History log of /gem5/src/arch/arm/nativetrace.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13759:9941fca869a9 16-Oct-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

arch-arm,cpu: Add initial support for Arm SVE

This changeset adds initial support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension
(SVE) by implementing:
- support for most data-processing instructions (no loads/stores yet);
- basic system-level support.

Additional authors:
- Javier Setoain <javier.setoain@arm.com>
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
- Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

Thanks to Pau Cabre for his contribution of bugfixes.

Change-Id: I1808b5ff55b401777eeb9b99c9a1129e0d527709
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13515
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 12109:f29e9c5418aa 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Added interface for vector reg file

This patch adds some more functionality to the cpu model and the arch to
interface with the vector register file.

This change consists mainly of augmenting ThreadContexts and ExecContexts
with calls to get/set full vectors, underlying microarchitectural elements
or lanes. Those are meant to interface with the vector register file. All
classes that implement this interface also get an appropriate implementation.

This requires implementing the vector register file for the different
models using the VecRegContainer class.

This change set also updates the Result abstraction to contemplate the
possibility of having a vector as result.

The changes also affect how the remote_gdb connection works.

There are some (nasty) side effects, such as the need to define dummy
numPhysVecRegs parameter values for architectures that do not implement
vector extensions.

Nathanael Premillieu's work with an increasing number of fixes and
improvements of mine.

Change-Id: Iee65f4e8b03abfe1e94e6940a51b68d0977fd5bb
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues and CC reg free list initialisation ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2705


# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includes


# 10338:8bee5f4edb92 29-Apr-2014 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

arm: use condition code registers for ARM ISA

Analogous to ee049bf (for x86). Requires a bump of the checkpoint version
and corresponding upgrader code to move the condition code register values
to the new register file.


# 10037:5cac77888310 24-Jan-2014 ARM gem5 Developers

arm: Add support for ARMv8 (AArch64 & AArch32)

Note: AArch64 and AArch32 interworking is not supported. If you use an AArch64
kernel you are restricted to AArch64 user-mode binaries. This will be addressed
in a later patch.

Note: Virtualization is only supported in AArch32 mode. This will also be fixed
in a later patch.

Contributors:
Giacomo Gabrielli (TrustZone, LPAE, system-level AArch64, AArch64 NEON, validation)
Thomas Grocutt (AArch32 Virtualization, AArch64 FP, validation)
Mbou Eyole (AArch64 NEON, validation)
Ali Saidi (AArch64 Linux support, code integration, validation)
Edmund Grimley-Evans (AArch64 FP)
William Wang (AArch64 Linux support)
Rene De Jong (AArch64 Linux support, performance opt.)
Matt Horsnell (AArch64 MP, validation)
Matt Evans (device models, code integration, validation)
Chris Adeniyi-Jones (AArch64 syscall-emulation)
Prakash Ramrakhyani (validation)
Dam Sunwoo (validation)
Chander Sudanthi (validation)
Stephan Diestelhorst (validation)
Andreas Hansson (code integration, performance opt.)
Eric Van Hensbergen (performance opt.)
Gabe Black


# 8902:75b524b64c28 19-Mar-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

gcc: Clean-up of non-C++0x compliant code, first steps

This patch cleans up a number of minor issues aiming to get closer to
compliance with the C++0x standard as interpreted by gcc and clang
(compile with std=c++0x and -pedantic-errors). In particular, the
patch cleans up enums where the last item was succeded by a comma,
namespaces closed by a curcly brace followed by a semi-colon, and the
use of the GNU-extension typeof (replaced by templated functions). It
does not address variable-length arrays, zero-size arrays, anonymous
structs, range expressions in switch statements, and the use of long
long. The generated CPU code also has a large number of issues that
remain to be fixed, mainly related to overflows in implicit constant
conversion (due to shifts).


# 8641:4d3ecac1abec 13-Dec-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

gcc: fix unused variable warnings from GCC 4.6.1


# 8303:5a95f1d2494e 13-May-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Further break up condition code into NZ, C, V bits.

Break up the condition code bits into NZ, C, V registers. These are individually
written and this removes some incorrect dependencies between instructions.


# 8302:9f23d01421de 13-May-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Remove the saturating (Q) condition code from the renamed register.

Move the saturating bit (which is also saturating) from the renamed register
that holds the flags to the CPSR miscreg and adds a allows setting it in a
similar way to the FP saturating registers. This removes a dependency in
instructions that don't write, but need to preserve the Q bit.


