This patch improves the snoop filter allocation decisions by not only
looking at whether a port is snooping or not, but also if the packet
actually came from a cache. The issue with only looking at isSnooping
is that the CPU ports, for example, are snooping, but not actually
caching. Previously we ended up incorrectly allocating entries in
systems without caches (such as the atomic and timing quick
regressions). Eventually these misguided allocations caused the snoop
filter to panic due to an excessive size.
On the request path we now include the fromCache check on the packet
itself, and for responses we check if we actually have a snoop-filter
entry.
Change-Id: Idd2dbc4f00c7e07d331e9a02658aee30d0350d7e
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Diestelhorst <stephan.diestelhorst@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch takes yet another step in maintaining the clusivity, in
that it allows a mostly-inclusive cache to hold on to blocks even when
responding to a ReadExReq or UpgradeReq. Previously the cache simply
invalidated these blocks, but there is no strict need to do so.
The most important part of this patch is that we simply mark the block
clean when satisfying the upstream request where the cache is allowed
to keep the block. The only tricky part of the patch is in the memory
management of deferred snoops, where we need to distinguish the cases
where only the packet was copied (we expected to respond), and the
cases where we created an entirely new packet and request (we kept it
only to replay later).
The code in satisfyRequest is definitely ready for some refactoring
after this.
Change-Id: I201ddc7b2582eaa46fb8cff0c7ad09e02d64b0fc
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch changes how the mostly exclusive policy is enforced to
ensure that we drop blocks when we should. As part of this change, the
actual invalidation due to the clusivity enforcement is moved outside
the hit handling, to a separate method maintainClusivity. For the
timing mode that means we can deal with all MSHR targets before taking
any action and possibly dropping the block. The method
satisfyCpuSideRequest is also renamed satisfyRequest as part of this
change (since we only ever see requests from the cpu-side port).
Change-Id: If6f3d1e0c3e7be9a67b72a55e4fc2ec4a90fd3d2
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch adds a FromCache attribute to the packet, and updates a
number of the existing request commands to reflect that the request
originates from a cache. The attribute simplifies checking if a
requests came from a cache or not, and this is used by both the cache
and snoop filter in follow-on patches.
Change-Id: Ib0a7a080bbe4d6036ddd84b46fd45bc7eb41cd8f
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>
Ruby on ARM is currently very experimental. Fail with a fatal error
that explains this to make sure users are aware of the limitations (it
doesn't actually work yet!).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Add initial support for creating an ARM system with a Ruby-based
memory system. This support is currently experimental and limited to
the new VExpress_GEM5_V1 platform.
Change-Id: I36baeb68b0d891e34ea46aafe17b5e55217b4bfa
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
When using a Ruby memory system, the Ruby configuration scripts expect
to get a list of DMA ports to create the necessary DMA sequencers. Add
support in the utility functions that wire up devices to append DMA
ports to a list instead of connecting them to the IO bus. These
functions are currently only used by the VExpress_GEM5_V1 platform.
Change-Id: I46059e46b0f69e7be5f267e396811bd3caa3ed63
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
There are cases where we want to put boot ROMs on the PIO bus. Ruby
currently doesn't support functional accesses to such memories since
functional accesses are always assumed to go to physical memory. Add
the required support for routing functional accesses to the PIO bus.
Change-Id: Ia5b0fcbe87b9642bfd6ff98a55f71909d1a804e3
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael LeBeane <michael.lebeane@amd.com>
The boot ROM shouldn't be used as a memory by the kernel. Memories
have a flag to indicate this which is set for some platforms. Update
all platforms to consistently set this flag to indicate that the boot
ROM shouldn't be reported as normal memory.
Change-Id: I2bf0273e99d2a668e4e8d59f535c1910c745aa7b
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
--HG--
extra : amend_source : c2cbda38636ea37cbe9ae6977a06b923eab5ba56
this patch fixes issues with changeset 11593
use the host's pwrite() syscall for pwrite64Func(),
as opposed to pwrite64(), because pwrite64() does
not work well on all distros.
undo the enabling of fstatfs, as we will add this
in a separate pate.
Adds a wrapper to the fix functions of the verifiers. This wrapper first
copies the original file to a backup file, then performs the fix. If an
error occurs, the backup file is used to restore the original file.
Also fixed a line-length error in verifiers.py
Factored out of the larger banked register change.
Change-Id: I947dbdb9c00b4678bea9d4f77b913b7014208690
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Updated according to GICv2 documentation.
Change-Id: I5d926d1abf665eecc43ff0f7d6e561e1ee1c390a
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Introduce and use a lookup table.
Using fetchDescriptor() rather than DMA cleanly handles nested paging.
Change-Id: I69ec762f176bd752ba1040890e731826b58d15a6
During host bootup, KVM reads/writes to CNTHCTL_EL2. Because this
miscreg has not been implemented, the simulation would end there. This
patch causes the simulation to warn about the read/write instead of fail.
Change-Id: If034bfd0818a9a5e50c5fe86609e945258c96fa3
This fixes a bug where stage 2 lookups used the AArch32
permissions rules even if we were executing in AArch64 mode.
