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2015-09-02sim: tag-based checkpoint versioningCurtis Dunham
This commit addresses gem5 checkpoints' linear versioning bottleneck. Since development is distributed across many private trees, there exists a sort of 'race' for checkpoint version numbers: internally a checkpoint version may be used but then resynchronizing with the external tree causes a conflict on that version. This change replaces the linear version number with a set of unique strings called tags. Now the only conflicts that can arise are of tag names, where collisions are much easier to avoid. The checkpoint upgrader (util/cpt_upgrader.py) upgrades the version representation, as one would expect. Each tag version implements its upgrader code in a python file in the util/cpt_upgraders directory rather than adding a function to the upgrader script itself. The version tags are stored in the 'Globals' section rather than 'root' (as the version was previously) because 'Globals' gets unserialized first and can provide a warning before any other unserialization errors can occur.
2015-07-24base: refactor process class (specifically FdMap and friends)Brandon Potter
This patch extends the previous patch's alterations around fd_map. It cleans up some of the uglier code in the process file and replaces it with a more concise C++11 version. As part of the changes, the FdMap class is pulled out of the Process class and receives its own file.
2015-06-01sim, arm: add checkpoint upgrader for d02b45a5Curtis Dunham
The insertion of CONTEXTIDR_EL2 in the ARM miscellaneous registers obsoletes old checkpoints.
2014-04-29arm: use condition code registers for ARM ISACurtis Dunham
Analogous to ee049bf (for x86). Requires a bump of the checkpoint version and corresponding upgrader code to move the condition code register values to the new register file.
2014-02-05sim: bump checkpoint version for multiple event queuesCurtis Dunham
This patch adds a fix for older checkpoints before support for multiple event queues were added in changeset 2cce74fe359e. The change in checkpoint version should really hav ebeen part of the aforementioned changeset.
2014-07-01util: Add DVFS perfLevel to checkpoint upgrade scriptRadhika Jagtap
This patch updates the checkpoint upgrader script. It adds the _perfLevel variable in the clock domain and voltage domain simObjects used for DVFS.
2014-04-19ruby: recorder: Fix (de-)serializing with different cache block-sizesMarco Elver
Upon aggregating records, serialize system's cache-block size, as the cache-block size can be different when restoring from a checkpoint. This way, we can correctly read all records when restoring from a checkpoints, even if the cache-block size is different. Note, that it is only possible to restore from a checkpoint if the desired cache-block size is smaller or equal to the cache-block size when the checkpoint was taken; we can split one larger request into multiple small ones, but it is not reliable to do the opposite. Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-01-24arm: Add support for ARMv8 (AArch64 & AArch32)ARM gem5 Developers
Note: AArch64 and AArch32 interworking is not supported. If you use an AArch64 kernel you are restricted to AArch64 user-mode binaries. This will be addressed in a later patch. Note: Virtualization is only supported in AArch32 mode. This will also be fixed in a later patch. Contributors: Giacomo Gabrielli (TrustZone, LPAE, system-level AArch64, AArch64 NEON, validation) Thomas Grocutt (AArch32 Virtualization, AArch64 FP, validation) Mbou Eyole (AArch64 NEON, validation) Ali Saidi (AArch64 Linux support, code integration, validation) Edmund Grimley-Evans (AArch64 FP) William Wang (AArch64 Linux support) Rene De Jong (AArch64 Linux support, performance opt.) Matt Horsnell (AArch64 MP, validation) Matt Evans (device models, code integration, validation) Chris Adeniyi-Jones (AArch64 syscall-emulation) Prakash Ramrakhyani (validation) Dam Sunwoo (validation) Chander Sudanthi (validation) Stephan Diestelhorst (validation) Andreas Hansson (code integration, performance opt.) Eric Van Hensbergen (performance opt.) Gabe Black
2013-10-31ARM: add support for TEEHBR accessChander Sudanthi
Thumb2 ARM kernels may access the TEEHBR via thumbee_notifier in arch/arm/kernel/thumbee.c. The Linux kernel code just seems to be saving and restoring the register. This patch adds support for the TEEHBR cp14 register. Note, this may be a special case when restoring from an image that was run on a system that supports ThumbEE.
2013-10-31dev: Fix race conditions in IDE device on newer kernelsGeoffrey Blake
Newer linux kernels and distros exercise more functionality in the IDE device than previously, exposing 2 races. The first race is the handling of aborted DMA commands would immediately report the device is ready back to the kernel and cause already in flight commands to assert the simulator when they returned and discovered an inconsitent device state. The second race was due to the Status register not being handled correctly, the interrupt status bit would get stuck at 1 and the driver eventually views this as a bad state and logs the condition to the terminal. This patch fixes these two conditions by making the device handle aborted commands gracefully and properly handles clearing the interrupt status bit in the Status register.
2013-08-07x86: add tlb checkpointingNilay Vaish
This patch adds checkpointing support to x86 tlb. It upgrades the cpt_upgrader.py script so that previously created checkpoints can be updated. It moves the checkpoint version to 6.
2013-01-07arm: Remove the register mapping hack used when copying TCsAndreas Sandberg
In order to see all registers independent of the current CPU mode, the ARM architecture model uses the magic MISCREG_CPSR_MODE register to change the register mappings without actually updating the CPU mode. This hack is no longer needed since the thread context now provides a flat interface to the register file. This patch replaces the CPSR_MODE hack with the flat register interface.
2013-01-07arch: Move the ISA object to a separate sectionAndreas Sandberg
After making the ISA an independent SimObject, it is serialized automatically by the Python world. Previously, this just resulted in an empty ISA section. This patch moves the contents of the ISA to that section and removes the explicit ISA serialization from the thread contexts, which makes it behave like a normal SimObject during serialization. Note: This patch breaks checkpoint backwards compatibility! Use the cpt_upgrader.py utility to upgrade old checkpoints to the new format.
2012-11-02ARM: dump stats and process info on context switchesDam Sunwoo
This patch enables dumping statistics and Linux process information on context switch boundaries (__switch_to() calls) that are used for Streamline integration (a graphical statistics viewer from ARM).
2012-10-15Mem: Separate the host and guest views of memory backing storeAndreas Hansson
This patch moves all the memory backing store operations from the independent memory controllers to the global physical memory. The main reason for this patch is to allow address striping in a future set of patches, but at this point it already provides some useful functionality in that it is now possible to change the number of memory controllers and their address mapping in combination with checkpointing. Thus, the host and guest view of the memory backing store are now completely separate. With this patch, the individual memory controllers are far simpler as all responsibility for serializing/unserializing is moved to the physical memory. Currently, the functionality is more or less moved from AbstractMemory to PhysicalMemory without any major changes. However, in a future patch the physical memory will also resolve any ranges that are interleaved and properly assign the backing store to the memory controllers, and keep the host memory as a single contigous chunk per address range. Functionality for future extensions which involve CPU virtualization also enable the host to get pointers to the backing store.
2012-06-05cpt: update some comments in the checkpoint migration scriptAli Saidi
2012-06-05sim: Provide a framework for detecting out of data checkpoints and migrating ↵Ali Saidi
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