History log of /gem5/src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14297:b4519e586f5e 10-Sep-2019 Jordi Vaquero <jordi.vaquero@metempsy.com>

cpu, mem: Changing AtomicOpFunctor* for unique_ptr<AtomicOpFunctor>

This change is based on modify the way we move the AtomicOpFunctor*
through gem5 in order to mantain proper ownership of the object and
ensuring its destruction when it is no longer used.

Doing that we fix at the same time a memory leak in Request.hh
where we were assigning a new AtomicOpFunctor* without destroying the
previous one.

This change creates a new type AtomicOpFunctor_ptr as a
std::unique_ptr<AtomicOpFunctor> and move its ownership as needed. Except
for its only usage when AtomicOpFunc() is called.

Change-Id: Ic516f9d8217cb1ae1f0a19500e5da0336da9fd4f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20919
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 14112:fc1d29d3f09a 04-Feb-2019 Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

cpu: Fix the type of the effective mem request size

A memory request size can be larger than 255 bytes (e.g.
SVE with 2048-bit vector length) which could cause overflow
in the 'uint8_t effSize' variable.

Change-Id: I77e0d02a49ea7f81cacfa5be7e4ae40434af3109
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19175
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 14025:3a133070aa2e 26-Feb-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

cpu-o3: Add support for pinned writes

This patch adds support for pinning registers for a certain number of
consecutive writes. This is only relevant for timing CPU models
(functional-only models are unaffected), and it is primarily needed to
provide a realistic execution model for micro-coded operations whose
microops can write to non-overlapping portions of a destination
register, e.g. vector gather loads. In those cases, this mechanism
can disable renaming for a sequence of consecutive writes, thus making
the resulting execution more efficient: allocating a new physical
register for each microop would introduce a read-modify-write chain of
dependencies, while with these modifications the microops can write
back in parallel.

Please note that this new feature is only leveraged by O3CPU for the
time being.

Additional authors:
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

Change-Id: I07eb5fdbd1fa0b748c9bdc1174d9f330fda34f81
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13520
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13954:2f400a5f2627 07-Jul-2017 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

cpu,mem: Add support for partial loads/stores and wide mem. accesses

This changeset adds support for partial (or masked) loads/stores, i.e.
loads/stores that can disable accesses to individual bytes within the
target address range. In addition, this changeset extends the code to
crack memory accesses across most CPU models (TimingSimpleCPU still
TBD), so that arbitrarily wide memory accesses are supported. These
changes are required for supporting ISAs with wide vectors.

Additional authors:
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
- Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ibad33541c258ad72925c0b1d5abc3e5e8bf92d92
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13518
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13953:43ae8a30ec1f 23-Oct-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

cpu: Add a memory access predicate

This changeset introduces a new predicate to guard memory accesses.
The most immediate use for this is to allow proper handling of
predicated-false vector contiguous loads and predicated-false
micro-ops of vector gather loads (added in separate changesets).

Change-Id: Ice6894fe150faec2f2f7ab796a00c99ac843810a
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17991
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Wang <radwang@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13762:36d5a1d9f5e6 01-Mar-2019 Andrea Mondelli <Andrea.Mondelli@ucf.edu>

cpu: Refactor of Physical Register implementation

The implementation of the PhyRegId class is shared between multiple
cpu models. The o3/misc.hh should only be included in o3 models.

This patch removes the dependencies between different model
implementations, allowing to add new O3-like CPU model.

Change-Id: Ibb812517043befe75c48fab3ce9605a0d272870b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/16908
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Wang <radwang@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13652:45d94ac03a27 22-Jan-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: support atomic memory request type with AtomicOpFunctor

This patch enables all 4 CPU models (AtomicSimpleCPU, TimingSimpleCPU,
MinorCPU and DerivO3CPU) to issue atomic memory (AMO) requests to memory
system.

Atomic memory instruction is treated as a special store instruction in
all CPU models.

In simple CPUs, an AMO request with an associated AtomicOpFunctor is
simply sent to L1 dcache.

In MinorCPU, an AMO request bypasses store buffer and waits for any
conflicting store request(s) currently in the store buffer to retire
before the AMO request is sent to the cache. AMO requests are not buffered
in the store buffer, so their effects appear immediately in the cache.

In DerivO3CPU, an AMO request is inserted in the store buffer so that it
is delivered to the cache only after all previous stores are issued to
the cache. Data forwarding between between an outstanding AMO in the
store buffer and a subsequent load is not allowed since the AMO request
does not hold valid data until it's executed in the cache.

This implementation assumes that a target ISA implementation must insert
enough memory fences as micro-ops around an atomic instruction to
enforce a correct order of memory instructions with respect to its
memory consistency model. Without extra memory fences, this implementation
can allow AMOs and other memory instructions that do not conflict
(i.e., not target the same address) to reorder.

This implementation also assumes that atomic instructions execute within
a cache line boundary since the cache for now is not able to execute an
operation on two different cache lines in one single step. Therefore,
ISAs like x86 that require multi-cache-line atomic instructions need to
either use a pair of locking load and unlocking store or change the
cache implementation to guarantee the atomicity of an atomic
instruction.

Change-Id: Ib8a7c81868ac05b98d73afc7d16eb88486f8cf9a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8188
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13622:ba31c2a23eca 21-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu, arch: Replace the CCReg type with RegVal.

Most architectures weren't using the CCReg type, and in x86 and arm
it was already a uint64_t.

Change-Id: I0b3d5e690e6b31db6f2627f449c89bde0f6750a6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14515
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13610:5d5404ac6288 16-Oct-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

arch,cpu: Add vector predicate registers

Latest-gen. vector/SIMD extensions, including the Arm Scalable Vector
Extension (SVE), introduce the notion of a predicate register file.
This changeset adds this feature across architectures and CPU models.

Change-Id: Iebcadbad89c0a582ff8b1b70de353305db603946
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13715
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13590:d7e018859709 13-Feb-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <rekai.gonzalezalberquilla@arm.com>

cpu-o3: O3 LSQ Generalisation

This patch does a large modification of the LSQ in the O3 model. The
main goal of the patch is to remove the 'an operation can be served with
one or two memory requests' assumption that is present in the LSQ
and the instruction with the req, reqLow, reqHigh triplet, and
generalising it to operations that can be addressed with one request,
and operations that require many requests, embodied in the
SingleDataRequest and the SplitDataRequest.

This modification has been done mimicking the minor model to an extent,
shifting the responsibilities of dealing with VtoP translation and
tracking the status and resources from the DynInst to the LSQ via the
LSQRequest. The LSQRequest models the information concerning the
operation, handles the creation of fragments for translation and request
as well as assembling/splitting the data accordingly.

With this modifications, the implementation of vector ISAs, particularly
on the memory side, become more rich, as the new model permits a
dissociation of the ISA characteristics as vector length, from the
microarchitectural characteristics that govern how contiguous loads are
executing, allowing exploration of different LSQ to DL1 bus widths to
understand the tradeoffs in complexity and performance.

