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Andreas Sandberg
2cfe62adc4 cpu: Rename defer_registration->switched_out
The defer_registration parameter is used to prevent a CPU from
initializing at startup, leaving it in the "switched out" mode. The
name of this parameter (and the help string) is confusing. This patch
renames it to switched_out, which should be more descriptive.
2013-01-07 13:05:45 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
3db3f83a5e arch: Make the ISA class inherit from SimObject
The ISA class on stores the contents of ID registers on many
architectures. In order to make reset values of such registers
configurable, we make the class inherit from SimObject, which allows
us to use the normal generated parameter headers.

This patch introduces a Python helper method, BaseCPU.createThreads(),
which creates a set of ISAs for each of the threads in an SMT
system. Although it is currently only needed when creating
multi-threaded CPUs, it should always be called before instantiating
the system as this is an obvious place to configure ID registers
identifying a thread/CPU.
2013-01-07 13:05:35 -05:00
Ali Saidi
5146a69835 cpu: rename the misleading inSyscall to noSquashFromTC
isSyscall was originally created because during handling of a syscall in SE
mode the threadcontext had to be updated. However, in many places this is used
in FS mode (e.g. fault handlers) and the name doesn't make much sense. The
boolean actually stops gem5 from squashing speculative and non-committed state
when a write to a threadcontext happens, so re-name the variable to something
more appropriate
2013-01-07 13:05:33 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
a81c969529 CPU: Remove overloaded function_trace_start parameter
This patch removes the overloading of the parameter, which seems both
redundant, and possibly incorrect.

The inorder CPU is particularly interesting as it uses a different
name for the parameter, and never make any use of it internally.
2012-08-21 05:49:43 -04:00
Ali Saidi
1b370431d0 sim: Remove FastAlloc
While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular malloc it isn't thread safe.
After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 12% over libc malloc
when running twolf for ARM.
2012-06-05 01:23:08 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
750f33a901 MEM: Remove the Broadcast destination from the packet
This patch simplifies the packet by removing the broadcast flag and
instead more firmly relying on (and enforcing) the semantics of
transactions in the classic memory system, i.e. request packets are
routed from a master to a slave based on the address, and when they
are created they have neither a valid source, nor destination. On
their way to the slave, the request packet is updated with a source
field for all modules that multiplex packets from multiple master
(e.g. a bus). When a request packet is turned into a response packet
(at the final slave), it moves the potentially populated source field
to the destination field, and the response packet is routed through
any multiplexing components back to the master based on the
destination field.

Modules that connect multiplexing components, such as caches and
bridges store any existing source and destination field in the sender
state as a stack (just as before).

The packet constructor is simplified in that there is no longer a need
to pass the Packet::Broadcast as the destination (this was always the
case for the classic memory system). In the case of Ruby, rather than
using the parameter to the constructor we now rely on setDest, as
there is already another three-argument constructor in the packet
class.

In many places where the packet information was printed as part of
DPRINTFs, request packets would be printed with a numeric "dest" that
would always be -1 (Broadcast) and that field is now removed from the
printing.
2012-04-14 05:45:55 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
b00949d88b MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memories
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of
PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual
memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous
address range.

All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic
behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access
methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now
SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of
memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory.

To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now
distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called
PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and
their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an
infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut"
accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the
global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some
testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to
the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and
any potential ACPI tables.

Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the
same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the
checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible
re-organisation.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/AbstractMemory.py
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/SimpleMemory.py
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/abstract_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/abstract_mem.hh
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/simple_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/simple_mem.hh
2012-04-06 13:46:31 -04:00
William Wang
f9d403a7b9 MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++
This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++
code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python
classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects.

The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add
assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two
interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master
port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations
are to come in later patches.

The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and
returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be
a valid return value. The default implementation of these two
functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal.

The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some
code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and
QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort
(avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the
port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a
lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.
2012-03-30 09:40:11 -04:00
Geoffrey Blake
69d229ce28 O3/Ozone: Eliminate dead code counting software prefetch insts
Eliminates dead code in the O3 and Ozone CPU models that counted
software prefetch instructions separately for the ALPHA ISA only.
2012-03-09 09:59:28 -05:00
Geoffrey Blake
043709fdfa CheckerCPU: Make CheckerCPU runtime selectable instead of compile selectable
Enables the CheckerCPU to be selected at runtime with the --checker option
from the configs/example/fs.py and configs/example/se.py configuration
files.  Also merges with the SE/FS changes.
2012-03-09 09:59:27 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
9e3c8de30b MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointers
This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would
not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members
rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a
valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this
clear.

The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as
loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better
reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact
the code would break and that is how this patch started out).

Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional
composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a
much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only
done in the locations affected by the proxies.
2012-02-24 11:45:30 -05:00
Gabe Black
f2b46fdb85 Faults: Turn off arch/faults.hh
Because there are no longer architecture independent but specialized functions
in arch/XXX/faults.hh, code that isn't using the faults from a particular ISA
no longer needs to be able to include them through the switching header file
arch/faults.hh. By removing that header file (arch/faults.hh), the potential
interface between ISA code and non ISA code is narrowed.
2012-02-07 04:43:21 -08:00
Gabe Black
c3d41a2def Merge with the main repo.
--HG--
rename : src/mem/vport.hh => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.hh
rename : src/mem/translating_port.cc => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.cc
rename : src/mem/translating_port.hh => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.hh
2012-01-28 07:24:01 -08:00
Andreas Hansson
07cf9d914b MEM: Separate queries for snooping and address ranges
This patch simplifies the address-range determination mechanism and
also unifies the naming across ports and devices. It further splits
the queries for determining if a port is snooping and what address
ranges it responds to (aiming towards a separation of
cache-maintenance ports and pure memory-mapped ports). Default
behaviours are such that most ports do not have to define isSnooping,
and master ports need not implement getAddrRanges.
2012-01-17 12:55:09 -06:00
Andreas Hansson
f85286b3de MEM: Add port proxies instead of non-structural ports
Port proxies are used to replace non-structural ports, and thus enable
all ports in the system to correspond to a structural entity. This has
the advantage of accessing memory through the normal memory subsystem
and thus allowing any constellation of distributed memories, address
maps, etc. Most accesses are done through the "system port" that is
used for loading binaries, debugging etc. For the entities that belong
to the CPU, e.g. threads and thread contexts, they wrap the CPU data
port in a port proxy.

The following replacements are made:
FunctionalPort      > PortProxy
TranslatingPort     > SETranslatingPortProxy
VirtualPort         > FSTranslatingPortProxy

--HG--
rename : src/mem/vport.cc => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.cc
rename : src/mem/vport.hh => src/mem/fs_translating_port_proxy.hh
rename : src/mem/translating_port.cc => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.cc
rename : src/mem/translating_port.hh => src/mem/se_translating_port_proxy.hh
2012-01-17 12:55:08 -06:00
Gabe Black
85424bef19 SE/FS: Get rid of includes of config/full_system.hh. 2011-11-18 02:20:22 -08:00
Gabe Black
de21bb93ea SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in the CPU directory. 2011-11-18 01:33:28 -08:00
Gabe Black
facb40f3ff SE/FS: Make getProcessPtr available in both modes, and get rid of FULL_SYSTEMs. 2011-10-30 00:33:02 -07:00
Gabe Black
464c485d0c SE/FS: Include getMemPort in FS. 2011-10-16 05:06:40 -07:00
Gabe Black
3595b0c5a1 SE/FS: Build/expose vport in SE mode. 2011-10-16 05:06:39 -07:00
Gabe Black
e8e9f97312 CPU: Make physPort and getPhysPort available in SE mode. 2011-10-16 02:59:53 -07:00
Gabe Black
6230668f5e O3: Get rid of the raw ExtMachInst constructor on DynInsts.
This constructor assumes that the ExtMachInst can be decoded directly into a
StaticInst that's useful to execute. With the advent of microcoded
instructions that's no longer true.
2011-08-02 11:51:16 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
2b1aa35e20 scons: rename TraceFlags to DebugFlags 2011-06-02 17:36:21 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
39a055645f includes: sort all includes 2011-04-15 10:44:06 -07:00
Ali Saidi
5962fecc1d CPU: Remove references to memory copy operations 2011-04-04 11:42:26 -05:00
Steve Reinhardt
6f1187943c Replace curTick global variable with accessor functions.
This step makes it easy to replace the accessor functions
(which still access a global variable) with ones that access
per-thread curTick values.
2011-01-07 21:50:29 -08:00
Steve Reinhardt
89cf3f6e85 Move sched_list.hh and timebuf.hh from src/base to src/cpu.
These files really aren't general enough to belong in src/base.
This patch doesn't reorder include lines, leaving them unsorted
in many cases, but Nate's magic script will fix that up shortly.

--HG--
rename : src/base/sched_list.hh => src/cpu/sched_list.hh
rename : src/base/timebuf.hh => src/cpu/timebuf.hh
2011-01-03 14:35:47 -08:00
Ali Saidi
cdacbe734a ARM/Alpha/Cpu: Change prefetchs to be more like normal loads.
This change modifies the way prefetches work. They are now like normal loads
that don't writeback a register. Previously prefetches were supposed to call
prefetch() on the exection context, so they executed with execute() methods
instead of initiateAcc() completeAcc(). The prefetch() methods for all the CPUs
are blank, meaning that they get executed, but don't actually do anything.

On Alpha dead cache copy code was removed and prefetches are now normal ops.
They count as executed operations, but still don't do anything and IsMemRef is
not longer set on them.

