arm: AArch64 report cache size correctly when reading CTR_EL0

Trying to read MISCREG_CTR_EL0 on AArch64 returned 0 as is was not
implmemented.  With that an operating system relying on the cache line
sizes reported in order to manage the caches would (a) panic given the
returned value 0 is not valid (high bit is RES1) or (b) worst case would
assume a cache line size of 4 doing a tremendous amount of extra
instruction work (including fetching).  Return the same values as for ARMv7
as the fields seem to be the same, or RES0/1 seem to be reported
accordingly for AArch64

In collaboration with:  Andrew Turner

Testing Done: Checked on FreeBSD boots with extra printfs;  also observed a
reduction of a factor of about 10 in instruction fetches for a simple
micro-test.

Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3667/

Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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Bjoern A. Zeeb 2017-02-09 18:54:28 -05:00
parent 653b4657e6
commit f0786704db

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@ -594,7 +594,8 @@ ISA::readMiscReg(int misc_reg, ThreadContext *tc)
warn_once("The ccsidr register isn't implemented and "
"always reads as 0.\n");
break;
case MISCREG_CTR:
case MISCREG_CTR: // AArch32, ARMv7, top bit set
case MISCREG_CTR_EL0: // AArch64
{
//all caches have the same line size in gem5
//4 byte words in ARM