ARM instructions updating cumulative flags (ARM FP exceptions and saturation
flags) are not serialized.
Added aliases for ARM FP exceptions and saturation flags in FPSCR. Removed
write accesses to the FP condition codes for most ARM VFP instructions: only
VCMP and VCMPE instructions update the FP condition codes. Removed a potential
cause of seg. faults in the O3 model for NEON memory macro-ops (ARM).
This change modifies the way prefetches work. They are now like normal loads
that don't writeback a register. Previously prefetches were supposed to call
prefetch() on the exection context, so they executed with execute() methods
instead of initiateAcc() completeAcc(). The prefetch() methods for all the CPUs
are blank, meaning that they get executed, but don't actually do anything.
On Alpha dead cache copy code was removed and prefetches are now normal ops.
They count as executed operations, but still don't do anything and IsMemRef is
not longer set on them.
On ARM IsDataPrefetch or IsInstructionPreftech is now set on all prefetch
instructions. The timing simple CPU doesn't try to do anything special for
prefetches now and they execute with the normal memory code path.
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.
THis allows the CPU to handle predicated-false instructions accordingly.
This particular patch makes loads that are predicated-false to be sent
straight to the commit stage directly, not waiting for return of the data
that was never requested since it was predicated-false.
Expand the help text on the --remote-gdb-port option so
people know you can use it to disable remote gdb without
reading the source code, and thus don't waste any time
trying to add a separate option to do that.
Clean up some gdb-related cruft I found while looking
for where one would add a gdb disable option, before
I found the comment that told me that I didn't need
to do that.
Accessing traceData (to call setAddress() and/or setData())
after initiating a timing translation was causing crashes,
since a failed translation could delete the traceData
object before returning.
It turns out that there was never a need to access traceData
after initiating the translation, as the traced data was
always available earlier; this ordering was merely
historical. Furthermore, traceData->setAddress() and
traceData->setData() were being called both from the CPU
model and the ISA definition, often redundantly.
This patch standardizes all setAddress and setData calls
for memory instructions to be in the CPU models and not
in the ISA definition. It also moves those calls above
the translation calls to eliminate the crashes.
Make interrupts use the new wakeup method, and pull all of the interrupt
stuff into the cpu base class so that only the wakeup code needs to be updated.
I tried to make wakeup, wakeCPU, and the various other mechanisms for waking
and sleeping a little more sane, but I couldn't understand why the statistics
were changing the way they were. Maybe we'll try again some day.
across the subclasses. generally make it so that member data is _cpuId and
accessor functions are cpuId(). The ID val comes from the python (default -1 if
none provided), and if it is -1, the index of cpuList will be given. this has
passed util/regress quick and se.py -n4 and fs.py -n4 as well as standard
switch.
the instruction after the hwrei to be fetched before the ITB/DTB_CM register is updated in a call pal
call sys and thus the translation fails because the user is attempting to access a super page address.
Minimally, it seems as though some sort of fetch stall or refetch after a hwrei is required. I think
this works currently because the hwrei uses the exec context interface, and the o3 stalls when that occurs.
Additionally, these changes don't update the LOCK register and probably break ll/sc. Both o3 changes were
removed since a great deal of manual patching would be required to only remove the hwrei change.
A whole bunch of stuff has been converted to use the new params stuff, but
the CPU wasn't one of them. While we're at it, make some things a bit
more stylish. Most of the work was done by Gabe, I just cleaned stuff up
a bit more at the end.
The notIdleFraction statistic isn't updated when the statistics reset, probably because the cpu Status information
was pulled into the atomic and timing cpus. This changeset pulls Status back into the BaseSimpleCPU object. Anyone
care to comment on the odd naming of the Status instance? It shouldn't just be status because that is confusing
with Port::Status, but _status seems a bit strage too.
src/arch/x86/predecoder.cc:
Seperate the pc-pc and the pc of the incoming bytes, and get rid of the "moreBytes" which just takes a MachInst. Also make the "opSize" field describe the number of bytes and not the log of the number of bytes.
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src/arch/mips/utility.hh:
src/arch/x86/SConscript:
Hand merge
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Removed the getOpcode function from StaticInst which only made sense for Alpha.
Started implementing the x86 predecoder.
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src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
merge steve's changes in.
