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22-Dec-2017 |
Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> |
arch,cpu: "virtualize" the TLB interface.
CPUs have historically instantiated the architecture specific version of the TLBs to avoid a virtual function call, making them a little bit more dependent on what the current ISA is. Some simple performance measurement, the x86 twolf regression on the atomic CPU, shows that there isn't actually any performance benefit, and if anything the simulator goes slightly faster (although still within margin of error) when the TLB functions are virtual.
This change switches everything outside of the architectures themselves to use the generic BaseTLB type, and then inside the ISA for them to cast that to their architecture specific type to call into architecture specific interfaces.
The ARM TLB needed the most adjustment since it was using non-standard translation function signatures. Specifically, they all took an extra "type" parameter which defaulted to normal, and translateTiming returned a Fault. translateTiming actually doesn't need to return a Fault because everywhere that consumed it just stored it into a structure which it then deleted(?), and the fault is stored in the Translation object when the translation is done.
A little more work is needed to fully obviate the arch/tlb.hh header, so the TheISA::TLB type is still visible outside of the ISAs. Specifically, the TlbEntry type is used in the generic PageTable which lives in src/mem.
Change-Id: I51b68ee74411f9af778317eff222f9349d2ed575 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6921 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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30-Nov-2016 |
Alec Roelke <ar4jc@virginia.edu> |
arch: [Patch 1/5] Added RISC-V base instruction set RV64I
First of five patches adding RISC-V to GEM5. This patch introduces the base 64-bit ISA (RV64I) in src/arch/riscv for use with syscall emulation. The multiply, floating point, and atomic memory instructions will be added in additional patches, as well as support for more detailed CPU models. The loader is also modified to be able to parse RISC-V ELF files, and a "Hello world\!" example for RISC-V is added to test-progs.
Patch 2 will implement the multiply extension, RV64M; patch 3 will implement the floating point (single- and double-precision) extensions, RV64FD; patch 4 will implement the atomic memory instructions, RV64A, and patch 5 will add support for timing, minor, and detailed CPU models that is missing from the first four patches (such as handling locked memory).
[Removed several unused parameters and imports from RiscvInterrupts.py, RiscvISA.py, and RiscvSystem.py.] [Fixed copyright information in RISC-V files copied from elsewhere that had ARM licenses attached.] [Reorganized instruction definitions in decoder.isa so that they are sorted by opcode in preparation for the addition of ISA extensions M, A, F, D.] [Fixed formatting of several files, removed some variables and instructions that were missed when moving them to other patches, fixed RISC-V Foundation copyright attribution, and fixed history of files copied from other architectures using hg copy.] [Fixed indentation of switch cases in isa.cc.] [Reorganized syscall descriptions in linux/process.cc to remove large number of repeated unimplemented system calls and added implmementations to functions that have received them since it process.cc was first created.] [Fixed spacing for some copyright attributions.] [Replaced the rest of the file copies using hg copy.] [Fixed style check errors and corrected unaligned memory accesses.] [Fix some minor formatting mistakes.] Signed-off by: Alec Roelke
Signed-off by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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