Part of the complexities introduced stem from the fact that gem5 keeps a
large amount of metadata regarding, in particular, memory operations,
thus, when an instruction is squashed while some operation as TLB lookup
or cache access is ongoing, when the relevant structure communicates to
the LSQ that the operation is over, it tries to access some pieces of
data that should have died when the instruction is squashed, leading to
asserts, panics, or memory corruption. To ensure the correct behaviour,
the LSQRequest rely on assesing who is their owner, and self-destroying
if they detect their owner is done with the request, and there will be
no subsequent action. For example, in the case of an instruction
squashed whal the TLB is doing a walk to serve the translation, when the
translation is served by the TLB, the LSQRequest detects that the
instruction was squashed, and as the translation is done, no one else
expect to access its information, and therefore, it self-destructs.
Having destroyed the LSQRequest earlier, would lead to wrong behaviour
as the TLB walk may access some fields of it.

Additional authors:
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

Change-Id: I9578a1a3f6b899c390cdd886856a24db68ff7d0c
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13516
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 13557:fc33e6048b25 13-Oct-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu: dev: sim: gpu-compute: Banish some ISA specific register types.

These types are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. There are
some remaining types, specifically the vector registers and the CCReg.
I'm less familiar with these new types of registers, and so will look
at getting rid of them at some later time.

Change-Id: Ide8f76b15c531286f61427330053b44074b8ac9b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13624
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13500:6e0a2a7c6d8c 19-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, cpu: Remove float type accessors.

Use the binary accessors instead.

Change-Id: Iff1877e92c79df02b3d13635391a8c2f025776a2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14457
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13429:a1e199fd8122 06-Feb-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <rekai.gonzalezalberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Fix the usage of const DynInstPtr

Summary: Usage of const DynInstPtr& when possible and introduction of
move operators to RefCountingPtr.

In many places, scoped references to dynamic instructions do a copy of
the DynInstPtr when a reference would do. This is detrimental to
performance. On top of that, in case there is a need for reference
tracking for debugging, the redundant copies make the process much more
painful than it already is.

Also, from the theoretical point of view, a function/method that
defines a convenience name to access an instruction should not be
considered an owner of the data, i.e., doing a copy and not a reference
is not justified.

On a related topic, C++11 introduces move semantics, and those are
useful when, for example, there is a class modelling a HW structure that
contains a list, and has a getHeadOfList function, to prevent doing a
copy to an internal variable -> update pointer, remove from the list ->
update pointer, return value making a copy to the assined variable ->
update pointer, destroy the returned value -> update pointer.

Change-Id: I3bb46c20ef23b6873b469fd22befb251ac44d2f6
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13105
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12768:9a299ec956ac 12-Feb-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: add a new instruction type 'Atomic'

This patch adds a new flag named 'Atomic' to support ISA implementations
that use AtomicOpFunctor to handle atomic instructions instead of a
pair of locking load and unlocking store.

Change-Id: I1fbee6e54432396cb49dfc59ad9006b75812d115
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8187
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 12749:223c83ed9979 04-Jun-2018 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

misc: Using smart pointers for memory Requests

This patch is changing the underlying type for RequestPtr from Request*
to shared_ptr<Request>. Having memory requests being managed by smart
pointers will simplify the code; it will also prevent memory leakage and
dangling pointers.

Change-Id: I7749af38a11ac8eb4d53d8df1252951e0890fde3
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10996
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12748:ae5ce8e42de7 03-Jun-2018 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

misc: Substitute pointer to Request with aliased RequestPtr

Every usage of Request* in the code has been replaced with the
RequestPtr alias. This is a preparing patch for when RequestPtr will be
the typdefed to a smart pointer to Request rather then a raw pointer to
Request.

Change-Id: I73cbaf2d96ea9313a590cdc731a25662950cd51a
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10995
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 12421:871001341442 05-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu: Add a NotAnInst flag to the BaseDynInst class.

This flag means that the instruction isn't an actual instruction, it's
just a placeholder to carry a fault down a pipeline, for instance.

Change-Id: I1cc12b068662dbd3d3b089c9941a07b6e88b57e3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7123
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12420:f5c80f4ed41f 05-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu, power: Get rid of the remnants of the EA computation insts.

Get rid of some remnants of a system which was intended to separate
address computation into its own instruction object.

Change-Id: I23f9ffd70fcb89a8ea5bbb934507fb00da9a0b7f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7122
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12110:c24ee249b8ba 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

arch: ISA parser additions of vector registers

Reiley's update :) of the isa parser definitions. My addition of the
vector element operand concept for the ISA parser. Nathanael's modification
creating a hierarchy between vector registers and its constituencies to the
isa parser.

Some fixes/updates on top to consider instructions as vectors instead of
floating when they use the VectorRF. Some counters added to all the
models to keep faithful counts.

Change-Id: Id8f162a525240dfd7ba884c5a4d9fa69f4050101
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2706
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 12109:f29e9c5418aa 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Added interface for vector reg file

This patch adds some more functionality to the cpu model and the arch to
interface with the vector register file.

This change consists mainly of augmenting ThreadContexts and ExecContexts
with calls to get/set full vectors, underlying microarchitectural elements
or lanes. Those are meant to interface with the vector register file. All
classes that implement this interface also get an appropriate implementation.

This requires implementing the vector register file for the different
models using the VecRegContainer class.

This change set also updates the Result abstraction to contemplate the
possibility of having a vector as result.

The changes also affect how the remote_gdb connection works.

There are some (nasty) side effects, such as the need to define dummy
numPhysVecRegs parameter values for architectures that do not implement
vector extensions.

Nathanael Premillieu's work with an increasing number of fixes and
improvements of mine.

Change-Id: Iee65f4e8b03abfe1e94e6940a51b68d0977fd5bb
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues and CC reg free list initialisation ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2705


# 12107:998b4c54ee51 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Result refactoring

The Result union used to collect the result of an instruction is now a
class of its own, with its constructor, and explicit casting methods for
cleanliness.

This is also a stepping stone to have vector registers, and instructions
that produce a vector register as output.

Change-Id: I6f40c11cb5e835d8b11f7804a4e967aff18025b9
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2703
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 12106:7784fac1b159 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Simplify the rename interface and use RegId

With the hierarchical RegId there are a lot of functions that are
redundant now.

The idea behind the simplification is that instead of having the regId,
telling which kind of register read/write/rename/lookup/etc. and then
the function panic_if'ing if the regId is not of the appropriate type,
we provide an interface that decides what kind of register to read
depending on the register type of the given regId.

Change-Id: I7d52e9e21fc01205ae365d86921a4ceb67a57178
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2702


# 12105:742d80361989 05-Apr-2017 Nathanael Premillieu <nathanael.premillieu@arm.com>

cpu: Physical register structural + flat indexing

Mimic the changes done on the architectural register indexes on the
physical register indexes. This is specific to the O3 model. The
structure, called PhysRegId, contains a register class, a register
index and a flat register index. The flat register index is kept
because it is useful in some cases where the type of register is not
important (dependency graph and scoreboard for example). Instead
of directly using the structure, most of the code is working with
a const PhysRegId* (typedef to PhysRegIdPtr). The actual PhysRegId
objects are stored in the regFile.

Change-Id: Ic879a3cc608aa2f34e2168280faac1846de77667
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2701
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 12104:edd63f9c6184 05-Apr-2017 Nathanael Premillieu <nathanael.premillieu@arm.com>

arch, cpu: Architectural Register structural indexing

Replace the unified register mapping with a structure associating
a class and an index. It is now much easier to know which class of
register the index is referring to. Also, when adding a new class
there is no need to modify existing ones.

