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Andreas Sandberg 3e200455bd dev, arm: Add draining to the GIC model 
The GIC model currently adds a delay to interrupts when posting them
to a target CPU. This means that an interrupt signal will be
represented by an event for a short period of time. We currently
ignore this when draining and serialize the tick when the interrupt
will fire. Upon loading the checkpoint, the simulated GIC reschedules
the pending events. This behaviour is undesirable when we implement
support for switching between in-kernel GIC emulation and gem5 GIC
emulation. In that case, the (kernel) GIC model gets a lot simpler if
we don't need to worry about in-flight interrupts from the gem5 GIC.

This changeset adds a draining check to force the GIC into a state
where all interrupts have been delivered prior to checkpointing/CPU
switching. It also removes the now redundant serialization of
interrupt events.

Change-Id: I8b8b080aa291ca029a3a7bdd1777f1fcd5b01179
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2331
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-03-13 12:10:52 +00:00
build_opts riscv: [Patch 5/5] Added missing support for timing CPU models 2016-11-30 17:10:28 -05:00
configs config: exit with fatal() if error 2017-03-01 14:21:56 +00:00
ext scons: Automatically add a git commit message hook 2017-03-01 11:42:39 +00:00
src dev, arm: Add draining to the GIC model 2017-03-13 12:10:52 +00:00
system arm, config: Add an example ARM big.LITTLE(tm) configuration script 2016-07-21 17:19:16 +01:00
tests syscall_emul: [patch 14/22] adds identifier system calls 2017-02-27 14:10:02 -05:00
util sim: allow forward dependencies in checkpoint upgraders 2017-02-14 15:09:18 -06:00
.gitignore misc: Add dtb files to the ignore list for git and mercurial 2017-02-21 14:14:44 +00:00
.hgignore misc: Add dtb files to the ignore list for git and mercurial 2017-02-21 14:14:44 +00:00
.hgtags Added tag stable_2015_09_03 for changeset 60eb3fef9c2d 2015-09-03 15:38:46 -05:00
CONTRIBUTING.md misc: Add a CONTRIBUTING document 2017-03-09 10:21:09 -06:00
COPYING ruby: fix and/or precedence in slicc 2017-03-01 11:58:37 +00:00
LICENSE copyright: Add code for finding all copyright blocks and create a COPYING file 2011-06-02 17:36:07 -07:00
README misc: README direct to website for dependencies 2014-08-26 10:12:04 -04:00
SConstruct scons: Automatically add a git commit message hook 2017-03-01 11:42:39 +00:00

README 

This is the gem5 simulator.

The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org

A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for
more information about building the simulator and getting started
please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and
http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials.

To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang,
Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4,
and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback
support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details
concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools.

Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons
build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS,
POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5
binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See
http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options.

With the simulator built, have a look at
http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use
gem5.

The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
   - configs: example simulation configuration scripts
   - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5
   - src: source code of the gem5 simulator
   - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems
   - tests: regression tests
   - util: useful utility programs and files

To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware
(console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk
images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at
http://www.gem5.org/Download

If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org

Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.