Add 4 power states to the ClockedObject, provides necessary access functions
to check and update the power state. Default power state is UNDEFINED, it is
responsibility of the respective simulation model to provide the startup state
and any other logic for state change.
Add number of transition stat.
Add distribution of time spent in clock gated state.
Add power state residency stat.
Add dump call back function to allow stats update of distribution and residency
stats.
This patch adds the ability for the simulator to query the number of
instructions a CPU has executed so far per hw-thread. This can be used
to enable more flexible periodic events such as taking checkpoints
starting 1s into simulation and X instructions thereafter.
This changeset adds an option to force the kvm-based CPUs to always
synchronize the gem5 thread context representation on entry/exit into
the kernel. This is very useful for debugging. Unfortunately, it is
also the only way to get reliable register contents when using remote
gdb functionality. The long-term solution for the latter would be to
implement a kvm-specific thread context.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Dutu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
fu_pool and inst_queue were using -1 for "no such FU" and -2 for "all those
FUs are busy at the moment" when requesting for a FU and replying. This
patch introduces new constants NoCapableFU and NoFreeFU respectively.
In addition, the condition (idx == -2 || idx != -1) is equivalent to
(idx != -1), so this patch also simplifies that.
--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 4833717b9d1e09d7594d1f34f882e13fc4b86846
We can't/shouldn't use KVM after a fork since the child and parent
probably point to the same VM. Knowing the exact effects of this is
hard, but they are likely to be messy. We also disconnect the
performance counters attached to the guest. This works around what
seems to be a kernel bug where spurious SIGIOs get delivered to the
forked child process.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>
[sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version]
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
[andreas.sandberg@arm.com: Fatal if entering KVM in child process ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This changeset adds support for changing the simulator output
directory. This can be useful when the simulation goes through several
stages (e.g., a warming phase, a simulation phase, and a verification
phase) since it allows the output from each stage to be located in a
different directory. Relocation is done by calling core.setOutputDir()
from Python or simout.setOutputDirectory() from C++.
This change affects several parts of the design of the gem5's output
subsystem. First, files returned by an OutputDirectory instance (e.g.,
simout) are of the type OutputStream instead of a std::ostream. This
allows us to do some more book keeping and control re-opening of files
when the output directory is changed. Second, new subdirectories are
OutputDirectory instances, which should be used to create files in
that sub-directory.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>
[sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version]
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
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().
Writes to locked memory addresses (LLSC) did not wake up the locking
CPU. This can lead to deadlocks on multi-core runs. In AtomicSimpleCPU,
recvAtomicSnoop was checking if the incoming packet was an invalidation
(isInvalidate) and only then handled a locked snoop. But, writes are
seen instead of invalidates when running without caches (fast-forward
configurations). As as simple fix, now handleLockedSnoop is also called
even if the incoming snoop packet are from writes.
Bug fix for check on protobuf file frequency being different than
global frequency.
The ASCII encoder script is also fixed, and the example trace used in
the regressions is updated.
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
Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a' to get
rid of '== true' comparisons, plus trivial manual edits to get
rid of '== false'/'== False' comparisons.
Left a couple of explicit comparisons in where they didn't seem
unreasonable:
invalid boolean comparison in src/arch/mips/interrupts.cc:155
>> DPRINTF(Interrupt, "Interrupts OnCpuTimerINterrupt(tc) == true\n");<<
invalid boolean comparison in src/unittest/unittest.hh:110
>> "EXPECT_FALSE(" #expr ")", (expr) == false)<<
For historical reasons, the ExecContext interface had a single
function, readMem(), that did two different things depending on
whether the ExecContext supported atomic memory mode (i.e.,
AtomicSimpleCPU) or timing memory mode (all the other models).
In the former case, it actually performed a memory read; in the
latter case, it merely initiated a read access, and the read
completion did not happen until later when a response packet
arrived from the memory system.
This led to some confusing things, including timing accesses
being required to provide a pointer for the return data even
though that pointer was only used in atomic mode.
This patch splits this interface, adding a new initiateMemRead()
function to the ExecContext interface to replace the timing-mode
use of readMem().
For consistency and clarity, the readMemTiming() helper function
in the ISA definitions is renamed to initiateMemRead() as well.
For x86, where the access size is passed in explicitly, we can
also get rid of the data parameter at this level. For other ISAs,
where the access size is determined from the type of the data
parameter, we have to keep the parameter for that purpose.
The read() function merely initiates a memory read operation; the
data doesn't arrive until the access completes and a response packet
is received from the memory system. Thus there's no need to provide
a data pointer; its existence is historical.
Getting this pointer out of this internal o3 interface sets the
stage for similar cleanup in the ExecContext interface. Also
found that we were pointlessly setting the contents at this pointer
on a store forward (the useful memcpy happens just a few lines
below the deleted one).
