O3: Cleanup the commitInfo comm struct.
authorAli Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:20:19 +0000 (19:20 -0500)
committerAli Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:20:19 +0000 (19:20 -0500)
Get rid of unused members and use base types rather than derrived values
where possible to limit amount of state.

src/cpu/o3/comm.hh
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh

index 897807fdb6077ef0980f4b69d953615a666745c9..840dde9ea8900ae0f623d318b193afaaa0479d0d 100644 (file)
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 /*
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 ARM Limited
+ * All rights reserved
+ *
+ * The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
+ * not be construed as granting a license to any other intellectual
+ * property including but not limited to intellectual property relating
+ * to a hardware implementation of the functionality of the software
+ * licensed hereunder.  You may use the software subject to the license
+ * terms below provided that you ensure that this notice is replicated
+ * unmodified and in its entirety in all distributions of the software,
+ * modified or unmodified, in source code or in binary form.
+ *
  * Copyright (c) 2004-2006 The Regents of The University of Michigan
  * All rights reserved.
  *
@@ -123,7 +135,6 @@ struct TimeBufStruct {
         bool branchTaken;
         Addr mispredPC;
         TheISA::PCState nextPC;
-
         unsigned branchCount;
     };
 
@@ -151,29 +162,45 @@ struct TimeBufStruct {
     iewComm iewInfo[Impl::MaxThreads];
 
     struct commitComm {
-        bool usedROB;
-        unsigned freeROBEntries;
-        bool emptyROB;
 
+        /////////////// For Decode, IEW, Rename, Fetch ///////////
         bool squash;
         bool robSquashing;
 
-        bool branchMispredict;
-        DynInstPtr mispredictInst;
-        bool branchTaken;
-        Addr mispredPC;
-        TheISA::PCState pc;
-
+        ////////// For Fetch & IEW /////////////
         // Represents the instruction that has either been retired or
         // squashed.  Similar to having a single bus that broadcasts the
         // retired or squashed sequence number.
         InstSeqNum doneSeqNum;
 
-        //Just in case we want to do a commit/squash on a cycle
-        //(necessary for multiple ROBs?)
-        bool commitInsts;
-        InstSeqNum squashSeqNum;
+        ////////////// For Rename /////////////////
+        // Rename should re-read number of free rob entries
+        bool usedROB;
+        // Notify Rename that the ROB is empty
+        bool emptyROB;
+        // Tell Rename how many free entries it has in the ROB
+        unsigned freeROBEntries;
+
+
+        ///////////// For Fetch //////////////////
+        // Provide fetch the instruction that mispredicted, if this
+        // pointer is not-null a misprediction occured
+        DynInstPtr mispredictInst;
+        // Was the branch taken or not
+        bool branchTaken;
+        // The pc of the next instruction to execute. This is the next
+        // instruction for a branch mispredict, but the same instruction for
+        // order violation and the like
+        TheISA::PCState pc;
+
+        // Instruction that caused the a non-mispredict squash
+        DynInstPtr squashInst;
+        // If an interrupt is pending and fetch should stall
+        bool interruptPending;
+        // If the interrupt ended up being cleared before being handled
+        bool clearInterrupt;
 
+        //////////// For IEW //////////////////
         // Communication specifically to the IQ to tell the IQ that it can
         // schedule a non-speculative instruction.
         InstSeqNum nonSpecSeqNum;
@@ -182,8 +209,6 @@ struct TimeBufStruct {
         bool uncached;
         DynInstPtr uncachedLoad;
 
-        bool interruptPending;
-        bool clearInterrupt;
     };
 
     commitComm commitInfo[Impl::MaxThreads];
index 047e29f5d805adc8e82b9007e1e7ff8df8658401..ff7b53440485872db50060a9b5b3b29298b9a491 100644 (file)
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ class DefaultCommit
      * instructions instead of the current instruction and doesn't
      * clean up various status bits about traps/tc writes pending.
      */
-    void squashAfter(ThreadID tid, uint64_t squash_after_seq_num);
+    void squashAfter(ThreadID tid, DynInstPtr &head_inst,
+            uint64_t squash_after_seq_num);
 
 #if FULL_SYSTEM
     /** Handles processing an interrupt. */
index 104e7fb58db2aa6bd51876f074157044f35daa5c..8c651e203cf22e328e02fd289a06699055721cbb 100644 (file)
@@ -541,8 +541,8 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashAll(ThreadID tid)
     // the ROB is in the process of squashing.
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].robSquashing = true;
 
-    toIEW->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict = false;
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst = NULL;
+    toIEW->commitInfo[tid].squashInst = NULL;
 
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].pc = pc[tid];
 }
@@ -584,7 +584,8 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashFromTC(ThreadID tid)
 
 template <class Impl>
 void
-DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashAfter(ThreadID tid, uint64_t squash_after_seq_num)
+DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashAfter(ThreadID tid, DynInstPtr &head_inst,
+        uint64_t squash_after_seq_num)
 {
     youngestSeqNum[tid] = squash_after_seq_num;
 
@@ -594,6 +595,7 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashAfter(ThreadID tid, uint64_t squash_after_seq_num)
     // Send back the sequence number of the squashed instruction.
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].doneSeqNum = squash_after_seq_num;
 
