History log of /gem5/src/mem/page_table.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 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>


# 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>


# 12536:0a1d2ced2d4c 19-Feb-2018 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

mem: fix page_table bug for .fast build

Since b8b13206c8, the '.fast' build has failed to compile with an error
caused by a variable and an assert.

As a reminder, assert macros are optimized out of the build for '.fast'.
If an assert check requires a variable that is unused anywhere else in
the code, the compiler complains that the variable is unused and the
scons build fails. The solution is to add a M5_VAR_USED specifier to
tell the compiler to ignore the variable.

Change-Id: I38f6bbed1e4c0506c5bbc1206c21f1f7e3d8dfe6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8462
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 12519:1fcc0d0a8f91 13-Feb-2018 Rico Amslinger <rico.amslinger@informatik.uni-augsburg.de>

mem, sim-se: Fixed seg-fault in EmulationPageTable::remap

When moving a memory region the target region should be unmapped.
The assertion does reflect this, but the following line accesses
the invalid pointer regardless. This commit replaces the pointer
access with an emplace.

Change-Id: I85f9be4e6c223eab447c75043e593ed3f90017e1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8261
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12461:a4cb506cda74 09-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

tarch, mem: Abstract the data stored in the SE page tables.

Rather than store the actual TLB entry that corresponds to a mapping,
we can just store some abstracted information (address, a few flags)
and then let the caller turn that into the appropriate entry. There
could potentially be some small amount of overhead from creating
entries vs. storing them and just installing them, but it's likely
pretty minimal since that only happens on a TLB miss (ideally rare),
and, if it is problematic, there could be some preallocated TLB
entries which are just minimally filled in as necessary.

This has the nice effect of finally making the page tables ISA
agnostic.

Change-Id: I11e630f60682f0a0029b0683eb8ff0135fbd4317
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7350
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12460:0f221912b014 08-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

x86, mem: Rewrite the multilevel page table class.

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

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


# 12455:c88f0b37f433 05-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, mem: Make the page table lookup function return a pointer.

This avoids having a copy in the lookup function itself, and the
declaration of a lot of temporary TLB entry pointers in callers. The
gpu TLB seems to have had the most dependence on the original signature
of the lookup function, partially because it was relying on a somewhat
unsafe copy to a TLB entry using a base class pointer type.

Change-Id: I8b1cf494468163deee000002d243541657faf57f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7343
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12448:b299e560f1d8 04-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, mem, sim: Consolidate and rename the SE mode page table classes.

Now that Nothing inherits from PageTableBase directly, it can be
merged into FuncPageTable. This change also takes the opportunity to
rename the combined class to EmulationPageTable which lets you know
that it's specifically for SE mode.

Also remove the page table entry cache since it doesn't seem to
actually improve performance. The TLBs likely absorb the majority of
the locality, essentially acting like a cache like they would in real
hardware.

Change-Id: If1bcb91aed08686603bf7bee37298c0eee826e13
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7342
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12442:e003b72b46ac 22-Dec-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Track TLB entries in the lookup cache as pointers.

Using the architectural page table on x86 and the functional page table
on ARM, both with the twolf benchmark in SE mode, there was no
performance penalty for doing so, and again possibly a performance
improvement. By using a pointer instead of an inline instance, it's
possible for the actual type of the TLB entry to be hidden somewhat,
taking a step towards abstracting away another aspect of the ISAs.

Since the TLB entries are no longer overwritten and now need to be
allocated and freed, this change introduces return types from the
updateCache and eraseCacheEntry functions. These functions will return
the pointer to any entry which has been displaced from the cache which
the caller can either free or ignore, depending on whether the entry
has a purpose outside of the cache.

Because the functional page table stores its entries over a longer time
period, it will generally not delete the pointer returned from those
functions. The "architechtural" page table, ie the one which is backed
by memory, doesn't have any other use for the TlbEntrys and will delete
them. That leads to more news and deletes than there used to be.

To address that, and also to speed up the architectural page table in
general, it would be a good idea to augment the functional page table
with an image of the table in memory, instead of replacing it with one.
The functional page table would provide quick lookups and also avoid
having to translate page table entries to TLB entries, making
performance essentially equivalent to the functional case. The backing
page tables, which are primarily for consumption by the physical
hardware when in KVM, can be updated when mappings change but otherwise
left alone.

