History log of /gem5/src/mem/port.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14193:7dd8a6df30e2 17-Aug-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Eliminate the Base(Slave|Master)Port classes.

The Port class has assumed all the duties of the less generic
Base*Port classes, making them unnecessary. Since they don't add
anything but make the code more complex, this change eliminates them.

Change-Id: Ibb9c56def04465f353362595c1f1c5ac5083e5e9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20236
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 14189:a363edac6a12 16-Aug-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem, sim, systemc: Reorganize Port and co.s bind, unbind slightly.

The base Port class can keep track of its peer, and also whether it's
connected. This is partially delegated away from the port subclasses
which still keep track of a cast version of their peer pointer for
their own conveneince, so that it can be used by generic code. Even
with the Port mechanism's new flexibility, each port still has
exactly one peer and is either connected or not based on whether there
is a peer currently.

Change-Id: Id3228617dd1604d196814254a1aadeac5ade7cde
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20232
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 14183:8116c413222e 15-Aug-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Split the various protocols out of the gem5 master/slave ports.

This makes the protocols easier to see in their entirity, and makes it
easier to add a new type of port which only supports the functional
protocol.

Change-Id: If5d639bef45062f0a23af2ac46f50933e6a8f144
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20228
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13892:0182a0601f66 22-Apr-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Minimize the use of MemObject.

MemObject doesn't provide anything beyond its base ClockedObject any
more, so this change removes it from most inheritance hierarchies.
Occasionally MemObject is replaced with SimObject when I was fairly
confident that the extra functionality of ClockedObject wasn't needed.

Change-Id: Ic014ab61e56402e62548e8c831eb16e26523fdce
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18289
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13845:60939226a345 21-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Add sendAtomicBackdoor/recvAtomicBackdoor port methods.

These both perform atomic accesses like their non-backdoor equivalents,
and also request a backdoor corresponding to the access.

The default implementation for recvAtomicBackdoor prints a warning
(once per port instance), calls recvAtomic to do the actual access,
and leaves the backdoor pointer as nullptr. That way if an object
doesn't know how to handle or transfer requests for a back door, it
automatically replies in a safe way that ignores the back door request.

Change-Id: Ia9fbbe9996eb4b71ea62214d203aa039a05f1618
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17590
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13782:9f6654f478e2 07-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Move bind() and unbind() into the Port class.

These are now pure virtual methods which more specialized port
subclasses will need to implement. The SlavePort class implements them
by ignoring them and then providing parallel functions for the
MasterPort to call. The MasterPort's methods do basically what they
did before, except now bind() uses dynamic cast to check if its peer
is of the appropriate type and also to convert it into that type before
connecting to it.

Change-Id: I0948799bc954acaebf371e6b6612cee1d3023bc4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17038
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13771:10d990934f15 07-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Move the Port base class into sim.

The Port class is going to be officially used for more than just memory
system connections.

Change-Id: I493e721f99051865c5f0c06946a2303ff723c2af
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17036
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13769:b8f532287e81 07-Mar-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

mem: Track the MemObject owner in MasterPort and SlavePort.

These types are much more tied to MemObjects and the gem5 memory
protocol than the Port or BaseMasterPort and BaseSlavePort classes.

Change-Id: I36bc8c75b9c74d28ee8b65dbcbf742cd41135742
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17032
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>


# 12342:53a3828f2468 29-Sep-2017 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>

mem: Add function to check if the slave can receive a timing req

This changeset adds support for tryTiming, an interface that allows a
master to check if the slave is busy or otherwise if it can accept a
timing request.

Change-Id: Idc7c2337ae9ccf5dec54f308e488660591419a63
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5041
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Menard <christian.menard@tu-dresden.de>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


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

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


# 11321:02e930db812d 06-Feb-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

style: fix missing spaces in control statements

Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-control -a'.


# 10713:eddb533708cb 02-Mar-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes

This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow
control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all
different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get
stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv
functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in
stress-test scenarios.

The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus,
sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has
recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply
clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting.

The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet
queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop
responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own
flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes
the previously seen deadlocks.


