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Andreas Hansson
12eb034378 scons: Enable -Wextra by default
Make best use of the compiler, and enable -Wextra as well as
-Wall. There are a few issues that had to be resolved, but they are
all trivial.
2016-01-11 05:52:20 -05:00
Boris Shingarov
d765dbf22c arm: remote GDB: rationalize structure of register offsets
Currently, the wire format of register values in g- and G-packets is
modelled using a union of uint8/16/32/64 arrays.  The offset positions
of each register are expressed as a "register count" scaled according
to the width of the register in question.  This results in counter-
intuitive and error-prone "register count arithmetic", and some
formats would even be altogether unrepresentable in such model, e.g.
a 64-bit register following a 32-bit one would have a fractional index
in the regs64 array.
Another difficulty is that the array is allocated before the actual
architecture of the workload is known (and therefore before the correct
size for the array can be calculated).

With this patch I propose a simpler mechanism for expressing the
register set structure.  In the new code, GdbRegCache is an abstract
class; its subclasses contain straightforward structs reflecting the
register representation.  The determination whether to use e.g. the
AArch32 vs. AArch64 register set (or SPARCv8 vs SPARCv9, etc.) is made
by polymorphically dispatching getregs() to the concrete subclass.
The subclass is not instantiated until it is needed for actual
g-/G-packet processing, when the mode is already known.

This patch is not meant to be merged in on its own, because it changes
the contract between src/base/remote_gdb.* and src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*,
so as it stands right now, it would break the other architectures.
In this patch only the base and the ARM code are provided for review;
once we agree on the structure, I will provide src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*
for the other architectures; those patches could then be merged in
together.

Review Request: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3207/
Pushed by Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>
2015-12-18 15:12:07 -06:00
Palle Lyckegaard
a95e8ab887 sparc: Make remote debugging with gdb work
Remove sparc V8 TBR register from list of registers since it is not part of
sparc V9. This brings the number of registers in sync with what gdb expects

Without this patch gdb complains about receoved packet too long.

with this patch gdb is able to work properly with gem5 for remote debugging.

Note: gdb is version 7.8
Note: gdb is configured with --target=sparc64-sun-solaris2.8

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-11-16 04:58:39 -06:00
Andreas Hansson
22c04190c6 misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines
This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
2015-10-12 04:07:59 -04:00
Rekai Gonzalez Alberquilla
d3d159749a isa: Add parameter to pick different decoder inside ISA
The decoder is responsible for splitting instructions in micro
operations (uops). Given that different micro architectures may split
operations differently, this patch allows to specify which micro
architecture each isa implements, so different cores in the system can
split instructions differently, also decoupling uop splitting
(microArch) from ISA (Arch). This is done making the decodification
calls templates that receive a type 'DecoderFlavour' that maps the
name of the operation to the class that implements it. This way there
is only one selection point (converting the command line enum to the
appropriate DecodeFeatures object). In addition, there is no explicit
code replication: template instantiation hides that, and the compiler
should be able to resolve a number of things at compile-time.
2015-10-09 14:50:54 -05:00
Mitch Hayenga
a5c4eb3de9 isa,cpu: Add support for FS SMT Interrupts
Adds per-thread interrupt controllers and thread/context logic
so that interrupts properly get routed in SMT systems.
2015-09-30 11:14:19 -05:00
Palle Lyckegaard
3de9def6c1 sparc: writing to tick_cmpr should not cause a panic
This register is writable according to UA2005

Tried to boot NetBSD which starts the kernel by writing to the tick_cmpr
register.  Without the patch gem5 crashes with a panic.  With the patch NetBSD
starts to boot normally (although sun4v support in NetBSD is not complete yet)

