Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.
Previously when an InvalidateReq snooped a cache with a dirty block or
a pending modified MSHR, it would invalidate the block or set the
postInv flag. The cache would not send an InvalidateResp. though,
causing memory order violations. This patches changes this behavior,
making the cache with the dirty block or pending modified MSHR the
ordering point.
Change-Id: Ib4c31012f4f6693ffb137cd77258b160fbc239ca
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Previously an MSHR with one or more invalidating targets would first
service all targets in the MSHR TargetList and then invalidate the
block. As a result any service snooping targets would lookup in the
cache and incorrectly find the block. This patch forces the
invalidation to happen when the first invalidating target is
encountered.
Change-Id: I9df15de24e1d351cd96f5a2c424d9a03d81c2cce
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
This patch changes an assertion that previously assumed that a non
invalidating snoop request should never be serviced by an
InvalidateReq MSHR. The MSHR serves as the ordering point for the
snooping packet. When the InvalidateResp reaches the cache the
snooping packet snoops the caches above to find the requested
block. One or more of the caches above will have the block since
earlier it has seen a WriteLineReq.
Change-Id: I0c147c8b5d5019e18bd34adf9af0fccfe431ae07
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Previously, a WriteLineReq that missed in a cache would send out an
InvalidateReq if the block lookup failed or an UpgradeReq if the
block lookup succeeded but the block had sharers. This changes ensures
that a WriteLineReq always sends an InvalidateReq to invalidate all
copies of the block and satisfy the WriteLineReq.
Change-Id: I207ff5b267663abf02bc0b08aeadde69ad81be61
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
This patch fixes an issue where an MSHR would incorrectly be perceived
to provide data to targets arriving after an InvalidateReq. To address
this the InvalidateReq is now treated as isForward, much like an
UpgradeReq that did not hit in the cache.
Change-Id: Ia878444d949539b5c33fd19f3e12b0b8a872275e
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
Previously DPRINTFs printing information about a packet would use ad hoc
formats. This patch changes all DPRINTFs to use the print function
defined by the packet class, making the packet printing format more
uniform and easier to change.
Change-Id: Idd436a9758d4bf70c86a574d524648b2a2580970
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
A response to a ReadReq can either be a ReadResp or a
ReadRespWithInvalidate. As we add targets to an MSHR for a ReadReq we
assume that the response will be a ReadResp. When the response is
invalidating (ReadRespWithInvalidate) servicing more than one targets
can potentially violate the memory ordering. This change fixes the way
we handle a ReadRespWithInvalidate. When a cache receives a
ReadRespWithInvalidate we service only the first FromCPU target and
all the FromSnoop targets from the MSHR target list. The rest of the
FromCPU targets are deferred and serviced by a new request.
Change-Id: I75c30c268851987ee5f8644acb46f440b4eeeec2
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
Previously the information of whether a response was allocating or not
was a property of the MSHR. This change makes this flag a property of
the TargetList. Differernt TargetLists, e.g. the targets and the
deferred targets lists might have different values. Additionally, the
information about whether each of the target expects an allocating
response is stored inside the TargetList container. This allows for
repopulating the flag in case some of the targets are removed.
Change-Id: If3ec2516992f42a6d9da907009ffe3ab8d0d2021
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
This patch adds support for repopulating the flags of an MSHR
TargetList. The added functionality makes it possible to remove
targets from a TargetList without leaving it in an inconsistent state.
Change-Id: I3f7a8e97bfd3e2e49bebad056d11bbfb087aad91
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter
is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore,
the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and
data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is
sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True",
tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency
is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Previously printing an mshr would trigger an assertion if the MSHR was
not in service or if the targets list was empty. This patch changes
the print function to bypasses the accessor functions for
postInvalidate and postDowngrade and avoid the relevant assertions. It
also checks if the targets list is empty before calling print on it.
