Andreas Sandberg [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:20 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
test, arm: Add scripts to test checkpoints
Add a set of scripts to automatically test checkpointing in the
regression framework. The checkpointing tests are similar to the
switcheroo tests, but instead of switching between CPUs, they
checkpoint the system and restore from the checkpoint again. This is
done at regular intervals, typically while booting Linux.
The implementation is fairly straight forward, with the exception that
we have to work around gem5's inability to restore from a checkpoint
after a system has been instantiated. We work around this by forking
off child processes that does the actual simulation and never
instantiate a system in the parent process unless a maximum checkpoint
count is reached (in which case we just simulate the system to
completion in the parent).
Checkpoint testing is currently only enabled 32- and 64-bit ARM
systems using atomic CPUs.
Note: An unfortunate side-effect of forking is that every new process
will overwrite the stats and terminal output from the previous
process. This means that the output directory only contains data from
the last checkpoint.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:18 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
config: Add soak test for memtest.py
This patch adds a random option to memtest.py which allows the user to
easily test valid random tree topologies. The patch also adds a
wrapper script to run soak tests using the newly introduced option.
We also adjust the progress interval and progress limit check to make
the output less noisy, and avoid false positives.
Bring on the pain.
Matt Evans [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:17 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
arm: Add a GICv2m device
This patch adds a new PIO-accessible GICv2m shim. This shim has a PIO
slave port on one side, and SPI 'wires' on the other. It accepts MSIs
from the system and triggers SPIs on the GIC. It is configurable with
a number of frames, each of which has a number of SPIs and a base SPI
offset.
A Linux driver for GICv2m is available upstream.
Matt Evans [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:16 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
arm: Remove the 'magic MSI register' in the GIC (PL390)
This patch removes the code that added this magic register. A
follow-up patch provides a GICv2m MSI shim that gives the same
functionality in a standard ARM system architecture way.
Chris Emmons [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:14 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
config: Specify OS type and release on command line
This patch enables users to speficy --os-type on the command
line. This option is used to take specific actions for an OS type,
such as changing the kernel command line. This patch is part of the
Android KitKat enablement.
Wendy Elsasser [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:12 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
cpu: Fix TrafficGen message format
Fix erroneous message format for fatal error.
Previously, code did not have type indicator (% instead of %d).
Also removed redundant fatal check.
Ran modified sweep.py with in range and out of range values to test.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:11 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
mem: Use emplace front/back for deferred packets
Embrace C++11 for the deferred packets as we actually store the
objects in the data structure, and not just pointers.
Geoffrey Blake [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:10 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
mem: Enable CommMonitor to output traces in atomic mode
The CommMonitor by default only allows memory traces to be gathered in
timing mode. This patch allows memory traces to be gathered in atomic
mode if all one needs is a functional trace of memory addresses used
and timing information is of a secondary concern.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:08 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
config: Fix DRAM rank option in sweep script
Align with changes in the common bits.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:06:07 +0000 (04:06 -0400)]
tests: Bump timeout to 5 hours
Align with observed run-times just above 4 hours for some hosts.
Steve Reinhardt [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:48:53 +0000 (10:48 -0800)]
mem: remove redundant test in in Cache::recvTimingResp()
For some reason we were checking mshr->hasTargets() even though
we had already called mshr->getTarget() unconditionally earlier
in the same function (which asserts if there are no targets).
Get rid of this useless check, and while we're at it get rid
of the redundant call to mshr->getTarget(), since we still have
the value saved in a local var.
Steve Reinhardt [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:48:52 +0000 (10:48 -0800)]
mem: add local var in Cache::recvTimingResp()
The main loop in recvTimingResp() uses target->pkt all over
the place. Create a local tgt_pkt to help keep lines
under the line length limit.
Steve Reinhardt [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:48:50 +0000 (10:48 -0800)]
mem: restructure Packet cmd initialization a bit more
Refactor the way that specific MemCmd values are generated for packets.
The new approach is a little more elegant in that we assign the right
value up front, and it's also more amenable to non-heap-allocated
Packet objects.
Also replaced the code in the Minor model that was still doing it the
ad-hoc way.
