Commit graph

87 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Anthony Gutierrez 21aa950318 options: add command line option for dtb file 2013-02-15 18:48:59 -05:00
Andreas Hansson e65de3f5ca config: Do not use hardcoded physmem in fs script
This patch generalises the address range resolution for the I/O cache
and I/O bridge such that they do not assume a single memory. The patch
involves adding a parameter to the system which is then defined based
on the memories that are to be visible from the I/O subsystem, whether
behind a cache or a bridge.

The change is needed to allow interleaved memory controllers in the
system.
2013-01-07 13:05:38 -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
Andreas Hansson a4d8996fd9 config: Add a check for fastmem only used with Atomic CPU
This patch adds an additional check to ensure that the fastmem option
is only used if the system is using the Atomic CPU.
2012-10-26 06:42:45 -04:00
Andreas Hansson 7cd01cf769 config: Remove unused mem_size in fs.py
This patch removes a segment of dead code that is never used.
2012-10-26 06:42:43 -04:00
Andreas Hansson 88554790c3 Mem: Use cycles to express cache-related latencies
This patch changes the cache-related latencies from an absolute time
expressed in Ticks, to a number of cycles that can be scaled with the
clock period of the caches. Ultimately this patch serves to enable
future work that involves dynamic frequency scaling. As an immediate
benefit it also makes it more convenient to specify cache performance
without implicitly assuming a specific CPU core operating frequency.

The stat blocked_cycles that actually counter in ticks is now updated
to count in cycles.

As the timing is now rounded to the clock edges of the cache, there
are some regressions that change. Plenty of them have very minor
changes, whereas some regressions with a short run-time are perturbed
quite significantly. A follow-on patch updates all the statistics for
the regressions.
2012-10-15 08:10:54 -04:00
Andreas Hansson a6074016e2 Bridge: Remove NACKs in the bridge and unify with packet queue
This patch removes the NACKing in the bridge, as the split
request/response busses now ensure that protocol deadlocks do not
occur, i.e. the message-dependency chain is broken by always allowing
responses to make progress without being stalled by requests. The
NACKs had limited support in the system with most components ignoring
their use (with a suitable call to panic), and as the NACKs are no
longer needed to avoid protocol deadlocks, the cleanest way is to
simply remove them.

The bridge is the starting point as this is the only place where the
NACKs are created. A follow-up patch will remove the code that deals
with NACKs in the endpoints, e.g. the X86 table walker and DMA
port. Ultimately the type of packet can be complete removed (until
someone sees a need for modelling more complex protocols, which can
now be done in parts of the system since the port and interface is
split).

As a consequence of the NACK removal, the bridge now has to send a
retry to a master if the request or response queue was full on the
first attempt. This change also makes the bridge ports very similar to
QueuedPorts, and a later patch will change the bridge to use these. A
first step in this direction is taken by aligning the name of the
member functions, as done by this patch.

A bit of tidying up has also been done as part of the simplifications.

Surprisingly, this patch has no impact on any of the
regressions. Hence, there was never any NACKs issued. In a follow-up
patch I would suggest changing the size of the bridge buffers set in
FSConfig.py to also test the situation where the bridge fills up.
2012-08-22 11:39:58 -04:00
Andreas Hansson ae6ab7c03c Config: Use clock option in se/fs script and pass to switch_cpus
This patch changes the se and fs script to use the clock option and
not simply set the CPUs clock to 2 GHz. It also makes a minor change
to the assignment of the switch_cpus clock to allow different clocks.
2012-07-23 09:32:22 -04:00
Nilay Vaish abb85a68f4 Config: call to setWorkCountOptions() for all ISAs 2012-06-07 08:05:31 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 51c23e601e Config: Remove setMipsOptions
As status matrix, MIPS fs does not work. Hence, these options are not
required. Secondly, the function is setting param values for a CPU class.
This seems strange, should probably be done in a different way.
2012-06-07 08:05:30 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 78a72d6972 Config: changes to a couple of error msgs 2012-06-07 08:05:30 -05:00
Jayneel Gandhi b5b9d2ad3e Config: Add command line options for disk image and memory size
Added the options to Options.py for FS mode with backward compatibility. It is
good to provide an option to specify the disk image and the memory size from
command line since a lot of disk images are created to support different
benchmark suites as well as per user needs. Change in program also leads to
change in memory requirements. These options provide the interface to provide
both disk image and memory size from the command line and gives more
flexibility.
2012-04-16 17:51:26 -05:00
Andreas Hansson a8e6adb0b1 Atomic: Remove the physmem_port and access memory directly
This patch removes the physmem_port from the Atomic CPU and instead
uses the system pointer to access the physmem when using the fastmem
option. The system already keeps track of the physmem and the valid
memory address ranges, and with this patch we merely make use of that
existing functionality. As a result of this change, the overloaded
getMasterPort in the Atomic CPU can be removed, thus unifying the CPUs.
2012-04-03 03:50:14 -04:00
Nilay Vaish 390cfc7be9 Config: Change the way options are added
I am not too happy with the way options are added in files se.py and fs.py
currently. This patch moves all the options to the file Options.py, functions
from which are called when required.
2012-03-28 11:01:53 -05:00
Nilay Vaish 6ca3af8ecf Config: Move setWorkCountOptions() to Simulation.py
The function is presently defined in FSConfig.py, which does not seem to be
the correct place for it.
2012-03-27 18:23:21 -05:00
Ali Saidi d2a0db7fe9 ARM: Fix memory starting at non-zero address and exceeding max mem for a system. 2012-03-09 16:45:47 -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
Ali Saidi eaa994e7f6 cache: Allow main memory to be at disjoint address ranges. 2012-03-09 09:59:25 -05:00
Ali Saidi 91b737ed48 ARM: Add support for Versatile Express extended memory map
Also clean up how we create boot loader memory a bit.
2012-03-01 17:26:31 -06:00
Nilay Vaish c80af04d7d x86: Fix switching of CPUs
This patch prevents creation of interrupt controller for
cpus that will be switched in later
2012-03-01 11:37:02 -06:00
Andreas Hansson 00978170f3 MEM: Fix master/slave ports in Ruby and non-regression scripts
This patch brings the Ruby and other scripts up to date with the
introduction of the master/slave ports.
2012-02-14 03:41:53 -05:00
Andreas Hansson 5a9a743cfc MEM: Introduce the master/slave port roles in the Python classes
This patch classifies all ports in Python as either Master or Slave
and enforces a binding of master to slave. Conceptually, a master (such
as a CPU or DMA port) issues requests, and receives responses, and
conversely, a slave (such as a memory or a PIO device) receives
requests and sends back responses. Currently there is no
differentiation between coherent and non-coherent masters and slaves.