Change-Id: Ic18bee6cb088f63976112eba40e89501237cfe62
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch takes yet another step in maintaining the clusivity, in
that it allows a mostly-inclusive cache to hold on to blocks even when
responding to a ReadExReq or UpgradeReq. Previously the cache simply
invalidated these blocks, but there is no strict need to do so.
The most important part of this patch is that we simply mark the block
clean when satisfying the upstream request where the cache is allowed
to keep the block. The only tricky part of the patch is in the memory
management of deferred snoops, where we need to distinguish the cases
where only the packet was copied (we expected to respond), and the
cases where we created an entirely new packet and request (we kept it
only to replay later).
The code in satisfyRequest is definitely ready for some refactoring
after this.
Change-Id: I201ddc7b2582eaa46fb8cff0c7ad09e02d64b0fc
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch changes how the mostly exclusive policy is enforced to
ensure that we drop blocks when we should. As part of this change, the
actual invalidation due to the clusivity enforcement is moved outside
the hit handling, to a separate method maintainClusivity. For the
timing mode that means we can deal with all MSHR targets before taking
any action and possibly dropping the block. The method
satisfyCpuSideRequest is also renamed satisfyRequest as part of this
change (since we only ever see requests from the cpu-side port).
Change-Id: If6f3d1e0c3e7be9a67b72a55e4fc2ec4a90fd3d2
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch adds a FromCache attribute to the packet, and updates a
number of the existing request commands to reflect that the request
originates from a cache. The attribute simplifies checking if a
requests came from a cache or not, and this is used by both the cache
and snoop filter in follow-on patches.
Change-Id: Ib0a7a080bbe4d6036ddd84b46fd45bc7eb41cd8f
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>
We want to extend the stats of objects hierarchically and thus it is necessary
to register the statistics of the base-class(es), as well. For now, these are
empty, but generic stats will be added there.
Patch originally provided by Akash Bagdia at ARM Ltd.
This patch fixes a memory leak where deferred snoop packets never got
deallocated. On the call to MSHR::handleSnoop these snoops were
treated as if a response will be sent, as the MSHR was
pendingModified. Consequently, a copy of the packet was created and
added to the MSHR targets. However, an preceeding target to the same
MSHR, originally from a CPU, was serviced before the snoop, and caused
the block to be invalidated. This happens for ReadExReq and
UpgradeReq.
Note that the original snoop will receive a response, just not from
the cache in question, but instead from the cache upstream that issued
the ReadExReq or UpgradeReq.
Change-Id: I4ac012fbc8a46cf693ca390fe9476105d444e6f4
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
This patch changes the flow control for HSHR::handleSnoop to ensure
that we only set cacheResponding on the snoop packet if we are
actually responding. This avoids situations where a responder is
stalling indefinitely on a response that never arrives.
Change-Id: I691dd01755b614b30203581aa74fc743b350eacc
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
This patch removes the write-queue entry tracking previously used for
uncacheable writes. The write-queue entry is now deallocated as soon
as the packet is sent. As a result we also forego the stats for
uncacheable writes. Additionally, there is no longer a need to attach
the write-queue entry to the packet.
Queued prefetcher entries now count with a priority field. The idea is to
add packets ordered by priority and then by age.
For the existing algorithms in which priority doesn't make sense, it is set
to 0 for all deferred packets in the queue.
Some common functionality added to the base prefetcher, mainly dealing with
extracting the block address, page address, block index inside the page and
some other information that can be inferred from the block address. This is
used for some prefetching algorithms, and having the methods in the base,
as well as the block size and other information is the sensible way.
In general, the ThreadID parameter is unnecessary in the memory system
as the ContextID is what is used for the purposes of locks/wakeups.
Since we allocate sequential ContextIDs for each thread on MT-enabled
CPUs, ThreadID is unnecessary as the CPUs can identify the requesting
thread through sideband info (SenderState / LSQ entries) or ContextID
offset from the base ContextID for a cpu.
This is a re-spin of 20264eb after the revert (bd1c6789) and includes
some fixes of that commit.
