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Thomas Grass
3f1ae35c6d Stats: Add a sparse histogram stat object. 2011-08-19 15:08:05 -05:00
Gabe Black
91622602c2 Loader: Handle bad section names when loading an ELF file.
If there's a problem when reading the section names from a supposed ELF file,
this change makes gem5 print an error message as returned by libelf and die.
Previously these sorts of errors would make gem5 segfault when it tried to
access the section name through a NULL pointer.
2011-06-12 23:52:21 -07:00
Gabe Black
a59a143a25 gcc 4.0: Add some virtual destructors to make gcc 4.0 happy. 2011-06-07 00:24:49 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
2b1aa35e20 scons: rename TraceFlags to DebugFlags 2011-06-02 17:36:21 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
f656787edb copyright: clean up copyright blocks 2011-06-02 14:36:35 -07:00
Gabe Black
8dcbe8adb5 Misc: Remove the URL from warnings, fatals, panics, etc. 2011-05-29 21:48:58 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
f7b3900c13 stats: delete mysql support
we can add it back within python in some future changeset
2011-05-12 11:19:35 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
1177e7a3c8 stats: move code that loops over all stats into python 2011-05-12 11:19:35 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
0dffd35741 debug: fix help output 2011-05-04 10:08:08 -04:00
Nilay Vaish
9e3cdbf516 base: include types.hh in base/stats/mysql.hh
Due to certain changes made via changeset 8229, the compilation was failing
in certain cases. The compiler pointed to base/stats/mysql.hh for not naming
a certain types like uint64_t. To rectify this, base/types.hh is being
included in base/stats/mysql.hh.
2011-04-25 12:23:37 -05:00
Nathan Binkert
2342aa2ebb stats: ensure that stat names are valid 2011-04-20 19:07:46 -07:00
Brad Danofsky
46a538ceab stats: add user settable separator string for arrayed stats
Default is '::', so no visible change unless it is overridden
2011-04-20 11:14:52 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
eddac53ff6 trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vector
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing.  This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help
2011-04-15 10:44:32 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
f946d7bcdb debug: create a Debug namespace 2011-04-15 10:44:15 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
bbb1392c08 includes: fix up code after sorting 2011-04-15 10:44:14 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
39a055645f includes: sort all includes 2011-04-15 10:44:06 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
3c78005c1e refcnt: Update doxygen comments 2011-04-13 09:32:19 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
e748d921fd refcnt: Inline comparison functions 2011-04-13 09:32:18 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
38aa50bb49 base: disable FastAlloc in debug builds by default
FastAlloc's reuse policies can mask allocation bugs, so
we typically want it disabled when debugging.  Set
FORCE_FAST_ALLOC to enable even when debugging, and set
NO_FAST_ALLOC to disable even in non-debug builds.
2011-03-18 11:47:11 -07:00
Ali Saidi
d33c1d9592 VNC: Add VNC server to M5 2011-02-11 18:29:35 -06:00
Gabe Black
75d34c14fc Time: Add serialization functions to the Time class. 2011-02-02 18:05:03 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
048b1e5843 refcnt: Change things around so that we handle constness correctly.
To use a non const pointer:
typedef RefCountingPtr<Foo> FooPtr;

To use a const pointer:
typedef RefCountingPtr<const Foo> ConstFooPtr;
2011-01-22 21:48:06 -08:00
Gabe Black
23bab6783b Time: Add setTick and getTick functions to the Time class. 2011-01-19 16:22:15 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
318bfe9d4f time: improve time datastructure
Use posix clock functions (and librt) if it is available.
Inline a bunch of functions and implement more operators.
* * *
time: more cleanup
2011-01-15 07:48:25 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
8e262adf4f stats: Add a histogram statistic type 2011-01-10 11:11:17 -08:00
Nathan Binkert
ff592e0ed1 stats: fix the distribution stat 2011-01-10 11:11:16 -08:00
Gabe Black
df14312e08 Curtick: Fix mysql.cc build needing curTick. 2011-01-10 04:53:20 -08:00
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
Gabe Black
498ea0bdab Params: Print the IP components in the right order. 2011-01-04 17:11:49 -05:00
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
Steve Reinhardt
2f4c71968a Delete unused files from src/base directory. 2011-01-03 14:35:45 -08:00
Steve Reinhardt
c69d48f007 Make commenting on close namespace brackets consistent.
Ran all the source files through 'perl -pi' with this script:

s|\s*(};?\s*)?/\*\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*\*/(\s*})?|} // namespace $3|;
s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*|} // namespace $2\n|;
s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(\S+)\s*namespace\s*|} // namespace $1\n|;