# 8301:858384f3af1c 13-May-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Break up condition codes into normal flags, saturation, and simd.

This change splits out the condcodes from being one monolithic register
into three blocks that are updated independently. This allows CPUs
to not have to do RMW operations on the flags registers for instructions
that don't write all flags.


# 8271:1d3733d3acee 04-May-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Add vfpv3 support to native trace.


# 8232:b28d06a175be 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vector
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help


# 7811:a8fc35183c10 03-Jan-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

Make commenting on close namespace brackets consistent.

Ran all the source files through 'perl -pi' with this script:

s|\s*(};?\s*)?/\*\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*\*/(\s*})?|} // namespace $3|;
s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(end\s*)?namespace\s*(\S+)\s*|} // namespace $2\n|;
s|\s*};?\s*//\s*(\S+)\s*namespace\s*|} // namespace $1\n|;

Also did a little manual editing on some of the arch/*/isa_traits.hh files
and src/SConscript.


# 7720:65d338a8dba4 31-Oct-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ISA,CPU,etc: Create an ISA defined PC type that abstracts out ISA behaviors.



This change is a low level and pervasive reorganization of how PCs are managed
in M5. Back when Alpha was the only ISA, there were only 2 PCs to worry about,
the PC and the NPC, and the lsb of the PC signaled whether or not you were in
PAL mode. As other ISAs were added, we had to add an NNPC, micro PC and next
micropc, x86 and ARM introduced variable length instruction sets, and ARM
started to keep track of mode bits in the PC. Each CPU model handled PCs in
its own custom way that needed to be updated individually to handle the new
dimensions of variability, or, in the case of ARMs mode-bit-in-the-pc hack,
the complexity could be hidden in the ISA at the ISA implementation's expense.
Areas like the branch predictor hadn't been updated to handle branch delay
slots or micropcs, and it turns out that had introduced a significant (10s of
percent) performance bug in SPARC and to a lesser extend MIPS. Rather than
perpetuate the problem by reworking O3 again to handle the PC features needed
by x86, this change was introduced to rework PC handling in a more modular,
transparent, and hopefully efficient way.


PC type:

Rather than having the superset of all possible elements of PC state declared
in each of the CPU models, each ISA defines its own PCState type which has
exactly the elements it needs. A cross product of canned PCState classes are
defined in the new "generic" ISA directory for ISAs with/without delay slots
and microcode. These are either typedef-ed or subclassed by each ISA. To read
or write this structure through a *Context, you use the new pcState() accessor
which reads or writes depending on whether it has an argument. If you just
want the address of the current or next instruction or the current micro PC,
you can get those through read-only accessors on either the PCState type or
the *Contexts. These are instAddr(), nextInstAddr(), and microPC(). Note the
move away from readPC. That name is ambiguous since it's not clear whether or
not it should be the actual address to fetch from, or if it should have extra
bits in it like the PAL mode bit. Each class is free to define its own
functions to get at whatever values it needs however it needs to to be used in
ISA specific code. Eventually Alpha's PAL mode bit could be moved out of the
PC and into a separate field like ARM.

These types can be reset to a particular pc (where npc = pc +
sizeof(MachInst), nnpc = npc + sizeof(MachInst), upc = 0, nupc = 1 as
appropriate), printed, serialized, and compared. There is a branching()
function which encapsulates code in the CPU models that checked if an
instruction branched or not. Exactly what that means in the context of branch
delay slots which can skip an instruction when not taken is ambiguous, and
ideally this function and its uses can be eliminated. PCStates also generally
know how to advance themselves in various ways depending on if they point at
an instruction, a microop, or the last microop of a macroop. More on that
later.

Ideally, accessing all the PCs at once when setting them will improve
performance of M5 even though more data needs to be moved around. This is
because often all the PCs need to be manipulated together, and by getting them
all at once you avoid multiple function calls. Also, the PCs of a particular
thread will have spatial locality in the cache. Previously they were grouped
by element in arrays which spread out accesses.


Advancing the PC:

The PCs were previously managed entirely by the CPU which had to know about PC
semantics, try to figure out which dimension to increment the PC in, what to
set NPC/NNPC, etc. These decisions are best left to the ISA in conjunction
with the PC type itself. Because most of the information about how to
increment the PC (mainly what type of instruction it refers to) is contained
in the instruction object, a new advancePC virtual function was added to the
StaticInst class. Subclasses provide an implementation that moves around the
right element of the PC with a minimal amount of decision making. In ISAs like
Alpha, the instructions always simply assign NPC to PC without having to worry
about micropcs, nnpcs, etc. The added cost of a virtual function call should
be outweighed by not having to figure out as much about what to do with the
PCs and mucking around with the extra elements.

