arch-x86: Make CPUID vendor string a param
Modern libraries such as ROCm, MPI, and libnuma use files in Linux'
sysfs to determine the system topology such as number of CPUs, cache
size, cache associativity, etc. If Linux does not recognize the vendor
string returned by CPUID in x86 it will do a generic initialization
which does not include creating these files. In the case of ROCm
(specifically ROCt) this causes failures when getting device properties.
This can be solved by setting the vendor string to, for example,
AuthenticAMD (as qemu does) so that Linux will create the relevant sysfs
files. Unfortunately, simply changing the string in cpuid.cc to
AuthenticAMD causes simulation slowdown and may not be desirable to all
users. This change creates a parameter, defaulting to M5 Simulator as it
currently is, which can be set in python configuration files to change
the vendor string. Example of how to configure this is:
for i in range(len(self.cpus)):
for j in range(len(self.cpus[i].isa)):
self.cpus[i].isa[j].vendor_string = "AuthenticAMD"
Change-Id: I8de26d5a145867fa23518718a799dd96b5b9bffa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/36156
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>