# 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.


# 9294:8fb03b13de02 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchy

This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance
hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic
parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now
confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the
protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it
will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations.

The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort
now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use
the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.


# 9178:6a0ff1770e6e 28-Aug-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Stricter port bind/unbind semantics

This patch tightens up the semantics around port binding and checks
that the ports that are being bound are currently not connected, and
similarly connected before unbind is called.

The patch consequently also changes the order of the unbind and bind
for the switching of CPUs to ensure that the rules are adhered
to. Previously the ports would be "over-written" without any check.

There are no changes in behaviour due to this patch, and the only
place where the unbind functionality is used is in the CPU.


# 9152:86c0e6ca5e7c 15-Aug-2012 Anthony Gutierrez <atgutier@umich.edu>

O3,ARM: fix some problems with drain/switchout functionality and add Drain DPRINTFs

This patch fixes some problems with the drain/switchout functionality
for the O3 cpu and for the ARM ISA and adds some useful debug print
statements.

This is an incremental fix as there are still a few bugs/mem leaks with the
switchout code. Particularly when switching from an O3CPU to a
TimingSimpleCPU. However, when switching from O3 to O3 cores with the ARM ISA
I haven't encountered any more assertion failures; now the kernel will
typically panic inside of simulation.


# 9089:da918cb3462e 09-Jul-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Add getAddrRanges to master port (asking slave port)

This patch adds getAddrRanges to the master port, and thus avoids
going through getSlavePort to be able to ask the slave. Similar to the
previous patch that added isSnooping to the SlavePort, this patch aims
to introduce an additional level of hierarchy in the ports (base port
being protocol-agnostic) and getSlave/MasterPort will return port
pointers to these base classes.

The function is named getAddrRanges also on the master port, but does
nothing besides asking the connected slave port. The slave port, as
before, has to provide an implementation and actually produce a list
of address ranges. The initial design used the name getSlaveAddrRanges
for the new function, but the more verbose name was later changed.


# 9087:b5a084a6159b 09-Jul-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Port: Move retry from port base class to Master/SlavePort

This patch is the last part of moving all protocol-related
functionality out of the Port base class. All the send/recv functions
are already moved, and the retry (which still governs all the timing
transport functions) is the only part that remained in the base class.

The only point where this currently causes a bit of inconvenience is
in the bus where the retry list is global and holds Port pointers (not
Master/SlavePort). This is about to change with the split into a
request/response bus and will soon be removed anyway.

The patch has no impact on any regressions.


# 9031:32ecc0217c5e 30-May-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Packet: Unify the use of PortID in packet and port

This patch removes the Packet::NodeID typedef and unifies it with the
Port::PortId. The src and dest fields in the packet are used to hold a
port id (e.g. in the bus), and thus the two should actually be the
same.

The typedef PortID is now global (in base/types.hh) and aligned with
the ThreadID in terms of capitalisation and naming of the
InvalidPortID constant.

Before this patch, two flags were used for valid destination and
source, rather than relying on a named value (InvalidPortID), and
this is now redundant, as the src and dest field themselves are
sufficient to tell whether the current value is a valid port
identifier or not. Consequently, the VALID_SRC and VALID_DST are
removed.

As part of the cleaning up, a number of int parameters and local
variables are updated to use PortID.

Note that Ruby still has its own NodeID typedef. Furthermore, the
MemObject getMaster/SlavePort still has an int idx parameter with a
default value of -1 which should eventually change to PortID idx =
InvalidPortID.


# 8975:7f36d4436074 01-May-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Separate requests and responses for timing accesses

This patch moves send/recvTiming and send/recvTimingSnoop from the
Port base class to the MasterPort and SlavePort, and also splits them
into separate member functions for requests and responses:
send/recvTimingReq, send/recvTimingResp, and send/recvTimingSnoopReq,
send/recvTimingSnoopResp. A master port sends requests and receives
responses, and also receives snoop requests and sends snoop
responses. A slave port has the reciprocal behaviour as it receives
requests and sends responses, and sends snoop requests and receives
snoop responses.