This is basically a refinement of http://repo.gem5.org/gem5/rev/
711eb0e64249.
Steve Reinhardt [Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:51:07 +0000 (06:51 -0700)]
mem: clean up write buffer check in Cache::handleSnoop()
The 'if (writebacks.size)' check was redundant, because
writeBuffer.findMatches() would return false if the
writebacks list was empty.
Also renamed 'mshr' to 'wb_entry' in this context since
we are pointing at a writebuffer entry and not an MSHR
(even though it's the same C++ class).
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:09 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
tests: remove not maintained 20.eio-short detailed test
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:09 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
stats: changes to due to recent set of patches
Rizwana Begum [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:08 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
config: Fix for 'android' lookup in disk name
This patch modifies FSConfig.py to look for 'android' only in disk
image name. Before this patch, 'android' was searched in full
disk path.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:08 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: another assert instead of check
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:08 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: Remove unused code in iew, add assert instead.
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:08 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: commit: mark pipeline delay variable as consts
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:08 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: remove unused stat variables.
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:07 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: combine if with same condition
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:07 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: remove member variable squashCounter
The variable is used in only one place and a whole new function setNextStatus()
has been defined just to compute the value of the variable. Instead of calling
the function, the value is now computed in the loop that preceded the function
call.
Nilay Vaish [Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:39:07 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
cpu: o3: remove unused function annotateMemoryUnits()
Steve Reinhardt [Sat, 7 Mar 2015 18:55:56 +0000 (13:55 -0500)]
stats: update eio stats
Minor differences apparently from recent changes
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:04:20 +0000 (05:04 -0500)]
stats: Update stats to reflect cache and interconnect changes
This is a bulk update of stats to match the changes to cache timing,
interconnect timing, and a few minor changes to the o3 CPU.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:56 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Unify all cache DPRINTF address formatting
This patch changes all the DPRINTF messages in the cache to use
'%#llx' every time a packet address is printed. The inclusion of '#'
ensures '0x' is prepended, and since the address type is a uint64_t %x
really should be %llx.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:54 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Fix cache MSHR conflict determination
This patch fixes a rather subtle issue in the sending of MSHR requests
in the cache, where the logic previously did not check for conflicts
between the MSRH queue and the write queue when requests were not
ready. The correct thing to do is to always check, since not having a
ready MSHR does not guarantee that there is no conflict.
The underlying problem seems to have slipped past due to the symmetric
timings used for the write queue and MSHR queue. However, with the
recent timing changes the bug caused regressions to fail.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:52 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Add byte mask to Packet::checkFunctional
This patch changes the valid-bytes start/end to a proper byte
mask. With the changes in timing introduced in previous patches there
are more packets waiting in queues, and there are regressions using
the checker CPU failing due to non-contigous read data being found in
the various cache queues.
This patch also adds some more comments explaining what is going on,
and adds the fourth and missing case to Packet::checkFunctional.
Stephan Diestelhorst [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:49 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Add option to force in-order insertion in PacketQueue
By default, the packet queue is ordered by the ticks of the to-be-sent
packages. With the recent modifications of packages sinking their header time
when their resposne leaves the caches, there could be cases of MSHR targets
being allocated and ordered A, B, but their responses being sent out in the
order B,A. This led to inconsistencies in bus traffic, in particular the snoop
filter observing first a ReadExResp and later a ReadRespWithInv. Logically,
these were ordered the other way around behind the MSHR, but due to the timing
adjustments when inserting into the PacketQueue, they were sent out in the
wrong order on the bus, confusing the snoop filter.
This patch adds a flag (off by default) such that these special cases can
request in-order insertion into the packet queue, which might offset timing
slighty. This is expected to occur rarely and not affect timing results.
Marco Balboni [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:48 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Downstream components consumes new crossbar delays
This patch makes the caches and memory controllers consume the delay
that is annotated to a packet by the crossbar. Previously many
components simply threw these delays away. Note that the devices still
do not pay for these delays.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:47 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Move crossbar default latencies to subclasses
This patch introduces a few subclasses to the CoherentXBar and
NoncoherentXBar to distinguish the different uses in the system. We
use the crossbar in a wide range of places: interfacing cores to the
L2, as a system interconnect, connecting I/O and peripherals,
etc. Needless to say, these crossbars have very different performance,
and the clock frequency alone is not enough to distinguish these
scenarios.
