History log of /gem5/src/arch/arm/process.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14010:0e1e887507c0 01-May-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, base, dev, sim: Remove now unnecessary casts from PortProxy methods.

Change-Id: Ia73b2d86a10d02fa09c924a4571477bb5f200eb7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18572
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13894:8603648c1679 24-Apr-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, sim: Simplify the AuxVector type.

The AuxVector type has a bunch of accessors which just give access to
the underlying variables through references. We might as well just make
those members accessible directly.

Also, the AuxVector doesn't need to handle endianness flips itself. We
can tell the byteswap mechanism how to flip an AuxVector, and let it
handle that for us.

This gets rid of the entire .cc file which was complicated by trying
to both hide the ISA specific endianness translations, and instantiate
templated functions in a .cc.

Change-Id: I433cd61e73e0b067b6d628fba31be4a4ec1c4cf0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18373
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13798:51228a4c00a5 28-Aug-2018 Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>

sim-se: Fixed initialization array size

Doubled the size of the zeroed auxiliary vector since 2 * intSize on
aarch64 > sizeof(uint64).

Change-Id: I5196b000a696e9ea3f2b5daa5d5bb071794369aa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17088
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>


# 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>


# 13581:b6dcd0183747 13-Oct-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arm: Get rid of some register type definitions.

These are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. These have been
supplanted by the global types RegVal and FloatRegVal.

Change-Id: Ief1cd85d0eff7156282ddb1ce168a2a5677f7435
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13625
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 13122:32e21edd0a61 25-Sep-2018 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

sim-se: Set ArmProcess64 hwcaps depending on ID regs

ArmProcess64 needs to query AArch64 ID registers to check which hw
capability is going to report in the appropriate aux vector's entry.

Change-Id: I1e1294b831e902226f9b162f25e841e53b940454
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/13164
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>


# 13121:4741df518ab8 19-Sep-2018 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

sim-se: Different HWCAP for ArmProcess32/64

AArch32 and AArch64 have different HWCAP flags in Linux, but we are
currently using AArch32 HWCAP flags to initialize the aux vector of both
AArch32 and AArch64 binaries.

This patch also fixes a bug that was introduced by running in SE mode a
target binary compiled with glibc > 2.18. Using AArch32 flags
resulted on CPUID flag being set for AArch64. This incorrectly tells
libc that emulation of the midr_el1 is supported.
In FullSystem this might work, but since we are in Syscall Emulation
there is no OS behind emulating the mrs midr_el1 instruction.

By separating AArch32 flags from AArch64 flags we are turning off the
CPUID hwcap flag in SE mode.

Change-Id: I9f651957ba9d19dc2bc06606de070c6586f0f9fa
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/12884
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>


# 13028:9a09c342891e 04-May-2018 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: expand AuxVector class

The AuxVector class is responsible for holding Process data.
The data that it holds is normally setup by an OS kernel in
the process address space. The purpose behind doing this is
to pass in information that the process will need for various
reasons. (Check out the enum in the header file for an idea of
what the AuxVector holds.)

The AuxVector struct was changed into a class and encapsulation
methods were added to protect access to the member variables.

The host ISA may have a different endianness than the simulated
ISA. Since data is passed between the process address space and
the simulator for auxiliary vectors, we need to worry about
maintaining endianness for the right context.

Change-Id: I32c5ac4b679559886e1efeb4b5483b92dfc94af9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12109
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 12448:b299e560f1d8 04-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, mem, sim: Consolidate and rename the SE mode page table classes.

Now that Nothing inherits from PageTableBase directly, it can be
merged into FuncPageTable. This change also takes the opportunity to
rename the combined class to EmulationPageTable which lets you know
that it's specifically for SE mode.

Also remove the page table entry cache since it doesn't seem to
actually improve performance. The TLBs likely absorb the majority of
the locality, essentially acting like a cache like they would in real
hardware.

Change-Id: If1bcb91aed08686603bf7bee37298c0eee826e13
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7342
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12441:ece14e2e8c0a 14-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch: Fix a fatal_if in most of the arch's process classes.

When switching an assert to a fatal while addressing recent review
feedback, I forgot to reverse the polarity of the condition, making
the fatal fire in exactly the opposite of the conditions it was meant
to.

Change-Id: Icf49864ef449052bbb0d427dca786006166575c4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7381
Reviewed-by: Matthias Jung <jungma@eit.uni-kl.de>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12432:2480d8b432f5 22-Dec-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch,mem: Remove the default value for page size.

