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>

arch: Stop using TheISA within the ISAs.

We know for sure what the ISA is, so there's no need for the
indirection.

Change-Id: I73ff04c50890d40a4c7f40caeee746b68b846cb3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18488
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@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>

sim-se: Enhance clone for X86KvmCPU

This changeset enables clone to work with X86KvmCPU model, which
will allow running multi-threaded applications at near hardware
speeds. Even though the application is multi-threaded, the KvmCPU
model uses one event queue, therefore, only one hardware thread
will be used, through KVM, to simulate multiple application threads.

Change-Id: I2b2a7b1edb1c56eeb9c4fa0553cd236029cd53f8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18268
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>

x86: Stop using/defining some ISA specific register types.

These have been replaced with the generic RegVal type.

Change-Id: I75c1134212067dea43aa0903d813633e06f3d6c6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14476
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>

x86: Add bitfields which can gather/scatter bases and limits.

Add bitfields which can gather/scatter base and limit fields within
"normal" segment descriptors, and in TSS descriptors which have the
same bitfields in the same positions for those two values.

This centralizes the code which manages those bitfields and makes it
less likely that a local implementation will be buggy.

Change-Id: I9809aa626fc31388595c3d3b225c25a0ec6a1275
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7661
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

x86, mem: Rewrite the multilevel page table class.

The new version extracts all the x86 specific aspects of the class,
and builds the interface around a variable collection of template
arguments which are classes that represent the different levels of the
page table. The multilevel page table class is now much more ISA
independent.

Change-Id: Id42e168a78d0e70f80ab2438480cb6e00a3aa636
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7347
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

x86, mem: Don't try to force physical addresses on the system.

Use the system object to allocate physical memory instead of manually
placing certain structures and then forcing the system to start other
allocations after them in physical memory.

Change-Id: Ie18c81645c3b648c64a6d7a649a0e50f7028f344
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7346
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>

x86, mem: Get rid of PageTableOps::getBasePtr.

Pass this constant into the page table constructor.

Change-Id: Icbf730f18d9dfcfebd10a196f7f799514728b0fb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7345
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>

x86, mem: Pass the multi level page table layout in as a parameter.

Don't get it from a global constant declared in an ISA header file.

Change-Id: Ie19440abdd76500a5e12e6791e6f755ad9e95af3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7344
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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>

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>

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>

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>

style: Correct some style issues

This changeset fixes line alignment issues, spacing, spelling,
etc. for files that are used during SE Mode.

Change-Id: Ie61b8d0eb4ebb5af554d72f1297808027833616e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2264
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael LeBeane <Michael.Lebeane@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>

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>

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.

x86: remove unnecessary parameter from functions

syscall_emul: [patch 13/22] add system call retry capability

This changeset adds functionality that allows system calls to retry without
affecting thread context state such as the program counter or register values
for the associated thread context (when system calls return with a retry
fault).

This functionality is needed to solve problems with blocking system calls
in multi-process or multi-threaded simulations where information is passed
between processes/threads. Blocking system calls can cause deadlock because
the simulator itself is single threaded. There is only a single thread
servicing the event queue which can cause deadlock if the thread hits a
blocking system call instruction.

To illustrate the problem, consider two processes using the producer/consumer
sharing model. The processes can use file descriptors and the read and write
calls to pass information to one another. If the consumer calls the blocking
read system call before the producer has produced anything, the call will
block the event queue (while executing the system call instruction) and
deadlock the simulation.

The solution implemented in this changeset is to recognize that the system
calls will block and then generate a special retry fault. The fault will
be sent back up through the function call chain until it is exposed to the
cpu model's pipeline where the fault becomes visible. The fault will trigger
the cpu model to replay the instruction at a future tick where the call has
a chance to succeed without actually going into a blocking state.

In subsequent patches, we recognize that a syscall will block by calling a
non-blocking poll (from inside the system call implementation) and checking
for events. When events show up during the poll, it signifies that the call
would not have blocked and the syscall is allowed to proceed (calling an
underlying host system call if necessary). If no events are returned from the
poll, we generate the fault and try the instruction for the thread context
at a distant tick. Note that retrying every tick is not efficient.

As an aside, the simulator has some multi-threading support for the event
queue, but it is not used by default and needs work. Even if the event queue
was completely multi-threaded, meaning that there is a hardware thread on
the host servicing a single simulator thread contexts with a 1:1 mapping
between them, it's still possible to run into deadlock due to the event queue
barriers on quantum boundaries. The solution of replaying at a later tick
is the simplest solution and solves the problem generally.

syscall_emul: [patch 9/22] remove unused global variable (num_processes)

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.

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.

