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19-Nov-2018 |
Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> |
mips: Stop using architecture specific register types.
Change-Id: I764f6eea214ba4e03cc0fe19a21abcb0ebd04408 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14462 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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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>
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10417:710ee116eb68 |
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27-Sep-2014 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
arch: Use const StaticInstPtr references where possible
This patch optimises the passing of StaticInstPtr by avoiding copying the reference-counting pointer. This avoids first incrementing and then decrementing the reference-counting pointer.
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8794:e2ac2b7164dd |
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18-Nov-2011 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
SE/FS: Get rid of includes of config/full_system.hh.
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8775:1e3ca5d77b53 |
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30-Oct-2011 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in MIPS.
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8300:eb279d6e08a2 |
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13-May-2011 |
Chander Sudanthi <chander.sudanthi@arm.com> |
Trace: Allow printing ASIDs and selectively tracing based on user/kernel code.
Debug flags are ExecUser, ExecKernel, and ExecAsid. ExecUser and ExecKernel are set by default when Exec is specified. Use minus sign with ExecUser or ExecKernel to remove user or kernel tracing respectively.
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15-Apr-2011 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
includes: sort all includes
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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.
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16-Oct-2010 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
GetArgument: Rework getArgument so that X86_FS compiles again.
When no size is specified for an argument, push the decision about what size to use into the ISA by passing a size of -1.
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01-Oct-2010 |
Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com> |
Debug: Implement getArgument() and function skipping for ARM.
In the process make add skipFuction() to handle isa specific function skipping instead of ifdefs and other ugliness. For almost all ABIs, 64 bit arguments can only start in even registers. Size is now passed to getArgument() so that 32 bit systems can make decisions about register selection for 64 bit arguments. The number argument is now passed by reference because getArgument() will need to change it based on the size of the argument and the current argument number.
For ARM, if the argument number is odd and a 64-bit register is requested the number must first be incremented to because all 64 bit arguments are passed in an even argument register. Then the number will be incremented again to access both halves of the argument.
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23-Aug-2010 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
ISA: Get rid of old, unused utility functions cluttering up the ISAs.
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6383:31c067ae3331 |
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22-Jul-2009 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
MIPS: Format the register index constants like the other ISAs. Also a few more style fixes.
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6378:4a2ff62c3b4f |
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21-Jul-2009 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
MIPS: Many style fixes. White space, commented out code, some other minor fixes.
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6329:5d8b91875859 |
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09-Jul-2009 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Registers: Add a registers.hh file as an ISA switched header. This file is for register indices, Num* constants, and register types. copyRegs and copyMiscRegs were moved to utility.hh and utility.cc.
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6313:95f69a436c82 |
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09-Jul-2009 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Registers: Add an ISA object which replaces the MiscRegFile. This object encapsulates (or will eventually) the identity and characteristics of the ISA in the CPU.
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17-May-2009 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
includes: sort includes again
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17-May-2009 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
types: Move stuff for global types into src/base/types.hh
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16-Nov-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
move initCPU, processInterrupts declaration to core_specific file.
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5254:c555f8b07345 |
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15-Nov-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
fix MIPS headers
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5222:bb733a878f85 |
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13-Nov-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
Add in files from merge-bare-iron, get them compiling in FS and SE mode
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01-Aug-2007 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
mips: make getArgument inline so mips will link properly
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01-Aug-2007 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
Merge Gabe and my changes to arch/mips/utility.hh
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4835:224d8f96e155 |
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01-Aug-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
MIPS: Cleaned up includes to break loops, and got rid of isa_traits.cc Loops of header files including each other was causing compilation to fail. To fix it, a bunch of unnecessary includes were removed, and the code in isa_traits.cc which brought a bunch of include chains together was broken up and put in proximity to the header files that delcared it.
