cpu: Track misc regs in vectors in the O3 CPU instruction class.

Most instructions won't actually write to misc regs, so the overhead
should be quite small, particularlly compared to the other overheads in
the O3.

Change-Id: I840d6002cc8151f91611cfcbe2bfa52acc284c0f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/38388
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

diff --git a/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh b/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh
index b89b3c7f0001fe61a45e24ea6081ca966e1f8584..f084368676a0c6c3aeae33476a815c5bbaf85a4b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh
+++ b/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh
@@ -93,17 +93,13 @@ class BaseO3DynInst : public BaseDynInst<Impl>
     using BaseDynInst<Impl>::cpu;
 
     /** Values to be written to the destination misc. registers. */
-    std::array<RegVal, TheISA::MaxMiscDestRegs> _destMiscRegVal;
+    std::vector<RegVal> _destMiscRegVal;
 
     /** Indexes of the destination misc. registers. They are needed to defer
      * the write accesses to the misc. registers until the commit stage, when
      * the instruction is out of its speculative state.
      */
-    std::array<short, TheISA::MaxMiscDestRegs> _destMiscRegIdx;
-
-    /** Number of destination misc. registers. */
-    uint8_t _numDestMiscRegs;
-
+    std::vector<short> _destMiscRegIdx;
 
   public:
 #if TRACING_ON
@@ -139,17 +135,13 @@ class BaseO3DynInst : public BaseDynInst<Impl>
          * committed instead of making a new entry. If not, make a new
          * entry and record the write.
          */
-        for (int idx = 0; idx < _numDestMiscRegs; idx++) {
-            if (_destMiscRegIdx[idx] == misc_reg) {
-               _destMiscRegVal[idx] = val;
-               return;
-            }
+        for (auto &idx: _destMiscRegIdx) {
+            if (idx == misc_reg)
+                return;
         }
 
-        assert(_numDestMiscRegs < TheISA::MaxMiscDestRegs);
-        _destMiscRegIdx[_numDestMiscRegs] = misc_reg;
-        _destMiscRegVal[_numDestMiscRegs] = val;
-        _numDestMiscRegs++;
+        _destMiscRegIdx.push_back(misc_reg);
+        _destMiscRegVal.push_back(val);
     }
 
     /** Reads a misc. register, including any side-effects the read
@@ -185,7 +177,7 @@ class BaseO3DynInst : public BaseDynInst<Impl>
         bool no_squash_from_TC = this->thread->noSquashFromTC;
         this->thread->noSquashFromTC = true;
 
-        for (int i = 0; i < _numDestMiscRegs; i++)
+        for (int i = 0; i < _destMiscRegIdx.size(); i++)
             this->cpu->setMiscReg(
                 _destMiscRegIdx[i], _destMiscRegVal[i], this->threadNumber);
 

diff --git a/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst_impl.hh b/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst_impl.hh
index d960ad012cb88de51bb68eb6fa569243254f9469..07131c3fcc8ca7cfe220698f4d3ffed64e442a81 100644 (file)
--- a/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst_impl.hh
+++ b/src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst_impl.hh
@@ -106,8 +106,6 @@ BaseO3DynInst<Impl>::initVars()
 {
     this->regs.init();
 
-    _numDestMiscRegs = 0;
-
 #if TRACING_ON
     // Value -1 indicates that particular phase
     // hasn't happened (yet).