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2015-09-15 08:14:07 -05:00
Nilay Vaish
aafa5c3f86 revert 5af8f40d8f2c 2015-07-28 01:58:04 -05:00
Nilay Vaish
608641e23c cpu: implements vector registers
This adds a vector register type.  The type is defined as a std::array of a
fixed number of uint64_ts.  The isa_parser.py has been modified to parse vector
register operands and generate the required code.  Different cpus have vector
register files now.
2015-07-26 10:21:20 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
76cd4393c0 sim: Refactor the serialization base class
Objects that are can be serialized are supposed to inherit from the
Serializable class. This class is meant to provide a unified API for
such objects. However, so far it has mainly been used by SimObjects
due to some fundamental design limitations. This changeset redesigns
to the serialization interface to make it more generic and hide the
underlying checkpoint storage. Specifically:

  * Add a set of APIs to serialize into a subsection of the current
    object. Previously, objects that needed this functionality would
    use ad-hoc solutions using nameOut() and section name
    generation. In the new world, an object that implements the
    interface has the methods serializeSection() and
    unserializeSection() that serialize into a named /subsection/ of
    the current object. Calling serialize() serializes an object into
    the current section.

  * Move the name() method from Serializable to SimObject as it is no
    longer needed for serialization. The fully qualified section name
    is generated by the main serialization code on the fly as objects
    serialize sub-objects.

  * Add a scoped ScopedCheckpointSection helper class. Some objects
    need to serialize data structures, that are not deriving from
    Serializable, into subsections. Previously, this was done using
    nameOut() and manual section name generation. To simplify this,
    this changeset introduces a ScopedCheckpointSection() helper
    class. When this class is instantiated, it adds a new /subsection/
    and subsequent serialization calls during the lifetime of this
    helper class happen inside this section (or a subsection in case
    of nested sections).

  * The serialize() call is now const which prevents accidental state
    manipulation during serialization. Objects that rely on modifying
    state can use the serializeOld() call instead. The default
    implementation simply calls serialize(). Note: The old-style calls
    need to be explicitly called using the
    serializeOld()/serializeSectionOld() style APIs. These are used by
    default when serializing SimObjects.

  * Both the input and output checkpoints now use their own named
    types. This hides underlying checkpoint implementation from
    objects that need checkpointing and makes it easier to change the
    underlying checkpoint storage code.
2015-07-07 09:51:03 +01:00
Andreas Sandberg
48281375ee mem, cpu: Add a separate flag for strictly ordered memory
The Request::UNCACHEABLE flag currently has two different
functions. The first, and obvious, function is to prevent the memory
system from caching data in the request. The second function is to
prevent reordering and speculation in CPU models.

This changeset gives the order/speculation requirement a separate flag
(Request::STRICT_ORDER). This flag prevents CPU models from doing the
following optimizations:

    * Speculation: CPU models are not allowed to issue speculative
      loads.

    * Write combining: CPU models and caches are not allowed to merge
      writes to the same cache line.

Note: The memory system may still reorder accesses unless the
UNCACHEABLE flag is set. It is therefore expected that the
STRICT_ORDER flag is combined with the UNCACHEABLE flag to prevent
this behavior.
2015-05-05 03:22:33 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
d0e1b8a19c arch: Make readMiscRegNoEffect const throughout
Finally took the plunge and made this apply to all ISAs, not just ARM.
2015-02-16 03:33:28 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
550c318490 sim: Move the BaseTLB to src/arch/generic/
The TLB-related code is generally architecture dependent and should
live in the arch directory to signify that.

--HG--
rename : src/sim/BaseTLB.py => src/arch/generic/BaseTLB.py
rename : src/sim/tlb.cc => src/arch/generic/tlb.cc
rename : src/sim/tlb.hh => src/arch/generic/tlb.hh
2015-02-11 10:23:27 -05:00
Ali Saidi
0bd986015b cpu: Put all CPU instruction tracers in a single file 2015-01-25 07:22:17 -05:00
Gabe Black
4a8a0a0798 misc: Generalize GDB single stepping.
The new single stepping implementation for x86 doesn't rely on any ISA
specific properties or functionality. This change pulls out the per ISA
implementation of those functions and promotes the X86 implementation to the
base class.

