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Bjoern A. Zeeb f0786704db arm: AArch64 report cache size correctly when reading CTR_EL0 
Trying to read MISCREG_CTR_EL0 on AArch64 returned 0 as is was not
implmemented.  With that an operating system relying on the cache line
sizes reported in order to manage the caches would (a) panic given the
returned value 0 is not valid (high bit is RES1) or (b) worst case would
assume a cache line size of 4 doing a tremendous amount of extra
instruction work (including fetching).  Return the same values as for ARMv7
as the fields seem to be the same, or RES0/1 seem to be reported
accordingly for AArch64

In collaboration with:  Andrew Turner

Testing Done: Checked on FreeBSD boots with extra printfs;  also observed a
reduction of a factor of about 10 in instruction fetches for a simple
micro-test.

Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3667/

Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2017-02-09 18:54:28 -05:00
build_opts riscv: [Patch 5/5] Added missing support for timing CPU models 2016-11-30 17:10:28 -05:00
configs mem: Add memory footprint probe 2017-01-27 14:58:15 -06:00
ext arch: [Patch 1/5] Added RISC-V base instruction set RV64I 2016-11-30 17:10:28 -05:00
src arm: AArch64 report cache size correctly when reading CTR_EL0 2017-02-09 18:54:28 -05:00
system arm, config: Add an example ARM big.LITTLE(tm) configuration script 2016-07-21 17:19:16 +01:00
tests python: Move native wrappers to the _m5 namespace 2017-01-27 12:40:01 +00:00
util style: Force Python.h to be included before main header 2017-02-07 15:28:33 +00:00
.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 mem: Add memory footprint probe 2017-01-27 14:58:15 -06:00
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 ruby: guard usage of GPUCoalescer code in Profiler 2017-01-19 11:59:34 -05:00

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.