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RISC-V makes use of load-reserved and store-conditional instructions to enable creation of lock-free concurrent data manipulation as well as ACQUIRE and RELEASE semantics for memory ordering of LR, SC, and AMO instructions (the latter of which do not follow LR/SC semantics). This patch is a correction to patch 4, which added these instructions to the implementation of RISC-V. It modifies locked_mem.hh and the implementations of lr.w, sc.w, lr.d, and sc.d to apply the proper gem5 flags and return the proper values. An important difference between gem5's LLSC semantics and RISC-V's LR/SC ones, beyond the name, is that gem5 uses 0 to indicate failure and 1 to indicate success, while RISC-V is the opposite. Strictly speaking, RISC-V uses 0 to indicate success and nonzero to indicate failure where the value would indicate the error, but currently only 1 is reserved as a failure code by the ISA reference. This is the seventh patch in the series which originally consisted of five patches that added the RISC-V ISA to gem5. The original five patches added all of the instructions and added support for more detailed CPU models and the sixth patch corrected the implementations of Linux constants and structs. There will be an eighth patch that adds some regression tests for the instructions. [Removed some commented-out code from locked_mem.hh.] Signed-off by: Alec Roelke Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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.