History log of /gem5/src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc
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# 13941:2c19da00ef9c 15-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Add block size to findVictim

Add block size to findVictim. For standard caches it
will not be used. Compressed caches, however, need to
know the size of the compressed block to decide whether
a block is co-allocatable or not.

Change-Id: Id07f79763687b29f75d707c080fa9bd978a408aa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/11198
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammad Seyedzadeh <sm.seyedzade@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13752:135bb759ee9c 08-Mar-2019 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Revert "mem-cache: Remove Packet dependency in Tags"

Reverting patch due to polymorphism limitations.

This reverts commit 86a54d91936b524c0ef0f282959f0fc29bafe7eb.

Change-Id: Ie032dcc5176448c62118c89732b3cc6b8efd5a13
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17049
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13419:aaadcfae091a 13-Nov-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Remove Cache dependency from Tags

Tags do not need to be aware of caches.

Change-Id: Ib6a082b74dcd9b2f10852651634b59512732fb2a
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14296
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13418:08101e89101e 18-Oct-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Move access latency calculation to Cache

Access latency was not being calculated properly, as it was
always assuming that for hits reads take as long as writes,
and that parallel accesses would produce the same latency
for read and write misses.

By moving the calculation to the Cache we can use the write/
read information, reduce latency variables duplication and
remove Cache dependency from Tags.

The tag lookup latency is still calculated by the Tags.

Change-Id: I71bc68fb5c3515b372c3bf002d61b6f048a45540
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13697
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13378:038ea95fd793 02-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem-cache: Rename the tag class init function to tagsInit.

Since the tag classes are subclasses of SimObject, they inherit an
init function which does generic initialization at simulation startup
and which doesn't take any parameters. A new function was added which
does take a parameter, and which is just for doing tag specific
initialization as triggered by the base cache. These two names clashed,
and clang complained that the tag local name was hiding the SimObject
name (which it was).

Change-Id: I399775aceaf8f1a8e2646d434facef22e6d3e7d0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13875
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13353:63f4073c1fc7 18-Oct-2018 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Fix unused variable warning in FALRU:invalidate()

Change-Id: I3b902045433ca56b3e62c251158e784b5fa9e4d7
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13600
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>


# 13225:8d1621fc586e 11-Oct-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Factor ReplaceableEntry out

ReplaceableEntry is referenced by many classes that do
not necessarily need access to the replacement policies.
Therefore, in order to allow better compilation units,
we factor it out to a new file.

Change-Id: I0823567bf1ca336ffcdf783682ef473e8878d7fd
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13418
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13222:0dbcc7d7d66f 10-Oct-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Virtualize block print

Encapsulate and virtualize block print, so that relevant
information can be easily printed anywhere.

Change-Id: I91109c29c126755183a0fd2b4446f5335e64076b
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13415
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13218:5e7df60c6cab 07-Sep-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use set and way for ReplaceableEntry

Replaceable entries belong to table-like structures, and therefore
they should be indexable by combining a row and a column. These,
using conventional cache nomenclature translate to sets and ways.

Make these entries aware of their sets and ways. The idea is to
make indexing policies usable by other table-like structures. In
order to do so we move sets and ways to ReplaceableEntry, which
will be the common base among table entries.

Change-Id: If0e3dacf9ea2f523af9cface067469ccecf82648
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12764
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13216:6ae030076b29 21-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Create tags initialization function

Having the blocks initialized in the constructor makes it harder
to apply inheritance in the tags classes. This patch decouples
the block initialization functionality from the constructor by
using an init() function. It also sets the parent cache.

Change-Id: I0da7fdaae492b1177c7cc3bda8639f79921fbbeb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/11509
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13215:82cdb8db4643 06-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Remove Packet dependency in Tags

Decouple Tags from Packets, only extracting the necessary
functionality for block insertion. As a side effect, create
a new function to update common insertion statistics.

