History log of /gem5/src/arch/x86/system.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>


# 13613:a19963be12ca 20-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@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>


# 12588:c007da6c777a 29-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>


# 12484:be3fa5e27fb5 30-Jan-2018 Christian Menard <christian.menard@tu-dresden.de>

arch-x86: consistent style of comments in system files

Change-Id: I9f208819b8c1a5c46a77262eb533bb47adb2b905
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7701
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12483:fd8c7ada2fb9 28-Jan-2018 Maximilian Stein <maximilian.stein@tu-dresden.de>

arch-x86: Granularity bit and segment limit

If set, the granularity bit indicates that the segment limit of segment
descriptors shall be interpreted as number of 4K blocks rather than
bytes.

The high part (bit 48 to 51) of segment descriptor limits is only 4 bits
wide while the low part (bit 0 to 15) spans 16 bits.

Change-Id: Ie386224ca815275fdb31498fe68310ed9c62cc87
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7601
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 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


# 10554:fe2e2f06a7c8 23-Nov-2014 Alexandru Dutu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>

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.


# 9762:4574c5123153 18-Jun-2013 Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>

x86: Make the boot state VMX compliant

This patch allows the default x86 state to be used when by CPUs that
use hardware virtualization.


# 9292:e57c7d9736a5 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Checkpoint: Make system serialize call children

This patch changes how the serialization of the system works. The base
class had a non-virtual serialize and unserialize, that was hidden by
a function with the same name for a number of subclasses (most likely
not intentional as the base class should have been virtual). A few of
the derived systems had no specialization at all (e.g. Power and x86
that simply called the System::serialize), but MIPS and Alpha adds
additional symbol table entries to the checkpoint.

Instead of overriding the virtual function, the additional entries are
now printed through a virtual function (un)serializeSymtab. The reason
for not calling System::serialize from the two related systems is that
a follow up patch will require the system to also serialize the
PhysicalMemory, and if this is done in the base class if ends up being
between the general parts and the specialized symbol table.

With this patch, the checkpoint is not modified, as the order of the
segments is unchanged.


# 8958:af0f1c66ff53 21-Apr-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Report an error if there's no kernel object, don't blindly use it.

This way the user gets a nice message instead of a less nice segfault.


# 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


# 8229:78bf55f23338 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

includes: sort all includes


# 7901:f9b675da608a 07-Feb-2011 Joel Hestness <hestness@cs.utexas.edu>

x86: implements vtophys

Calls walker to look up virt. to phys. page mapping


# 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.


# 7704:b5e6461ea242 10-Oct-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Detect attempts to load a 32 bit kernel and panic.


# 7629:0f0c231e3e97 23-Aug-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

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.


# 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().


# 7447:3fc243687abb 03-Jun-2010 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

More minor gdb-related cleanup.
Found several more stale includes and forward decls.


# 7087:fb8d5786ff30 24-May-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

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


# 6712:b95abe00dd9d 04-Nov-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

build: fix compile problems pointed out by gcc 4.4


# 6222:9ee4a06a960b 29-May-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

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


# 6220:d774fa547141 26-May-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Really set up the GDT and various hidden/visible segment registers.


# 5627:31eac202dbd1 11-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Create SimObjects in python and C++ to represent the ACPI system description tables.


# 5625:ea7d3676ac8d 11-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Create SimObjects in python and C++ to represent the Intel MP tables.


# 5615:1c4b9b1aa500 10-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Turn SMBios structures into simobjects.


# 5612:1bd333953e49 10-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Move the smbios objects into a folder for BIOS objects.


# 5334:5136aad50b97 23-Jan-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Put an SMBios/DMI table in memory.
This is basically just the header right now, but there's an untested
mechanism in place to fill out the table and make sure everything is
updated correctly.


# 5299:e61b9f2a9732 02-Dec-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Move startup code to the system object to initialize a Linux system.


# 5132:ad5e94876bfc 07-Oct-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Make an x86 system object.