configs: root, platform options in fs bigLITTLE

(1) Two new options are added to fs_bigLITTLE.py:
- "root": disk/partition containing the rootfs (def. "/dev/vda1")
- "machine-type": hardware platform class (def. "VExpress_GEM5_V1")
+ Accepts platform classes from PlatformConfig
(2) Default kernel is not available in public uploads, force the user
to provide its own kernel instead of crashing.

Change-Id: I88283ae12cd7289e15b9277ea2cc382e9136f11c
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20148
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>

configs, arch-arm: Check if gic has cpu_addr attribute

Add this check because Gicv3 does not have the cpu_addr attribute.

Test: Change VExpress_GEM5_V1() to VExpress_GEM5_V2() and run the
following command to boot Debian.

M5_PATH=$PWD/fs_files ./build/ARM/gem5.opt ./configs/example/arm/fs_bigLITTLE.py \
--dtb $PWD/fs_files/binaries/armv8_gem5_v2_1cpu.dtb \
--kernel $PWD/fs_files/binaries/vmlinux \
--disk $PWD/fs_files/disks/disk.img \
--cpu-type atomic --big-cpus 1 --little-cpus 0

Change-Id: I23595ae5238dc7cc915ab09300f91aa5e8c24fdc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19648
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>

config, arm: memoryMode test

Commit 9a13acaa367769c38859342de9bc35aac59a6710 doesn't comply with the
same behaviour. The conditional test the memory mode on the same cluster,
while it should test the other cluster.

Change-Id: If3a7863f0905e66a548001d8e74689f5dd07179c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17748
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

configs: Use absolute import paths

Use absoluate import paths to be Python 3 compatible. This also
imports absolute_import from __future__ to ensure that Python 2.7
behaves the same way as Python 3.

Change-Id: Ica06ed95814e9cd3e768b3e1785075e36f6e56d0
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/16708
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

configs, arch-arm: Using AddrRange for Realview mem_regions

Physical memory ranges are now saved in Realview objects as pairs of
addresses (start address and size). This patch is substituting them with
a single AddrRange object.

Change-Id: I02d25d557c5c54d062f0dccef8ede45744d0ce6b
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16206
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

configs: Unifiy interpretation of Realview mem_regions

In every arm platform which is making use of them, mem_regions are
interpreted as a pair of start address and size. However arm
SimpleSystem, which is using VExpress_GEM5_V1, is interpreting them as
start address and end address. This patch is fixing this mismatch.

Change-Id: I0b2a2193cd07fbc5430f233438269a9c7c353df9
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16205
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

configs: Enable DTB autogeneration in starter_fs.py

This patch is removing hardcoded default DTBs in favour of common DTB
autogeneration.

Change-Id: I68fdc2a169bfa8e8657c9ed4e4e127957a08cca1
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15959
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arch-arm, configs: Create single instance of DTB autogeneration

This patch is rewriting the DTB autogeneration functions available in
fs_bigLITTLE.py and fs.py as a single method in the GenericArmSystem
so that other configuration scripts can make use of it.

Change-Id: I492bbf77e6b0ac5c5fbdbc75c0eecba29bd63bda
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15958
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

config: add --param to fs.py, se.py and fs_bigLITTLE.py

The option allows to set SimObject params from the CLI.

The existing config scripts have a large number of options that simply set
a single SimObject parameter, and many still are not exposed.

This commit allows users to pass arbitrary parameters from the command
line to prevent the need for this kind of trivial option.

Change-Id: Ic4bd36948aca4998d2eaf6369c85d3668efa3944
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12985
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config, arm, power: Example to report the power for the L2 Cache

This patch add an example to demonstrate how to report the power for the L2
Cache of the big cluster separately ,it decouples the L2 contributions from
the CPU power equation

Signed-off-by: Sherif Elhabbal <elhabbalsherif@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Idde43c8bcb10df9d44d20282eaf21ce87a9d3f58
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12684
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anouk Van Laer <anouk.vanlaer@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config: Switch from the print statement to the print function.

Change-Id: I701fa58cfcfa2767ce9ad24da314a053889878d0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8762
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

config, arm: enable device tree autogeneration for bigLITTLE

Change-Id: Iaa5eeb3504b3ff9e46b6f592a06d6b833c830d83
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5969
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

configs, arm: Fix incorrect use of mem_range in bL example

The change "config: Change mem_range attribute naming in ARM
SimpleSystem" modified the SimpleSystem class to be compatible with
the MemConfig utility script. While doing so, the way we report the
memory ranges supported by the system changed, which broke the bL
example configration. This changeset introduces the necessary changes
to make the script work again.

Change-Id: I789987950ff04b6c5ae1c8b807355bcba34f6b3c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4380
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

arm, config: Fix CPU names in ARM example configs

The ARM example configs used to rely on CPU aliases for the
AtomicSimpleCPU and KVM when configuring clusters. This broken when
support for CPU aliases was removed ('config: Remove support for CPU
aliases.'). This change updates the config scripts to use the full
class names instead.

Change-Id: If36c46207f39ca1897ecf77d9588f1c059819e63
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4360
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

arch-arm: Switch to DTOnly as the default machine type

Old ARM systems used to pass the machine type in the ATAGS list passed
to the kernel. This has been largely deprecated by the introduction of
device trees. Switch to the DTOnly machine type by default in gem5
since all new platforms and kernel will require this behavior.