One drawback of that implementation is that the CPU might stop on an
instruction twice if it's affected by both breakpoints and single stepping.
While that might be a little surprising, it's harmless and would only happen
under somewhat unlikely circumstances.
2014-12-05 22:37:03 -08:00
Gabe Black
fe48c0a32b misc: Make the GDB register cache accessible in various sized chunks.
Not all ISAs have 64 bit sized registers, so it's not always very convenient
to access the GDB register cache in 64 bit sized chunks. This change makes it
accessible in 8, 16, 32, or 64 bit chunks. The MIPS and ARM implementations
were working around that limitation by bundling and unbundling 32 bit values
into 64 bit values. That code has been removed.
2014-12-05 01:44:24 -08:00
Alexandru Dutu
1f539f13c3 mem: Page Table map api modification
This patch adds uncacheable/cacheable and read-only/read-write attributes to
the map method of PageTableBase. It also modifies the constructor of TlbEntry
structs for all architectures to consider the new attributes.
2014-11-23 18:01:09 -08:00
Alexandru Dutu
adbaa4dfde kvm, x86: Adding support for SE mode execution
This patch adds methods in KvmCPU model to handle KVM exits caused by syscall
instructions and page faults. These types of exits will be encountered if
KvmCPU is run in SE mode.
2014-11-23 18:01:08 -08:00
Nilay Vaish
6523aad25c sim: revert 6709bbcf564d
The identifier SYS_getdents is not available on Mac OS X.  Therefore, its use
results in compilation failure.  It seems there is no straight forward way to
implement the system call getdents using readdir() or similar C functions.
Hence the commit 6709bbcf564d is being rolled back.
2014-10-22 15:59:57 -05:00
Michael Adler
a3fe4c0662 sim: implement getdents/getdents64 in user mode
Has been tested only for alpha.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
2014-10-20 16:44:53 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
a2d246b6b8 arch: Use shared_ptr for all Faults
This patch takes quite a large step in transitioning from the ad-hoc
RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr by adopting its use for all
Faults. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications
are mostly just replacing "new" with "make_shared".
2014-10-16 05:49:51 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
341dbf2662 arch: Use const StaticInstPtr references where possible
This patch optimises the passing of StaticInstPtr by avoiding copying
the reference-counting pointer. This avoids first incrementing and
then decrementing the reference-counting pointer.
2014-09-27 09:08:36 -04:00
Mitch Hayenga
e1403fc2af alpha,arm,mips,power,x86,cpu,sim: Cleanup activate/deactivate
activate(), suspend(), and halt() used on thread contexts had an optional
delay parameter. However this parameter was often ignored. Also, when used,
the delay was seemily arbitrarily set to 0 or 1 cycle (no other delays were
ever specified). This patch removes the delay parameter and 'Events'
associated with them across all ISAs and cores. Unused activate logic
is also removed.
2014-09-20 17:18:35 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
e1ac962939 arch: Cleanup unused ISA traits constants
This patch prunes unused values, and also unifies how the values are
defined (not using an enum for ALPHA), aligning the use of int vs Addr
etc.

The patch also removes the duplication of PageBytes/PageShift and
VMPageSize/LogVMPageSize. For all ISAs the two pairs had identical
values and the latter has been removed.
2014-09-03 07:42:21 -04:00
Alexandru
5efbb4442a mem: adding architectural page table support for SE mode
This patch enables the use of page tables that are stored in system memory
and respect x86 specification, in SE mode. It defines an architectural
page table for x86 as a MultiLevelPageTable class and puts a placeholder
class for other ISAs page tables, giving the possibility for future
implementation.
2014-08-28 10:11:44 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
a3d3eb0ff7 sparc: Fixup bit ordering in the PSTATE bit union
The order of the MSB and LSB bit of the mm field in the PSTATE union
is wrong. Any access to this field will currently be ignored and reads
will always return zero. This patch fixes the ordering so it is <MSB,
LSB> instead of <LSB, MSB>.
2014-08-26 10:13:23 -04:00
Steve Reinhardt
0be64ffe2f style: eliminate equality tests with true and false
Using '== true' in a boolean expression is totally redundant,
and using '== false' is pretty verbose (and arguably less
readable in most cases) compared to '!'.