On ARM IsDataPrefetch or IsInstructionPreftech is now set on all prefetch
instructions. The timing simple CPU doesn't try to do anything special for
prefetches now and they execute with the normal memory code path.
2010-11-08 13:58:22 -06:00
Gabe Black
8f3fbd2d13 CPU: Get rid of the now unnecessary getInst/setInst family of functions.
This code is no longer needed because of the preceeding change which adds a
StaticInstPtr parameter to the fault's invoke method, obviating the only use
for this pair of functions.
2010-09-13 21:58:34 -07:00
Gabe Black
943c171480 ISA: Get rid of old, unused utility functions cluttering up the ISAs. 2010-08-23 16:14:20 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
54d813adca stats: get rid of the never-really-used event stuff 2010-06-14 23:24:46 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
f92e91e853 Minor remote GDB cleanup.
Expand the help text on the --remote-gdb-port option so
people know you can use it to disable remote gdb without
reading the source code, and thus don't waste any time
trying to add a separate option to do that.
Clean up some gdb-related cruft I found while looking
for where one would add a gdb disable option, before
I found the comment that told me that I didn't need
to do that.
2010-06-03 16:54:26 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
f0b4259e98 cpu_models: get rid of cpu_models.py and move the stuff into SCons 2010-02-26 18:14:48 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
d9f39c8ce7 arch: nuke arch/isa_specific.hh and move stuff to generated config/the_isa.hh 2009-09-23 08:34:21 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
9a8cb7db7e python: Move more code into m5.util allow SCons to use that code.
Get rid of misc.py and just stick misc things in __init__.py
Move utility functions out of SCons files and into m5.util
Move utility type stuff from m5/__init__.py to m5/util/__init__.py
Remove buildEnv from m5 and allow access only from m5.defines
Rename AddToPath to addToPath while we're moving it to m5.util
Rename read_command to readCommand while we're moving it
Rename compare_versions to compareVersions while we're moving it.

--HG--
rename : src/python/m5/convert.py => src/python/m5/util/convert.py
rename : src/python/m5/smartdict.py => src/python/m5/util/smartdict.py
2009-09-22 15:24:16 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
a13a706a20 Fix setting of INST_FETCH flag for O3 CPU.
It's still broken in inorder.
Also enhance DPRINTFs in cache and physical memory so we
can see more easily whether it's getting set or not.
2009-08-01 22:50:14 -07:00
Gabe Black
c9a27d85b9 Get rid of the unused get(Data|Inst)Asid and (inst|data)Asid functions. 2009-07-08 23:02:22 -07:00
Gabe Black
b398b8ff1b Registers: Add a registers.hh file as an ISA switched header.
This file is for register indices, Num* constants, and register types.
copyRegs and copyMiscRegs were moved to utility.hh and utility.cc.

--HG--
rename : src/arch/alpha/regfile.hh => src/arch/alpha/registers.hh
rename : src/arch/arm/regfile.hh => src/arch/arm/registers.hh
rename : src/arch/mips/regfile.hh => src/arch/mips/registers.hh
rename : src/arch/sparc/regfile.hh => src/arch/sparc/registers.hh
rename : src/arch/x86/regfile.hh => src/arch/x86/registers.hh
2009-07-08 23:02:21 -07:00
Gabe Black
25884a8773 Registers: Get rid of the float register width parameter. 2009-07-08 23:02:20 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
6faf377b53 types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsigned 2009-06-04 23:21:12 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
47877cf2db types: add a type for thread IDs and try to use it everywhere 2009-05-26 09:23:13 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
8d2e51c7f5 includes: sort includes again 2009-05-17 14:34:52 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
eef3a2e142 types: Move stuff for global types into src/base/types.hh
--HG--
rename : src/sim/host.hh => src/base/types.hh
2009-05-17 14:34:50 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
3083268d60 request: rename INST_READ to INST_FETCH. 2009-04-20 18:54:02 -07:00
Gabe Black
bd6f2bb538 Mem: Change isLlsc to isLLSC. 2009-04-19 21:44:15 -07:00
Gabe Black
3e5f487663 Memory: Rename LOCKED for load locked store conditional to LLSC. 2009-04-19 04:25:01 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
7617dcf736 ThreadState: initialize status to Halted in constructor.
This provides a common initial status for all threads independent
of CPU model (unlike the prior situation where CPUs initialized
threads to inconsistent states).
This mostly matters for SE mode; in FS mode, ISA-specific startupCPU()
methods generally handle boot-time initialization of thread contexts
(since the right thing to do is ISA-dependent).
2009-04-15 13:18:24 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
8882dc1283 Get rid of the Unallocated thread context state.
Basically merge it in with Halted.
Also had to get rid of a few other functions that
called ThreadContext::deallocate(), including:
 - InOrderCPU's setThreadRescheduleCondition.
 - ThreadContext::exit().  This function was there to avoid terminating
   simulation when one thread out of a multi-thread workload exits, but we
   need to find a better (non-cpu-centric) way.
2009-04-15 13:13:47 -07:00
Gabe Black
7b5a96f06b tlb: Don't separate the TLB classes into an instruction TLB and a data TLB 2009-04-08 22:21:27 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
cc95b57390 stats: Fix all stats usages to deal with template fixes 2009-03-05 19:09:53 -08:00