Change-Id: I5c58f7c17de3255beee531f72a3fd25a30d74c90
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/11098
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13165:d52afbf4cdfe 04-Oct-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Fix FALRU hash invalidation

The block was being invalidated before the hash could erase
its entry, therefore it was using invalid values (tag was
being assigned MaxAddr and the secure bit was reset).

This change reorders the calls, so that the appropriate hash
entry is erased.

Change-Id: I161463df0f8f5220179bc68d7be12051e5390d01
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13210
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13164:da6240a1ccfb 03-Oct-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Make checking function const in FALRU

The checking function should not be able to modify either
the head and tail pointers nor should it modify its class.

Change-Id: I2ad495f0c8c6b778d48512143e94b4c9a353f22e
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13209
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12775:84d56bc8cd8b 21-Nov-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Fix support for secure blocks in the FALRU cache

Fully associative caches use an unordered map to enable efficient
lookups of existing blocks. Previously this map was indexed using the
tag of the block. Security extentions allow secure and non secure
versions of a block with the same tag to co-exist in the cache. This
patch amends the block map to allow correct lookups for FALRU caches.

Change-Id: Iccf07464deab56d1d270bae14bb3b154047e3556
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11309
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12753:fe5b2dbe42bb 06-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Make packet const in insertBlock

The packet should not be modified within insertBlock.

Change-Id: If7d2b01fe131f9923194efd155c9e85eeab24d5a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10811
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12746:0d0c266663d4 02-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use secure bit in findVictim

Sector caches must know if there was a sector hit in order
to decide whether a victim's sector must be fully evicted
to give place to a new sector or not.

In order to do so it needs the tag and secure information.

Change-Id: Ib554169e25fa131d6bf986561f7970b787c56874
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10722
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12745:e28c117a9806 02-Jun-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Move tagsInUse to children

Move tagsInUse to children, as sector caches have different
tag invalidation and insertion, and thus they must handle
updating this variable.

Change-Id: I875c9b7364a909c76daf610d1e226c4e82063870
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10721
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12744:d1ff0b42b747 24-Apr-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Return evictions along with victims

For both sector and compressed caches multiple blocks may need
to be evicted in order to make room for a new block.

For example, when replacing a sector, all the blocks in this
sector must be evicted. A replacement, however, does not always
need to evict multiple blocks, as it is in the case of an
insertion of a block whose sector is already present in the cache
(i.e., its corresponding entry in the sector had not been brought
in yet, so it was invalid).

This patch creates the cache framework for that to happen.

Change-Id: I77bedf69637cf899fef4d9432eb6da8529ea398b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10142
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12743:b5ccee582b40 20-Apr-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use ReplaceableEntry in findBlockBySetAndWay

With a sector cache you can't find a block using only its set
and way, as there is the sector offset to take into account. As
all of these blocks inherit from ReplaceableEntry, the return
type of this function has been updated.

This function has also been declared closer to findBlock() due
to their similar functionality.

Change-Id: I4730a2b4ebb5738f7fc118201e208a1b9c3ba8e8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10141
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12727:56c23b54bcb1 02-May-2018 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Fix include directives in the cache related classes

Change-Id: I111b0f662897c43974aadb08da1ed85c7542585c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10433
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12677:dd0af90f2e05 18-Apr-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use findBlock in FALRU's block access

An access must perform a block search, which is done by findBlock.

The tagHash is indexed by tags, so use extractTag instead of re-
implementing its functionality.

Change-Id: Ib5abacbc65cddf0f2d7e4440eb5355b56998a585
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10082
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12676:d0a1f557c156 19-Apr-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Use secure flag in FALRU's findBlock

FALRU's findBlock() must use the secure flag to assure proper
functionality.