Change-Id: I55b3ac80763702aa2cd3ed2cbff0a75ef7620373
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2700


# 11608:6319a1125f1c 14-Aug-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

cpu, arch: fix the type used for the request flags

Change-Id: I183b9942929c873c3272ce6d1abd4ebc472c7132
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11435:0f1b46dde3fa 07-Apr-2016 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

mem: Remove threadId from memory request class

In general, the ThreadID parameter is unnecessary in the memory system
as the ContextID is what is used for the purposes of locks/wakeups.
Since we allocate sequential ContextIDs for each thread on MT-enabled
CPUs, ThreadID is unnecessary as the CPUs can identify the requesting
thread through sideband info (SenderState / LSQ entries) or ContextID
offset from the base ContextID for a cpu.

This is a re-spin of 20264eb after the revert (bd1c6789) and includes
some fixes of that commit.


# 11429:cf5af0cc3be4 06-Apr-2016 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

Revert power patch sets with unexpected interactions

The following patches had unexpected interactions with the current
upstream code and have been reverted for now:

e07fd01651f3: power: Add support for power models
831c7f2f9e39: power: Low-power idle power state for idle CPUs
4f749e00b667: power: Add power states to ClockedObject

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11428:20264eb69fbf 05-Apr-2016 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

mem: Remove threadId from memory request class

In general, the ThreadID parameter is unnecessary in the memory system
as the ContextID is what is used for the purposes of locks/wakeups.
Since we allocate sequential ContextIDs for each thread on MT-enabled
CPUs, ThreadID is unnecessary as the CPUs can identify the requesting
thread through sideband info (SenderState / LSQ entries) or ContextID
offset from the base ContextID for a cpu.


# 11303:f694764d656d 17-Jan-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

cpu. arch: add initiateMemRead() to ExecContext interface

For historical reasons, the ExecContext interface had a single
function, readMem(), that did two different things depending on
whether the ExecContext supported atomic memory mode (i.e.,
AtomicSimpleCPU) or timing memory mode (all the other models).
In the former case, it actually performed a memory read; in the
latter case, it merely initiated a read access, and the read
completion did not happen until later when a response packet
arrived from the memory system.

This led to some confusing things, including timing accesses
being required to provide a pointer for the return data even
though that pointer was only used in atomic mode.

This patch splits this interface, adding a new initiateMemRead()
function to the ExecContext interface to replace the timing-mode
use of readMem().

For consistency and clarity, the readMemTiming() helper function
in the ISA definitions is renamed to initiateMemRead() as well.
For x86, where the access size is passed in explicitly, we can
also get rid of the data parameter at this level. For other ISAs,
where the access size is determined from the type of the data
parameter, we have to keep the parameter for that purpose.


# 11302:bce9037689b0 17-Jan-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

cpu: remove unnecessary data ptr from O3 internal read() funcs

The read() function merely initiates a memory read operation; the
data doesn't arrive until the access completes and a response packet
is received from the memory system. Thus there's no need to provide
a data pointer; its existence is historical.

Getting this pointer out of this internal o3 interface sets the
stage for similar cleanup in the ExecContext interface. Also
found that we were pointlessly setting the contents at this pointer
on a store forward (the useful memcpy happens just a few lines
below the deleted one).


# 11294:a368064a2ab5 11-Jan-2016 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

scons: Enable -Wextra by default

Make best use of the compiler, and enable -Wextra as well as
-Wall. There are a few issues that had to be resolved, but they are
all trivial.


# 11148:1bc3d93c7eaa 30-Sep-2015 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

cpu: Add per-thread monitors

Adds per-thread address monitors to support FullSystem SMT.


# 11097:da477ae38907 15-Sep-2015 Hongil Yoon <ongal@cs.wisc.edu>

cpu, o3: consider split requests for LSQ checksnoop operations

This patch enables instructions in LSQ to track two physical addresses for
corresponding two split requests. Later, the information is used in
checksnoop() to search for/invalidate the corresponding LD instructions.

The current implementation has kept track of only the physical address that is
referenced by the first split request. Thus, for checksnoop(), the line
accessed by the second request has not been considered, causing potential
correctness issues.

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


# 11005:e7f403b6b76f 07-Aug-2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

base: Declare a type for context IDs

Context IDs used to be declared as ad hoc (usually as int). This
changeset introduces a typedef for ContextIDs and a constant for
invalid context IDs.


# 10935:acd48ddd725f 28-Jul-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

revert 5af8f40d8f2c


# 10934:5af8f40d8f2c 26-Jul-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

cpu: implements vector registers

This adds a vector register type. The type is defined as a std::array of a
fixed number of uint64_ts. The isa_parser.py has been modified to parse vector
register operands and generate the required code. Different cpus have vector
register files now.


# 10835:d4b162a57400 15-May-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

misc: Appease gcc 5.1

Three minor issues are resolved:

1. Apparently gcc 5.1 does not like negation of booleans followed by
bitwise AND.

2. Somehow the compiler also gets confused and warns about
NoopMachInst being unused (removing it causes compilation errors
though). Most likely a compiler bug.

3. There seems to be a number of instances where loop unrolling causes
false positives for the array-bounds check. For now, switch to
std::array. Potentially we could disable the warning for newer gcc
versions, but switching to std::array is probably a good move in
any case.


# 10824:308771bd2647 05-May-2015 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

mem, cpu: Add a separate flag for strictly ordered memory

The Request::UNCACHEABLE flag currently has two different
functions. The first, and obvious, function is to prevent the memory
system from caching data in the request. The second function is to
prevent reordering and speculation in CPU models.

This changeset gives the order/speculation requirement a separate flag
(Request::STRICT_ORDER). This flag prevents CPU models from doing the
following optimizations:

* Speculation: CPU models are not allowed to issue speculative
loads.

* Write combining: CPU models and caches are not allowed to merge
writes to the same cache line.

Note: The memory system may still reorder accesses unless the
UNCACHEABLE flag is set. It is therefore expected that the
STRICT_ORDER flag is combined with the UNCACHEABLE flag to prevent
this behavior.


# 10715:ced453290507 02-Mar-2015 Rekai <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: o3 register renaming request handling improved

Now, prior to the renaming, the instruction requests the exact amount of
registers it will need, and the rename_map decides whether the instruction is
allowed to proceed or not.


# 10687:276da6265ab8 11-Feb-2015 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

sim: Move the BaseTLB to src/arch/generic/

The TLB-related code is generally architecture dependent and should
live in the arch directory to signify that.


# 10665:aef704eaedd2 25-Jan-2015 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: Clean up InstRecord

Track memory size and flags as well as add some comments and consts.


# 10529:05b5a6cf3521 06-Nov-2014 Marc Orr <morr@cs.wisc.edu>

x86 isa: This patch attempts an implementation at mwait.

Mwait works as follows:
1. A cpu monitors an address of interest (monitor instruction)
2. A cpu calls mwait - this loads the cache line into that cpu's cache.
3. The cpu goes to sleep.
4. When another processor requests write permission for the line, it is
evicted from the sleeping cpu's cache. This eviction is forwarded to the
sleeping cpu, which then wakes up.

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


# 10474:799c8ee4ecba 16-Oct-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

arch: Use shared_ptr for all Faults

This patch takes quite a large step in transitioning from the ad-hoc
RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr by adopting its use for all
Faults. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications
are mostly just replacing "new" with "make_shared".


# 10417:710ee116eb68 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.


# 10319:4207f9bfcceb 03-Sep-2014 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

arch, cpu: Factor out the ExecContext into a proper base class

We currently generate and compile one version of the ISA code per CPU
model. This is obviously wasting a lot of resources at compile
time. This changeset factors out the interface into a separate
ExecContext class, which also serves as documentation for the
interface between CPUs and the ISA code. While doing so, this
changeset also fixes up interface inconsistencies between the
different CPU models.

