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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> |
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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.