/* * Copyright (c) 2014 The University of Wisconsin * * Copyright (c) 2006 INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en * Informatique et en Automatique / French National Research Institute * for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics) * * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are * met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer; * redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; * neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from * this software without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT * OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * * Authors: Vignyan Reddy, Dibakar Gope and Arthur Perais, * from André Seznec's code. */ /* @file * Implementation of a L-TAGE branch predictor. TAGE is a global-history based * branch predictor. It features a PC-indexed bimodal predictor and N * partially tagged tables, indexed with a hash of the PC and the global * branch history. The different lengths of global branch history used to * index the partially tagged tables grow geometrically. A small path history * is also used in the hash. L-TAGE also features a loop predictor that records * iteration count of loops and predicts accordingly. * * All TAGE tables are accessed in parallel, and the one using the longest * history that matches provides the prediction (some exceptions apply). * Entries are allocated in components using a longer history than the * one that predicted when the prediction is incorrect. */ #ifndef __CPU_PRED_LTAGE #define __CPU_PRED_LTAGE #include #include "base/types.hh" #include "cpu/pred/tage.hh" #include "params/LTAGE.hh" class LTAGE: public TAGE { public: LTAGE(const LTAGEParams *params); // Base class methods. void squash(ThreadID tid, void *bp_history) override; void regStats() override; private: // Prediction Structures // Loop Predictor Entry struct LoopEntry { uint16_t numIter; uint16_t currentIter; uint16_t currentIterSpec; uint8_t confidence; uint16_t tag; uint8_t age; bool dir; LoopEntry() : numIter(0), currentIter(0), currentIterSpec(0), confidence(0), tag(0), age(0), dir(0) { } }; // more provider types enum { LOOP = LAST_TAGE_PROVIDER_TYPE + 1 }; // Primary branch history entry struct LTageBranchInfo : public TageBranchInfo { uint16_t loopTag; uint16_t currentIter; bool loopPred; bool loopPredValid; int loopIndex; int loopHit; LTageBranchInfo(int sz) : TageBranchInfo(sz), loopTag(0), currentIter(0), loopPred(false), loopPredValid(false), loopIndex(0), loopHit(0) {} }; /** * Computes the index used to access the * loop predictor. * @param pc_in The unshifted branch PC. */ int lindex(Addr pc_in) const; /** * Get a branch prediction from the loop * predictor. * @param pc The unshifted branch PC. * @param bi Pointer to information on the * prediction. */ bool getLoop(Addr pc, LTageBranchInfo* bi) const; /** * Updates the loop predictor. * @param pc The unshifted branch PC. * @param taken The actual branch outcome. * @param bi Pointer to information on the * prediction recorded at prediction time. */ void loopUpdate(Addr pc, bool Taken, LTageBranchInfo* bi); /** * Speculatively updates the loop predictor * iteration count. * @param pc The unshifted branch PC. * @param taken The predicted branch outcome. * @param bi Pointer to information on the prediction * recorded at prediction time. */ void specLoopUpdate(Addr pc, bool taken, LTageBranchInfo* bi); /** * Update LTAGE for conditional branches. * @param branch_pc The unshifted branch PC. * @param taken Actual branch outcome. * @param bi Pointer to information on the prediction * recorded at prediction time. * @nrand Random int number from 0 to 3 */ void condBranchUpdate( Addr branch_pc, bool taken, TageBranchInfo* bi, int nrand) override; /** * Get a branch prediction from LTAGE. *NOT* an override of * BpredUnit::predict(). * @param tid The thread ID to select the global * histories to use. * @param branch_pc The unshifted branch PC. * @param cond_branch True if the branch is conditional. * @param b Reference to wrapping pointer to allow storing * derived class prediction information in the base class. */ bool predict( ThreadID tid, Addr branch_pc, bool cond_branch, void* &b) override; /** * Restores speculatively updated path and direction histories. * Also recomputes compressed (folded) histories based on the * correct branch outcome. * This version of squash() is called once on a branch misprediction. * @param tid The Thread ID to select the histories to rollback. * @param taken The correct branch outcome. * @param bp_history Wrapping pointer to TageBranchInfo (to allow * storing derived class prediction information in the * base class). * @post bp_history points to valid memory. */ void squash( ThreadID tid, bool taken, void *bp_history) override; /** * Update the stats * @param taken Actual branch outcome * @param bi Pointer to information on the prediction * recorded at prediction time. */ void updateStats(bool taken, TageBranchInfo* bi) override; const unsigned logSizeLoopPred; const unsigned loopTableAgeBits; const unsigned loopTableConfidenceBits; const unsigned loopTableTagBits; const unsigned loopTableIterBits; const unsigned logLoopTableAssoc; const uint8_t confidenceThreshold; const uint16_t loopTagMask; const uint16_t loopNumIterMask; LoopEntry *ltable; int8_t loopUseCounter; unsigned withLoopBits; // stats Stats::Scalar loopPredictorCorrect; Stats::Scalar loopPredictorWrong; }; #endif // __CPU_PRED_LTAGE