If we end up doing that, we could just let the ISA specific process
classes enable whatever additional TLB machinery they need, likely
a backing copy in memory, without any knowledge or involvement from
the ISA agnostic class. We would be able to get rid of the useArchPT
setting and the bits of code in the configs which set it.

Change-Id: I2e21945cd852bb1b3d0740fe6a4c5acbfd9548c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6983
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 11886:43b882cada33 27-Feb-2017 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [PATCH 15/22] add clone/execve for threading and multiprocess simulations

Modifies the clone system call and adds execve system call. Requires allowing
processes to steal thread contexts from other processes in the same system
object and the ability to detach pieces of process state (such as MemState)
to allow dynamic sharing.


# 11800:54436a1784dc 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

style: [patch 3/22] reduce include dependencies in some headers

Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.


# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

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


# 10905:a6ca6831e775 07-Jul-2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

sim: Refactor the serialization base class

Objects that are can be serialized are supposed to inherit from the
Serializable class. This class is meant to provide a unified API for
such objects. However, so far it has mainly been used by SimObjects
due to some fundamental design limitations. This changeset redesigns
to the serialization interface to make it more generic and hide the
underlying checkpoint storage. Specifically:

* Add a set of APIs to serialize into a subsection of the current
object. Previously, objects that needed this functionality would
use ad-hoc solutions using nameOut() and section name
generation. In the new world, an object that implements the
interface has the methods serializeSection() and
unserializeSection() that serialize into a named /subsection/ of
the current object. Calling serialize() serializes an object into
the current section.

* Move the name() method from Serializable to SimObject as it is no
longer needed for serialization. The fully qualified section name
is generated by the main serialization code on the fly as objects
serialize sub-objects.

* Add a scoped ScopedCheckpointSection helper class. Some objects
need to serialize data structures, that are not deriving from
Serializable, into subsections. Previously, this was done using
nameOut() and manual section name generation. To simplify this,
this changeset introduces a ScopedCheckpointSection() helper
class. When this class is instantiated, it adds a new /subsection/
and subsequent serialization calls during the lifetime of this
helper class happen inside this section (or a subsection in case
of nested sections).

* The serialize() call is now const which prevents accidental state
manipulation during serialization. Objects that rely on modifying
state can use the serializeOld() call instead. The default
implementation simply calls serialize(). Note: The old-style calls
need to be explicitly called using the
serializeOld()/serializeSectionOld() style APIs. These are used by
default when serializing SimObjects.

* Both the input and output checkpoints now use their own named
types. This hides underlying checkpoint implementation from
objects that need checkpointing and makes it easier to change the
underlying checkpoint storage code.


# 10558:426665ec11a9 23-Nov-2014 Alexandru Dutu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>

mem: Page Table map api modification

This patch adds uncacheable/cacheable and read-only/read-write attributes to
the map method of PageTableBase. It also modifies the constructor of TlbEntry
structs for all architectures to consider the new attributes.


# 10556:1e3b3c7a0cba 23-Nov-2014 Alexandru Dutu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>

mem: Page Table long lines

Trimmed down all the lines greater than 78 characters.


# 10298:77af86f37337 01-Apr-2014 Alexandru <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>

mem: adding a multi-level page table class
This patch defines a multi-level page table class that stores the page table in
system memory, consistent with ISA specifications. In this way, cpu models that
use the actual hardware to execute (e.g. KvmCPU), are able to traverse the page
table.


# 9676:83d5112e71dd 23-Apr-2013 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga+gem5@gmail.com>

sim: Fix two bugs relating to software caching of PageTable entries.

The existing implementation can read uninitialized data or stale information
from the cached PageTable entries.

1) Add a valid bit for the cache entries. Simply using zero for the virtual
address to signify invalid entries is not sufficient. Speculative, wrong-path
accesses frequently access page zero. The current implementation would return
a uninitialized TLB entry when address zero was accessed and the PageTable
cache entry was invalid.

2) When unmapping/mapping/remaping a page, invalidate the corresponding
PageTable cache entry if one already exists.


# 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.


# 8797:3202eb01e01e 07-Jan-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Another merge with the main repository.


# 8795:0909f8ed7aa0 07-Jan-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge with main repository.


# 8766:b0773af78423 30-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Build the base process class in FS.


# 8763:509e9bb84dfa 16-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Turn on the page table class in FS.


# 8641:4d3ecac1abec 13-Dec-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

gcc: fix unused variable warnings from GCC 4.6.1


# 8601:af28085882dc 23-Oct-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

SE: move page allocation from PageTable to Process

PageTable supported an allocate() call that called back
through the Process to allocate memory, but did not have
a method to map addresses without allocating new pages.
It makes more sense for Process to do the allocation, so
this method was renamed allocateMem() and moved to Process,
and uses a new map() call on PageTable.