The main argument for using one set of ISA code per CPU model has
always been performance as this avoid indirect branches in the
generated code. However, this argument does not hold water. Booting
Linux on a simulated ARM system running in atomic mode
(opt/10.linux-boot/realview-simple-atomic) is actually 2% faster
(compiled using clang 3.4) after applying this patch. Additionally,
compilation time is decreased by 35%.


# 10190:fb83d025d1c3 09-May-2014 Akash Bagdia <akash.bagdia@arm.com>

cpu, arm: Allow the specification of a socket field

Allow the specification of a socket ID for every core that is reflected in the
MPIDR field in ARM systems. This allows studying multi-socket / cluster
systems with ARM CPUs.


# 10110:580b47334a97 07-Mar-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

cpu: Make CPU and ThreadContext getters const

This patch merely tidies up the CPU and ThreadContext getters by
making them const where appropriate.


# 10030:b531e328342d 24-Jan-2014 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

cpu: Add CPU support for generatig wake up events when LLSC adresses are snooped.

This patch add support for generating wake-up events in the CPU when an address
that is currently in the exclusive state is hit by a snoop. This mechanism is required
for ARMv8 multi-processor support.


# 10024:fc10e1f9f124 24-Jan-2014 Dam Sunwoo <dam.sunwoo@arm.com>

mem: per-thread cache occupancy and per-block ages

This patch enables tracking of cache occupancy per thread along with
ages (in buckets) per cache blocks. Cache occupancy stats are
recalculated on each stat dump.


# 9932:2efeed2cef09 17-Oct-2013 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

cpu: Fix O3 uncacheable load that is replayed but misses the TLB

This change fixes an issue in the O3 CPU where an uncachable instruction
is attempted to be executed before it reaches the head of the ROB. It is
determined to be uncacheable, and is replayed, but a PanicFault is attached
to the instruction to make sure that it is properly executed before
committing. If the TLB entry it was using is replaced in the interveaning
time, the TLB returns a delayed translation when the load is replayed at
the head of the ROB, however the LSQ code can't differntiate between the
old fault and the new one. If the translation isn't complete it can't
be faulting, so clear the fault.


# 9920:028e4da64b42 15-Oct-2013 Yasuko Eckert <yasuko.eckert@amd.com>

cpu: add a condition-code register class

Add a third register class for condition codes,
in parallel with the integer and FP classes.
No ISAs use the CC class at this point though.


# 9814:7ad2b0186a32 18-Jul-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Set the cache line size on a system level

This patch removes the notion of a peer block size and instead sets
the cache line size on the system level.

Previously the size was set per cache, and communicated through the
interconnect. There were plenty checks to ensure that everyone had the
same size specified, and these checks are now removed. Another benefit
that is not yet harnessed is that the cache line size is now known at
construction time, rather than after the port binding. Hence, the
block size can be locally stored and does not have to be queried every
time it is used.

A follow-on patch updates the configuration scripts accordingly.


# 9046:a1104cc13db2 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

O3: Clean up the O3 structures and try to pack them a bit better.

DynInst is extremely large the hope is that this re-organization will put the
most used members close to each other.


# 9044:904ddeecc653 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: Remove FastAlloc

While FastAlloc provides a small performance increase (~1.5%) over regular malloc it isn't thread safe.
After removing FastAlloc and using tcmalloc I've seen a performance increase of 12% over libc malloc
when running twolf for ARM.


# 8902:75b524b64c28 19-Mar-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

gcc: Clean-up of non-C++0x compliant code, first steps

This patch cleans up a number of minor issues aiming to get closer to
compliance with the C++0x standard as interpreted by gcc and clang
(compile with std=c++0x and -pedantic-errors). In particular, the
patch cleans up enums where the last item was succeded by a comma,
namespaces closed by a curcly brace followed by a semi-colon, and the
use of the GNU-extension typeof (replaced by templated functions). It
does not address variable-length arrays, zero-size arrays, anonymous
structs, range expressions in switch statements, and the use of long
long. The generated CPU code also has a large number of issues that
remain to be fixed, mainly related to overflows in implicit constant
conversion (due to shifts).


# 8887:20ea02da9c53 09-Mar-2012 Geoffrey Blake <geoffrey.blake@arm.com>

CheckerCPU: Make CheckerCPU runtime selectable instead of compile selectable

Enables the CheckerCPU to be selected at runtime with the --checker option
from the configs/example/fs.py and configs/example/se.py configuration
files. Also merges with the SE/FS changes.


# 8850:ed91b534ed04 24-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

CPU: Round-two unifying instr/data CPU ports across models

This patch continues the unification of how the different CPU models
create and share their instruction and data ports. Most importantly,
it forces every CPU to have an instruction and a data port, and gives
these ports explicit getters in the BaseCPU (getDataPort and
getInstPort). The patch helps in simplifying the code, make
assumptions more explicit, andfurther ease future patches related to
the CPU ports.

The biggest changes are in the in-order model (that was not modified
in the previous unification patch), which now moves the ports from the
CacheUnit to the CPU. It also distinguishes the instruction fetch and
load-store unit from the rest of the resources, and avoids the use of
indices and casting in favour of keeping track of these two units
explicitly (since they are always there anyways). The atomic, timing
and O3 model simply return references to their already existing ports.


# 8832:247fee427324 12-Feb-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

mem: Add a master ID to each request object.

This change adds a master id to each request object which can be
used identify every device in the system that is capable of issuing a request.
This is part of the way to removing the numCpus+1 stats in the cache and
replacing them with the master ids. This is one of a series of changes
that make way for the stats output to be changed to python.


# 8817:c36441eed919 07-Feb-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Faults: Turn off arch/faults.hh

Because there are no longer architecture independent but specialized functions
in arch/XXX/faults.hh, code that isn't using the faults from a particular ISA
no longer needs to be able to include them through the switching header file
arch/faults.hh. By removing that header file (arch/faults.hh), the potential
interface between ISA code and non ISA code is narrowed.


# 8809:bb10807da889 01-Feb-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge with head, hopefully the last time for this batch.


# 8794:e2ac2b7164dd 18-Nov-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Get rid of includes of config/full_system.hh.


# 8733:64a7bf8fa56c 31-Jan-2012 Geoffrey Blake <geoffrey.blake@arm.com>

CheckerCPU: Re-factor CheckerCPU to be compatible with current gem5

Brings the CheckerCPU back to life to allow FS and SE checking of the
O3CPU. These changes have only been tested with the ARM ISA. Other
ISAs potentially require modification.


# 8545:a3992291e230 13-Sep-2011 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

LSQ: Only trigger a memory violation with a load/load if the value changes.

Only create a memory ordering violation when the value could have changed
between two subsequent loads, instead of just when loads go out-of-order
to the same address. While not very common in the case of Alpha, with
an architecture with a hardware table walker this can happen reasonably
frequently beacuse a translation will miss and start a table walk and
before the CPU re-schedules the faulting instruction another one will
pass it to the same address (or cache block depending on the dendency
checking).

This patch has been tested with a couple of self-checking hand crafted
programs to stress ordering between two cores.

The performance improvement on SPEC benchmarks can be substantial (2-10%).