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.

syscall_emul: [patch 2/22] move SyscallDesc into its own .hh and .cc

The class was crammed into syscall_emul.hh which has tons of forward
declarations and template definitions. To clean it up a bit, moved the
class into separate files and commented the class with doxygen style
comments. Also, provided some encapsulation by adding some accessors and
a mutator.

The syscallreturn.hh file was renamed syscall_return.hh to make it consistent
with other similarly named files in the src/sim directory.

The DPRINTF_SYSCALL macro was moved into its own header file with the
include the Base and Verbose flags as well.

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

hsail,gpu-compute: fixes to appease clang++

fixes to appease clang++. tested on:

Ubuntu clang version 3.5.0-4ubuntu2~trusty2
(tags/RELEASE_350/final) (based on LLVM 3.5.0)

Ubuntu clang version 3.6.0-2ubuntu1~trusty1
(tags/RELEASE_360/final) (based on LLVM 3.6.0)

the fixes address the following five issues:

1) the exec continuations in gpu_static_inst.hh were marked
as protected when they should be public. here we mark
them as public

2) the Abs instruction uses std::abs() in its execute method.
because Abs is templated, it can also operate on U32 and U64,
types, which cause Abs::execute() to pass uint32_t and uint64_t
types to std::abs() respectively. this triggers a warning
because std::abs() has no effect in this case. to rememdy this
we add template specialization for the execute() method of Abs
when its template paramter is U32 or U64.

3) Some potocols that utilize the code in cprintf.hh were missing
includes to BoolVec.hh, which defines operator<< for the BoolVec
type. This would cause issues when the generated code would try
to pass a BoolVec type to a method in cprintf.hh that used
operator<< on an instance of a BoolVec.

4) Surprise, clang doesn't like it when you clobber all the bits
in a newly allocated object. I.e., this code:

tlb = new GpuTlbEntry\[size\];
std::memset(tlb, 0, sizeof(GpuTlbEntry) \* size);

Let's use std::vector to track the TLB entries in the GpuTlb now...

5) There were a few variables used only in DPRINTFs, so we mark them
with M5_VAR_USED.

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

syscall_emul: update x86 mmap base address

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.

syscall_emul: fix bugs for mmap2 system call and x86-32 syscalls

syscall_emul: fix bug in aux vector initialization

Writing 16 bytes from an 8-byte source value is a bad idea.
This doesn't appear to have broken anything, but showed up
as spurious differences when tracediffing runs.

style: fix missing spaces in control statements

Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.

style: remove trailing whitespace

Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.

x86: Clean up style in process.cc.

x86: Segment initialization to support KvmCPU in SE
This patch sets up low and high privilege code and data segments and places them
in the following order: cs low, ds low, ds, cs, in the GDT. Additionally, a
syscall and page fault handler for KvmCPU in SE mode are defined. The order of
the segment selectors in GDT is required in this manner for interrupt handling
to work properly. Segment initialization is done for all the thread
contexts.

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.

syscall emulation: clean up & comment SyscallReturn

x86: corrects vsyscall address for gettimeofday
The vsyscall address for gettimeofday is 0xffffffffff600000ul. The offset
therefore should be 0x0 instead of 0x410. This can be cross checked with
the file sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/gettimeofday.c in source of glibc.

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

X86: Move the GDT down to where it can be accessed in 32 bit mode.

The GDT can be accessed by user level software running in compatibility mode
by moving segment selectors into segment registers. The GDT needs to be set up
at an address accessible in this mode.

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.

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

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.

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

includes: sort all includes

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.

X86: Create a directory for files that define register indexes.

This is to help tidy up arch/x86. These files should not be used external to
the ISA.

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().

copyright: Change HP copyright on x86 code to be more friendly

X86: Update the base aux vector X86 processes install.

compile: wrap 64bit numbers with ULL() so 32bit compiles work
In the isa_parser, we need to check case statements.

X86: Enable x86_64 vsyscall support

64-bit vsyscall is different than 32-bit.
There are only two syscalls, time and gettimeofday.
On a real system, there is complicated code that implements these
without entering the kernel. That would be complicated to implement in m5.
Instead we just place code that calls the regular syscalls (this is how
tools such as valgrind handle this case).

This is needed for the perlbmk spec2k benchmark.

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.

X86: Make successive anonymous mmaps move down in 32 bit SE mode Linux.

X86: Initialize the MXCSR in SE mode.

X86: Move a displaced comment back to where it goes.

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.

X86: Keep track of more descriptor state to accomodate KVM.

X86: Centralize updates to the handy M5 reg.

syscall: Resolve conflicts between m5threads and Gabe's recent SE changes.