Instead of trying to capture every possible case, this patch
introduces dedicated subclasses for the three primary use-cases:
L2XBar, SystemXBar and IOXbar. More can be added if needed, and the
defaults can be overridden.
Marco Balboni [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:46 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Add crossbar latencies
This patch introduces latencies in crossbar that were neglected
before. In particular, it adds three parameters in crossbar model:
front_end_latency, forward_latency, and response_latency. Along with
these parameters, three corresponding members are added:
frontEndLatency, forwardLatency, and responseLatency. The coherent
crossbar has an additional snoop_response_latency.
The latency of the request path through the xbar is set as
--> frontEndLatency + forwardLatency
In case the snoop filter is enabled, the request path latency is charged
also by look-up latency of the snoop filter.
--> frontEndLatency + SF(lookupLatency) + forwardLatency.
The latency of the response path through the xbar is set instead as
--> responseLatency.
In case of snoop response, if the response is treated as a normal response
the latency associated is again
--> responseLatency;
If instead it is forwarded as snoop response we add an additional variable
+ snoopResponseLatency
and the latency associated is
--> snoopResponseLatency;
Furthermore, this patch lets the crossbar progress on the next clock
edge after an unused retry, changing the time the crossbar considers
itself busy after sending a retry that was not acted upon.
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:44 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
dev, arm: Clean up PL011 and rewrite interrupt handling
The ARM PL011 UART model didn't clear and raise interrupts
correctly. This changeset rewrites the whole interrupt handling and
makes it both simpler and fixes several cases where the correct
interrupts weren't raised or cleared. Additionally, it cleans up many
other aspects of the code.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:42 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
arm: Share a port for the two table walker objects
This patch changes how the MMU and table walkers are created such that
a single port is used to connect the MMU and the TLBs to the memory
system. Previously two ports were needed as there are two table walker
objects (stage one and stage two), and they both had a port. Now the
port itself is moved to the Stage2MMU, and each TableWalker is simply
using the port from the parent.
By using the same port we also remove the need for having an
additional crossbar joining the two ports before the walker cache or
the L2. This simplifies the creation of the CPU cache topology in
BaseCPU.py considerably. Moreover, for naming and symmetry reasons,
the TLB walker port is connected through the stage-one table walker
thus making the naming identical to x86. Along the same line, we use
the stage-one table walker to generate the master id that is used by
all TLB-related requests.
Giacomo Gabrielli [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:41 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
arm: Remove unnecessary dependencies between AArch64 FP instructions
Rekai [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:38 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
cpu: o3 register renaming request handling improved
Now, prior to the renaming, the instruction requests the exact amount of
registers it will need, and the rename_map decides whether the instruction is
allowed to proceed or not.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:37 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Tidy up the cache debug messages
Avoid redundant inclusion of the name in the DPRINTF string.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:35 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes
This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow
control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all
different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get
stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv
functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in
stress-test scenarios.
The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus,
sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has
recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply
clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting.
The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet
queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop
responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own
flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes
the previously seen deadlocks.
Ali Jafri [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:34 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
mem: Fix prefetchSquash + memInhibitAsserted bug
This patch resolves a bug with hardware prefetches. Before a hardware prefetch
is sent towards the memory, the system generates a snoop request to check all
caches above the prefetch generating cache for the presence of the prefetth
target. If the prefetch target is found in the tags or the MSHRs of the upper
caches, the cache sets the prefetchSquashed flag in the snoop packet. When the
snoop packet returns with the prefetchSquashed flag set, the prefetch
generating cache deallocates the MSHR reserved for the prefetch. If the
prefetch target is found in the writeback buffer of the upper cache, the cache
sets the memInhibit flag, which signals the prefetch generating cache to
expect the data from the writeback. When the snoop packet returns with the
memInhibitAsserted flag set, it marks the allocated MSHR as inService and
waits for the data from the writeback.