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Add support for a twin 64 bit int load
Add Memory barrier and write barrier flags as appropriate
Make atomic memory ops atomic
src/arch/alpha/isa/mem.isa:
src/arch/alpha/locked_mem.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
rename store conditional stuff as extra data so it can be used for conditional swaps as well
src/arch/alpha/types.hh:
src/arch/mips/types.hh:
src/arch/sparc/types.hh:
add a largest read data type for statically allocating read buffers in atomic simple cpu
src/arch/isa_parser.py:
Add support for a twin 64 bit int load
src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa:
Make atomic memory ops atomic
Add Memory barrier and write barrier flags as appropriate
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/basicmem.isa:
add post access code block and define a twinload format for twin loads
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/blockmem.isa:
remove old microcoded twin load coad
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/mem.isa:
swap.isa replaces the code in loadstore.isa
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/util.isa:
add a post access code block
src/arch/sparc/isa/includes.isa:
need bigint.hh for Twin64_t
src/arch/sparc/isa/operands.isa:
add a twin 64 int type
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
add support for twinloads
add support for swap and conditional swap instructions
rename store conditional stuff as extra data so it can be used for conditional swaps as well
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/packet.hh:
Add support for atomic swap memory commands
src/mem/packet_access.hh:
Add endian conversion function for Twin64_t type
src/mem/physical.cc:
src/mem/physical.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
Add support for atomic swap memory commands
Rename sc code to extradata
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function into Alpha ISA description. write now just generically
returns a result value if the res pointer is non-null (which means
we can only provide a res pointer if we expect a valid result
value).
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src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/util.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/sparc/system.cc:
Hand Merge
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pretty close to compiling w/ suns compiler
briefly:
add dummy return after panic()/fatal()
split out flags by compiler vendor
include cstring and cmath where appropriate
use std namespace for string ops
SConstruct:
Add code to detect compiler and choose cflags based on detected compiler
Fix zlib check to work with suncc
src/SConscript:
split out flags by compiler vendor
src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa:
use correct namespace for sqrt
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/basic.isa:
add dummy return around panic
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/integerop.isa:
use correct namespace for stringops
src/arch/sparc/isa/includes.isa:
include cstring and cmath where appropriate
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
remove dangling comma
src/arch/sparc/system.cc:
dummy return to make sun cc front end happy
src/arch/sparc/tlb.cc:
src/base/compression/lzss_compression.cc:
use std namespace for string ops
src/arch/sparc/utility.hh:
no reason to say something is unsigned unsigned int
src/base/compression/null_compression.hh:
dummy returns to for suncc front end
src/base/cprintf.hh:
use standard variadic argument syntax instead of gnuc specefic renaming
src/base/hashmap.hh:
don't need to define hash for suncc
src/base/hostinfo.cc:
need stdio.h for sprintf
src/base/loader/object_file.cc:
munmap is in std namespace not null
src/base/misc.hh:
use M5 generic noreturn macros
use standard variadic macro __VA_ARGS__
src/base/pollevent.cc:
we need file.h for file flags
src/base/random.cc:
mess with include files to make suncc happy
src/base/remote_gdb.cc:
malloc memory for function instead of having a non-constant in an array size
src/base/statistics.hh:
use std namespace for floor
src/base/stats/text.cc:
include math.h for rint (cmath won't work)
src/base/time.cc:
use suncc version of ctime_r
src/base/time.hh:
change macro to work with both gcc and suncc
src/base/timebuf.hh:
include cstring from memset and use std::
src/base/trace.hh:
change variadic macros to be normal format
src/cpu/SConscript:
add dummy returns where appropriate
src/cpu/activity.cc:
include cstring for memset
src/cpu/exetrace.hh:
include cstring fro memcpy
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
add dummy return for panic
src/dev/baddev.cc:
src/dev/pciconfigall.cc:
src/dev/platform.cc:
src/dev/sparc/t1000.cc:
add dummy return where appropriate
src/dev/ide_atareg.h:
make define work for both gnuc and suncc
src/dev/io_device.hh:
add dummy returns where approirate
src/dev/pcidev.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
src/mem/dram.cc:
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/port.cc:
include cstring for string ops
src/dev/sparc/mm_disk.cc:
add dummy return where appropriate
include cstring for string ops
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.hh:
src/mem/port.hh:
Add dummy return where appropriate
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
cast hastSets to double for log() call
src/mem/physical.cc:
cast pmemAddr to char* for munmap
src/sim/byteswap.hh:
make define work for suncc and gnuc
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src/arch/isa_parser.py:
Rearranged things so that classes with more than one execute function treat operands properly.
1. Eliminated the CodeBlock class
2. Created a SubOperandList
3. Redefined how InstObjParams is constructed
To define an InstObjParam, you can either pass in a single code literal which will be named "code", or you can pass in a dictionary of code snippets which will be substituted into the Templates. In order to get this to work, there is a new restriction that each template has only one function in it. These changes should only affect memory instructions which have regular and split execute functions.
Also changed the MiscRegs so that they use the instrunctions srcReg and destReg arrays.
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/basic.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/branch.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/integerop.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/basicmem.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/blockmem.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/util.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/nop.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/priv.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/trap.isa:
Rearranged to work with new InstObjParam scheme.
src/cpu/o3/sparc/dyn_inst.hh:
Added functions to access the miscregs using the indexes from instructions srcReg and destReg arrays. Also changed the names of the other accessors so that they have the suffix "Operand" if they use those arrays.
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
Added functions to access the miscregs using the indexes from instructions srcReg and destReg arrays.
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