For all MemObjects that have only master ports or slave ports (but not
both), e.g. a CPU, or a PIO device, this patch merely adds more
clarity to what kind of access is taking place. For example, a CPU
port used to call sendTiming, and will now call
sendTimingReq. Similarly, a response previously came back through
recvTiming, which is now recvTimingResp. For the modules that have
both master and slave ports, e.g. the bus, the behaviour was
previously relying on branches based on pkt->isRequest(), and this is
now replaced with a direct call to the apprioriate member function
depending on the type of access. Please note that send/recvRetry is
still shared by all the timing accessors and remains in the Port base
class for now (to maintain the current bus functionality and avoid
changing the statistics of all regressions).

The packet queue is split into a MasterPort and SlavePort version to
facilitate the use of the new timing accessors. All uses of the
PacketQueue are updated accordingly.

With this patch, the type of packet (request or response) is now well
defined for each type of access, and asserts on pkt->isRequest() and
pkt->isResponse() are now moved to the appropriate send member
functions. It is also worth noting that sendTimingSnoopReq no longer
returns a boolean, as the semantics do not alow snoop requests to be
rejected or stalled. All these assumptions are now excplicitly part of
the port interface itself.


# 8965:1ebd7c856abc 25-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Add the PortId type and a corresponding id field to Port

This patch introduces the PortId type, moves the definition of
INVALID_PORT_ID to the Port class, and also gives every port an id to
reflect the fact that each element in a vector port has an
identifier/index.

Previously the bus and Ruby testers (and potentially other users of
the vector ports) added the id field in their port subclasses, and now
this functionality is always present as it is moved to the base class.


# 8949:3fa1ee293096 14-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Remove the Broadcast destination from the packet

This patch simplifies the packet by removing the broadcast flag and
instead more firmly relying on (and enforcing) the semantics of
transactions in the classic memory system, i.e. request packets are
routed from a master to a slave based on the address, and when they
are created they have neither a valid source, nor destination. On
their way to the slave, the request packet is updated with a source
field for all modules that multiplex packets from multiple master
(e.g. a bus). When a request packet is turned into a response packet
(at the final slave), it moves the potentially populated source field
to the destination field, and the response packet is routed through
any multiplexing components back to the master based on the
destination field.

Modules that connect multiplexing components, such as caches and
bridges store any existing source and destination field in the sender
state as a stack (just as before).

The packet constructor is simplified in that there is no longer a need
to pass the Packet::Broadcast as the destination (this was always the
case for the classic memory system). In the case of Ruby, rather than
using the parameter to the constructor we now rely on setDest, as
there is already another three-argument constructor in the packet
class.

In many places where the packet information was printed as part of
DPRINTFs, request packets would be printed with a numeric "dest" that
would always be -1 (Broadcast) and that field is now removed from the
printing.


# 8948:e95ee70f876c 14-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Separate snoops and normal memory requests/responses

This patch introduces port access methods that separates snoop
request/responses from normal memory request/responses. The
differentiation is made for functional, atomic and timing accesses and
builds on the introduction of master and slave ports.

Before the introduction of this patch, the packets belonging to the
different phases of the protocol (request -> [forwarded snoop request
-> snoop response]* -> response) all use the same port access
functions, even though the snoop packets flow in the opposite
direction to the normal packet. That is, a coherent master sends
normal request and receives responses, but receives snoop requests and
sends snoop responses (vice versa for the slave). These two distinct
phases now use different access functions, as described below.

Starting with the functional access, a master sends a request to a
slave through sendFunctional, and the request packet is turned into a
response before the call returns. In a system without cache coherence,
this is all that is needed from the functional interface. For the
cache-coherent scenario, a slave also sends snoop requests to coherent
masters through sendFunctionalSnoop, with responses returned within
the same packet pointer. This is currently used by the bus and caches,
and the LSQ of the O3 CPU. The send/recvFunctional and
send/recvFunctionalSnoop are moved from the Port super class to the
appropriate subclass.

Atomic accesses follow the same flow as functional accesses, with
request being sent from master to slave through sendAtomic. In the
case of cache-coherent ports, a slave can send snoop requests to a
master through sendAtomicSnoop. Just as for the functional access
methods, the atomic send and receive member functions are moved to the
appropriate subclasses.