If the prefetch target is found in multiple upper level caches, specifically
in the tags or MSHRs of one upper level cache and the writeback buffer of
another, the snoop packet will return with both prefetchSquashed and
memInhibitAsserted set, while the current code is not written to handle such
an outcome. Current code checks for the prefetchSquashed flag first, if it
finds the flag, it deallocates the reserved MSHR. This leads to assert failure
when the data from the writeback appears at cache. In this fix, we simply
switch the order of checks. We first check for memInhibitAsserted and then for
prefetch squashed.
Stephan Diestelhorst [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:31 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
cpu: Add a PC-value to the traffic generator requests
Have the traffic generator add its masterID as the PC address to the
requests. That way, prefetchers (and other components) that use a PC
for request classification will see per-tester streams of requests.
This enables us to test strided prefetchers with the memchecker, too.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:29 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
tests: Run regression timeout as foreground
Allow the user to send signals such as Ctrl C to the gem5 runs. Note
that this assumes coreutils >= 8.13, which aligns with Ubuntu 12.04
and RHE6.
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:28 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
arm: Don't truncate 16-bit ASIDs to 8 bits
The ISA code sometimes stores 16-bit ASIDs as 8-bit unsigned integers
and has a couple of inverted checks that mask out the high 8 bits of
an ASID if 16-bit ASIDs have been /enabled/. This changeset fixes both
of those issues.
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:27 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
arm: Correctly access the stack pointer in GDB
We curently use INTREG_X31 instead of INTREG_SPX when accessing the
stack pointer in GDB. gem5 normally uses INTREG_SPX to access the
stack pointer, which gets mapped to the stack pointer corresponding
(INTREG_SPn) to the current exception level. This changeset updates
the GDB interface to use SPX instead of X31 (which is always zero)
when transfering CPU state to gdb.
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:00:27 +0000 (04:00 -0500)]
arm: Fix broken page table permissions checks in remote GDB
The remote GDB interface currently doesn't check if translations are
valid before reading memory. This causes a panic when GDB tries to
access unmapped memory (e.g., when getting a stack trace). There are
two reasons for this: 1) The function used to check for valid
translations (virtvalid()) doesn't work and panics on invalid
translations. 2) The method in the GDB interface used to test if a
translation is valid (RemoteGDB::acc) always returns true regardless
of the return from virtvalid().
This changeset fixes both of these issues.
Jason Power [Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:58:26 +0000 (09:58 -0600)]
Ruby: Update backing store option to propagate through to all RubyPorts
Previously, the user would have to manually set access_backing_store=True
on all RubyPorts (Sequencers) in the config files.
Now, instead there is one global option that each RubyPort checks on
initialization.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:35:23 +0000 (03:35 -0500)]
config: Add memcheck stress test
This is a rather unfortunate copy of the memtest.py example script,
that actually stresses the system with true sharing as opposed to the
false sharing of the MemTest. To do so it uses TrafficGen instances to
generate the reads/writes, and MemCheckerMonitor combined with the
MemChecker to check the validity of the read/written values.
As a bonus, this script also enables the addition of prefetchers, and
the traffic is created to have a mix of random addresses and linear
strides. We use the TaggedPrefetcher since the packets do not have a
request with a PC.
At the moment the code is almost identical to the memtest.py script,
and no effort has been made to factor out the construction of the
tree. The challenge is that the instantiation and connection of the
testers and monitors is done as part of the tree building.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:34:55 +0000 (03:34 -0500)]
cpu: TrafficGen sinks snoops without complaining
To be able to use the TrafficGen in a system with caches we need to
allow it to sink incoming snoop requests. By default the master port
panics, so silently ignore any snoops.
Stephan Diestelhorst [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:34:47 +0000 (03:34 -0500)]
mem: Fix initial value problem with MemChecker
In highly loaded cases, reads might actually overlap with writes to the
initial memory state. The mem checker needs to detect such cases and
permit the read reading either from the writes (what it is doing now) or
read from the initial, unknown value.