+    toIEW->commitInfo[tid].squashInst = head_inst;
     // Send back the squash signal to tell stages that they should squash.
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].squash = true;
 
@@ -601,7 +603,7 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::squashAfter(ThreadID tid, uint64_t squash_after_seq_num)
     // the ROB is in the process of squashing.
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].robSquashing = true;
 
-    toIEW->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict = false;
+    toIEW->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst = NULL;
 
     toIEW->commitInfo[tid].pc = pc[tid];
     DPRINTF(Commit, "Executing squash after for [tid:%i] inst [sn:%lli]\n",
@@ -801,10 +803,17 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::commit()
             commitStatus[tid] != TrapPending &&
             fromIEW->squashedSeqNum[tid] <= youngestSeqNum[tid]) {
 
-            DPRINTF(Commit, "[tid:%i]: Squashing due to PC %#x [sn:%i]\n",
+            if (fromIEW->mispredictInst[tid]) {
+                DPRINTF(Commit,
+                    "[tid:%i]: Squashing due to branch mispred PC:%#x [sn:%i]\n",
                     tid,
-                    fromIEW->mispredPC[tid],
+                    fromIEW->mispredictInst[tid]->instAddr(),
                     fromIEW->squashedSeqNum[tid]);
+            } else {
+                DPRINTF(Commit,
+                    "[tid:%i]: Squashing due to order violation [sn:%i]\n",
+                    tid, fromIEW->squashedSeqNum[tid]);
+            }
 
             DPRINTF(Commit, "[tid:%i]: Redirecting to PC %#x\n",
                     tid,
@@ -835,18 +844,15 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::commit()
             // the ROB is in the process of squashing.
             toIEW->commitInfo[tid].robSquashing = true;
 
-            toIEW->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict =
-                fromIEW->branchMispredict[tid];
             toIEW->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst =
                 fromIEW->mispredictInst[tid];
             toIEW->commitInfo[tid].branchTaken =
                 fromIEW->branchTaken[tid];
+            toIEW->commitInfo[tid].squashInst = NULL;
 
             toIEW->commitInfo[tid].pc = fromIEW->pc[tid];
 
-            toIEW->commitInfo[tid].mispredPC = fromIEW->mispredPC[tid];
-
-            if (toIEW->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict) {
+            if (toIEW->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst) {
                 ++branchMispredicts;
             }
         }
@@ -988,7 +994,7 @@ DefaultCommit<Impl>::commitInsts()
                 // If this is an instruction that doesn't play nicely with
                 // others squash everything and restart fetch
                 if (head_inst->isSquashAfter())
-                    squashAfter(tid, head_inst->seqNum);
+                    squashAfter(tid, head_inst, head_inst->seqNum);
 
                 int count = 0;
                 Addr oldpc;
index 3092bd937d97cb8e5108204b6790c7faf1ce1802..5f9be039fc90be422dd53bb39dcabdc5877dcad8 100644 (file)
@@ -934,15 +934,12 @@ DefaultFetch<Impl>::checkSignalsAndUpdate(ThreadID tid)
         // In any case, squash.
         squash(fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].pc,
                fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].doneSeqNum,
-               tid);
+               fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].squashInst, tid);
 
         // If it was a branch mispredict on a control instruction, update the
         // branch predictor with that instruction, otherwise just kill the
         // invalid state we generated in after sequence number
-        assert(!fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict ||
-                fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst);
-
-        if (fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].branchMispredict &&
+        if (fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst &&
             fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].mispredictInst->isControl()) {
             branchPred.squash(fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].doneSeqNum,
                               fromCommit->commitInfo[tid].pc,
index dff287ff51ad06ee8edc046aa3ad80e3c416354d..8bf3c56f499ae0c5675da902597193b7034649b4 100644 (file)
@@ -456,8 +456,6 @@ DefaultIEW<Impl>::squashDueToBranch(DynInstPtr &inst, ThreadID tid)
             inst->seqNum < toCommit->squashedSeqNum[tid]) {
         toCommit->squash[tid] = true;
         toCommit->squashedSeqNum[tid] = inst->seqNum;
-        toCommit->mispredPC[tid] = inst->instAddr();
-        toCommit->branchMispredict[tid] = true;
         toCommit->branchTaken[tid] = inst->pcState().branching();
 
         TheISA::PCState pc = inst->pcState();
@@ -486,7 +484,7 @@ DefaultIEW<Impl>::squashDueToMemOrder(DynInstPtr &inst, ThreadID tid)
         TheISA::PCState pc = inst->pcState();
         TheISA::advancePC(pc, inst->staticInst);
         toCommit->pc[tid] = pc;
-        toCommit->branchMispredict[tid] = false;
+        toCommit->mispredictInst[tid] = NULL;
 
         toCommit->includeSquashInst[tid] = false;
 
@@ -506,7 +504,7 @@ DefaultIEW<Impl>::squashDueToMemBlocked(DynInstPtr &inst, ThreadID tid)
 
         toCommit->squashedSeqNum[tid] = inst->seqNum;
         toCommit->pc[tid] = inst->pcState();
-        toCommit->branchMispredict[tid] = false;
+        toCommit->mispredictInst[tid] = NULL;
 
         // Must include the broadcasted SN in the squash.
         toCommit->includeSquashInst[tid] = true;