The timing access methods are different from the functional and atomic
in that requests and responses are separated in time and
send/recvTiming are used for both directions. Hence, a master uses
sendTiming to send a request to a slave, and a slave uses sendTiming
to send a response back to a master, at a later point in time. Snoop
requests and responses travel in the opposite direction, similar to
what happens in functional and atomic accesses. With the introduction
of this patch, it is possible to determine the direction of packets in
the bus, and no longer necessary to look for both a master and a slave
port with the requested port id.

In contrast to the normal recvFunctional, recvAtomic and recvTiming
that are pure virtual functions, the recvFunctionalSnoop,
recvAtomicSnoop and recvTimingSnoop have a default implementation that
calls panic. This is to allow non-coherent master and slave ports to
not implement these functions.


# 8922:17f037ad8918 30-Mar-2012 William Wang <william.wang@arm.com>

MEM: Introduce the master/slave port sub-classes in C++

This patch introduces the notion of a master and slave port in the C++
code, thus bringing the previous classification from the Python
classes into the corresponding simulation objects and memory objects.

The patch enables us to classify behaviours into the two bins and add
assumptions and enfore compliance, also simplifying the two
interfaces. As a starting point, isSnooping is confined to a master
port, and getAddrRanges to slave ports. More of these specilisations
are to come in later patches.

The getPort function is not getMasterPort and getSlavePort, and
returns a port reference rather than a pointer as NULL would never be
a valid return value. The default implementation of these two
functions is placed in MemObject, and calls fatal.

The one drawback with this specific patch is that it requires some
code duplication, e.g. QueuedPort becomes QueuedMasterPort and
QueuedSlavePort, and BusPort becomes BusMasterPort and BusSlavePort
(avoiding multiple inheritance). With the later introduction of the
port interfaces, moving the functionality outside the port itself, a
lot of the duplicated code will disappear again.


# 8853:0216ed80991b 24-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Move all read/write blob functions from Port to PortProxy

This patch moves the readBlob/writeBlob/memsetBlob from the Port class
to the PortProxy class, thus making a clear separation of the basic
port functionality (recv/send functional/atomic/timing), and the
higher-level functional accessors available on the port proxies.

There are only a few places in the code base where the blob functions
were used on ports, and they are all for peeking into the memory
system without making a normal memory access (in the memtest, and the
malta and tsunami pchip). The memtest also exemplifies how easy it is
to create a non-translating proxy if desired. The malta and tsunami
pchip used a slave port to perform a functional read, and this is now
changed to rely on the physProxy of the system (to which they already
have a pointer).


# 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.


# 8710:aab813d6a162 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Remove Port removeConn and MemObject deletePortRefs

Cleaning up and simplifying the ports and going towards a more strict
elaboration-time creation and binding of the ports.


# 8709:d7358736ac70 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Remove the notion of the default port

This patch removes the default port and instead relies on the peer
being set to NULL initially. The binding check (i.e. is a port
connected or not) will eventually be moved to the init function of the
modules.


# 8708:7ccbdea0fa12 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Simplify ports by removing EventManager

This patch removes the inheritance of EventManager from the ports and
moves all responsibility for event queues to the owner. Eventually the
event manager should be the interface block, which could either be the
structural owner or a subblock like a LSQ in the O3 CPU for example.


# 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


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

types: clean up types, especially signed vs unsigned


# 5605:b194a80157e2 09-Oct-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

eventq: Major API change for the Event and EventQueue structures.

Since the early days of M5, an event needed to know which event queue
it was on, and that data was required at the time of construction of
the event object. In the future parallelized M5, this sort of
requirement does not work well since the proper event queue will not
always be known at the time of construction of an event. Now, events
are created, and the EventQueue itself has the schedule function,
e.g. eventq->schedule(event, when). To simplify the syntax, I created
a class called EventManager which holds a pointer to an EventQueue and
provides the schedule interface that is a proxy for the EventQueue.
The intent is that objects that frequently schedule events can be
derived from EventManager and then they have the schedule interface.
SimObject and Port are examples of objects that will become
EventManagers. The end result is that any SimObject can just call
schedule(event, when) and it will just call that SimObject's
eventq->schedule function. Of course, some objects may have more than
one EventQueue, so this interface might not be perfect for those, but
they should be relatively few.