This patch adds this logic.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:34:35 +0000 (03:34 -0500)]
dev: Fix undefined behaviuor in i8254xGBe
This patch fixes a rather unfortunate oversight where the annotation
pointer was used even though it is null. Somehow the code still works,
but UBSan is rather unhappy. The use is now guarded, and the variable
is initialised in the constructor (as well as init()).
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:34:18 +0000 (03:34 -0500)]
arm: Wire up the GIC with the platform in the base class
Move the (common) GIC initialization code that notifies the platform
code of the new GIC to the base class (BaseGic) instead of the Pl390
implementation.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:33:47 +0000 (03:33 -0500)]
mem: mmap the backing store with MAP_NORESERVE
This patch ensures we can run simulations with very large simulated
memories (at least 64 TB based on some quick runs on a Linux
workstation). In essence this allows us to efficiently deal with
sparse address maps without having to implement a redirection layer in
the backing store.
This opens up for run-time errors if we eventually exhausts the hosts
memory and swap space, but this should hopefully never happen.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:33:37 +0000 (03:33 -0500)]
mem: Use the range cache for lookup as well as access
This patch changes the range cache used in the global physical memory
to be an iterator so that we can use it not only as part of isMemAddr,
but also access and functionalAccess. This matches use-cases where a
core is using the atomic non-caching memory mode, and repeatedly calls
isMemAddr and access.
Linux boot on aarch32, with a single atomic CPU, is now more than 30%
faster when using "--fastmem" compared to not using the direct memory
access.
Andreas Hansson [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:33:28 +0000 (03:33 -0500)]
arch: Make readMiscRegNoEffect const throughout
Finally took the plunge and made this apply to all ISAs, not just ARM.
Curtis Dunham [Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:12:03 +0000 (14:12 -0600)]
config: add --root-device machine parameter
In case /dev/sda1 is not actually the boot partition for an image,
we can override it on the command line or in a benchmark definition.
Andreas Sandberg [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:32:58 +0000 (03:32 -0500)]
arm: Merge ISA files with pseudo instructions
This changeset moves the pseudo instructions used to signal unknown
instructions and unimplemented instructions to the same source files
as the decoder fault.
Ali Saidi [Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:32:38 +0000 (03:32 -0500)]
cpu: add support for outputing a protobuf formatted CPU trace
Doesn't support x86 due to static instruction representation.
--HG--
rename : src/cpu/CPUTracers.py => src/cpu/InstPBTrace.py
Marco Balboni [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:47 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
mem: Clarification of packet crossbar timings
This patch clarifies the packet timings annotated
when going through a crossbar.
The old 'firstWordDelay' is replaced by 'headerDelay' that represents
the delay associated to the delivery of the header of the packet.
The old 'lastWordDelay' is replaced by 'payloadDelay' that represents
the delay needed to processing the payload of the packet.
For now the uses and values remain identical. However, going forward
the payloadDelay will be additive, and not include the
headerDelay. Follow-on patches will make the headerDelay capture the
pipeline latency incurred in the crossbar, whereas the payloadDelay
will capture the additional serialisation delay.
Marco Balboni [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:36 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
mem: Clarify usage of latency in the cache
This patch adds some much-needed clarity in the specification of the
cache timing. For now, hit_latency and response_latency are kept as
top-level parameters, but the cache itself has a number of local
variables to better map the individual timing variables to different
behaviours (and sub-components).
The introduced variables are:
- lookupLatency: latency of tag lookup, occuring on any access
- forwardLatency: latency that occurs in case of outbound miss
- fillLatency: latency to fill a cache block
We keep the existing responseLatency
The forwardLatency is used by allocateInternalBuffer() for:
- MSHR allocateWriteBuffer (unchached write forwarded to WriteBuffer);
- MSHR allocateMissBuffer (cacheable miss in MSHR queue);
- MSHR allocateUncachedReadBuffer (unchached read allocated in MSHR
queue)
It is our assumption that the time for the above three buffers is the
same. Similarly, for snoop responses passing through the cache we use
forwardLatency.
Andreas Sandberg [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:34 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
style: Fix broken m5format command
The m5format command didn't actually work due to parameter handling
issues and missing language detection. This changeset fixes those
issues and cleans up some of the code to shared between the style
checker and the format checker.