This breaks one more architecture dependence outside of the ISAs.

Change-Id: I071f9ed73aef78e1cd1752247c183e30854b2d28
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6982
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>


# 12431:000549e1f497 22-Dec-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch,mem: Move page table construction into the arch classes.

This gets rid of an awkward NoArchPageTable class, and also gives the
arch a place to inject ISA specific parameters (specifically page size)
without having to have TheISA:: in the generic version of these types.

Change-Id: I1412f303460d5c43dafdb9b3cd07af81c908a441
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6981
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12334:e0ab29a34764 30-Nov-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

misc: Rename misc.(hh|cc) to logging.(hh|cc)

These files aren't a collection of miscellaneous stuff, they're the
definition of the Logger interface, and a few utility macros for
calling into that interface (panic, warn, etc.).

Change-Id: I84267ac3f45896a83c0ef027f8f19c5e9a5667d1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6226
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 11905:4a771f8756ad 01-Mar-2017 Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>

syscall-emul: Move memState into its own file

The Process class is full of implementation details and
structures related to SE Mode. This changeset factors out an
internal class from Process and moves it into a separate file.
The purpose behind doing this is to clean up the code and make
it a bit more modular.

Change-Id: Ic6941a1657751e8d51d5b6b1dcc04f1195884280
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2263
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11886:43b882cada33 27-Feb-2017 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [PATCH 15/22] add clone/execve for threading and multiprocess simulations

Modifies the clone system call and adds execve system call. Requires allowing
processes to steal thread contexts from other processes in the same system
object and the ability to detach pieces of process state (such as MemState)
to allow dynamic sharing.


# 11854:0e94e16e26ea 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [patch 8/22] refactor process class

Moves aux_vector into its own .hh and .cc files just to get it out of the
already crowded Process files. Arguably, it could stay there, but it's
probably better just to move it and give it files.

The changeset looks ugly around the Process header file, but the goal here is
to move methods and members around so that they're not defined randomly
throughout the entire header file. I expect this is likely one of the reasons
why I several unused variables related to this class. So, the methods are
declared first followed by members. I've tried to aggregate them together
so that similar entries reside near one another.

There are other changes coming to this code so this is by no means the
final product.


# 11851:824055fe6b30 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [patch 5/22] remove LiveProcess class and use Process instead

The EIOProcess class was removed recently and it was the only other class
which derived from Process. Since every Process invocation is also a
LiveProcess invocation, it makes sense to simplify the organization by
combining the fields from LiveProcess into Process.


# 11800:54436a1784dc 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

style: [patch 3/22] reduce include dependencies in some headers

Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.


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

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


# 11389:1e55f16160cb 17-Mar-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

base: support dynamic loading of Linux ELF objects in SE mode


# 11386:94c09b607a84 17-Mar-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

syscall_emul: move mmapGrowsDown() to LiveProcess

The mmapGrowsDown() method was a static method on the OperatingSystem
class (and derived classes), which worked OK for the templated syscall
emulation methods, but made it hard to access elsewhere. This patch
moves the method to be a virtual function on the LiveProcess method,
where it can be overridden for specific platforms (for now, Alpha).

This patch also changes the value of mmapGrowsDown() from being false
by default and true only on X86Linux32 to being true by default and
false only on Alpha, which seems closer to reality (though in reality
most people use ASLR and this doesn't really matter anymore).

In the process, also got rid of the unused mmap_start field on
LiveProcess and OperatingSystem mmapGrowsUp variable.


# 10810:683ab55819fd 29-Apr-2015 Ruslan Bukin <br@bsdpad.com>

arch, base, dev, kern, sym: FreeBSD support

This adds support for FreeBSD/aarch64 FS and SE mode (basic set of syscalls only)

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>


# 10318:98771a936b61 03-Sep-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

arch: Cleanup unused ISA traits constants

This patch prunes unused values, and also unifies how the values are
defined (not using an enum for ALPHA), aligning the use of int vs Addr
etc.

The patch also removes the duplication of PageBytes/PageShift and
VMPageSize/LogVMPageSize. For all ISAs the two pairs had identical
values and the latter has been removed.


# 10223:34f48d0dac97 12-May-2014 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

syscall emulation: clean up & comment SyscallReturn


# 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


# 8852:c744483edfcf 24-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointers

This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would
not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members
rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a
valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this
clear.

The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as
loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better
reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact
the code would break and that is how this patch started out).

Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional
composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a
much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only
done in the locations affected by the proxies.