It's somewhat of a pet peeve, perhaps, but I had some time
waiting for some tests to run and decided to clean these up.

Unfortunately, SLICC appears not to have the '!' operator,
so I had to leave the '== false' tests in the SLICC code.
2014-05-31 18:00:23 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
109908c2a6 syscall emulation: clean up & comment SyscallReturn 2014-05-12 14:23:31 -07:00
Curtis Dunham
fe27f937aa arch: teach ISA parser how to split code across files
This patch encompasses several interrelated and interdependent changes
to the ISA generation step.  The end goal is to reduce the size of the
generated compilation units for instruction execution and decoding so
that batch compilation can proceed with all CPUs active without
exhausting physical memory.

The ISA parser (src/arch/isa_parser.py) has been improved so that it can
accept 'split [output_type];' directives at the top level of the grammar
and 'split(output_type)' python calls within 'exec {{ ... }}' blocks.
This has the effect of "splitting" the files into smaller compilation
units.  I use air-quotes around "splitting" because the files themselves
are not split, but preprocessing directives are inserted to have the same
effect.

Architecturally, the ISA parser has had some changes in how it works.
In general, it emits code sooner.  It doesn't generate per-CPU files,
and instead defers to the C preprocessor to create the duplicate copies
for each CPU type.  Likewise there are more files emitted and the C
preprocessor does more substitution that used to be done by the ISA parser.

Finally, the build system (SCons) needs to be able to cope with a
dynamic list of source files coming out of the ISA parser. The changes
to the SCons{cript,truct} files support this. In broad strokes, the
targets requested on the command line are hidden from SCons until all
the build dependencies are determined, otherwise it would try, realize
it can't reach the goal, and terminate in failure. Since build steps
(i.e. running the ISA parser) must be taken to determine the file list,
several new build stages have been inserted at the very start of the
build. First, the build dependencies from the ISA parser will be emitted
to arch/$ISA/generated/inc.d, which is then read by a new SCons builder
to finalize the dependencies. (Once inc.d exists, the ISA parser will not
need to be run to complete this step.) Once the dependencies are known,
the 'Environments' are made by the makeEnv() function. This function used
to be called before the build began but now happens during the build.
It is easy to see that this step is quite slow; this is a known issue
and it's important to realize that it was already slow, but there was
no obvious cause to attribute it to since nothing was displayed to the
terminal. Since new steps that used to be performed serially are now in a
potentially-parallel build phase, the pathname handling in the SCons scripts
has been tightened up to deal with chdir() race conditions. In general,
pathnames are computed earlier and more likely to be stored, passed around,
and processed as absolute paths rather than relative paths.  In the end,
some of these issues had to be fixed by inserting serializing dependencies
in the build.