Andreas Sandberg [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:33 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
style: Fix incorrect style checker option name
The style used to support the option -w to automatically fix white
space issues. However, this option was actually wired up to fix all
styles issues the checker encountered. This changeset cleans up the
code that handles automatic fixing and adds an option to fix all
issues, and separate options for white spaces and include ordering.
Andreas Hansson [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:31 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
config: Revamp memtest to allow testers on any level
This patch revamps the memtest example script and allows for the
insertion of testers at any level in the cache hierarchy. Previously
all created topologies placed testers only at the very top, and the
tree was thus entirely symmetric. With the changes made, it is possible
to not only place testers at the leaf caches (L1), but also to connect
testers at the L2, L3 etc.
As part of the changes the object hierarchy is also simplified to
ensure that the visual representation from the DOT printing looks
sensible. Using SubSystems to group the objects is one of the key
features.
Andreas Hansson [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:31 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
stats: Bump the MemTest regression stats
Reflect changes in the tester behaviour.
Andreas Hansson [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:28 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
cpu: Tidy up the MemTest and make false sharing more obvious
The MemTest class really only tests false sharing, and as such there
was a lot of old cruft that could be removed. This patch cleans up the
tester, and also makes it more clear what the assumptions are. As part
of this simplification the reference functional memory is also
removed.
The regression configs using MemTest are updated to reflect the
changes, and the stats will be bumped in a separate patch. The example
config will be updated in a separate patch due to more extensive
re-work.
In a follow-on patch a new tester will be introduced that uses the
MemChecker to implement true sharing.
Andreas Sandberg [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:27 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
sim: Move the BaseTLB to src/arch/generic/
The TLB-related code is generally architecture dependent and should
live in the arch directory to signify that.
--HG--
rename : src/sim/BaseTLB.py => src/arch/generic/BaseTLB.py
rename : src/sim/tlb.cc => src/arch/generic/tlb.cc
rename : src/sim/tlb.hh => src/arch/generic/tlb.hh
Andreas Sandberg [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:24 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
base: Add compiler macros to add deprecation warnings
Gcc and clang both provide an attribute that can be used to flag a
function as deprecated at compile time. This changeset adds a gem5
compiler macro for that compiler feature. The macro can be used to
indicate that a legacy API within gem5 has been deprecated and provide
a graceful migration to the new API.
Andreas Hansson [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:23 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
base: Do not dereference NULL in CompoundFlag creation
This patch fixes the CompoundFlag constructor, ensuring that it does
not dereference NULL. Doing so has undefined behaviuor, and both clang
and gcc's undefined-behaviour sanitiser was rather unhappy.
Andreas Sandberg [Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:23:22 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
dev: Remove unused system pointer in the Platform base class
The Platform base class contains a pointer to an instance of the
System which is never initialized. This can lead to subtle bugs since
some architecture-specific platform implementations contain their own
system pointer which is normally used. However, if the platform is
accessed through a pointer to its base class, the dangling pointer
will be used instead.
Alexandru Dutu [Sat, 7 Feb 2015 02:01:22 +0000 (18:01 -0800)]
cpu: Idle CPU status logic revised
This patch sets the CPU status to idle when the last active thread gets
suspended.
Steve Reinhardt [Fri, 6 Feb 2015 00:45:12 +0000 (16:45 -0800)]
config: rename 'file' var
Rename uses of 'file' as a local variable to avoid conflict
with the built-in type of the same name.
Steve Reinhardt [Fri, 6 Feb 2015 00:45:06 +0000 (16:45 -0800)]
config: make M5_PATH a real search path
Although you can put a list of colon-separated directory names
in M5_PATH, the current code just takes the first one that
exists and assumes all files must live there. This change
makes the code search the specified list of directories
for each individual binary or disk image that's requested.
The main motivation is that the x86/Alpha binaries and the
ARM binaries are in separate downloads, and thus naturally
end up in separate directories. With this change, you can
have M5_PATH point to those two directories, then run any
FS regression test without changing M5_PATH. Currently,
you either have to merge the two download directories
or change M5_PATH (or do something else I haven't figured out).