# 8542:7230ff0738e3 09-Sep-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

StaticInst: Merge StaticInst and StaticInstBase.

Having two StaticInst classes, one nominally ISA dependent and the other ISA
dependent, has not been historically useful and makes the StaticInst class
more complicated that it needs to be. This change merges StaticInstBase into
StaticInst.


# 8502:f1fc7102c970 14-Aug-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

O3: Add a pointer to the macroop for a microop in the dyninst.


# 8486:c4e77a9563f5 07-Aug-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Translation: Use a pointer type as the template argument.

This allows regular pointers and reference counted pointers without having to
use any shim structures or other tricks.


# 8484:3c641509bf3e 02-Aug-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

O3: Get rid of the raw ExtMachInst constructor on DynInsts.

This constructor assumes that the ExtMachInst can be decoded directly into a
StaticInst that's useful to execute. With the advent of microcoded
instructions that's no longer true.


# 8444:56de1f9320df 03-Jul-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ExecContext: Rename the readBytes/writeBytes functions to readMem and writeMem.

readBytes and writeBytes had the word "bytes" in their names because they
accessed blobs of bytes. This distinguished them from the read and write
functions which handled higher level data types. Because those functions don't
exist any more, this change renames readBytes and writeBytes to more general
names, readMem and writeMem, which reflect the fact that they are how you read
and write memory. This also makes their names more consistent with the
register reading/writing functions, although those are still read and set for
some reason.


# 8443:530ff1bc8d70 03-Jul-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ExecContext: Get rid of the now unused read/write templated functions.


# 8201:89221928d131 04-Apr-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

CPU: Remove references to memory copy operations


# 8199:3d6c08c877a9 04-Apr-2011 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

O3: Tighten memory order violation checking to 16 bytes.

The comment in the code suggests that the checking granularity should be 16
bytes, however in reality the shift by 8 is 256 bytes which seems much
larger than required.


# 7944:1daf51f62013 11-Feb-2011 Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>

O3: Enhance data address translation by supporting hardware page table walkers.

Some ISAs (like ARM) relies on hardware page table walkers. For those ISAs,
when a TLB miss occurs, initiateTranslation() can return with NoFault but with
the translation unfinished.

Instructions experiencing a delayed translation due to a hardware page table
walk are deferred until the translation completes and kept into the IQ. In
order to keep track of them, the IQ has been augmented with a queue of the
outstanding delayed memory instructions. When their translation completes,
instructions are re-executed (only their initiateAccess() was already
executed; their DTB translation is now skipped). The IEW stage has been
modified to support such a 2-pass execution.


# 7784:e7649570ff3a 07-Dec-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

O3: Support squashing all state after special instruction

For SPARC ASIs are added to the ExtMachInst. If the ASI is changed simply
marking the instruction as Serializing isn't enough beacuse that only
stops rename. This provides a mechanism to squash all the instructions
and refetch them


# 7783:9b880b40ac10 07-Dec-2010 Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>

O3: Make all instructions that write a misc. register not perform the write until commit.

ARM instructions updating cumulative flags (ARM FP exceptions and saturation
flags) are not serialized.

Added aliases for ARM FP exceptions and saturation flags in FPSCR. Removed
write accesses to the FP condition codes for most ARM VFP instructions: only
VCMP and VCMPE instructions update the FP condition codes. Removed a potential
cause of seg. faults in the O3 model for NEON memory macro-ops (ARM).


# 7725:00ea9430643b 08-Nov-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ARM/Alpha/Cpu: Change prefetchs to be more like normal loads.

This change modifies the way prefetches work. They are now like normal loads
that don't writeback a register. Previously prefetches were supposed to call
prefetch() on the exection context, so they executed with execute() methods
instead of initiateAcc() completeAcc(). The prefetch() methods for all the CPUs
are blank, meaning that they get executed, but don't actually do anything.

On Alpha dead cache copy code was removed and prefetches are now normal ops.
They count as executed operations, but still don't do anything and IsMemRef is
not longer set on them.

On ARM IsDataPrefetch or IsInstructionPreftech is now set on all prefetch
instructions. The timing simple CPU doesn't try to do anything special for
prefetches now and they execute with the normal memory code path.


# 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.


# 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.


# 7600:eff7f79f7dfd 23-Aug-2010 Min Kyu Jeong <minkyu.jeong@arm.com>

CPU: Make Exec trace to print predication result (if false) for memory instructions


# 7597:063f160e8b50 23-Aug-2010 Min Kyu Jeong <minkyu.jeong@arm.com>

ARM/O3: store the result of the predicate evaluation in DynInst or Threadstate.
THis allows the CPU to handle predicated-false instructions accordingly.
This particular patch makes loads that are predicated-false to be sent
straight to the commit stage directly, not waiting for return of the data
that was never requested since it was predicated-false.


# 7577:056a88043835 23-Aug-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

CPU: Set a default value when readBytes faults.

This was being done in read(), but if readBytes was called directly it
wouldn't happen. Also, instead of setting the memory blob being read to -1
which would (I believe) require using memset with -1 as a parameter, this now
uses bzero. It's hoped that it's more specialized behavior will make it
slightly faster.


# 7520:67c670459d01 13-Aug-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Add readBytes and writeBytes functions to the exec contexts.


# 6975:862a31349d43 20-Feb-2010 Timothy M. Jones <tjones1@inf.ed.ac.uk>

BaseDynInst: Preserve the faults returned from read and write.

When implementing timing address translations instead of atomic, I
forgot to preserve the faults that are returned from the read and
write calls. This patch reinstates them.


# 6974:4d4903a3e7c5 12-Feb-2010 Timothy M. Jones <tjones1@inf.ed.ac.uk>

O3PCU: Split loads and stores that cross cache line boundaries.

When each load or store is sent to the LSQ, we check whether it will cross a
cache line boundary and, if so, split it in two. This creates two TLB
translations and two memory requests. Care has to be taken if the first
packet of a split load is sent but the second blocks the cache. Similarly,
for a store, if the first packet cannot be sent, we must store the second
one somewhere to retry later.

This modifies the LSQSenderState class to record both packets in a split
load or store.

Finally, a new const variable, HasUnalignedMemAcc, is added to each ISA
to indicate whether unaligned memory accesses are allowed. This is used
throughout the changed code so that compiler can optimise away code dealing
with split requests for ISAs that don't need them.


# 6973:a123bd350935 12-Feb-2010 Timothy M. Jones <tjones1@inf.ed.ac.uk>

BaseDynInst: Make the TLB translation timing instead of atomic.

This initiates a timing translation and passes the read or write on to the
processor before waiting for it to finish. Once the translation is finished,
the instruction's state is updated via the 'finish' function. A new
DataTranslation class is created to handle this.

The idea is taken from the implementation of timing translations in
TimingSimpleCPU by Gabe Black. This patch also separates out the timing
translations from this CPU and uses the new DataTranslation class.


# 6658:f4de76601762 23-Sep-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

arch: nuke arch/isa_specific.hh and move stuff to generated config/the_isa.hh


# 6429:7ed8937e375a 02-Aug-2009 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

Fix setting of INST_FETCH flag for O3 CPU.
It's still broken in inorder.
Also enhance DPRINTFs in cache and physical memory so we
can see more easily whether it's getting set or not.


# 6221:58a3c04e6344 26-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

types: add a type for thread IDs and try to use it everywhere


# 6023:47b4fcb10c11 09-Apr-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

tlb: More fixing of unified TLB


# 5891:73084c6bb183 25-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ISA: Replace the translate functions in the TLBs with translateAtomic.


