This patch adds a method to the Wavefront class to compute the actual workgroup
size. This can be different from the maximum workgroup size specified when
launching the kernel through the NDRange object. Current solution is still not
optimal, as we are computing these for each wavefront and the dispatcher also
needs to have this information and can't actually call
Wavefront::computeActuallWgSz before the wavefronts are being created. A long
term solution would be to have a Workgroup class that deals with all these
details.
This patch adds methods to serialize the context of a particular wavefront
to the simulated system memory. Context serialization is used when a wavefront
is preempeted (i.e. context switch).
std::stack has no iterators, therefore the reconvergence stack can't be
iterated without poping elements off. We will be using std::list instead to be
able to iterate for saving and restoring purposes.
WFContext struct is currently unused and it has been rendered not useful in
saving and restoring the context of a Wavefront. Wavefront class should be
sufficient for that purpose and the runtime can figure out the memory size
it will need to allocate for a Wavefront through an IOCTL.
Connecting basic blocks would stop too early in kernels where ret was not the
last instruction. This patch allows basic blocks after the ret instruction
to be properly connected.
Eliminate the VSZ constant that defined the Wavefront size (in numbers of work
items); replaced it with a parameter in the GPU.py configuration script.
Changed all data structures dependent on the Wavefront size to be dynamically
sized. Legal values of Wavefront size are 16, 32, 64 for now and checked at
initialization time.
Fixing an issue with regStats not calling the parent class method
for most SimObjects in Gem5. This causes issues if one adds new
stats in the base class (since they are never initialized properly!).
Change-Id: Iebc5aa66f58816ef4295dc8e48a357558d76a77c
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
the n_reg field in the GPUDynInst is not currently set in the constructor.
if it is not set externally, there are assertion failures that may occur
if the random value it gets is just right. here we set it to 0 by default.
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 mmapGrowsDown() method was a static method on the OperatingSystem
class (and derived classes), which worked OK for the templated syscall
emulation methods, but made it hard to access elsewhere. This patch
moves the method to be a virtual function on the LiveProcess method,
where it can be overridden for specific platforms (for now, Alpha).
This patch also changes the value of mmapGrowsDown() from being false
by default and true only on X86Linux32 to being true by default and
false only on Alpha, which seems closer to reality (though in reality
most people use ASLR and this doesn't really matter anymore).
In the process, also got rid of the unused mmap_start field on
LiveProcess and OperatingSystem mmapGrowsUp variable.
Both Memory Fence is now flagged as Global Memory only to avoid resource
oversubscribing.
Flat instructions now check for Shared Memory resource busy to avoid
oversubscribing resources.
All WaitClass resources now use cycles (not ticks) to register the number
of pipe stages between Scoreboard and Execute to be consistent with
instruction scheduling logic which always used clock cycles.
