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Mitch Hayenga 752f1c1fe9 cpu: Fix Minor SMT WFI/drain interaction issues
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
2016-07-21 17:19:16 +01:00
build_opts gpu-compute: AMD's baseline GPU model 2016-01-19 14:28:22 -05:00
configs config: Allow SPARC FS image to be specified on the command line 2016-07-19 09:52:46 -05:00
ext ext: Update DRAMPower 2016-07-01 10:31:36 -05:00
src cpu: Fix Minor SMT WFI/drain interaction issues 2016-07-21 17:19:16 +01:00
system arm: Update dts to work with the new HDLCD driver 2016-05-06 15:51:45 +01:00
tests mem: tester for new HMC configuration 2016-07-01 09:48:43 -05:00
util cpu: Add SMT support to MinorCPU 2016-07-21 17:19:16 +01:00
.gitignore misc: Add a gitignore file based on the current hgignore 2016-03-16 17:20:00 +00:00
.hgignore misc: ignore object files and static libs in util/m5 2015-11-13 17:03:48 -05:00
.hgtags Added tag stable_2015_09_03 for changeset 60eb3fef9c2d 2015-09-03 15:38:46 -05:00
COPYING copyright: Add code for finding all copyright blocks and create a COPYING file 2011-06-02 17:36:07 -07:00
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: Bump minimum gcc version to 4.8 2016-05-30 02:10:48 -04:00

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.