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Author SHA1 Message Date
William Wang f9d403a7b9 MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++
This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++
code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python
classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects.

The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add
assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two
interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master
port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations
are to come in later patches.

The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and
returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be
a valid return value. The default implementation of these two
functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal.

The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some
code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and
QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort
(avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the
port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a
lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.
2012-03-30 09:40:11 -04:00
Andreas Hansson 77878d0a87 MEM: Prepare mport for master/slave split
This patch simplifies the mport in preparation for a split into a
master and slave role for the message ports. In particular,
sendMessageAtomic was only used in a single location and similarly so
sendMessageTiming. The affected interrupt device is updated
accordingly.
2012-02-24 11:50:15 -05:00
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 bdda224d41 X86: Add a function which gets called when an interrupt message has been delivered. 2009-04-19 03:54:11 -07:00
Gabe Black e459013182 Create a message port for sending messages as apposed to reading/writing a memory range. 2008-10-12 12:08:51 -07:00