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25-Jan-2019 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> |
python: Don't assume SimObjects live in the global namespace
The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files consistent with configuration files.
Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
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27-Feb-2017 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> |
python: Use PyBind11 instead of SWIG for Python wrappers
Use the PyBind11 wrapping infrastructure instead of SWIG to generate wrappers for functionality that needs to be exported to Python. This has several benefits:
* PyBind11 can be redistributed with gem5, which means that we have full control of the version used. This avoid a large number of hard-to-debug SWIG issues we have seen in the past.
* PyBind11 doesn't rely on a custom C++ parser, instead it relies on wrappers being explicitly declared in C++. The leads to slightly more boiler-plate code in manually created wrappers, but doesn't doesn't increase the overall code size. A big benefit is that this avoids strange compilation errors when SWIG doesn't understand modern language features.
* Unlike SWIG, there is no risk that the wrapper code incorporates incorrect type casts (this has happened on numerous occasions in the past) since these will result in compile-time errors.
As a part of this change, the mechanism to define exported methods has been redesigned slightly. New methods can be exported either by declaring them in the SimObject declaration and decorating them with the cxxMethod decorator or by adding an instance of PyBindMethod/PyBindProperty to the cxx_exports class variable. The decorator has the added benefit of making it possible to add a docstring and naming the method's parameters.
The new wrappers have the following known issues:
* Global events can't be memory managed correctly. This was the case in SWIG as well.
Change-Id: I88c5a95b6cf6c32fa9e1ad31dfc08b2e8199a763 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Bardsley <andrew.bardsley@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2231 Reviewed-by: Tony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Yves PĂ©neau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
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30-Sep-2013 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> |
kvm: FPU synchronization support on x86
This changeset adds support for synchronizing the FPU and SIMD state of a virtual x86 CPU with gem5. It supports both the XSave API and the KVM_(GET|SET)_FPU kernel API. The XSave interface can be disabled using the useXSave parameter (in case of kernel issues). Unfortunately, KVM_(GET|SET)_FPU interface seems to be buggy in some kernels (specifically, the MXCSR register isn't always synchronized), which means that it might not be possible to synchronize MXCSR on old kernels without the XSave interface.
This changeset depends on the __float80 type in gcc and might not build using llvm.
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24-Sep-2013 |
Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> |
kvm: Initial x86 support
This changeset adds support for KVM on x86. Full support is split across a number of commits since some features are relatively complex. This changeset includes support for:
* Integer state synchronization (including segment regs) * CPUID (gem5's CPUID values are inserted into KVM) * x86 legacy IO (remapped and handled by gem5's memory system) * Memory mapped IO * PCI * MSRs * State dumping
Most of the functionality is fairly straight forward. There are some quirks to support PCI enumerations since this is done in the TLB(!) in the simulated CPUs. We currently replicate some of that code.
Unlike the ARM implementation, the x86 implementation of the virtual CPU does not use the cycles hardware counter. KVM on x86 simulates the time stamp counter (TSC) in the kernel. If we just measure host cycles using perfevent, we might end up measuring a slightly different number of cycles. If we don't get the cycle accounting right, we might end up rewinding the TSC, with all kinds of chaos as a result.
An additional feature of the KVM CPU on x86 is extended state dumping. This enables Python scripts controlling the simulator to request dumping of a subset of the processor state. The following methods are currenlty supported:
* dumpFpuRegs * dumpIntRegs * dumpSpecRegs * dumpDebugRegs * dumpXCRs * dumpXSave * dumpVCpuEvents * dumpMSRs
Known limitations: * M5 ops are currently not supported. * FPU synchronization is not supported (only affects CPU switching).
Both of the limitations will be addressed in separate commits.
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