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29-Sep-2013 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> |
arch: Add support for m5ops using mmapped IPRs
In order to support m5ops on virtualized CPUs, we need to either intercept hypercall instructions or provide a memory mapped m5ops interface. Since KVM does not normally pass the results of hypercalls to userspace, which makes that method unfeasible. This changeset introduces support for m5ops using memory mapped mmapped IPRs. This is implemented by adding a class of "generic" IPRs which are handled by architecture-independent code. Such IPRs always have bit 63 set and are handled by handleGenericIprRead() and handleGenericIprWrite(). Platform specific impementations of handleIprRead and handleIprWrite should use GenericISA::isGenericIprAccess to determine if an IPR address should be handled by the generic code instead of the architecture-specific code. Platforms that don't need their own IPR support can reuse GenericISA::handleIprRead() and GenericISA::handleIprWrite().
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28-Aug-2012 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
Clock: Add a Cycles wrapper class and use where applicable
This patch addresses the comments and feedback on the preceding patch that reworks the clocks and now more clearly shows where cycles (relative cycle counts) are used to express time.
Instead of bumping the existing patch I chose to make this a separate patch, merely to try and focus the discussion around a smaller set of changes. The two patches will be pushed together though.
This changes done as part of this patch are mostly following directly from the introduction of the wrapper class, and change enough code to make things compile and run again. There are definitely more places where int/uint/Tick is still used to represent cycles, and it will take some time to chase them all down. Similarly, a lot of parameters should be changed from Param.Tick and Param.Unsigned to Param.Cycles.
In addition, the use of curTick is questionable as there should not be an absolute cycle. Potential solutions can be built on top of this patch. There is a similar situation in the o3 CPU where lastRunningCycle is currently counting in Cycles, and is still an absolute time. More discussion to be had in other words.
An additional change that would be appropriate in the future is to perform a similar wrapping of Tick and probably also introduce a Ticks class along with suitable operators for all these classes.
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