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:26:02 +0000 (14:26 -0500)]
mem: Clarify express snoop behaviour
This patch adds a bit of documentation with insights around how
express snoops really work.
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:59 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
mem: Clarify cache behaviour for pending dirty responses
This patch adds a bit of clarification around the assumptions made in
the cache when packets are sent out, and dirty responses are
pending. As part of the change, the marking of an MSHR as in service
is simplified slightly, and comments are added to explain what
assumptions are made.
Curtis Dunham [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:58 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
base: add an accessor and operators ==,!= to address ranges
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:55 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
config: Add XOR hashing to the DRAM channel interleaving
This patch uses the recently added XOR hashing capabilities for the
DRAM channel interleaving. This avoids channel biasing due to strided
access patterns.
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:54 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
base: Add XOR-based hashed address interleaving
This patch extends the current address interleaving with basic hashing
support. Instead of directly comparing a number of address bits with a
matching value, it is now possible to use two independent set of
address bits XOR'ed together. This avoids issues where strided address
patterns are heavily biased to a subset of the interleaved ranges.
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:52 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
config: Adjust DRAM channel interleaving defaults
This patch changes the DRAM channel interleaving default behaviour to
be more representative. The default address mapping (RoRaBaCoCh) moves
the channel bits towards the least significant bits, and uses 128 byte
as the default channel interleaving granularity.
These defaults can be overridden if desired, but should serve as a
sensible starting point for most use-cases.
Andreas Sandberg [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:50 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
style: Update the style checker to handle new include order
As of August 2014, the gem5 style guide mandates that a source file's
primary header is included first in that source file. This helps to
ensure that the header file does not depend on include file ordering
and avoids surprises down the road when someone tries to reuse code.
In the new order, include files are grouped into the following blocks:
* Primary header file (e.g., foo.hh for foo.cc)
* Python headers
* C system/stdlib includes
* C++ stdlib includes
* Include files in the gem5 source tree
Just like before, include files within a block are required to be
sorted in alphabetical order.
This changeset updates the style checker to enforce the new order.
Andreas Sandberg [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:48 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
sim: Remove test for non-NULL this in Event
The method Event::initialized() tests if this != NULL as a part of the
expression that tests if an event is initialized. The only case when
this check could be false is if the method is called on a null
pointer, which is illegal and leads to undefined behavior (such as
eating your pets) according to the C++ standard. Because of this,
modern compilers (specifically, recent versions of clang) warn about
this which we treat as an error. This changeset removes the redundant
check to fix said warning.
Andreas Sandberg [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:47 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
dev: Correctly clear interrupts in VirtIO PCI
Correctly clear the PCI interrupt belonging to a VirtIO device when
the ISR register is read.
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:43 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
scons: Avoid implicit command dependencies
Work around a bug in scons that causes the param wrappers being
compiled twice. The easiest way for us to do so is to tell scons to
ignore implicit command dependencies.
Curtis Dunham [Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:32:34 +0000 (15:32 -0600)]
sim: prioritize async events; prevent starvation
If a time quantum event is the only one in the queue, async
events (Ctrl-C, I/O, etc.) will never be processed.
So process them first.
Andreas Hansson [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:27 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
cpu: Ensure timing CPU sinks response before sending new request
This patch changes how the timing CPU deals with processing responses,
always scheduling an event, even if it is for the current tick. This
helps to avoid situations where a new request shows up before a
response is finished in the crossbar, and also is more in line with
any realistic behaviour.
Geoffrey Blake [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:25:07 +0000 (14:25 -0500)]
config: Fix typo in Float param
The Float param was not settable on the command line
due to a typo in the class definition in
python/m5/params.py. This corrects the typo and allows
floats to be set on the command line as intended.
Malek Musleh [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:49:34 +0000 (15:49 -0600)]
config: arm: fix os_flags
Fix the makeArmSystem routine to reflect recent changes that support kernel
commandline option when running android. Without this fix, trying to run
android encounters a 'reference before assignment' error.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
Ali Saidi [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:22:56 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
arm: always set the IsFirstMicroop flag
While the IsFirstMicroop flag exists it was only occasionally used in the ARM
instructions that gem5 microOps and therefore couldn't be relied on to be correct.
