arm: Change TLB Software Caching

In ARM, certain variables are only updated when a necessary change is
detected.  Having 2 SMT threads share a TLB resulted in these not being
updated as required.  This patch adds a thread context identifer to
assist in the invalidation of these variables.

diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tlb.cc b/src/arch/arm/tlb.cc
index aee6a251a44c7580630cfe0ade7488a8e236a28d..688c0d46bbcb9a9aeb2ab58d799d0ea3d7c0f1e5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/arch/arm/tlb.cc
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tlb.cc
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ TLB::TLB(const ArmTLBParams *p)
       stage2Mmu(NULL), rangeMRU(1),
       aarch64(false), aarch64EL(EL0), isPriv(false), isSecure(false),
       isHyp(false), asid(0), vmid(0), dacr(0),
-      miscRegValid(false), curTranType(NormalTran)
+      miscRegValid(false), miscRegContext(0), curTranType(NormalTran)
 {
     tableWalker->setTlb(this);
 
@@ -1204,7 +1204,8 @@ TLB::updateMiscReg(ThreadContext *tc, ArmTranslationType tranType)
     // check if the regs have changed, or the translation mode is different.
     // NOTE: the tran type doesn't affect stage 2 TLB's as they only handle
     // one type of translation anyway
-    if (miscRegValid && ((tranType == curTranType) || isStage2)) {
+    if (miscRegValid && miscRegContext == tc->contextId() &&
+            ((tranType == curTranType) || isStage2)) {
         return;
     }
 
@@ -1300,6 +1301,7 @@ TLB::updateMiscReg(ThreadContext *tc, ArmTranslationType tranType)
         }
     }
     miscRegValid = true;
+    miscRegContext = tc->contextId();
     curTranType  = tranType;
 }
 

diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tlb.hh b/src/arch/arm/tlb.hh
index 63707dba261eeadbf0ab03172d25e415278feac1..35049db4832b74f60738b9f28530d1b9d961f252 100644 (file)
--- a/src/arch/arm/tlb.hh
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tlb.hh
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ protected:
     HCR hcr;
     uint32_t dacr;
     bool miscRegValid;
+    ContextID miscRegContext;
     ArmTranslationType curTranType;
 
     // Cached copies of system-level properties