In Linux, the set_thread_area system call stores the address of the thread
local storage area into a field of the current thread_info structure. Later,
to access that value, the program uses the rdhwr instruction to read a
"hardware register" with index 29. The 64 bit MIPS manual, volume II, says
that index 29 is reserved for a future ABI extension and should cause a
"Reserved Instruction Exception". In Linux (and potentially other ISAs) that
exception is trapped and emulated to return the value stored by
set_thread_area as if that were actually stored by a physical register.
The tp_value address (as named in the Linux kernel) is ironically stored as a
control register so that it goes with a particular ThreadContext. Syscall
emulation will use that to emulate storing to the OS's thread info structure,
and rdhwr will emulate faulting and returning that value from software by
returning the value itself, as if it was in hardware. In other words, we fake
faking the register in SE mode. In an FS mode implementation it should
work as specified in the manual.
The MIPS ISA object expects to be constructed with a CPU pointer it uses to
look at other thread contexts and allow them to be manipulated with control
registers. Unfortunately, that differs from all the other ISA classes and
would complicate their implementation.
This change makes the event constructor use a CPU pointer pulled out of the
thread context passed to setMiscReg instead.
When accessing arguments for a syscall, the position of an argument depends on
the policies of the ISA, how much space preceding arguments took up, and the
"alignment" of the index for this particular argument into the number of
possible storate locations. This change adjusts getSyscallArg to take its
index parameter by reference instead of value and to adjust it to point to the
possible location of the next argument on the stack, basically just after the
current one. This way, the rules for the new argument can be applied locally
without knowing about other arguments since those have already been taken into
account implicitly.
All system calls have also been changed to reflect the new interface. In a
number of cases this made the implementation clearer since it encourages
arguments to be collected in one place in order and then used as necessary
later, as opposed to scattering them throughout the function or using them in
place in long expressions. It also discourages using getSyscallArg over and
over to retrieve the same value when a temporary would do the job.
Get rid of misc.py and just stick misc things in __init__.py
Move utility functions out of SCons files and into m5.util
Move utility type stuff from m5/__init__.py to m5/util/__init__.py
Remove buildEnv from m5 and allow access only from m5.defines
Rename AddToPath to addToPath while we're moving it to m5.util
Rename read_command to readCommand while we're moving it
Rename compare_versions to compareVersions while we're moving it.
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rename : src/python/m5/convert.py => src/python/m5/util/convert.py
rename : src/python/m5/smartdict.py => src/python/m5/util/smartdict.py
Inorder expects eaComp to be visible through StaticInst object. This mirrors a similar change
to ALPHA... Needs to be done for SPARC and whatever other ISAs want to use InOrderCPU
Edit AlphaISA to support the inorder model. Mostly alternate constructor functions and also a few skeleton multithreaded support functions
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Remove namespace from header file. Causes compiler issues that are hard to find
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Separate the TLB from the CPU and allow it to live in the TLBUnit resource. Give CPU accessor functions for access and also bind at construction time
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Expose memory access size and flags through instruction object
(temporarily memAccSize and memFlags to get TLB stuff working.)
Bogus calls to ChunkGenerator with negative size were triggering
a new assertion that was added there.
Also did a little renaming and cleanup in the process.
I did some of the flags and assertions wrong. Thanks to Brad Beckmann
for pointing this out. I should have run the opt regressions instead
of the fast. I also screwed up some of the logical functions in the Flags
class.
the primary identifier for a hardware context should be contextId(). The
concept of threads within a CPU remains, in the form of threadId() because
sometimes you need to know which context within a cpu to manipulate.
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.
Make them easier to express by only having the cxx_type parameter which
has the full namespace name, and drop the cxx_namespace thing.
Add support for multiple levels of namespace.
Even though we're not incorrect about operator precedence, let's add
some parens in some particularly confusing places to placate GCC 4.3
so that we don't have to turn the warning off. Agreed that this is a
bit of a pain for those users who get the order of operations correct,
but it is likely to prevent bugs in certain cases.
We should always refer to the specific ISA in that arch directory.
This is especially necessary if we're ever going to make it to the
point where we actually have heterogeneous systems.
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.
This appears to work, but I don't want to commit it until it gets tested a lot more.
I haven't deleted the functionality in this patch that will come later, but one question
is how to enforce encourage objects that call getVirtPort() to not cache the virtual port
since if the CPU changes out from under them it will be worse than useless. Perhaps a null
function like delVirtPort() is still useful in that case.