Ali Saidi [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:22:44 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
sim: Clean up InstRecord
Track memory size and flags as well as add some comments and consts.
Ali Saidi [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:22:26 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
cpu: Remove all notion that we know when the cpu is misspeculating.
We have no way of knowing if a CPU model is on the wrong path with
our execute-in-execute CPU models. Don't pretend that we do.
Ali Saidi [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:22:17 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
cpu: Put all CPU instruction tracers in a single file
Ali Saidi [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:22:05 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
cpu: remove legion tracer
If someone wants to debug with legion again they can restore the
code from the repository, but no need to have it hang around indefinately.
Curtis Dunham [Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:51:40 +0000 (11:51 -0600)]
sim: fix reference counting of PythonEvent
When gem5 is a slave to another simulator and the Python is only used
to initialize the configuration (and not perform actual simulation), a
"debug start" (--debug-start) event will get freed during or immediately
after the initial Python frame's execution rather than remaining in the
event queue. This tricky patch fixes the GC issue causing this.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:31 +0000 (05:01 -0500)]
mem: Remove unused Packet src and dest fields
This patch takes the final step in removing the src and dest fields in
the packet. These fields were rather confusing in that they only
remember a single multiplexing component, and pushed the
responsibility to the bridge and caches to store the fields in a
senderstate, thus effectively creating a stack. With the recent
changes to the crossbar response routing the crossbar is now
responsible without relying on the packet fields. Thus, these
variables are now unused and can be removed.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:30 +0000 (05:01 -0500)]
mem: Remove Packet source from ForwardResponseRecord
This patch removes the source field from the ForwardResponseRecord,
but keeps the class as it is part of how the cache identifies
responses to hardware prefetches that are snooped upwards.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:27 +0000 (05:01 -0500)]
mem: Remove unused RequestState in the bridge
This patch removes the bridge sender state as the Crossbar now takes
care of remembering its own routing decisions.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:24 +0000 (05:01 -0500)]
mem: Always use SenderState for response routing in RubyPort
This patch aligns how the response routing is done in the RubyPort,
using the SenderState for both memory and I/O accesses. Before this
patch, only the I/O used the SenderState, whereas the memory accesses
relied on the src field in the packet. With this patch we shift to
using SenderState in both cases, thus not relying on the src field any
longer.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:14 +0000 (05:01 -0500)]
mem: Make the XBar responsible for tracking response routing
This patch removes the need for a source and destination field in the
packet by shifting the onus of the tracking to the crossbar, much like
a real implementation. This change in behaviour also means we no
longer need a SenderState to remember the source/dest when ever we
have multiple crossbars in the system. Thus, the stack that was
created by the SenderState is not needed, and each crossbar locally
tracks the response routing.
The fields in the packet are still left behind as the RubyPort (which
also acts as a crossbar) does routing based on them. In the succeeding
patches the uses of the src and dest field will be removed. Combined,
these patches improve the simulation performance by roughly 2%.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:57 +0000 (05:00 -0500)]
stats: Update stats to reflect x86 table walker changes
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:54 +0000 (05:00 -0500)]
x86: Delay X86 table walk on receiving walker response
This patch fixes a minor issue in the X86 page table walker where it
ended up sending new request packets to the crossbar before the
response processing was finished (recvTimingResp is directly calling
sendTimingReq). Under certain conditions this caused the crossbar to
see illegal combinations of request/response overlap, in turn causing
problems with a slightly modified crossbar implementation.
Andreas Hansson [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:53 +0000 (05:00 -0500)]
mem: Clean up Request initialisation
This patch tidies up how we create and set the fields of a Request. In
essence it tries to use the constructor where possible (as opposed to
setPhys and setVirt), thus avoiding spreading the information across a
number of locations. In fact, setPhys is made private as part of this
patch, and a number of places where we callede setVirt instead uses
the appropriate constructor.
Malek Musleh [Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:15:28 +0000 (14:15 -0600)]
config, ruby: connect dma to network
DMA Controller was not being connected to the network for the MESI_Three_Level
protocol as was being done in the other protocol config files. Without this
patch, this protocol segfaults during startup.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>