Change-Id: I54e9fbd3c9093b3e8043c4c6c850b74a8f1f5ec0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10081
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12665:4ca9fc117b95 12-Apr-2018 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Revamp multiple size tracking for FALRU caches

This change fixes a few bugs and refactors the mechanism by which
caches that use the FALRU tags can output statistics for multiple
cache sizes ranging from the minimum cache of interest up to the
actual configured cache size.

Change-Id: Ibea029cf275a8c068c26eceeb06c761fc53aede2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9826
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12648:78941f188bb3 27-Mar-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Add MoveToTail to FALRU

FALRU was missing MoveToTail functionality within its invalidate
function, and MoveToHead was doing unnecessary passes when the
moved block was the head already.

Besides, added some comments to make the code understandable.

Change-Id: I2430d82b5d53c88b102a62610ea38b46d6e03a55
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9541
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12637:bfc3cb9c7e6c 30-Mar-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem: Remove unused 'using namespace'

Removal of unused/barely used 'using namespace' from C++ files.

Change-Id: I66dc548c04506db2e41180b9ea7ab5abd7d5375a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9601
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12636:9859213e2662 09-Mar-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Move insertBlock functionality in FALRU

Block insertion is being done in the getCandidates function, while the
insertBlock function does not do anything.

Besides, BaseTags' stats weren't being updated.

Change-Id: Iadab9c1ea61519214f66fa24c4b91c4fc95604c0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8882
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12629:c17d4dc2379e 22-Mar-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Fix FALRU data block seg fault

FALRU didn't initialize the blocks' data, causing seg faults.
This patch does not make FALRU functional yet.

Change-Id: I10cbcf5afc3f8bc357eeb8b7cb46789dec47ba8b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9302
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12600:e670dd17c8cf 19-Feb-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Split array indexing and replacement policies.

Replacement policies (LRU, Random) are currently considered as array
indexing methods, but have completely different functionalities:

- Array indexers determine the possible locations for block allocation.
This information is used to generate replacement candidates when
conflicts happen.
- Replacement policies determine which of the replacement candidates
should be evicted to make room for new allocations.

For this reason, they were split into different classes. Advantages:

- Easier and more straightforward to implement other replacement
policies (RRIP, LFU, ARC, ...)
- Allow easier future implementation of cache organization schemes

As now we can't assure the use of sets, the previous way to create a
true LRU is not viable. Now a timestamp_bits parameter controls how
many bits are dedicated for the timestamp, and a true LRU can be
achieved through an infinite number of bits (although a few bits suffice
in practice).

Change-Id: I23750db121f1474d17831137e6ff618beb2b3eda
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8501
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12566:d6d48df9bf0f 31-Oct-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Make invalidate a common function between tag classes

invalidate was defined as a separate function in the base associative
and fully-associative tags classes although both functions should
implement identical functionality. This patch moves the invalidate
function in the base tags class.

Change-Id: I206ee969b00ab9e05873c6d87531474fcd712907
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8286
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12553:514f2e4fb751 31-Oct-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem-cache: Remove mumBlock redundant initialiation from FALRU

Change-Id: Id3afec0a62446d6d0f44ccb655032343037637e0
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8281
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12513:4dfc54394b5a 07-Feb-2018 Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>

mem-cache: Make cache warmup percentage a parameter.

The warmupPercentage is the percentage of different tags (based on the
cache size) that need to be touched in order to warm up the cache.
If Warmup failed (i.e., not enough tags were touched), warmup_cycle = 0.

The warmup is not being taken into account to calculate the stats (i.e.,
stats acquisition starts before cache is warmed up). Maybe in the future
this functionality should be added.

Change-Id: I2b93a99c19fddb99a4c60e6d4293fa355744d05e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8061
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 12334:e0ab29a34764 30-Nov-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

misc: Rename misc.(hh|cc) to logging.(hh|cc)

These files aren't a collection of miscellaneous stuff, they're the
definition of the Logger interface, and a few utility macros for
calling into that interface (panic, warn, etc.).