Change-Id: Icfd085e4862863b4ef495566bfddbd11591866c3
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4260
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config, arm: SE configuration for the ARM starter kit

Add a full system example configuration for the ARM Research Starter
Kit on System Modeling. More information can be found at:
http://www.arm.com/ResearchEnablement/SystemModeling

Change-Id: Ia32a28eb713ba7050d790327ba6dbb73ec33b53a
Signed-off-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
[ Minor cleanups and more documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4203
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config, arm: FS configuration for the ARM starter kit

Add a full system example configuration for the ARM Research Starter
Kit on System Modeling. More information can be found at:
http://www.arm.com/ResearchEnablement/SystemModeling

Change-Id: Ifa40419d21923a32bb383d58466e421fe4260ddd
Signed-off-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
[ Minor cleanups and more documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4202
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config: Change mem_range attribute naming in ARM SimpleSystem

MemConfig.config() expects memory ranges to be defined in a particular
way. This patch changes the naming of the mem_range attribute in
SympleSystem to enable use of MemConfig for configuring the memory.

Change-Id: I4964c136e53a99c69ff5e086cacb929aa435168d
Signed-off-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4200
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config: Move core timing models to config/common/cores

Change-Id: I189b6462cc64f7cc6c1b7a6c2af1abb60e1854de
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3943
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

configs: fix cpu names in big.LITTLE example

CPU aliases have been dropped, this change fixes the big.LITTLE example.

Change-Id: Idd59a6eca93448ef0e23087365fb5452bcef9247
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3300
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arm, config: added support for ex5 model of big.LITTLE

This patch enables using calibrated big and LITTLE cores, ex5_big and
ex5_LITTLE instead of the default 'arm_detailed' and 'minor' cpus. The ex5
model is based on the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5422) SoC. Operation and memory
hierarchy latencies have been calibrated using the lmbench micro-benchmark
suite. The preliminary validation results have been published as: 'Full-System
Simulation of big.LITTLE Multicore Architecture for Performance and Energy
Exploration', in International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core
Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC'16), Lyon, France (Sep, 2016).

From http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3666

Change-Id: I4935dee0a9222bd1bf7adfccb9443014945bb2d7
Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Butko <abutko@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2464
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config, arm: Add an example power model

Add a script to demonstrate how power models can be wired to gem5
models. The script is meant as an example only and does not correlate
with any realistic implementation.

Change-Id: Ib95a74b2cb4af77a7816e3e8e89c89f3460775a1
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2721
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config, arm: Add multi-core KVM support to bL config

Add support for KVM in the big.LITTLE(tm) example configuration. This
replaces the --atomic option with a --cpu-type option that can be used
to switch between atomic, kvm, and timing simulation.

When running in KVM mode, the simulation script automatically assigns
separate event queues (threads) to each of the simulated CPUs. All
simulated devices, including CPU child devices (e.g., interrupt
controllers and caches), are assigned to event queue 0.

Change-Id: Ic9a3f564db91f5a3d3cb754c5a02fdd5c17d5fdf
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2561
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>

config, arm: Unify checkpoint path handling in bL configs

The vanilla bL configuration file and the dist-gem5 configuration file
use slightly different code paths when restoring from
checkpoints. Unify this by passing the parsed options to the
instantiate() method and adding an optional checkpoint keyword
argument for checkpoint directories (only used by the dist-gem5
script).

Change-Id: I9943ec10bd7a256465e29c8de571142ec3fbaa0e
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2560
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>

arm,config: Add dist-gem5 support to the big.LITTLE(tm) config

This patch extends the example big.LITTLE configuration to enable
dist-gem5 simulations of big.LITTLE systems.

Change-Id: I49c095ab3c737b6a082f7c6f15f514c269217756
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arm,config: Refactor the example big.LITTLE(tm) configuration

This patch prepares future extensions and customisation of the example
big.LITTLE configuration script. It breaks out the major phases into
functions so they can be called from other python scripts.

Change-Id: I2cb7c207c410fe14602cf17af7482719abba6c24
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arm, config: Add missing IOCache in bL config

This patch adds an IOCache to the example bigLITTLE
configuration. An IOCache is required for correct DMA
transfers when we have caches in the system.

Change-Id: Ifeddc1b360aacbb16b1393f361dd98873c834012
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

mem: Split the hit_latency into tag_latency and data_latency

If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter
is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore,
the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and
data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is
sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True",
tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency
is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency.

Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

config: Make configs/common a Python package

Continue along the same line as the recent patch that made the
Ruby-related config scripts Python packages and make also the
configs/common directory a package.

All affected config scripts are updated (hopefully).

Note that this change makes it apparent that the current organisation
and naming of the config directory and its subdirectories is rather
chaotic. We mix scripts that are directly invoked with scripts that
merely contain convenience functions. While it is not addressed in
this patch we should follow up with a re-organisation of the
config structure, and renaming of some of the packages.

arm, config: Fixups for the example big.LITTLE(tm) configuration

This patch refactors the configuration file to use a more
object-oriented design.

Change-Id: I44ac2d063c2b5901f385544fb6ce3f259459cb05
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

arm, config: Add an example ARM big.LITTLE(tm) configuration script

An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big
CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little
CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script
can run a full system simulation with various number of big
and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes
two example device tree files for booting Linux on the
bigLITTLE system.

Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>