Also did a little manual editing on some of the arch/*/isa_traits.hh files
and src/SConscript.
2011-01-03 14:35:43 -08:00
Gabe Black
1a10ccc5e5 RefCount: Fix reference counting pointer == and != with a T* on the left.
These operators were expecting a const T& instead of a const T*, and were not
being picked up and used by gcc in the right places as a result. Apparently no
one used these operators before. A unit test which exposed these problems,
verified the solution, and checks other basic functionality is on the way.
2011-01-03 15:31:20 -05:00
Steve Reinhardt
3e0ed66ff2 Get rid of unused file src/base/dbl_list.hh 2010-12-21 22:39:26 -08:00
Gabe Black
7f6ca0981f Copyright: Add AMD copyright to the param changes I just made. 2010-11-23 17:08:41 -05:00
Gabe Black
b3de4855c3 Params: Add parameter types for IP addresses in various forms.
New parameter forms are:
IP address in the format "a.b.c.d" where a-d are from decimal 0 to 255.
IP address with netmask which is an IP followed by "/n" where n is a netmask
length in bits from decimal 0 to 32 or by "/e.f.g.h" where e-h are from
decimal 0 to 255 and which is all 1 bits followed by all 0 bits when
represented in binary. These can also be specified as an integral IP and
netmask passed in separately.
IP address with port which is an IP followed by ":p" where p is a port index
from decimal 0 to 65535. These can also be specified as an integral IP and
port value passed in separately.
2010-11-23 15:54:43 -05:00
Nathan Binkert
4d9ff1954b random: small comment about our random number generator and its origin 2010-11-20 12:12:27 -08:00
Ali Saidi
e1b9a815dd SCons: Support building without an ISA 2010-11-19 18:00:39 -06:00
Ali Saidi
0ea794bcf4 sim: Use forward declarations for ports.
Virtual ports need TLB data which means anything touching a file in the arch
directory rebuilds any file that includes system.hh which in everything.
2010-11-08 13:58:22 -06:00
Gabe Black
6f4bd2c1da ISA,CPU,etc: Create an ISA defined PC type that abstracts out ISA behaviors.
This change is a low level and pervasive reorganization of how PCs are managed
in M5. Back when Alpha was the only ISA, there were only 2 PCs to worry about,
the PC and the NPC, and the lsb of the PC signaled whether or not you were in
PAL mode. As other ISAs were added, we had to add an NNPC, micro PC and next
micropc, x86 and ARM introduced variable length instruction sets, and ARM
started to keep track of mode bits in the PC. Each CPU model handled PCs in
its own custom way that needed to be updated individually to handle the new
dimensions of variability, or, in the case of ARMs mode-bit-in-the-pc hack,
the complexity could be hidden in the ISA at the ISA implementation's expense.
Areas like the branch predictor hadn't been updated to handle branch delay
slots or micropcs, and it turns out that had introduced a significant (10s of
percent) performance bug in SPARC and to a lesser extend MIPS. Rather than
perpetuate the problem by reworking O3 again to handle the PC features needed
by x86, this change was introduced to rework PC handling in a more modular,
transparent, and hopefully efficient way.


PC type:

Rather than having the superset of all possible elements of PC state declared
in each of the CPU models, each ISA defines its own PCState type which has
exactly the elements it needs. A cross product of canned PCState classes are
defined in the new "generic" ISA directory for ISAs with/without delay slots
and microcode. These are either typedef-ed or subclassed by each ISA. To read
or write this structure through a *Context, you use the new pcState() accessor
which reads or writes depending on whether it has an argument. If you just
want the address of the current or next instruction or the current micro PC,
you can get those through read-only accessors on either the PCState type or
the *Contexts. These are instAddr(), nextInstAddr(), and microPC(). Note the
move away from readPC. That name is ambiguous since it's not clear whether or
not it should be the actual address to fetch from, or if it should have extra
bits in it like the PAL mode bit. Each class is free to define its own
functions to get at whatever values it needs however it needs to to be used in
ISA specific code. Eventually Alpha's PAL mode bit could be moved out of the
PC and into a separate field like ARM.

These types can be reset to a particular pc (where npc = pc +
sizeof(MachInst), nnpc = npc + sizeof(MachInst), upc = 0, nupc = 1 as
appropriate), printed, serialized, and compared. There is a branching()
function which encapsulates code in the CPU models that checked if an
instruction branched or not. Exactly what that means in the context of branch
delay slots which can skip an instruction when not taken is ambiguous, and
ideally this function and its uses can be eliminated. PCStates also generally
know how to advance themselves in various ways depending on if they point at
an instruction, a microop, or the last microop of a macroop. More on that
later.

Ideally, accessing all the PCs at once when setting them will improve
performance of M5 even though more data needs to be moved around. This is
because often all the PCs need to be manipulated together, and by getting them
all at once you avoid multiple function calls. Also, the PCs of a particular
thread will have spatial locality in the cache. Previously they were grouped
by element in arrays which spread out accesses.


Advancing the PC:

The PCs were previously managed entirely by the CPU which had to know about PC
semantics, try to figure out which dimension to increment the PC in, what to
set NPC/NNPC, etc. These decisions are best left to the ISA in conjunction
with the PC type itself. Because most of the information about how to
increment the PC (mainly what type of instruction it refers to) is contained
in the instruction object, a new advancePC virtual function was added to the
StaticInst class. Subclasses provide an implementation that moves around the
right element of the PC with a minimal amount of decision making. In ISAs like
Alpha, the instructions always simply assign NPC to PC without having to worry
about micropcs, nnpcs, etc. The added cost of a virtual function call should
be outweighed by not having to figure out as much about what to do with the
PCs and mucking around with the extra elements.