Change-Id: I84267ac3f45896a83c0ef027f8f19c5e9a5667d1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6226
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 11870:b470020b29de 21-Feb-2017 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem: Remove unused arguments (asid/contex_id) from accessBlock

Change-Id: I79c2662fc81630ab321db8a75be6cd15fa07d372
Reviewed-by: Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11722:f15f02d8c79e 30-Nov-2016 Sophiane Senni <sophiane.senni@gmail.com>

mem: Split the hit_latency into tag_latency and data_latency

If the cache access mode is parallel, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter
is set to "False", tags and data are accessed in parallel. Therefore,
the hit_latency is the maximum latency between tag_latency and
data_latency. On the other hand, if the cache access mode is
sequential, i.e. "sequential_access" parameter is set to "True",
tags and data are accessed sequentially. Therefore, the hit_latency
is the sum of tag_latency plus data_latency.

Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11486:f09bb73b3050 26-May-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem: fix headers include order in the cache related classes

Change-Id: Ia57cc104978861ab342720654e408dbbfcbe4b69
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11484:08b33c52a16d 26-May-2016 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem: change NULL to nullptr in the cache related classes

Change-Id: I5042410be54935650b7d05c84d8d9efbfcc06e70
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11189:4237221d3e31 06-Nov-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

misc: Appease clang static analyzer

A few minor fixes to issues identified by the clang static analyzer.


# 11055:54071fd5c397 21-Aug-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

arm, mem: Remove unused CLEAR_LL request flag

Cleaning up dead code. The CLREX stores zero directly to
MISCREG_LOCKFLAG and so the request flag is no longer needed. The
corresponding functionality in the cache tags is also removed.


# 10941:a39646f4c407 30-Jul-2015 David Guillen-Fandos <david.guillen@arm.com>

mem: Make caches way aware

This patch makes cache sets aware of the way number. This enables
some nice features such as the ablity to restrict way allocation. The
implemented mechanism allows to set a maximum way number to be
allocated 'k' which must fulfill 0 < k <= N (where N is the number of
ways). In the future more sophisticated mechasims can be implemented.


# 10815:169af9a2779f 05-May-2015 David Guillen <david.guillen@arm.com>

mem: Remove templates in cache model

This patch changes the cache implementation to rely on virtual methods
rather than using the replacement policy as a template argument.

There is no impact on the simulation performance, and overall the
changes make it easier to modify (and subclass) the cache and/or
replacement policy.


# 10693:c0979b2ebda5 11-Feb-2015 Marco Balboni <Marco.Balboni@ARM.com>

mem: Clarify usage of latency in the cache

This patch adds some much-needed clarity in the specification of the
cache timing. For now, hit_latency and response_latency are kept as
top-level parameters, but the cache itself has a number of local
variables to better map the individual timing variables to different
behaviours (and sub-components).

The introduced variables are:
- lookupLatency: latency of tag lookup, occuring on any access
- forwardLatency: latency that occurs in case of outbound miss
- fillLatency: latency to fill a cache block
We keep the existing responseLatency

The forwardLatency is used by allocateInternalBuffer() for:
- MSHR allocateWriteBuffer (unchached write forwarded to WriteBuffer);
- MSHR allocateMissBuffer (cacheable miss in MSHR queue);
- MSHR allocateUncachedReadBuffer (unchached read allocated in MSHR
queue)
It is our assumption that the time for the above three buffers is the
same. Similarly, for snoop responses passing through the cache we use
forwardLatency.


# 10360:919c02740209 09-Sep-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

misc: Fix a number of unitialised variables and members

Static analysis unearther a bunch of uninitialised variables and
members, and this patch addresses the problem. In all cases these
omissions seem benign in the end, but at least fixing them means less
false positives next time round.