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01-Aug-2007 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
Arguments: Get rid of duplicate code for the Arguments class in each architecture. Move the argument files to src/sim and add a utility.cc file with a function getArguments() that returns the given argument in the architecture specific fashion. getArguments() was getArg() is the architecture specific Argument class and has had all magic numbers replaced with meaningful constants. Also add a function to the Argument class for testing if an argument is NULL.
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22-Jun-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
mips import pt. 1
src/arch/mips/SConscript: "mips import pt.1".
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14-Mar-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Merge zizzer.eecs.umich.edu:/bk/newmem into ahchoo.blinky.homelinux.org:/home/gblack/m5/newmem-x86
src/arch/mips/utility.hh: src/arch/x86/SConscript: Hand merge
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09-Mar-2007 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
implement ipi stufff for SPARC
src/arch/alpha/utility.hh: src/arch/mips/utility.hh: src/arch/sparc/utility.hh: src/arch/x86/utility.hh: add hook for system to startup the cpu or not... in the case of FS sparc, only the first cpu would get spunup.. the rest sit in an idle state until they get an ipi src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa: handle writable bits of strandstatus register in miscregfile src/arch/sparc/miscregfile.hh: some constants for the strand status register src/arch/sparc/ua2005.cc: properly implement the strand status register src/dev/sparc/iob.cc: implement ipi generation properly src/sim/system.cc: call into the ISA to start the CPU (or not)
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14-Mar-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Make the predecoder an object with it's own switched header file. Start adding predecoding functionality to x86.
src/arch/SConscript: src/arch/alpha/utility.hh: src/arch/mips/utility.hh: src/arch/sparc/utility.hh: src/cpu/base.hh: src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh: src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh: src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc: src/cpu/simple/base.cc: src/cpu/simple/base.hh: src/cpu/static_inst.hh: src/arch/alpha/predecoder.hh: src/arch/mips/predecoder.hh: src/arch/sparc/predecoder.hh: Make the predecoder an object with it's own switched header file.
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13-Mar-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Replaced makeExtMI with predecode. Removed the getOpcode function from StaticInst which only made sense for Alpha. Started implementing the x86 predecoder.
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30-Sep-2006 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Changed makeExtMI to take a ThreadContext instead of a pc.
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2980:eab855f06b79 |
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15-Aug-2006 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Cleaned up include files and got rid of many using directives in header files.
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11-Aug-2006 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Pushed most of constants.hh back into isa_traits.hh and regfile.hh and created a seperate file for the syscallreturn class.
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09-Jun-2006 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
Merging in a month of changes
src/arch/isa_parser.py: Sign extend bit if you read int reg that is greater than default size src/arch/mips/SConscript: src/arch/mips/faults.cc: src/arch/mips/faults.hh: src/arch/mips/isa/base.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/bitfields.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/decoder.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/basic.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/branch.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/formats.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/fp.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/int.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/mem.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/noop.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/tlbop.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/trap.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/unimp.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/unknown.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/formats/util.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/includes.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/main.isa: src/arch/mips/isa/operands.isa: src/arch/mips/isa_traits.cc: src/arch/mips/linux/process.cc: src/arch/mips/linux/process.hh: src/arch/mips/process.cc: src/arch/mips/process.hh: src/arch/mips/regfile/float_regfile.hh: src/arch/mips/utility.hh: 1 month of changes! src/arch/mips/isa/formats/control.isa: control formats src/arch/mips/isa/formats/mt.isa: mips mt format src/arch/mips/utility.cc: utility functions
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22-May-2006 |
Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu> |
New directory structure: - simulator source now in 'src' subdirectory - imported files from 'ext' repository - support building in arbitrary places, including outside of the source tree. See comment at top of SConstruct file for more details. Regression tests are temporarily disabled; that syetem needs more extensive revisions.
SConstruct: Update for new directory structure. Modify to support build trees that are not subdirectories of the source tree. See comment at top of file for more details. Regression tests are temporarily disabled. src/arch/SConscript: src/arch/isa_parser.py: src/python/SConscript: Update for new directory structure.
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