This patch adds the ability to load in config.ini files generated from
gem5 into another instance of gem5 built without Python configuration
support. The intended use case is for configuring gem5 when it is a
library embedded in another simulation system.
A parallel config file reader is also provided purely in Python to
demonstrate the approach taken and to provided similar functionality
for as-yet-unknown use models. The Python configuration file reader
can read both .ini and .json files.
C++ configuration file reading:
A command line option has been added for scons to enable C++ configuration
file reading: --with-cxx-config
There is an example in util/cxx_config that shows C++ configuration in action.
util/cxx_config/README explains how to build the example.
Configuration is achieved by the object CxxConfigManager. It handles
reading object descriptions from a CxxConfigFileBase object which
wraps a config file reader. The wrapper class CxxIniFile is provided
which wraps an IniFile for reading .ini files. Reading .json files
from C++ would be possible with a similar wrapper and a JSON parser.
After reading object descriptions, CxxConfigManager creates
SimObjectParam-derived objects from the classes in the (generated with this
patch) directory build/ARCH/cxx_config
CxxConfigManager can then build SimObjects from those SimObjectParams (in an
order dictated by the SimObject-value parameters on other objects) and bind
ports of the produced SimObjects.
A minimal set of instantiate-replacing member functions are provided by
CxxConfigManager and few of the member functions of SimObject (such as drain)
are extended onto CxxConfigManager.
Python configuration file reading (configs/example/read_config.py):
A Python version of the reader is also supplied with a similar interface to
CxxConfigFileBase (In Python: ConfigFile) to config file readers.
The Python config file reading will handle both .ini and .json files.
The object construction strategy is slightly different in Python from the C++
reader as you need to avoid objects prematurely becoming the children of other
objects when setting parameters.
Port binding also needs to be strictly in the same port-index order as the
original instantiation.
This patch adds the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan) for clang and
gcc >= 4.9. Due to the performance impact, the usage is guarded by a
command-line option.
Add the ability to build libgem5 without embedded Python or the
ability to configure with Python.
This is a prelude to a patch to allow config.ini files to be loaded
into libgem5 using only C++ which would make embedding gem5 within
other simulation systems easier.
This adds a few registration interfaces to things which cross
between Python and C++. Namely: stats dumping and SimObject resolving
This patch adds a python script that processes the configuration and the
statistics file from a simulation run. Configuration and activity of network
routers and links obtained from this processing is fed to DSENT via its Python
interface. DSENT then computes the area and the power consumption of these
network components. The script outputs these quantities to the console.
This patch extensively modifies DSENT so that it can be accessed using Python.
To access the Python interface, DSENT needs to compiled as a shared library.
For this purpose a CMakeLists.txt file has been added. Some of the code that
is not required is being removed.
This patch adds a tool called DSENT to the ext/ directory. DSENT
is a tool that models power and area for on-chip networks. The next
patch adds a script for using the tool.
This patch adds some statistics to garnet that record the activity
of certain structures in the on-chip network. These statistics, in a later
patch, will be used for computing the energy consumed by the on-chip network.
Orion is being dropped from ruby. It would be replaced with DSENT
which has better models. Note that the power / energy numbers reported
after this patch has been applied are not for use.
This patch moves code for instantiating a single memory controller from
the function config_mem() to a separate function. This is being done
so that memory controllers can be instantiated without assuming that
they will be attached to the system in a particular fashion.
This patch force IO device to be mapped to 0xC0000000-0xFFFF0000 by
reserve anything between the end of memory and 3GB if memory is less
than 3GB. It also statically bridge these address range to the IO bus,
which guaranty access to pci address space will pass though bridge to
iobus.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
This patch assign bus_id=0 to PCI bus and bus_id=1 to ISA bus for
X86 platform. Because PCI device get config space address using
Pc::calcPciConfigAddr() which requires "assert(bus==0)".
This fixes PCI interrupt routing and discovery on Linux.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
This patch takes the final step in integrating DRAMPower and adds the
appropriate calls in the DRAM controller to provide the command trace
and extract the power and energy stats. The debug printouts are still
left in place, but will eventually be removed.
At the moment the DRAM power calculation is always on when using the
DRAM controller model. The run-time impact of this addition is around
1.5% when looking at the total host seconds of the regressions. We
deem this a sensible trade-off to avoid the complication of adding an
enable/disable mechanism.
This patch adds a class to wrap DRAMPower Library in gem5.
This class initiates an object of class MemorySpecification
of the DRAMPower Library, passes the parameters from DRAMCtrl.py
to this object and creates an object of drampower library using
the memory specification.
This patch adds missing timing and current parameters to the existing
DRAM configs. These missing timing and current parameters are required
by DRAMPower for the DRAM power calculations. The missing values are
datasheet values of the specified DRAMs, and the appropriate
references are added for the variuos configs.
This patch prunes the DDR3 config that was initially created to match
the default config of DRAMSim2. The config is not complete as it is,
and to avoid having to maintain it, the easiest way forward is to
simply prune it. Going forward we are adding power number etc to the
other configurations.
This patch adds the open-source (BSD 3-clause) tool DRAMPower, commit
8d3cf4bbb10aa202d850ef5e5e3e4f53aa668fa6, to be built as a part of the
simulator. We have chosen this specific version of DRAMPower as it
provides the necessary functionality, and future updates will be
coordinated with the DRAMPower development team. The files added only
include the bits needed to build the library, thus excluding all
memory specifications, traces, and the stand-alone DRAMPower
command-line tool.
A future patch includes the DRAMPower functionality in the DRAM
controller, to enable on-line DRAM power modelling, and avoid using
post-processing of traces.
This patch adds the Python parameter type Current, which is used for
the DRAM power modelling (to start with). With this addition we avoid
implicit unit assumptions.
The Ozone CPU is now very much out of date and completely
non-functional, with no one actively working on restoring it. It is a
source of confusion for new users who attempt to use it before
realizing its current state. RIP
As a result of the fixes, the full-system dual-core ARM regressions
are slightly changed. Hopefully this also means there will no longer
be any discrepancies between the results observed on different hosts.
This patch fixes the runtime errors highlighted by the undefined
behaviour sanitizer. In the end there were two issues. First, when
rotating an immediate, we ended up shifting an uint32_t by 32 in some
cases. This case is fixed by checking for a rotation by 0
positions. Second, the Mrc15 and Mcr15 are operating on an IntReg and
a MiscReg, but we used the type RegRegImmOp and passed a MiscRegIndex
as an IntRegIndex. This issue is resolved by introducing a
MiscRegRegImmOp and RegMiscRegImmOp with the appropriate types.
With these fixes there are no runtime errors identified for the full
ARM regressions.
This patch optimises the passing of StaticInstPtr by avoiding copying
the reference-counting pointer. This avoids first incrementing and
then decrementing the reference-counting pointer.
Fix a number few minor issues to please gcc 4.9.1. Removing the
'-fuse-linker-plugin' flag means no libraries are part of the LTO
process, but hopefully this is an acceptable loss, as the flag causes
issues on a lot of systems (only certain combinations of gcc, ld and
ar work).
This patch bumps the stats to reflect the addition of the snoop filter
and snoop stats, the change from bus to crossbar, and the updates to
the ARM regressions that are now using a different CPU and cache
configuration. Lastly, some minor changes are expected due to the
activation cleanup of the CPUs.