# 5890:bdef71accd68 25-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Get rid of translate... functions from various interface classes.


# 5737:f43dbc09fad3 10-Nov-2008 Clint Smullen <cws3k@cs.virginia.edu>

O3CPU: Make the instcount debugging stuff per-cpu.
This is to prevent the assertion from firing if you have a large multicore.
Also make sure that it's not compiled in when NDEBUG is defined


# 5714:76abee886def 02-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

Add in Context IDs to the simulator. From now on, cpuId is almost never used,
the primary identifier for a hardware context should be contextId(). The
concept of threads within a CPU remains, in the form of threadId() because
sometimes you need to know which context within a cpu to manipulate.


# 5712:199d31b47f7b 02-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

make BaseCPU the provider of _cpuId, and cpuId() instead of being scattered
across the subclasses. generally make it so that member data is _cpuId and
accessor functions are cpuId(). The ID val comes from the python (default -1 if
none provided), and if it is -1, the index of cpuList will be given. this has
passed util/regress quick and se.py -n4 and fs.py -n4 as well as standard
switch.


# 5543:3af77710f397 10-Sep-2008 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

style: Remove non-leading tabs everywhere they shouldn't be. Developers should configure their editors to not insert tabs


# 5358:e9acb84bbafb 26-Feb-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

TLB: Make a TLB base class and put a virtual demapPage function in it.


# 5177:4307a768e10e 22-Oct-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Add functions to the "ExecContext"s that translate a given address.


# 5003:2eb7f972aabf 26-Aug-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

O3 CPU: Remove alignment check from dynamic instruction read/write functions.


# 4828:768d4cf6b0dc 31-Jul-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Add a flag to indicate an instruction triggers a syscall in SE mode.


# 4654:225cc048edfa 20-Jun-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Fix compiler errors.


# 4636:afc8da9f526e 14-Apr-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Add support for microcode and pull out the special branch delay slot handling. Branch delay slots need to be squash on a mispredict as well because the nnpc they saw was incorrect.


# 4632:be5b8f67b8fb 13-Apr-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Remove most of the special handling for delay slots since they have to be squashed anyway on a mispredict. This is because the NNPC value they saw when executing was incorrect.


# 4350:c3f402102507 07-Apr-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Get the "hard" SPARC instructions working in o3. I don't like that the IsStoreConditional flag needs to be set for them because they aren't store conditional instructions, and I should fix the format code which is not handling the opt_flags correctly.


# 4284:c8800319ed0c 23-Mar-2007 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zizzer:/bk/newmem
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/tmp/clean2

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Hand merge. Line is no longer needed because it's handled in the ISA.


# 4040:eb894f3fc168 12-Feb-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

rename store conditional stuff as extra data so it can be used for conditional swaps as well
Add support for a twin 64 bit int load
Add Memory barrier and write barrier flags as appropriate
Make atomic memory ops atomic

src/arch/alpha/isa/mem.isa:
src/arch/alpha/locked_mem.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
rename store conditional stuff as extra data so it can be used for conditional swaps as well
src/arch/alpha/types.hh:
src/arch/mips/types.hh:
src/arch/sparc/types.hh:
add a largest read data type for statically allocating read buffers in atomic simple cpu
src/arch/isa_parser.py:
Add support for a twin 64 bit int load
src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa:
Make atomic memory ops atomic
Add Memory barrier and write barrier flags as appropriate
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/basicmem.isa:
add post access code block and define a twinload format for twin loads
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/blockmem.isa:
remove old microcoded twin load coad
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/mem.isa:
swap.isa replaces the code in loadstore.isa
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/mem/util.isa:
add a post access code block
src/arch/sparc/isa/includes.isa:
need bigint.hh for Twin64_t
src/arch/sparc/isa/operands.isa:
add a twin 64 int type
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
add support for twinloads
add support for swap and conditional swap instructions
rename store conditional stuff as extra data so it can be used for conditional swaps as well
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/packet.hh:
Add support for atomic swap memory commands
src/mem/packet_access.hh:
Add endian conversion function for Twin64_t type
src/mem/physical.cc:
src/mem/physical.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
Add support for atomic swap memory commands
Rename sc code to extradata


# 4032:8b987a6a2afc 23-Mar-2007 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Two fixes:
1. Requests are handled more properly now. They assume the memory system takes control of the request upon sending out an access.
2. load-load ordering is maintained.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Update how requests are handled. The BaseDynInst should not be able to hold a pointer to the request because the request becomes owned by the memory system once it is sent out.

Also include some functions to allow certain status bits to be cleared.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
Update how requests are handled. The BaseDynInst should not be able to hold a pointer to the request because the request becomes owned by the memory system once it is sent out.
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
General correctness fixes. retryPkt is not necessarily always set, so handle it properly. Also consider the cache unblocked only when recvRetry is called.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
Handle requests a little more correctly. Now that the requests aren't pointed to by the DynInst, be sure to delete the request if it's not being used by the memory system.

Also be sure to not store-load forward from an uncacheable store.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Check to make sure load-load ordering was maintained.

Also handle requests a little more correctly.


# 3965:b4cab77371ed 28-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Implement a stub nnpc for alpha that is read only as npc+4.


# 3801:5ea378e2bccd 16-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Accidently "cleaned" away the NPC parameter to the constructor.


# 3794:647d6bb9539a 16-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Added a predicted NPC field, explicitly stored whether the instruction was predicted taken or not.


# 3791:f1783bae1afe 12-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge zizzer:/bk/newmem/
into zower.eecs.umich.edu:/eecshome/m5/newmem


# 3770:422aa205500a 06-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Get rid of some typedefs which were hardly used, and move some stuff back here that shouldn't be in the architecture specific DynInst classes.


# 3735:86a7cf4dcc11 12-Dec-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Rename the StaticInst-based (read|set)(Int|Float)Reg methods to (read|set)(Int|Float)RegOperand to distinguish from non-StaticInst version.


# 3326:d9cc6bae9d77 23-Oct-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Add in support for LL/SC in the O3 CPU. Needs to be fully tested.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Extend BaseDynInst a little bit so it can be use as a TC as well (specifically for ll/sc code).
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
Add variable to track if the result of the instruction should be recorded.
src/cpu/o3/alpha/cpu_impl.hh:
Clear lock flag upon hwrei.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
Use ISA specified handling of locked reads.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Use ISA specified handling of locked writes.


# 3126:756092c6383c 02-Oct-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Updates to fix merge issues and bring almost everything up to working speed. Ozone CPU remains untested, but everything else compiles and runs.

src/arch/alpha/isa_traits.hh:
This got changed to the wrong version by accident.
src/cpu/base.cc:
Fix up progress event to not schedule itself if the interval is set to 0.
src/cpu/base.hh:
Fix up the CPU Progress Event to not print itself if it's set to 0. Also remove stats_reset_inst (something I added to m5 but isn't necessary here).
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
Remove float variable of instResult; it's always held within the double part now.
src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh:
Use thread and not cpuXC.
src/cpu/o3/alpha/cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_builder.cc:
src/python/m5/objects/BaseCPU.py:
Remove stats_reset_inst.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end_impl.hh:
Get TC, not XCProxy.
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
Switch out updates from the version of m5 I have. Also remove serialize code that got added twice.
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Remove code that was added twice.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
Add back in stats that got lost in the merge.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Use proper method to get flags. Also wake CPU if we're coming back from a cache miss.
src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Support profiling.
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
Update to use proper typename.
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/dyn_inst_impl.hh:
Updates for newmem.
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq_impl.hh:
Get flags correctly.
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
Reorder constructor initialization, use tc.
src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:
Allow for loading of symbol file. Be sure to use ThreadContext and not ExecContext.