One drawback of making the StaticInsts advance the PC is that you have to
actually have one to advance the PC. This would, superficially, seem to
require decoding an instruction before fetch could advance. This is, as far as
I can tell, realistic. fetch would advance through memory addresses, not PCs,
perhaps predicting new memory addresses using existing ones. More
sophisticated decisions about control flow would be made later on, after the
instruction was decoded, and handed back to fetch. If branching needs to
happen, some amount of decoding needs to happen to see that it's a branch,
what the target is, etc. This could get a little more complicated if that gets
done by the predecoder, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now.


Variable length instructions:

To handle variable length instructions in x86 and ARM, the predecoder now
takes in the current PC by reference to the getExtMachInst function. It can
modify the PC however it needs to (by setting NPC to be the PC + instruction
length, for instance). This could be improved since the CPU doesn't know if
the PC was modified and always has to write it back.


ISA parser:

To support the new API, all PC related operand types were removed from the
parser and replaced with a PCState type. There are two warts on this
implementation. First, as with all the other operand types, the PCState still
has to have a valid operand type even though it doesn't use it. Second, using
syntax like PCS.npc(target) doesn't work for two reasons, this looks like the
syntax for operand type overriding, and the parser can't figure out if you're
reading or writing. Instructions that use the PCS operand (which I've
consistently called it) need to first read it into a local variable,
manipulate it, and then write it back out.


Return address stack:

The return address stack needed a little extra help because, in the presence
of branch delay slots, it has to merge together elements of the return PC and
the call PC. To handle that, a buildRetPC utility function was added. There
are basically only two versions in all the ISAs, but it didn't seem short
enough to put into the generic ISA directory. Also, the branch predictor code
in O3 and InOrder were adjusted so that they always store the PC of the actual
call instruction in the RAS, not the next PC. If the call instruction is a
microop, the next PC refers to the next microop in the same macroop which is
probably not desirable. The buildRetPC function advances the PC intelligently
to the next macroop (in an ISA specific way) so that that case works.


Change in stats:

There were no change in stats except in MIPS and SPARC in the O3 model. MIPS
runs in about 9% fewer ticks. SPARC runs with 30%-50% fewer ticks, which could
likely be improved further by setting call/return instruction flags and taking
advantage of the RAS.


TODO:

Add != operators to the PCState classes, defined trivially to be !(a==b).
Smooth out places where PCs are split apart, passed around, and put back
together later. I think this might happen in SPARC's fault code. Add ISA
specific constructors that allow setting PC elements without calling a bunch
of accessors. Try to eliminate the need for the branching() function. Factor
out Alpha's PAL mode pc bit into a separate flag field, and eliminate places
where it's blindly masked out or tested in the PC.
2010-10-31 00:07:20 -07:00
Gabe Black
6833ca7eed Faults: Pass the StaticInst involved, if any, to a Fault's invoke method.
Also move the "Fault" reference counted pointer type into a separate file,
sim/fault.hh. It would be better to name this less similarly to sim/faults.hh
to reduce confusion, but fault.hh matches the name of the type. We could change
Fault to FaultPtr to match other pointer types, and then changing the name of
the file would make more sense.
2010-09-13 19:26:03 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
afafaf1dcb style: fix sorting of includes and whitespace in some files 2010-09-10 14:58:04 -07:00
Ali Saidi
ef3a3dc28a Loader: Don't insert symbols into the symbol table that begin wiht '$'. 2010-08-23 11:18:40 -05:00
Ali Saidi
8ed4f0a02c ARM: Add I/O devices for booting linux
--HG--
rename : src/dev/arm/Versatile.py => src/dev/arm/RealView.py
rename : src/dev/arm/versatile.cc => src/dev/arm/realview.cc
rename : src/dev/arm/versatile.hh => src/dev/arm/realview.hh
2010-08-23 11:18:40 -05:00
Ali Saidi
4ab68fc999 Loader: Use address mask provided to load*Symbols when loading the symbols from the symbol table. 2010-08-23 11:18:39 -05:00
Ali Saidi
7d191366e1 BASE: Fix genrand to generate both 0s and 1s when max equals one.
previously was only generating 0s.
2010-08-23 11:18:39 -05:00
Ali Saidi
7793773809 stats: Fix off-by-one error in distributions.
bkt size isn't evenly divisible by max-min and it would round down,
it's possible to sample a distribution and have no place to put the sample.
When this case occured the simulator would assert.
2010-08-23 11:18:39 -05:00
Nathan Binkert
21bf6ff101 stats: unify the two stats distribution type better 2010-07-21 18:54:53 -07:00
Nathan Binkert
2a1309f213 stats: cleanup a few small problems in stats 2010-07-21 15:53:53 -07:00
Steve Reinhardt
26f5a9c2cb checkpointing: another small overload fix
On Nate's advice, overload 'char' as well as 'signed char'
and 'unsigned char'.
2010-07-05 22:57:23 -07:00