This patch changes the name of a bunch of packet flags and MSHR member
functions and variables to make the coherency protocol easier to
understand. In addition the patch adds and updates lots of
descriptions, explicitly spelling out assumptions.
The following name changes are made:
* the packet memInhibit flag is renamed to cacheResponding
* the packet sharedAsserted flag is renamed to hasSharers
* the packet NeedsExclusive attribute is renamed to NeedsWritable
* the packet isSupplyExclusive is renamed responderHadWritable
* the MSHR pendingDirty is renamed to pendingModified
The cache states, Modified, Owned, Exclusive, Shared are also called
out in the cache and MSHR code to make it easier to understand.
This patch allows the ruby random tester to use ruby ports that may only
support instr or data requests. This patch is similar to a previous changeset
(8932:1b2c17565ac8) that was unfortunately broken by subsequent changesets.
This current patch implements the support in a more straight-forward way.
Since retries are now tested when running the ruby random tester, this patch
splits up the retry and drain check behavior so that RubyPort children, such
as the GPUCoalescer, can perform those operations correctly without having to
duplicate code. Finally, the patch also includes better DPRINTFs for
debugging the tester.
This patch adds support to optionally capture the virtual address and asid
for load/store instructions in the elastic traces. If they are present in
the traces, Trace CPU will set those fields of the request during replay.
This patch replaces the booleans that specified the elastic trace record
type with an enum type. The source of change is the proto message for
elastic trace where the enum is introduced. The struct definitions in the
elastic trace probe listener as well as the Trace CPU replace the boleans
with the proto message enum.
The patch does not impact functionality, but traces are not compatible with
previous version. This is preparation for adding new types of records in
subsequent patches.
This patch defines a TraceCPU that replays trace generated using the elastic
trace probe attached to the O3 CPU model. The elastic trace is an execution
trace with data dependencies and ordering dependencies annoted to it. It also
replays fixed timestamp instruction fetch trace that is also generated by the
elastic trace probe.
The TraceCPU inherits from BaseCPU as a result of which some methods need
to be defined. It has two port subclasses inherited from MasterPort for
instruction and data ports. It issues the memory requests deducing the
timing from the trace and without performing real execution of micro-ops.
As soon as the last dependency for an instruction is complete,
its computational delay, also provided in the input trace is added. The
dependency-free nodes are maintained in a list, called 'ReadyList',
ordered by ready time. Instructions which depend on load stall until the
responses for read requests are received thus achieving elastic replay. If
the dependency is not found when adding a new node, it is assumed complete.
Thus, if this node is found to be completely dependency-free its issue time is
calculated and it is added to the ready list immediately. This is encapsulated
in the subclass ElasticDataGen.
If ready nodes are issued in an unconstrained way there can be more nodes
outstanding which results in divergence in timing compared to the O3CPU.
Therefore, the Trace CPU also models hardware resources. A sub-class to model
hardware resources is added which contains the maximum sizes of load buffer,
store buffer and ROB. If resources are not available, the node is not issued.
The 'depFreeQueue' structure holds nodes that are pending issue.
Modeling the ROB size in the Trace CPU as a resource limitation is arguably the
most important parameter of all resources. The ROB occupancy is estimated using
the newly added field 'robNum'. We need to use ROB number as sequence number is
at times much higher due to squashing and trace replay is focused on correct
path modeling.
A map called 'inFlightNodes' is added to track nodes that are not only in
the readyList but also load nodes that are executed (and thus removed from
readyList) but are not complete. ReadyList handles what and when to execute
next node while the inFlightNodes is used for resource modelling. The oldest
ROB number is updated when any node occupies the ROB or when an entry in the
ROB is released. The ROB occupancy is equal to the difference in the ROB number
of the newly dependency-free node and the oldest ROB number in flight.
If no node dependends on a non load/store node then there is no reason to track
it in the dependency graph. We filter out such nodes but count them and add a
weight field to the subsequent node that we do include in the trace. The weight
field is used to model ROB occupancy during replay.
The depFreeQueue is chosen to be FIFO so that child nodes which are in
program order get pushed into it in that order and thus issued in the in
program order, like in the O3CPU. This is also why the dependents is made a
sequential container, std::set to std::vector. We only check head of the
depFreeQueue as nodes are issued in order and blocking on head models that
better than looping the entire queue. An alternative choice would be to inspect
top N pending nodes where N is the issue-width. This is left for future as the
timing correlation looks good as it is.
At the start of an execution event, first we attempt to issue such pending
nodes by checking if appropriate resources have become available. If yes, we
compute the execute tick with respect to the time then. Then we proceed to
complete nodes from the readyList.
When a read response is received, sometimes a dependency on it that was
supposed to be released when it was issued is still not released. This occurs
because the dependent gets added to the graph after the read was sent. So the
check is made less strict and the dependency is marked complete on read
response instead of insisting that it should have been removed on read sent.
