toolchain and fix the stats accordingly.
Change-Id: I5ff3d7f4bb41b10170038b8c07492f15bb54a022
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3560
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Use the PyBind11 wrapping infrastructure instead of SWIG to generate
wrappers for functionality that needs to be exported to Python. This
has several benefits:
* PyBind11 can be redistributed with gem5, which means that we have
full control of the version used. This avoid a large number of
hard-to-debug SWIG issues we have seen in the past.
* PyBind11 doesn't rely on a custom C++ parser, instead it relies on
wrappers being explicitly declared in C++. The leads to slightly
more boiler-plate code in manually created wrappers, but doesn't
doesn't increase the overall code size. A big benefit is that this
avoids strange compilation errors when SWIG doesn't understand
modern language features.
* Unlike SWIG, there is no risk that the wrapper code incorporates
incorrect type casts (this has happened on numerous occasions in
the past) since these will result in compile-time errors.
As a part of this change, the mechanism to define exported methods has
been redesigned slightly. New methods can be exported either by
declaring them in the SimObject declaration and decorating them with
the cxxMethod decorator or by adding an instance of
PyBindMethod/PyBindProperty to the cxx_exports class variable. The
decorator has the added benefit of making it possible to add a
docstring and naming the method's parameters.
The new wrappers have the following known issues:
* Global events can't be memory managed correctly. This was the
case in SWIG as well.
Change-Id: I88c5a95b6cf6c32fa9e1ad31dfc08b2e8199a763
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bardsley <andrew.bardsley@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2231
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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