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2014-10-16sim: SystemC hostingAndrew Bardsley
This patch hosts gem5 onto SystemC scheduler. There's already an upstream review board patch that does something similar but this patch ...: 1) is less obtrusive to the existing gem5 code organisation. It's divided into the 'generic' preparatory patches (already submitted) and this patch which affects no existing files 2) does not try to exactly track the gem5 event queue with notifys into SystemC and so doesn't requive the event queue to be modified for anything other than 'out of event queue' scheduling events 3) supports debug logging with SC_REPORT The patch consists of the files: util/systemc/ sc_gem5_control.{cc,hh} -- top level objects to use to instantiate gem5 Systems within larger SystemC test harnesses as sc_module objects sc_logger.{cc,hh} -- logging support sc_module.{cc,hh} -- a separated event loop specific to SystemC stats.{cc,hh} -- example Stats handling for the sample top level main.{cc,hh} -- a sample top level On the downside this patch is only currently functional with C++ configuration at the top level. The above sc_... files are indended to be compiled alongside gem5 (as a library, see main.cc for a command line and util/systemc/README for more details.) The top-level system instantiation in sc_gem5_control.{cc,hh} provides two classes: Gem5Control and Gem5System Gem5Control is a simulation control class (from which a singleton object should be created) derived from Gem5SystemC::Module which carries the top level simulation control interface for gem5. This includes hosting a system-building configuration file and instantiating the Root object from that file. Gem5System is a base class for instantiating renamed gem5 Systems from the config file hosted by the Gem5Control object. In use, a SystemC module class should be made which represents the desired, instantiable gem5 System. That class's instances should create a Gem5System during their construction, set the parameters of that system and then call instantiate to build that system. If this is all carried out in the sc_core::sc_module-derived classes constructor, the System's external ports will become children of that module and can then be recovered by name using sc_core:: sc_find_object. It is intended that this interface is used with dlopen. To that end, the header file sc_gem5_control.hh includes no other header files from gem5 (and so can be easily copied into another project). The classes Gem5System and Gem5Control have all their member functions declared `virtual' so that those functions can be called through the vtable acquired by building the top level Gem5Control using dlsym(..., "makeGem5Control") and `makeSystem' on the Gem5Control.