# 8706:b1838faf3bcc 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Add port proxies instead of non-structural ports

Port proxies are used to replace non-structural ports, and thus enable
all ports in the system to correspond to a structural entity. This has
the advantage of accessing memory through the normal memory subsystem
and thus allowing any constellation of distributed memories, address
maps, etc. Most accesses are done through the "system port" that is
used for loading binaries, debugging etc. For the entities that belong
to the CPU, e.g. threads and thread contexts, they wrap the CPU data
port in a port proxy.

The following replacements are made:
FunctionalPort > PortProxy
TranslatingPort > SETranslatingPortProxy
VirtualPort > FSTranslatingPortProxy


# 8601:af28085882dc 23-Oct-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

SE: move page allocation from PageTable to Process

PageTable supported an allocate() call that called back
through the Process to allocate memory, but did not have
a method to map addresses without allocating new pages.
It makes more sense for Process to do the allocation, so
this method was renamed allocateMem() and moved to Process,
and uses a new map() call on PageTable.

The remaining uses of the process pointer in PageTable
were only to get the name and the PID, so by passing these
in directly in the constructor, we can make PageTable
completely independent of Process.


# 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


# 8216:70e61aa65759 10-Apr-2011 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Fix checkpoint restoration in ARM_SE.


# 8177:a983c62ef6d0 24-Mar-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Arm: Get rid of the unused copyStringArray32 method from Arm process classes.


# 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.


# 7692:8173327c9c65 01-Oct-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Clean up use of TBit and JBit.

Rather tha constantly using ULL(1) << PcXBitShift define those directly.
Additionally, add some helper functions to further clean up the code.


# 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.


# 7640:5286a8a469c5 25-Aug-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Implement CPACR register and return Undefined Instruction when FP access is disabled.


# 7532:3f6413fc37a2 17-Aug-2010 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

sim: revamp unserialization procedure

Replace direct call to unserialize() on each SimObject with a pair of
calls for better control over initialization in both ckpt and non-ckpt
cases.

If restoring from a checkpoint, loadState(ckpt) is called on each
SimObject. The default implementation simply calls unserialize() if
there is a corresponding checkpoint section, so we get backward
compatibility for existing objects. However, objects can override
loadState() to get other behaviors, e.g., doing other programmed
initializations after unserialize(), or complaining if no checkpoint
section is found. (Note that the default warning for a missing
checkpoint section is now gone.)

If not restoring from a checkpoint, we call the new initState() method
on each SimObject instead. This provides a hook for state
initializations that are only required when *not* restoring from a
checkpoint.

Given this new framework, do some cleanup of LiveProcess subclasses
and X86System, which were (in some cases) emulating initState()
behavior in startup via a local flag or (in other cases) erroneously
doing initializations in startup() that clobbered state loaded earlier
by unserialize().


# 7441:be2acdfb8bdc 02-Jun-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM: Fix SPEC2000 benchmarks in SE mode. With this patch all
Spec2k benchmarks seem to run with atomic or timing mode simple
CPUs. Fixed up some constants, handling of 64 bit arguments,
and marked a few more syscalls ignoreFunc.


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

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


# 7172:2137885e2088 02-Jun-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Move the mmap region to where Linux actually has it.


# 7096:e81026b9dfe0 02-Jun-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Allow ARM processes to start in Thumb mode.


# 6701:4842482e1bd1 30-Oct-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Syscalls: Make system calls access arguments like a stack, not an array.

When accessing arguments for a syscall, the position of an argument depends on
the policies of the ISA, how much space preceding arguments took up, and the
"alignment" of the index for this particular argument into the number of
possible storate locations. This change adjusts getSyscallArg to take its
index parameter by reference instead of value and to adjust it to point to the
possible location of the next argument on the stack, basically just after the
current one. This way, the rules for the new argument can be applied locally
without knowing about other arguments since those have already been taken into
account implicitly.

All system calls have also been changed to reflect the new interface. In a
number of cases this made the implementation clearer since it encourages
arguments to be collected in one place in order and then used as necessary
later, as opposed to scattering them throughout the function or using them in
place in long expressions. It also discourages using getSyscallArg over and
over to retrieve the same value when a temporary would do the job.


# 6400:b7fd31c84c99 27-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ARM: Set up the initial stack frame to match a recent Linux.


# 6020:0647c8b31a99 06-Apr-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge ARM into the head. ARM will compile but may not actually work.


# 6019:76890d8b28f5 05-Apr-2009 Stephen Hines <hines@cs.fsu.edu>

arm: add ARM support to M5