# 3125:febd811bccc6 30-Sep-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zamp:./local/clean/o3-merge/m5
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/o3-merge/newmem

configs/boot/micro_memlat.rcS:
configs/boot/micro_tlblat.rcS:
src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc:
src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa:
src/arch/alpha/isa_traits.hh:
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/cpu/base.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha/params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple_thread.cc:
src/cpu/simple_thread.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
src/dev/ide_disk.cc:
src/python/m5/objects/O3CPU.py:
src/python/m5/objects/Root.py:
src/python/m5/objects/System.py:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.hh:
src/sim/system.hh:
util/m5/m5.c:
Hand merge.


# 3093:b09c33e66bce 31-Aug-2006 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

add ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT directive instead of "#if THE_ISA == ALPHA_ISA" throughout CPU models

src/arch/alpha/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
define 'ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT'
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
use ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT instead of THE_ISA == ALPHA_ISA


# 2935:d1223a6c9156 23-Jul-2006 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

This changeset gets the MIPS ISA pretty much working in the O3CPU. It builds, runs, and gets very very close to completing the hello world
succesfully but there are some minor quirks to iron out. Who would've known a DELAY SLOT introduces that much complexity?! arrgh!

Anyways, a lot of this stuff had to do with my project at MIPS and me needing to know how I was going to get this working for the MIPS
ISA. So I figured I would try to touch it up and throw it in here (I hate to introduce non-completely working components... )

src/arch/alpha/isa/mem.isa:
spacing
src/arch/mips/faults.cc:
src/arch/mips/faults.hh:
Gabe really authored this
src/arch/mips/isa/decoder.isa:
add StoreConditional Flag to instruction
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/basic.isa:
Steven really did this file
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/branch.isa:
fix bug for uncond/cond control
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/mem.isa:
Adjust O3CPU memory access to use new memory model interface.
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/util.isa:
update LoadStoreBase template
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.cc:
update SERIALIZE partially
src/arch/mips/process.cc:
src/arch/mips/process.hh:
no need for this for NOW. ASID/Virtual addressing handles it
src/arch/mips/regfile/misc_regfile.hh:
add in clear() function and comments for future usage of special misc. regs
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
add in nextNPC variable and supporting functions.

add isCondDelaySlot function

Update predTaken and mispredicted functions
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
init nextNPC
src/cpu/o3/SConscript:
add MIPS files to compile
src/cpu/o3/alpha/thread_context.hh:
no need for my name on this file
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
Update RAS appropriately for MIPS
src/cpu/o3/comm.hh:
add some extra communication variables to aid in handling the
delay slots
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
minor name fix for nextNPC functions.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
Fix necessary variables and functions for squashes with delay slots
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
Update function interface ...

adjust removeInstsNotInROB function to recognize delay slots insts
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
update removeInstsNotInROB
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
declare necessary variables for handling delay slot
src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh:
Add in MipsDynInst
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
declare necessary variables and adjust functions for handling delay slot
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
no need for my name here
src/cpu/o3/isa_specific.hh:
add in MIPS files
src/cpu/o3/scoreboard.hh:
dont include alpha specific isa traits!
src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh:
no need for my name here, i just rearranged where the file goes
src/cpu/static_inst.hh:
add isCondDelaySlot function
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/thread_context.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/thread_context.hh:
MIPS file for O3CPU...mirrors ALPHA definition


# 2733:e0eac8fc5774 16-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Two updates that got combined into one ChangeSet accidentally. They're both pretty simple so they shouldn't cause any trouble.

First: Rename FullCPU and its variants in the o3 directory to O3CPU to differentiate from the old model, and also to specify it's an out of order model.

Second: Include build options for selecting the Checker to be used. These options make sure if the Checker is being used there is a CPU that supports it also being compiled.

SConstruct:
Add in option USE_CHECKER to allow for not compiling in checker code. The checker is enabled through this option instead of through the CPU_MODELS list. However it's still necessary to treat the Checker like a CPU model, so it is appended onto the CPU_MODELS list if enabled.
configs/test/test.py:
Name change for DetailedCPU to DetailedO3CPU. Also include option for max tick.
src/base/traceflags.py:
Add in O3CPU trace flag.
src/cpu/SConscript:
Rename AlphaFullCPU to AlphaO3CPU.

Only include checker sources if they're necessary. Also add a list of CPUs that support the Checker, and only allow the Checker to be compiled in if one of those CPUs are also being included.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Rename typedef to ImplCPU instead of FullCPU, to differentiate from the old FullCPU.
src/cpu/cpu_models.py:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Rename AlphaFullCPU to AlphaO3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/python/m5/objects/AlphaO3CPU.py:
Rename FullCPU to O3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Rename FullCPU to O3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
Also #ifdef the checker code so it doesn't need to be included if it's not selected.


# 2731:822b96578fba 14-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Minor code cleanup of BaseDynInst.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Minor code cleanup by putting several bools into a bitset instead.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
Changed around some things in BaseDynInst.


# 2702:8a3ee279559b 12-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Clean up/shift some code around.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
Clean up some code and update.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Clean up some code and update with more descriptive function names.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
Remove unused parameters.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
Remove unused parameters, also set squashCounter directly to the counted number of squashes.
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
Update for function name changes.
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
Remove unused parameter, move some code into a function.


# 2695:07d258482551 09-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fix allocating requests twice on retries.


# 2690:f4337c0d9e6f 08-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Get O3 CPU mostly working in full system, and fix an FP bug that showed up.

It still does not yet handle retries.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Get working in full-system mode and fix some FP bugs.
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Get working in full system.
src/cpu/checker/o3_cpu_builder.cc:
Checker does not take a MemObject as a simobj parameter.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
Fix up float regs.
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
Fix up an fp error, print out more useful output messages.


# 2683:d6b72bb2ed97 07-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Reorganization/renaming of CPUExecContext. Now it is called SimpleThread in order to clear up the confusion due to the many ExecContexts. It also derives from a common ThreadState object, which holds various state common to threads across CPU models.

Following with the previous check-in, ExecContext now refers only to the interface provided to the ISA in order to access CPU state. ThreadContext refers to the interface provided to all objects outside the CPU in order to access thread state. SimpleThread provides all thread state and the interface to access it, and is suitable for simple execution models such as the SimpleCPU.

src/SConscript:
Include thread state file.
src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc:
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Make thread member variables protected..
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
Make various members of ThreadState protected.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Push generation of TranslatingPort into the CPU itself.
Make various members of ThreadState protected.
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Pull a lot of common code into the base ThreadState class.
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, move a lot of common code into base ThreadState class.
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Push a lot of common code into base ThreadState class. This goes along with renaming CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, and making it derive from ThreadState.
src/cpu/simple_thread.cc:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, make it derive from ThreadState. This helps push a lot of common code/state into a single class that can be used by all CPUs.
src/cpu/simple_thread.hh:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, make it derive from ThreadState.
src/kern/system_events.cc:
Rename cpu_exec_context to thread_context.
src/sim/process.hh:
Remove unused forward declaration.