The following patches had unexpected interactions with the current
upstream code and have been reverted for now:
e07fd01651f3: power: Add support for power models
831c7f2f9e39: power: Low-power idle power state for idle CPUs
4f749e00b667: power: Add power states to ClockedObject
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
--HG--
extra : amend_source : 0b6fb073c6bbc24be533ec431eb51fbf1b269508
In general, the ThreadID parameter is unnecessary in the memory system
as the ContextID is what is used for the purposes of locks/wakeups.
Since we allocate sequential ContextIDs for each thread on MT-enabled
CPUs, ThreadID is unnecessary as the CPUs can identify the requesting
thread through sideband info (SenderState / LSQ entries) or ContextID
offset from the base ContextID for a cpu.
The cache queue reserve is there as an overflow to give us enough
headroom based on when we block the cache, and how many transactions
we may already have accepted before actually blocking. The previous
values were probably chosen to be "big enough", when we actually know
that we check the MSHRs after every single allocation, and for the
write buffers we know that we implicitly may need one entry for every
outstanding MSHR.
* * *
mem: Adjust cache queue reserve to more conservative values
The cache queue reserve is there as an overflow to give us enough
headroom based on when we block the cache, and how many transactions
we may already have accepted before actually blocking. The previous
values were probably chosen to be "big enough", when we actually know
that we check the MSHRs after every single allocation, and for the
write buffers we know that we implicitly may need one entry for every
outstanding MSHR.
This patch breaks out the cache write buffer into a separate class,
without affecting any stats. The goal of the patch is to avoid
encumbering the much-simpler write queue with the complex MSHR
handling. In a follow on patch this simplification allows us to
implement write combining.
The WriteQueue gets its own class, but shares a common ancestor, the
generic Queue, with the MSHRQueue.
This patch adds assertions that enforce that only invalidating snoops
will ever reach into the logic that tracks in-order load completion and
also invalidation of LL/SC (and MONITOR / MWAIT) monitors. Also adds
some comments to MSHR::replaceUpgrades().
This patch fixes an issue where an InvalidationReq only traversed one
level of the cache hierarchy, and was subsequently turned into a
ReadExReq due to it needing writable, and the command not being
checked for explicitly.
Avoid being overly conservative in clearing load locks in the cache,
and allow writes to the line if they are from the same context. This
is in line with ALPHA and ARM.
This patch introduces the ability of making the coherent crossbar the
point of coherency. If so, the crossbar does not forward packets where
a cache with ownership has already committed to responding, and also
does not forward any coherency-related packets that are not intended
for a downstream memory controller. Thus, invalidations and upgrades
are turned around in the crossbar, and the memory controller only sees
normal reads and writes.
In addition this patch moves the express snoop promotion of a packet
to the crossbar, thus allowing the downstream cache to check the
express snoop flag (as it should) for bypassing any blocking, rather
than relying on whether a cache is responding or not.
Adopt the same flow as in timing mode, where the caches on the path to
memory get to keep the line (if present), and we use the
responderHadWritable flag to determine if we need to forward the
(invalidating) packet or not.
This patch unifies the snoop handling in case of hitting writebacks
with how we handle snoops hitting in the tags. As a result, we end up
using the same optimisation as the normal snoops, where we inform the
downstream cache if we encounter a line in Modified (writable and
dirty) state, which enables us to avoid sending out express snoops to
invalidate any Shared copies of the line. A few regressions
consequently change, as some transactions are sunk higher up in the
cache hierarchy.
This patch changes how the cache determines if snoops should be
forwarded from the memory side to the CPU side. Instead of having a
parameter, the cache now looks at the port connected on the CPU side,
and if it is a snooping port, then snoops are forwarded. Less error
prone, and less parameters to worry about.
The patch also tidies up the CPU classes to ensure that their I-side
port is not snooping by removing overrides to the snoop request
handler, such that snoop requests will panic via the default
MasterPort implement
Sanchayan Maity