Minor note:
For the null ISA, we just provide a dummy inc.d so SCons is never
compelled to try to generate it. While it seems slightly wrong to have
anything in src/arch/*/generated (i.e. a non-generated 'generated' file),
it's by far the simplest solution.
2014-05-09 18:58:47 -04:00
Geoffrey Blake
85940fd537 arch, arm: Preserve TLB bootUncacheability when switching CPUs
The ARM TLBs have a bootUncacheability flag used to make some loads
and stores become uncacheable when booting in FS mode. Later the
flag is cleared to let those loads and stores operate as normal.  When
doing a takeOverFrom(), this flag's state is not preserved and is
momentarily reset until the CPSR is touched. On single core runs this
is a non-issue. On multi-core runs this can lead to crashes on the O3
CPU model from the following series of events:
 1) takeOverFrom executed to switch from Atomic -> O3
 2) All bootUncacheability flags are reset to true
 3) Core2 tries to execute a load covered by bootUncacheability, it
    is flagged as uncacheable
 4) Core2's load needs to replay due to a pipeline flush
 3) Core1 core does an action on CPSR
 4) The handling code for CPSR then checks all other cores
    to determine if bootUncacheability can be set to false
 5) Asynchronously set bootUncacheability on all cores to false
 6) Core2 replays load previously set as uncacheable and notices
    it is now flagged as cacheable, leads to a panic.
This patch implements takeOverFrom() functionality for the ARM TLBs
to preserve flag values when switching from atomic -> detailed.
2014-05-09 18:58:47 -04:00
Curtis Dunham
7f1603d207 arch: remove inline specifiers on all inst constrs, all ISAs
With (upcoming) separate compilation, they are useless.  Only
link-time optimization could re-inline them, but ideally
feedback-directed optimization would choose to do so only for
profitable (i.e. common) instructions.
2014-05-09 18:58:46 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
cfc4a99982 arch: Make all register index flattening const
This patch makes all the register index flattening methods const for
all the ISAs. As part of this, readMiscRegNoEffect for ARM is also
made const.
2014-01-24 15:29:30 -06:00
Ali Saidi
7d0344704a arch, cpu: Add support for flattening misc register indexes.
With ARMv8 support the same misc register id  results in accessing different
registers depending on the current mode of the processor. This patch adds
the same orthogonality to the misc register file as the others (int, float, cc).
For all the othre ISAs this is currently a null-implementation.

Additionally, a system variable is added to all the ISA objects.
2014-01-24 15:29:30 -06:00
Ali Saidi
6bed6e0352 cpu: Add CPU support for generatig wake up events when LLSC adresses are snooped.
This patch add support for generating wake-up events in the CPU when an address
that is currently in the exclusive state is hit by a snoop. This mechanism is required
for ARMv8 multi-processor support.
2014-01-24 15:29:30 -06:00
Yasuko Eckert
2c293823aa cpu: add a condition-code register class
Add a third register class for condition codes,
in parallel with the integer and FP classes.
No ISAs use the CC class at this point though.
2013-10-15 14:22:44 -04:00
Steve Reinhardt
219c423f1f cpu: rename *_DepTag constants to *_Reg_Base
Make these names more meaningful.

Specifically, made these substitutions:

s/FP_Base_DepTag/FP_Reg_Base/g;
s/Ctrl_Base_DepTag/Misc_Reg_Base/g;
s/Max_DepTag/Max_Reg_Index/g;
2013-10-15 14:22:43 -04:00
Steve Reinhardt
a830e63de7 isa: clean up register constants
Clean up and add some consistency to the *_Base_DepTag
constants as well as some related register constants:
- Get rid of NumMiscArchRegs, TotalArchRegs, and TotalDataRegs
  since they're never used and not always defined
- Set FP_Base_DepTag = NumIntRegs when possible (i.e.,
  every case except x86)
- Set Ctrl_Base_DepTag = FP_Base_DepTag + NumFloatRegs
  (this was true before, but wasn't always expressed
  that way)
- Drastically reduce the number of arbitrary constants
  appearing in these calculations
2013-10-15 14:22:43 -04:00
Andreas Sandberg
4f5775df64 mem: Rename the ASI_BITS flag field in Request
ASI_BITS in the Request object were originally used to store a memory
request's ASI on SPARC. This is not the case any more since other ISAs
use the ASI bits to store architecture-dependent information. This
changeset renames the ASI_BITS to ARCH_BITS which better describes
their use. Additionally, the getAsi() accessor is renamed to
getArchFlags().
2013-10-15 13:26:34 +02:00
Andreas Sandberg
d9856f33a4 arch: Add support for m5ops using mmapped IPRs
In order to support m5ops on virtualized CPUs, we need to either
intercept hypercall instructions or provide a memory mapped m5ops
interface. Since KVM does not normally pass the results of hypercalls
to userspace, which makes that method unfeasible. This changeset
introduces support for m5ops using memory mapped mmapped IPRs. This is
implemented by adding a class of "generic" IPRs which are handled by
architecture-independent code. Such IPRs always have bit 63 set and
are handled by handleGenericIprRead() and
handleGenericIprWrite(). Platform specific impementations of
handleIprRead and handleIprWrite should use
GenericISA::isGenericIprAccess to determine if an IPR address should
be handled by the generic code instead of the architecture-specific
code. Platforms that don't need their own IPR support can reuse
GenericISA::handleIprRead() and GenericISA::handleIprWrite().
2013-09-30 12:20:43 +02:00
Andreas Sandberg
7846f59d0d arch: Create a method to finalize physical addresses
in the TLB