One drawback of making the StaticInsts advance the PC is that you have to
actually have one to advance the PC. This would, superficially, seem to
require decoding an instruction before fetch could advance. This is, as far as
I can tell, realistic. fetch would advance through memory addresses, not PCs,
perhaps predicting new memory addresses using existing ones. More
sophisticated decisions about control flow would be made later on, after the
instruction was decoded, and handed back to fetch. If branching needs to
happen, some amount of decoding needs to happen to see that it's a branch,
what the target is, etc. This could get a little more complicated if that gets
done by the predecoder, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now.


Variable length instructions:

To handle variable length instructions in x86 and ARM, the predecoder now
takes in the current PC by reference to the getExtMachInst function. It can
modify the PC however it needs to (by setting NPC to be the PC + instruction
length, for instance). This could be improved since the CPU doesn't know if
the PC was modified and always has to write it back.


ISA parser:

To support the new API, all PC related operand types were removed from the
parser and replaced with a PCState type. There are two warts on this
implementation. First, as with all the other operand types, the PCState still
has to have a valid operand type even though it doesn't use it. Second, using
syntax like PCS.npc(target) doesn't work for two reasons, this looks like the
syntax for operand type overriding, and the parser can't figure out if you're
reading or writing. Instructions that use the PCS operand (which I've
consistently called it) need to first read it into a local variable,
manipulate it, and then write it back out.


Return address stack:

The return address stack needed a little extra help because, in the presence
of branch delay slots, it has to merge together elements of the return PC and
the call PC. To handle that, a buildRetPC utility function was added. There
are basically only two versions in all the ISAs, but it didn't seem short
enough to put into the generic ISA directory. Also, the branch predictor code
in O3 and InOrder were adjusted so that they always store the PC of the actual
call instruction in the RAS, not the next PC. If the call instruction is a
microop, the next PC refers to the next microop in the same macroop which is
probably not desirable. The buildRetPC function advances the PC intelligently
to the next macroop (in an ISA specific way) so that that case works.


Change in stats:

There were no change in stats except in MIPS and SPARC in the O3 model. MIPS
runs in about 9% fewer ticks. SPARC runs with 30%-50% fewer ticks, which could
likely be improved further by setting call/return instruction flags and taking
advantage of the RAS.


TODO:

Add != operators to the PCState classes, defined trivially to be !(a==b).
Smooth out places where PCs are split apart, passed around, and put back
together later. I think this might happen in SPARC's fault code. Add ISA
specific constructors that allow setting PC elements without calling a bunch
of accessors. Try to eliminate the need for the branching() function. Factor
out Alpha's PAL mode pc bit into a separate flag field, and eliminate places
where it's blindly masked out or tested in the PC.


# 7678:f19b6a3a8cec 13-Sep-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Faults: Pass the StaticInst involved, if any, to a Fault's invoke method.

Also move the "Fault" reference counted pointer type into a separate file,
sim/fault.hh. It would be better to name this less similarly to sim/faults.hh
to reduce confusion, but fault.hh matches the name of the type. We could change
Fault to FaultPtr to match other pointer types, and then changing the name of
the file would make more sense.


# 7414:0a05aa495903 02-Jun-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Fixup native trace support and add some v7/recent stack code


# 6724:70129fdded75 08-Nov-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Split the condition codes out of the CPSR.

This allows those bits to be renamed while allowing the other fields to
control the behavior of the processor.


# 6419:2192dac4ad82 29-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Make the ARM native tracer stop M5 if control diverges.
If the control flow of M5's executable and statetrace's target process get out
of sync even a little, there will be a LOT of output, very little of which
will be useful. There's also almost no hope for recovery. In those cases, we
might as well give up and not generate a huge, mostly worthless trace file.


# 6417:fbc8d1e996d9 29-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Make sure the target process doesn't run away from statetrace.


# 6411:cf69f61d8f24 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Only send information that changed between statetrace and M5.


# 6410:362e27c08d96 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

imported patch nativetracestreamline.patch


# 6409:6eaa041d043e 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Make native trace print out what instruction caused an error.


# 6398:7a94cba72e02 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Make native trace only print when registers are changing value.
When registers have incorrect values but aren't actively changing, it's likely
they're not being modified at all. The fact that they're still wrong isn't
very important.


# 6397:cb1d7c957f49 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Add a native tracer.