The classification as master/slave also involves splitting the dual
role port of the bus into a master and slave port and updating all the
system assembly scripts to use the appropriate port. Similarly, the
interrupt devices have to have their int_port split into a master and
slave port. The intdev and its children have minimal changes to
facilitate the extra port.

Note that this patch does not enforce any port typing in the C++
world, it merely ensures that the Python objects have a notion of the
port roles and are connected in an appropriate manner. This check is
carried when two ports are connected, e.g. bus.master =
memory.port. The following patches will make use of the
classifications and specialise the C++ ports into masters and slaves.
2012-02-13 06:43:09 -05:00
Ali Saidi 0a26883296 configs: More fixes for the memory system updates 2012-02-01 09:48:28 -08:00
Gabe Black d7f71bf424 SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in the configs directory 2012-01-28 07:24:50 -08:00
Gabe Black ec20ee2f7c SE/FS: Make SE vs. FS mode a runtime parameter. 2012-01-28 07:24:34 -08:00
Andreas Hansson 53c130bf2f MEM: Fix fs.py by specifying the range size rather than end
This patch fixes the currently broken fs.py by specifying the size of
the bridge range rather than the end address. This effectively
subtracts one when determining the address range for the IO bridge
(from IO bus to membus), and thus avoids the overlapping ranges.
2012-01-25 12:44:43 -05:00
Andreas Hansson 2208ea049f MEM: Make the bus bridge unidirectional and fixed address range
This patch makes the bus bridge uni-directional and specialises the
bus ports to be a master port and a slave port. This greatly
simplifies the assumptions on both sides as either port only has to
deal with requests or responses. The following patches introduce the
notion of master and slave ports, and would not be possible without
this split of responsibilities.

In making the bridge unidirectional, the address range mechanism of
the bridge is also changed. For the cases where communication is
taking place both ways, an additional bridge is needed. This causes
issues with the existing mechanism, as the busses cannot determine
when to stop iterating the address updates from the two bridges. To
avoid this issue, and also greatly simplify the specification, the
bridge now has a fixed set of address ranges, specified at creation
time.
2012-01-17 12:55:09 -06:00
Ali Saidi bcb71963eb ARM: Add support for running multiple systems 2012-01-09 18:08:20 -06:00
Ali Saidi 80a6907927 ARM: Add support for initparam m5 op 2012-01-09 18:08:20 -06:00
Chris Emmons 9aea847f58 VNC: Add support for capturing frame buffer to file each time it is changed.
When a change in the frame buffer from the VNC server is detected, the new
frame is stored out to the m5out/frames_*/ directory.  Specifiy the flag
"--frame-capture" when running configs/example/fs.py to enable this behavior.