Change-Id: Ia40758f0599667ca7ca15268bd3bf051342c24c1
This patch restricts trapping to hypervisor only if we are in the
correct exception level for the trap to happen.
Change-Id: I0a382b6a572ef835ea36d2702b8a81b633bd3df0
Faults that could potentially be routed to the hypervisor checked
whether or not they were in a secure state without checking if security
was enabled or not. This caused faults not to be routed correctly. This
patch causes secure state checking to first ask if security is enabled.
Change-Id: I179e9b181b27f552734c9bab2b18d05ac579a119
We recompute if we are doing a stage 2 walk inside of the table walker
but we have already figured it out in the tlb. Pass the information in
to the walk instead of recomputing it.
Change-Id: I39637ce99309b2ddbc30344d45ac9ebf6a203401
The functional case is already handled within the fetchDescriptor()
function. We can thus use that function for both atomic and functional
mode when we start the table walk.
Change-Id: Iacaed28cd9024d259fd37a58150efd00ff94d86e
This patch adds the option for faults to be routed to the hypervisor
using the pre-existing routeToHyp() functions that are present in each
fault type.
Change-Id: I9735512c094457636b9870456a5be5432288e004
During address translation instructions (such as AT S1E1R_Xt) the exception
level can be different than the current exception level. This patch fixes
how the TLB determines what EL to use during these instructions.
Change-Id: Ia9ce229404de9e284bc1f7479fd2c580efd55f8f
This patch adds the AArch64 instruction hvc which raises an exception
from EL1 into EL2. The host OS uses this instruction to world switch
into the guest.
Change-Id: I930ee43f4f0abd4b35a68eb2a72e44e3ea6570be
There are cases where we need to ignore files with specific extensions
(e.g., when Mercurial litters the file system with patch
rejects). Implement this functionality using a helper class
(FileIgnoreList) that supports both regular expressions and basic
string comparisons.
Change-Id: I34549754bd2e10ed230ffb2dc057403349f8fa78
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big
CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little
CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script
can run a full system simulation with various number of big
and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes
two example device tree files for booting Linux on the
bigLITTLE system.
Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
The behavior of WFI is to cause minor to cease evaluating
pipeline logic until an interrupt is observed, however
a user may wish to drain the system while a core is sleeping
due to a WFI. This patch makes WFI drain. If an actual
drain occurs during a WFI, the CPU is already drained and will
immediately be ready for swapping, checkpointing, etc. This
should not negatively impact performance as WFI instructions
are 'stream-changing' (treated like unpredicted branches), so
all remaining instructions are wrong-path and will be squashed
rapidly.
Change-Id: I63833d5acb53d8dde78f9f0c9611de0ece385e45
This patch adds SMT support to the MinorCPU. Currently
RoundRobin or Random thread scheduling are supported.
Change-Id: I91faf39ff881af5918cca05051829fc6261f20e3
Make it so that getInterrupt *always* returns an interrupt if
checkInterrupts() returns true. This fixes/simplifies handling
of interrupts on the SMT FS CPUs (currently minor).
This patch adds a total() function to the Vector2D
stat type. Similar to other stats such as Scalar or
Vector it is useful to be able to read the total for
a given stat.
At the moment the SPARC FS machine configuration comes with a hardcoded
value for using the Solaris 10 disk image from the OpenSPARC tarball. The
--disk-image option is completely ignored for SPARC. This simple patch
modifies the behavior so that --disk-image option is both taken into
account and also required. This makes it possible to easily change SPARC FS
images without having to modify the configuration files.
This patch fixes a bug in etherswitch. When a packet gets inserted
in the output fifo, the txEvent has to always be reschedule,
not only when an event is already scheduled. This can raise
the assertion in the reschedule function.
Don't consult the TLB test interface for PA's returned by functional
translations by the AT instruction. We implement this by chaning the
ISA code to synthesize 0-length functional reads for the TLB lookup.
The TLB then bypasses the final PA check in the tester if the size is
zero.
Change-Id: I2487b7f829cea88c37e229e9fc7a4543aced961b
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
The ELF loader currently has an assertion that checks if the size of a
loaded .text secion is non-zero. This is useful in the general case as
an empty text section normally indicates that there is something
strange with the ELF file. However, asserting isn't very useful. This
changeset converts the assert into a warning that tells the user that
something strange is happening.
Change-Id: I313e17847b50a0eca00f6bd00a54c610d626c0f0
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Currently garnet will not run due to double statistic registration of new
stats in ClockedObject. This occurs because a temporary array named 'cls'
is being added as a child to garnet internal and external link SimObjects.
This patch simply renames the temporary array which prevents it from
being added as a child object and avoids the assertion that a statistic
was already registered.
Committed by Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Sync DRAMPower to external tool
This patch syncs the DRAMPower library of gem5 to the external
one on github (https://github.com/ravenrd/DRAMPower) of which
I am a maintainer.
The version used is the commit:
902a00a1797c48a9df97ec88868f20e847680ae6
from 07. May. 2016.
Committed by Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
This patch adds an example configuration for elastic trace playing into the
SystemC world, similar to the already existing traffic generator example in
/util/tlm.
Committed by Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