X86: Add a vsyscall page for 32 bit processes to use.

X86: Set an initial value for the LDT selector.

X86: Set up a space for a GDT in SE so we can set up TLS or LDT segments.

X86: Handle 32 bit system call arguments.

Processes: Make getting and setting system call arguments part of a process object.

X86: Distinguish the width of values on the stack between 32 and 64 bit processes.

ISA: Use the "Stack" traceflag for DPRINTFs about the initial stack frame.

imported patch aux-fix.patch

This patch pulls out the auxiliary vector struct from individual ISA
LiveProcesses to the base LiveProcess definition so anyone can use them.

Make it so that all thread contexts are registered with the System, even in
SE. Process still keeps track of the tc's it owns, but registration occurs
with the System, this eases the way for system-wide context Ids based on
registration.

arch: TheISA shouldn't really ever be used in the arch directory.
We should always refer to the specific ISA in that arch directory.
This is especially necessary if we're ever going to make it to the
point where we actually have heterogeneous systems.

X86: Separate the effective seg base and the "hidden" seg base.

X86: Make microcode use presegmentation RIPs and the rest of m5 use post segmentation RIPS.

X86: Compile fixes for 32 bit/debug/opt.

SE: Fix page table and system serialization, don't reinit process if this is a checkpoint restore.

Make the process objects use the Params structs in their constructors, and use a limit to check if access are on the stack.

X86: Work on the x86 tlb.

Address translation: Make the page table more flexible.
The page table now stores actual page table entries. It is still a templated
class here, but this will be corrected in the near future.

X86: Start implementing segmentation support.
Make instructions observe segment prefixes, default segment rules, segment
base addresses.
Also fix some microcode and add sib and riprel "keywords" to the x86
specialization of the microassembler.

X86: Get rid of some debug warnings.
Get rid of some warnings that were accidentally committed.

X86: Finally get the x86 initial stack frame right.
After very carefully reading through the Linux source, I'm pretty confident I now know -exactly- how the initial stack frame is constructed, filled, and aligned.

Fix how the "cmd" parameter is set in se.py and remove hack in x86 process initialization code.

X86: Get rid of initialization of R11
R11 is just junk after the start of exectuion because we're "returning" from
an execve call and linux destroys the contents of rcx and r11 on system calls.

X86: Use an mmap base address that matches what an actual machine uses.

X86: Initial stack frame fixes and constant shuffling.
The initial stack frame for x86 is now substantially more correct. The fixes made here can be back ported to SPARC and possible the other ISAs as well. The auxiliary vector types were moved to the LiveProcess base class because they are independent of ISA. Some of the types may only apply to Linux, though, so they may have to be moved.

X86: Fix a comment and adjust the stack base address.
The stack base on my development machine starts one page below where it needs to. I don't know why it does, but I've duplicated it in m5.

X86: Fix up auxiliary vectors.
The type constants should go into an architecture independent spot since they are universal to all Linux elf binaries. The right value for some of the vectors needs to be determined. Also, x86 does not store argc or argv_array_base in registers like some other architectures.

X86: Fix argument register indexing.
Code was assuming that all argument registers followed in order from ArgumentReg0. There is now an ArgumentReg array which is indexed to find the right index. There is a constant, NumArgumentRegs, which can be used to protect against using an invalid ArgumentReg.

X86 probably doesn't need a window save area.

fix the translating ports so it can add a page on a fault

Get X86 to load an elf and start a process for it.

src/arch/x86/SConscript:
Add in process source files.
src/arch/x86/isa_traits.hh:
Replace magic constant numbers with the x86 register names.
src/arch/x86/miscregfile.cc:
Make clear the miscreg file succeed. There aren't any misc regs, so clearing them is very easy.
src/arch/x86/process.hh:
An X86 process class.
src/base/loader/elf_object.cc:
Add in code to recognize x86 as an architecture.
src/base/traceflags.py:
Add an x86 traceflag
src/sim/process.cc:
Add in code to create an x86 process.
src/arch/x86/intregs.hh:
A file which declares names for the integer register indices.
src/arch/x86/linux/linux.cc:
src/arch/x86/linux/linux.hh:
A very simple translation of SPARC's linux.cc and linux.hh. It's probably not correct for x86, but it might not be correct for SPARC either.
src/arch/x86/linux/process.cc:
src/arch/x86/linux/process.hh:
An x86 linux process. The syscall table is split out into it's own file.
src/arch/x86/linux/syscalls.cc:
The x86 Linux syscall table and the uname function.
src/arch/x86/process.cc:
The x86 process base class.
tests/test-progs/hello/bin/x86/linux/hello:
An x86 hello world test binary.