--HG--
extra : rebase_source : d4e08e83f4fa6ff79f3dc9c433fc1f0487e057fc
2011-12-01 00:15:26 -08:00
Gedare Bloom 3f1f16703d ARM: Add m5ops and related support for workbegin() and workend() to ARM ISA. 2011-06-17 12:20:10 -05:00
Ali Saidi 79dac89552 ARM: Clarifies creation of Linux and baremetal ARM systems.
makeArmSystem creates both bare-metal and Linux systems more cleanly.
machine_type was never optional though listed as an optional argument; a system
such as "RealView_PBX" must now be explicitly specified.  Now that it is a
required argument, the placement of the arguments has changed slightly
requiring some changes to calls that create ARM systems.
2011-02-23 15:10:48 -06:00
Gabe Black f8fc0419c5 X86, Config: Move the setting of work count options to a separate function.
This way things that don't care about work count options and/or aren't called
by something that has those command line options set up doesn't have to build
a fake object to carry in inert values.
2011-02-07 01:22:15 -08:00
Brad Beckmann dfa8cbeb06 m5: added work completed monitoring support 2011-02-06 22:14:19 -08:00
Gabe Black fd26707731 Mem,X86: Make the IO bridge pass APIC messages back towards the CPU. 2011-02-03 20:56:27 -08:00
Gabe Black 00f24ae92c Config: Keep track of uncached and cached ports separately.
This makes sure that the address ranges requested for caches and uncached ports
don't conflict with each other, and that accesses which are always uncached
(message signaled interrupts for instance) don't waste time passing through
caches.
2011-02-03 20:23:00 -08:00
Gabe Black a368fba7d4 Time: Add a mechanism to prevent M5 from running faster than real time.
M5 skips over any simulated time where it doesn't have any work to do. When
the simulation is active, the time skipped is short and the work done at any
point in time is relatively substantial. If the time between events is long
and/or the work to do at each event is small, it's possible for simulated time
to pass faster than real time. When running a benchmark that can be good
because it means the simulation will finish sooner in real time. When
interacting with the real world through, for instance, a serial terminal or
bridge to a real network, this can be a problem. Human or network response time
could be greatly exagerated from the perspective of the simulation and make
simulated events happen "too soon" from an external perspective.

This change adds the capability to force the simulation to run no faster than
real time. It does so by scheduling a periodic event that checks to see if
its simulated period is shorter than its real period. If it is, it stalls the
simulation until they're equal. This is called time syncing.

A future change could add pseudo instructions which turn time syncing on and
off from within the simulation. That would allow time syncing to be used for
the interactive parts of a session but then turned off when running a
benchmark using the m5 utility program inside a script. Time syncing would
probably not happen anyway while running a benchmark because there would be
plenty of work for M5 to do, but the event overhead could be avoided.
2011-01-19 11:48:00 -08:00
Ali Saidi 330fada1aa ARM: Add configuration for Linux/Full System 2010-08-23 11:18:40 -05:00
Gabe Black b1cbd7841a Config: Fix fs.py's call to CacheConfig.config_cache. 2010-02-27 18:52:57 -08:00
Lisa Hsu a70f70ccbf configs: pull out cache configuration code from se.py and fs.py.
Most of these frontend configurations share cache configuration code, pull it out so that
changes to caches don't have to require changing multiple config files.
2010-02-25 10:13:40 -08:00
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 15bb248013 Add an I/O cache to FS config even if there's just an "L2" cache. 2009-09-14 21:19:40 -07:00
Gabe Black 8d84f81e70 X86, Config: Make makeX86System consider the number of CPUs, and clean up interrupt assignment. 2009-04-26 02:04:32 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt 6629d9b2bc mem: use single BadAddr responder per system.
Previously there was one per bus, which caused some coherence problems
when more than one decided to respond.  Now there is just one on
the main memory bus.  The default bus responder on all other buses
is now the downstream cache's cpu_side port.  Caches no longer need
to do address range filtering; instead, we just have a simple flag
to prevent snoops from propagating to the I/O bus.
2008-07-16 11:10:33 -07:00
Ali Saidi f4291aac25 Errors: Print a URL with a hash of the format string to find more information about an error. 2009-01-30 20:04:15 -05:00
Ali Saidi 7e6728450f Scripts: Check for the appropriate build type as soon as possible. 2008-06-13 01:09:06 -04:00
Gabe Black 42ae409746 X86: Move startup code to the system object to initialize a Linux system.
--HG--
extra : convert_revision : a4796c79f41aa8b8f38bf2f628bee8f1b3af64be
2007-12-01 23:09:56 -08:00
Korey Sewell 3110b157e6 fix MIPS headers
--HG--
extra : convert_revision : 2870a146a1be0e8c80878090f39c0eaa15d2eb13
2007-11-15 14:21:01 -05:00
Korey Sewell 2692590049 Add in files from merge-bare-iron, get them compiling in FS and SE mode
--HG--
extra : convert_revision : d4e19afda897bc3797868b40469ce2ec7ec7d251
2007-11-13 16:58:16 -05:00
Ali Saidi a630d77ec5 Configuration: Move iocache outside of processors loop so it works for MP systems
--HG--
extra : convert_revision : 0ba563555a94eb22a6d4e402388e75e70d3556c2
2007-10-08 15:19:58 -04:00