# 5494:85c8d296c1cb 28-Jun-2008 Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>

Backed out changeset 94a7bb476fca: caused memory leak.


# 5489:94a7bb476fca 21-Jun-2008 Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>

Generate more useful error messages for unconnected ports.
Force all non-default ports to provide a name and an
owner in the constructor.


# 5476:758c2413765a 16-Jun-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

port: Clean up default port setup and port switchover code.


# 5314:e902f12a3af1 02-Jan-2008 Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>

Add functional PrintReq command for memory-system debugging.


# 5283:3ab643fa74be 28-Nov-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Make ports that aren't connected to anything fail more gracefully.


# 4870:fcc39d001154 30-Jun-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Get rid of Packet result field. Error responses are
now encoded in cmd field.


# 4321:6f8b597ab244 04-Apr-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

The MemoryObject tha owns a port should delete it if it so chooses when deletePortRefs() is called on it with that port as a parameter.
In this way a MemoryObject can keep a functional port around and give it to anyone who wants to do functional accesses rather
than creating a new one each time.

src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
only keep around one func port we give to anyone who wants it. Otherwise we can run out of port ids reasonably quickly if
a lot of functional accesses are happening (e.g. remote debugging, dprintk, etc)


# 4190:5069dfa3d62e 08-Mar-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

stop m5 from leaking like a sieve
don't create a new physPort/virtPort every time activateContext() is called
add the ability to tell a memory object to delete it's reference to a port and a method to have a port call deletePortRefs()
on the port owner as well as delete it's peer
still need to stop calling connectMemoPorts() every time activateContext() is called or we'll overflow the bus id and panic

src/cpu/thread_state.cc:
if we hav ea (phys|virt)Port don't create a new on, have it delete it's peer and then reuse it
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
add ability to delete a port by usig a hash_map instead of an array to store port ids
add a function to do deleting
src/mem/cache/cache.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/mem_object.cc:
src/mem/mem_object.hh:
adda function to delete port references from a memory object
src/mem/port.cc:
src/mem/port.hh:
add a removeConn function that tell the owener to delete any references to the port and then deletes its peer


# 4022:c422464ca16e 07-Feb-2007 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Make memory commands dense again to avoid cache stat table explosion.
Created MemCmd class to wrap enum and provide handy methods to
check attributes, convert to string/int, etc.


# 3918:1f9a98d198e8 26-Jan-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

make our code a little more standards compliant
pretty close to compiling w/ suns compiler

briefly:
add dummy return after panic()/fatal()
split out flags by compiler vendor
include cstring and cmath where appropriate
use std namespace for string ops