# 10048:1548b7aa657c 28-Jan-2014 Amin Farmahini <aminfar@gmail.com>

mem: Remove redundant findVictim() input argument
The patch
(1) removes the redundant writeback argument from findVictim()
(2) fixes the description of access() function

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


# 10028:fb8c44de891a 24-Jan-2014 Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>

mem: Add support for a security bit in the memory system

This patch adds the basic building blocks required to support e.g. ARM
TrustZone by discerning secure and non-secure memory accesses.


# 9796:485399270ca1 27-Jun-2013 Prakash Ramrakhyani <prakash.ramrakhyani@arm.com>

mem: Reorganize cache tags and make them a SimObject

This patch reorganizes the cache tags to allow more flexibility to
implement new replacement policies. The base tags class is now a
clocked object so that derived classes can use a clock if they need
one. Also having deriving from SimObject allows specialized Tag
classes to be swapped in/out in .py files.

The cache set is now templatized to allow it to contain customized
cache blocks with additional informaiton. This involved moving code to
the .hh file and removing cacheset.cc.

The statistics belonging to the cache tags are now including ".tags"
in their name. Hence, the stats need an update to reflect the change
in naming.


# 9550:e0e2c8f83d08 19-Feb-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

scons: Fix up numerous warnings about name shadowing

This patch address the most important name shadowing warnings (as
produced when using gcc/clang with -Wshadow). There are many
locations where constructor parameters and function parameters shadow
local variables, but these are left unchanged.


# 9288:3d6da8559605 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Mem: Use cycles to express cache-related latencies

This patch changes the cache-related latencies from an absolute time
expressed in Ticks, to a number of cycles that can be scaled with the
clock period of the caches. Ultimately this patch serves to enable
future work that involves dynamic frequency scaling. As an immediate
benefit it also makes it more convenient to specify cache performance
without implicitly assuming a specific CPU core operating frequency.

The stat blocked_cycles that actually counter in ticks is now updated
to count in cycles.

As the timing is now rounded to the clock edges of the cache, there
are some regressions that change. Plenty of them have very minor
changes, whereas some regressions with a short run-time are perturbed
quite significantly. A follow-on patch updates all the statistics for
the regressions.


# 9214:a42caed28e1f 11-Sep-2012 Lena Olson <lena@cs.wisc.edu>

Cache: Split invalidateBlk up to seperate block vs. tags

This seperates the functionality to clear the state in a block into
blk.hh and the functionality to udpate the tag information into the
tags. This gets rid of the case where calling invalidateBlk on an
already-invalid block does something different than calling it on a
valid block, which was confusing.


# 9086:496304c8017d 09-Jul-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Fix: Address a few benign memory leaks

This patch is the result of static analysis identifying a number of
memory leaks. The leaks are all benign as they are a result of not
deallocating memory in the desctructor. The fix still has value as it
removes false positives in the static analysis.


# 7823:dac01f14f20f 08-Jan-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

Replace curTick global variable with accessor functions.
This step makes it easy to replace the accessor functions
(which still access a global variable) with ones that access
per-thread curTick values.


# 7612:917946898102 23-Aug-2010 Gene Wu <Gene.Wu@arm.com>

MEM: Make CLREX a first class request operation and clear locks in caches when it in received


# 6978:ab05e20dc4a7 23-Feb-2010 Lisa Hsu <Lisa.Hsu@amd.com>

cache: Make caches sharing aware and add occupancy stats.
On the config end, if a shared L2 is created for the system, it is
parameterized to have n sharers as defined by option.num_cpus. In addition to
making the cache sharing aware so that discriminating tag policies can make use
of context_ids to make decisions, I added an occupancy AverageStat and an occ %
stat to each cache so that you could know which contexts are occupying how much
cache on average, both in terms of blocks and percentage. Note that since
devices have context_id -1, having an array of occ stats that correspond to
each context_id will break here, so in FS mode I add an extra bucket for device
blocks. This bucket is explicitly not added in SE mode in order to not only
avoid ugliness in the stats.txt file, but to avoid broken stats (some formulas
break when a bucket is 0).