The remaining uses of the process pointer in PageTable
were only to get the name and the PID, so by passing these
in directly in the constructor, we can make PageTable
completely independent of Process.


# 8600:b0d7c64ada19 23-Oct-2011 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

syscall_emul: implement MAP_FIXED option to mmap()


# 8232:b28d06a175be 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vector
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help


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

includes: sort all includes


# 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.


# 6820:2980bd04e6df 20-Jan-2010 Lisa Hsu <Lisa.Hsu@amd.com>

util: do checkpoint aggregation more cleanly, fix last changeset.
1) Move alpha-specific code out of page_table.cc:serialize().
2) Begin serializing M5_pid and unserializing it, but adding an function to do optional paramIn so that old checkpoints don't need to be fixed up.
3) Fix up alpha startup code so that the unserialized M5_pid value is properly written to DTB_IPR_ASN.
4) Fix the memory unserialize that I forgot somehow in the last changeset.
5) Add in an agg_se.py to handle aggregated checkpoints. --bench foo-bar plus positional arguments foo bar are the only changes in usage from se.py.
Note this aggregation stuff has only been tested for Alpha and nothing else, though it should take a very minimal amount of work to get it to work with another ISA.


# 6818:5a0e3a283826 18-Jan-2010 Lisa Hsu <Lisa.Hsu@amd.com>

util: make a generic checkpoint aggregator that can aggregate different cpts into one multi-programmed cpt. Make minor changes to serialization/unserialization to get it to work properly. Note that checkpoints were made with a comment at the beginning with // - this must be changed to ## to work properly with the python config parser in the aggregator.


# 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


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

types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsigned


# 5877:9fe574944f31 16-Feb-2009 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

sycalls: implement mremap() and add DATA flag for getrlimit(). mremap has been tested on Alpha, compiles for the rest but not tested. I don't see why it wouldn't work though.


# 5248:b27aab7165da 14-Nov-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Checkpointing: Name SE page table entries better so that there isn't a problem if multiple workloads are being run at once.


# 5184:8782de2949e5 25-Oct-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

TLB: Fix serialization issues with the tlb entries and make the page table store the process, not the system.


# 5183:b4decf133fe4 25-Oct-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

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


# 5004:7d94cedab264 26-Aug-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

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


# 4762:c94e103c83ad 24-Jul-2007 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

Major changes to how SimObjects are created and initialized. Almost all
creation and initialization now happens in python. Parameter objects
are generated and initialized by python. The .ini file is now solely for
debugging purposes and is not used in construction of the objects in any
way.


# 4521:0236d1cdb330 05-Jun-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Clean up some of vincent's code and commit it
Makes page table cache scheme actually work

src/mem/page_table.cc:
src/mem/page_table.hh:
fix caching scheme to actually work and improve performance


# 4183:3d19c1d46946 07-Mar-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Move the magic m5 PageTableFault into sim/faults.[hh,cc] since it's the same across all architectures.


# 3347:c182ee45f6b4 20-Oct-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

initialize end, clean up loop


# 3320:a8910dbabb44 18-Oct-2006 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

need some initializations before doing the loop.


# 3311:7eb47a60dbd4 17-Oct-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

add code to serialize se structures. Lisa is working on the python side of things and will test

src/mem/page_table.cc:
src/mem/page_table.hh:
add code to serialize/unserialize page table
src/sim/process.cc:
src/sim/process.hh:
add code to serialize/unserialize process


# 2979:88f767122b58 14-Aug-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Changed the size parameter from int to int64_t


# 2809:9cb5fba079ed 27-Jun-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

change the page table from map to hash_map and create small cache to to speed up lookups


# 2800:18a615ca6e19 26-Jun-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

add syscall emulation page table fault so we can allocate more stack pages

src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
add syscall emulation page table fault so we can allocate more stack pages
FaultBase::invoke will do this, we don't need to do it here
src/sim/faults.hh:
I have no idea why this #if was there... gone
src/sim/process.cc:
make stack_min actually be the current minimum


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

Updated Authors from bk prs info


# 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.