There is a check for requests spanning two cache lines as this condition
triggers an assert fail in the L1 cache. If it does then truncate the size
to access only until the end of that line and ignore the remainder.
Strictly-ordered requests are skipped and the dependencies on such requests
are handled by simply marking them complete immediately.
The simulated seconds can be calculated as the difference between the
final_tick stat and the tickOffset stat. A CountedExitEvent that contains
a static int belonging to the Trace CPU class as a down counter is used to
implement multi Trace CPU simulation exit.
The elastic trace is a type of probe listener and listens to probe points
in multiple stages of the O3CPU. The notify method is called on a probe
point typically when an instruction successfully progresses through that
stage.
As different listener methods mapped to the different probe points execute,
relevant information about the instruction, e.g. timestamps and register
accesses, are captured and stored in temporary InstExecInfo class objects.
When the instruction progresses through the commit stage, the timing and the
dependency information about the instruction is finalised and encapsulated in
a struct called TraceInfo. TraceInfo objects are collected in a list instead
of writing them out to the trace file one a time. This is required as the
trace is processed in chunks to evaluate order dependencies and computational
delay in case an instruction does not have any register dependencies. By this
we achieve a simpler algorithm during replay because every record in the
trace can be hooked onto a record in its past. The instruction dependency
trace is written out as a protobuf format file. A second trace containing
fetch requests at absolute timestamps is written to a separate protobuf
format file.
If the instruction is not executed then it is not added to the trace.
The code checks if the instruction had a fault, if it predicated
false and thus previous register values were restored or if it was a
load/store that did not have a request (e.g. when the size of the
request is zero). In all these cases the instruction is set as
executed by the Execute stage and is picked up by the commit probe
listener. But a request is not issued and registers are not written.
So practically, skipping these should not hurt the dependency modelling.
If squashing results in squashing younger instructions, it may happen that
the squash probe discards the inst and removes it from the temporary
store but execute stage deals with the instruction in the next cycle which
results in the execute probe seeing this inst as 'new' inst. A sequence
number of the last processed trace record is used to trap these cases and
not add to the temporary store.
The elastic instruction trace and fetch request trace can be read in and
played back by the TraceCPU.
This patch adds probe points in Fetch, IEW, Rename and Commit stages as follows.
A probe point is added in the Fetch stage for probing when a fetch request is
sent. Notify is fired on the probe point when a request is sent succesfully in
the first attempt as well as on a retry attempt.
Probe points are added in the IEW stage when an instruction begins to execute
and when execution is complete. This points can be used for monitoring the
execution time of an instruction.
Probe points are added in the Rename stage to probe renaming of source and
destination registers and when there is squashing. These probe points can be
used to track register dependencies and remove when there is squashing.
A probe point for squashing is added in Commit to probe squashed instructions.
The assert in lsq_unit_impl.hh line 963 needs pktPending to be initialized to
NULL (I got the assertion failure several times without the fix).
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
This patch adds explicit overrides as this is now required when using
"-Wall" with clang >= 3.5, the latter now part of the most recent
XCode. The patch consequently removes "virtual" for those methods
where "override" is added. The latter should be enough of an
indication.
As part of this patch, a few minor issues that clang >= 3.5 complains
about are also resolved (unused methods and variables).
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.
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.
The DTRACE() macro tests both Trace::enabled and the specific flag. This
change uses the same administrative interface for enabling/disabling
tracing, but masks the SimpleFlags settings directly. This eliminates a
load for every DTRACE() test, e.g. DPRINTF.
Adds SMT support to the "simple" CPU models so that they can be
used with other SMT-supported CPUs. Example usage: this enables
the TimingSimpleCPU to be used to warmup caches before swapping to
detailed mode with the in-order or out-of-order based CPU models.
Trying to run an SE system with varying threads per core (SMT cores + Non-SMT
cores) caused failures due to the CPU id assignment logic. The comment
about thread assignment (worrying about core 0 not having tid 0) seems
not to be valid given that our configuration scripts initialize them in
order.
This removes that constraint so a heterogenously threaded sytem can work.
When a branch gets squashed, it's speculative branch predictor state should get
rolled back in squash(). However, only the globalHistory state was being
rolled back. This patch adds (at least some) support for rolling back the
local predictor state also.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
This patch enables instructions in LSQ to track two physical addresses for
corresponding two split requests. Later, the information is used in
checksnoop() to search for/invalidate the corresponding LD instructions.
The current implementation has kept track of only the physical address that is
referenced by the first split request. Thus, for checksnoop(), the line
accessed by the second request has not been considered, causing potential
correctness issues.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
This patch simplifies the packet, and removes the possibility of
creating a packet without a valid address and/or size. Under no
circumstances are these fields set at a later point, and thus they
really have to be provided at construction time.
The patch also fixes a case there the MinorCPU creates a packet
without a valid address and size, only to later delete it.