Some architectures (currently only x86) require some fixing-up of
physical addresses after a normal address translation. This is usually
to remap devices such as the APIC, but could be used for other memory
mapped devices as well. When running the CPU in a using hardware
virtualization, we still need to do these address fix-ups before
inserting the request into the memory system. This patch moves this
patch allows that code to be used by such CPUs without doing full
address translations.
2013-06-03 13:55:41 +02:00
Andreas Hansson
319443d42d scons: Add warning for missing declarations
This patch enables warnings for missing declarations. To avoid issues
with SWIG-generated code, the warning is only applied to non-SWIG
code.
2013-02-19 05:56:07 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
b44e0ce52b scons: Add warning for overloaded virtual functions
Fix the ISA startup warnings
2013-02-19 05:56:07 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
0acd2a96e5 scons: Add warning for overloaded virtual functions
A derived function with a different signature than a base class
function will result in the base class function of the same name being
hidden. The parameter list and return type for the member function in
the derived class must match those of the member function in the base
class, otherwise the function in the derived class will hide the
function in the base class and no polymorphic behaviour will occur.

This patch addresses these warnings by ensuring a unique function name
to avoid (unintentionally) hiding any functions.
2013-02-19 05:56:06 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
d670fa60a1 scons: Add warning for missing field initializers
This patch adds a warning for missing field initializers for both gcc
and clang, and addresses the warnings that were generated.
2013-02-19 05:56:06 -05:00
Nilay Vaish
fc57ae6401 x86, cpu: corrects 270c9a75e91f, take over decoder on cpu switch
The changes made by the changeset 270c9a75e91f do not work well with switching
of cpus. The problem is that decoder for the old thread context holds state
that is not taken over by the new decoder.

This patch adds a takeOverFrom() function to Decoder class in each ISA. Except
for x86, functions in other ISAs are blank. For x86, the function copies state
from the old decoder to the new decoder.
2013-01-22 00:10:10 -06:00
Nilay Vaish
25ec278a0b x86: Changes to decoder, corrects 9376
The changes made by the changeset 9376 were not quite correct. The patch made
changes to the code which resulted in decoder not getting initialized correctly
when the state was restored from a checkpoint.

This patch adds a startup function to each ISA object. For x86, this function
sets the required state in the decoder. For other ISAs, the function is empty
right now.
2013-01-12 22:09:48 -06:00
Andreas Sandberg
e09e9fa279 cpu: Flush TLBs on switchOut()
This changeset inserts a TLB flush in BaseCPU::switchOut to prevent
stale translations when doing repeated switching. Additionally, the
TLB flushing functionality is exported to the Python to make debugging
of switching/checkpointing easier.

A simulation script will typically use the TLB flushing functionality
to generate a reference trace. The following sequence can be used to
simulate a handover (this depends on how drain is implemented, but is
generally the case) between identically configured CPU models:

  m5.drain(test_sys)
  [ cpu.flushTLBs() for cpu in test_sys.cpu ]
  m5.resume(test_sys)

The generated trace should normally be identical to a trace generated
when switching between identically configured CPU models or
checkpointing and resuming.
2013-01-07 13:05:48 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
17b47d35e1 arch: Move the ISA object to a separate section
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.
2013-01-07 13:05:42 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
94561dd526 arch: Add support for invalidating TLBs when draining
This patch adds support for the memInvalidate() drain method.  TLB
flushing is requested by calling the virtual flushAll() method on the
TLB.

Note: This patch renames invalidateAll() to flushAll() on x86 and
SPARC to make the interface consistent across all supported
architectures.
2013-01-07 13:05:40 -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