SConstruct:
Add code to detect compiler and choose cflags based on detected compiler
Fix zlib check to work with suncc
src/SConscript:
split out flags by compiler vendor
src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa:
use correct namespace for sqrt
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/basic.isa:
add dummy return around panic
src/arch/sparc/isa/formats/integerop.isa:
use correct namespace for stringops
src/arch/sparc/isa/includes.isa:
include cstring and cmath where appropriate
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
remove dangling comma
src/arch/sparc/system.cc:
dummy return to make sun cc front end happy
src/arch/sparc/tlb.cc:
src/base/compression/lzss_compression.cc:
use std namespace for string ops
src/arch/sparc/utility.hh:
no reason to say something is unsigned unsigned int
src/base/compression/null_compression.hh:
dummy returns to for suncc front end
src/base/cprintf.hh:
use standard variadic argument syntax instead of gnuc specefic renaming
src/base/hashmap.hh:
don't need to define hash for suncc
src/base/hostinfo.cc:
need stdio.h for sprintf
src/base/loader/object_file.cc:
munmap is in std namespace not null
src/base/misc.hh:
use M5 generic noreturn macros
use standard variadic macro __VA_ARGS__
src/base/pollevent.cc:
we need file.h for file flags
src/base/random.cc:
mess with include files to make suncc happy
src/base/remote_gdb.cc:
malloc memory for function instead of having a non-constant in an array size
src/base/statistics.hh:
use std namespace for floor
src/base/stats/text.cc:
include math.h for rint (cmath won't work)
src/base/time.cc:
use suncc version of ctime_r
src/base/time.hh:
change macro to work with both gcc and suncc
src/base/timebuf.hh:
include cstring from memset and use std::
src/base/trace.hh:
change variadic macros to be normal format
src/cpu/SConscript:
add dummy returns where appropriate
src/cpu/activity.cc:
include cstring for memset
src/cpu/exetrace.hh:
include cstring fro memcpy
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
add dummy return for panic
src/dev/baddev.cc:
src/dev/pciconfigall.cc:
src/dev/platform.cc:
src/dev/sparc/t1000.cc:
add dummy return where appropriate
src/dev/ide_atareg.h:
make define work for both gnuc and suncc
src/dev/io_device.hh:
add dummy returns where approirate
src/dev/pcidev.hh:
src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh:
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.cc:
src/mem/cache/tags/lru.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lifo.hh:
src/mem/cache/tags/split_lru.hh:
src/mem/dram.cc:
src/mem/packet.cc:
src/mem/port.cc:
include cstring for string ops
src/dev/sparc/mm_disk.cc:
add dummy return where appropriate
include cstring for string ops
src/mem/cache/miss/blocking_buffer.hh:
src/mem/port.hh:
Add dummy return where appropriate
src/mem/cache/tags/iic.cc:
cast hastSets to double for log() call
src/mem/physical.cc:
cast pmemAddr to char* for munmap
src/sim/byteswap.hh:
make define work for suncc and gnuc


# 3348:11f6ef023158 20-Oct-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

refactor code for the packet, get rid of packet_impl.hh
and call it packet_access.hh and fix the #includes so
things compile right.


# 2982:0ecdb0879b14 14-Aug-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Fix up doxygen.


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

Updated Authors from bk prs info


# 2663:c82193ae8467 31-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Streamline interface to Request object.

src/SConscript:
mem/request.cc no longer needed (all functions inline).
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
src/dev/io_device.cc:
src/mem/port.cc:
Modified Request object interface.
src/mem/packet.hh:
Modified Request object interface.
Address & size are always set together now, so track
with single flag.
src/mem/request.hh:
Streamline interface to support a handful of calls that set
multiple fields reflecting common usage patterns.
Reduce number of validFoo booleans by combining flags for fields
which must be set together.


# 2642:c162e0359b49 26-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Add a little more tracing support for Bus/Port stuff.

src/base/traceflags.py:
Sort flags so you can find things.
Add BusAddrRanges flag for tracking RangeChange events
separately from general bus activity.
src/mem/bus.cc:
Add BusAddrRanges flag for tracking RangeChange events
separately from general bus activity.
src/mem/port.cc:
src/mem/port.hh:
Print Config trace message when peers are set up.


# 2641:6d9d837e2032 26-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

Significant rework of Packet class interface:
- new constructor guarantees initialization of most fields
- flags track status of non-guaranteed fields (addr, size, src)
- accessor functions (getAddr() etc.) check status on access
- Command & Result classes are nested in Packet class scope
- Command now built from vector of behavior bits
- string version of Command for tracing
- reinitFromRequest() and makeTimingResponse() encapsulate
common manipulations of existing packets

src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
src/dev/alpha_console.cc:
src/dev/ide_ctrl.cc:
src/dev/io_device.cc:
src/dev/io_device.hh:
src/dev/isa_fake.cc:
src/dev/ns_gige.cc:
src/dev/pciconfigall.cc:
src/dev/sinic.cc:
src/dev/tsunami_cchip.cc:
src/dev/tsunami_io.cc:
src/dev/tsunami_pchip.cc:
src/dev/uart8250.cc:
src/mem/bus.cc:
src/mem/bus.hh:
src/mem/physical.cc:
src/mem/port.cc:
src/mem/port.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
Update for new Packet interface.


# 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.