# 6817:5aec45d0fc24 12-Jan-2010 Lisa Hsu <Lisa.Hsu@amd.com>

cache: make tags->insertBlock() and tags->accessBlock() context aware so that the cache can make context-specific decisions within their various tag policy implementations.


# 6227:a17798f2a52c 05-Jun-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsigned


# 6216:2f4020838149 17-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

includes: sort includes again


# 5717:6ed48cba2217 04-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

decouple eviction from insertion in the cache.


# 5716:ee56bb539212 04-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

Change the findBlock(addr, lat) to accessBlock, which I think has better connotations for what is really happening and how it should be used.


# 5706:2cc2387049bc 23-Oct-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

probe function no longer used anywhere.


# 4626:ed8aacb19c03 17-Jun-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

More major reorg of cache. Seems to work for atomic mode now,
timing mode still broken.

configs/example/memtest.py:
Revamp options.
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc:
No need for memory initialization.
No need to make atomic response... memory system should do that now.
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh:
MemTest really doesn't want to snoop.
src/mem/bridge.cc:
checkFunctional() cleanup.
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
src/mem/cache/base_cache.cc:
src/mem/cache/base_cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache.cc:
src/mem/cache/cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_builder.cc:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.cc:
src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/simple_coherence.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/SConscript:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/packet.hh:
src/mem/physical.cc:
src/mem/physical.hh:
src/mem/tport.cc:
More major reorg. Seems to work for atomic mode now,
timing mode still broken.


# 3862:ec47e4243107 19-Dec-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Streamline Cache/Tags interface: get rid of redundant functions,
don't regenerate address from block in cache so that tags can
turn around and use address to look up block again.


# 3349:fec4a86fa212 20-Oct-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Use PacketPtr everywhere


# 2991:60cd98c72fd9 15-Aug-2006 Ron Dreslinski <rdreslin@umich.edu>

Pulled out changes to fix EIO programs with caches. Also fixes any translatingPort read/write Blob function problems with caches.

-Basically removed the ASID from places it is no longer needed due to PageTable

src/mem/cache/cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
Remove asid where it wasn't neccesary anymore due to Page Table


# 2814:b723c79f5349 30-Jun-2006 Ron Dreslinski <rdreslin@umich.edu>

All files compile in the mem directory except cache_builder

Missing some functionality (like split caches and copy support)

src/SConscript:
Typo
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged_prefetcher_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
src/mem/packet.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
Fix so it compiles


# 2811:9da12e9830ce 28-Jun-2006 Ron Dreslinski <rdreslin@umich.edu>

Backing in more changsets, getting closer to compile
base_cache.cc compiles, continuing on

src/SConscript:
Add in compilation flags for cache files
src/mem/cache/base_cache.cc:
src/mem/cache/base_cache.hh:
Back in more fixes, now base_cache compiles
src/mem/cache/cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc:
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/packet.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
Backing in more changsets, getting closer to compile


# 2810:5befce12ad70 28-Jun-2006 Ron Dreslinski <rdreslin@umich.edu>

Was having difficulty with merging the cache, reverted to an early version and will add back in the patches to make it work soon.

src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged_prefetcher_impl.hh:
Trying to merge
src/mem/cache/base_cache.cc:
src/mem/cache/base_cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache.cc:
src/mem/cache/cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_builder.cc:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.cc:
src/mem/cache/coherence/coherence_protocol.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/simple_coherence.hh:
src/mem/cache/coherence/uni_coherence.cc:
src/mem/cache/coherence/uni_coherence.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/miss_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/base_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/ghb_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride_prefetcher.cc:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/stride_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/prefetch/tagged_prefetcher.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/base_tags.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/base_tags.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/fa_lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/repl/gen.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/repl/gen.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/repl/repl.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/repl/repl.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_blk.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
Pulling an early version of the cache into the tree due to merging issues. Will apply patches and push.