# 2680:246e7104f744 06-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Change ExecContext to ThreadContext. This is being renamed to differentiate between the interface used objects outside of the CPU, and the interface used by the ISA. ThreadContext is used by objects outside of the CPU and is specifically defined in thread_context.hh. ExecContext is more implicit, and is defined by files such as base_dyn_inst.hh or cpu/simple/base.hh.

Further renames/reorganization will be coming shortly; what is currently CPUExecContext (the old ExecContext from m5) will be renamed to SimpleThread or something similar.

src/arch/alpha/arguments.cc:
src/arch/alpha/arguments.hh:
src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc:
src/arch/alpha/faults.cc:
src/arch/alpha/faults.hh:
src/arch/alpha/freebsd/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/freebsd/system.hh:
src/arch/alpha/isa/branch.isa:
src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa:
src/arch/alpha/isa/main.isa:
src/arch/alpha/linux/process.cc:
src/arch/alpha/linux/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/linux/system.hh:
src/arch/alpha/linux/threadinfo.hh:
src/arch/alpha/process.cc:
src/arch/alpha/regfile.hh:
src/arch/alpha/stacktrace.cc:
src/arch/alpha/stacktrace.hh:
src/arch/alpha/tlb.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tlb.hh:
src/arch/alpha/tru64/process.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tru64/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tru64/system.hh:
src/arch/alpha/utility.hh:
src/arch/alpha/vtophys.cc:
src/arch/alpha/vtophys.hh:
src/arch/mips/faults.cc:
src/arch/mips/faults.hh:
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.cc:
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/mips/linux/process.cc:
src/arch/mips/process.cc:
src/arch/mips/regfile/float_regfile.hh:
src/arch/mips/regfile/int_regfile.hh:
src/arch/mips/regfile/misc_regfile.hh:
src/arch/mips/regfile/regfile.hh:
src/arch/mips/stacktrace.hh:
src/arch/sparc/faults.cc:
src/arch/sparc/faults.hh:
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/sparc/linux/process.cc:
src/arch/sparc/linux/process.hh:
src/arch/sparc/process.cc:
src/arch/sparc/regfile.hh:
src/arch/sparc/solaris/process.cc:
src/arch/sparc/stacktrace.hh:
src/arch/sparc/ua2005.cc:
src/arch/sparc/utility.hh:
src/arch/sparc/vtophys.cc:
src/arch/sparc/vtophys.hh:
src/base/remote_gdb.cc:
src/base/remote_gdb.hh:
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/cpu/base.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.cc:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/cpuevent.cc:
src/cpu/cpuevent.hh:
src/cpu/exetrace.hh:
src/cpu/intr_control.cc:
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/inorder_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/pc_event.cc:
src/cpu/pc_event.hh:
src/cpu/profile.cc:
src/cpu/profile.hh:
src/cpu/quiesce_event.cc:
src/cpu/quiesce_event.hh:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
src/cpu/static_inst.cc:
src/cpu/static_inst.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
src/dev/alpha_console.cc:
src/dev/ns_gige.cc:
src/dev/sinic.cc:
src/dev/tsunami_cchip.cc:
src/kern/kernel_stats.cc:
src/kern/kernel_stats.hh:
src/kern/linux/events.cc:
src/kern/linux/events.hh:
src/kern/system_events.cc:
src/kern/system_events.hh:
src/kern/tru64/dump_mbuf.cc:
src/kern/tru64/tru64.hh:
src/kern/tru64/tru64_events.cc:
src/kern/tru64/tru64_events.hh:
src/mem/vport.cc:
src/mem/vport.hh:
src/sim/faults.cc:
src/sim/faults.hh:
src/sim/process.cc:
src/sim/process.hh:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.hh:
src/sim/syscall_emul.cc:
src/sim/syscall_emul.hh:
src/sim/system.cc:
src/cpu/thread_context.hh:
src/sim/system.hh:
src/sim/vptr.hh:
Change ExecContext to ThreadContext.


# 2678:1f86b91dc3bb 05-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fixes to get new CPU model working for simple test case. The CPU does not yet support retrying accesses.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
Delete the allocated data in destructor.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Only copy the addresses if the translation succeeded.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
Return actual translating port.
Don't panic on setNextNPC() as it's always called, regardless of the architecture, when the process initializes.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Pass in memobject to the thread state in SE mode.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
Initialize all variables.
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
Handle early resolution of branches properly.
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
Switch structure back to requests.
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
Initialize all variables, create/delete requests properly.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
Include sender state along with the packet. Also include a more generic writeback event that's only used for stores forwarding data to loads.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Redo writeback code to support the response path of the memory system.
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit_impl.hh:
Wrap variables in #ifdefs.
src/cpu/o3/store_set.cc:
Include to get panic() function.
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Create with MemObject as well.
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Have a translating port in the thread state object.
src/python/m5/objects/AlphaFullCPU.py:
Mem parameter no longer needed.


# 2670:9107b8bd08cd 02-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zizzer:/bk/newmem
into zizzer.eecs.umich.edu:/.automount/zamp/z/ktlim2/clean/newmem


# 2669:f2b336e89d2a 02-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fixes to get compiling to work. This is mainly fixing up some includes; changing functions within the XCs; changing MemReqPtrs to Requests or Packets where appropriate.

Currently the O3 and Ozone CPUs do not work in the new memory system; I still need to fix up the ports to work and handle responses properly. This check-in is so that the merge between m5 and newmem is no longer outstanding.

src/SConscript:
Need to include FU Pool for new CPU model. I'll try to figure out a cleaner way to handle this in the future.
src/base/traceflags.py:
Include new traces flags, fix up merge mess up.
src/cpu/SConscript:
Include the base_dyn_inst.cc as one of othe sources.
Don't compile the Ozone CPU for now.
src/cpu/base.cc:
Remove an extra } from the merge.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
Fixes to make compiling work. Don't instantiate the OzoneCPU for now.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/2bit_local_pred.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/btb.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/free_list.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/sat_counter.hh:
src/cpu/op_class.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/checker/o3_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fu_pool.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/inorder_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/ozone_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
Fixes to get compiling to work.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
Fixes to get compiling to work.
Float reg accessors have changed, as well as MemReqPtrs to RequestPtrs.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
Fixes to get compiling to work.
Pass in the packet to the completeAcc function.
Fix up syscall function.


# 2665:a124942bacb8 31-May-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Updated Authors from bk prs info


# 2654:9559cfa91b9d 30-May-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zizzer:/bk/m5
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/newmem

SConstruct:
src/SConscript:
src/arch/SConscript:
src/arch/alpha/faults.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tlb.cc:
src/base/traceflags.py:
src/cpu/SConscript:
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/cpu/base.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.cc:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/2bit_local_pred.cc:
src/cpu/o3/2bit_local_pred.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/btb.cc:
src/cpu/o3/btb.hh:
src/cpu/o3/comm.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu_policy.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.cc:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.cc:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/free_list.cc:
src/cpu/o3/free_list.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.cc:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.cc:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/ras.cc:
src/cpu/o3/ras.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_map.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rename_map.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rob.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/sat_counter.cc:
src/cpu/o3/sat_counter.hh:
src/cpu/o3/store_set.cc:
src/cpu/o3/store_set.hh:
src/cpu/o3/tournament_pred.cc:
src/cpu/o3/tournament_pred.hh:
Hand merges.


# 2632:1bb2f91485ea 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.