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/gem5/src/dev/arm/
H A Dvgic.hh11174:5a9019db4a08 Fri Oct 23 09:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> arm: Add missing explicit overrides for ARM devices

Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/ARM/gem5.opt on OSX.
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
11005:e7f403b6b76f Fri Aug 07 04:59:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> base: Declare a type for context IDs

Context IDs used to be declared as ad hoc (usually as int). This
changeset introduces a typedef for ContextIDs and a constant for
invalid context IDs.
10905:a6ca6831e775 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 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.
H A Dhdlcd.hh11359:b0b976a1ceda Fri Nov 27 09:41:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se> base: Add support for changing output directories

This changeset adds support for changing the simulator output
directory. This can be useful when the simulation goes through several
stages (e.g., a warming phase, a simulation phase, and a verification
phase) since it allows the output from each stage to be located in a
different directory. Relocation is done by calling core.setOutputDir()
from Python or simout.setOutputDirectory() from C++.

This change affects several parts of the design of the gem5's output
subsystem. First, files returned by an OutputDirectory instance (e.g.,
simout) are of the type OutputStream instead of a std::ostream. This
allows us to do some more book keeping and control re-opening of files
when the output directory is changed. Second, new subdirectories are
OutputDirectory instances, which should be used to create files in
that sub-directory.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>
[sascha.bischoff@arm.com: Rebased patches onto a newer gem5 version]
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
11091:62e1504b9c64 Fri Sep 11 10:56:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Add an underrun statistic to the HDLCD controller

Add a stat that counts buffer underruns in the HDLCD controller. The
stat counts at most one underrun per frame since the controller aborts
the current frame if it underruns.
11090:f37a6b82f98f Fri Sep 11 10:55:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev, arm: Rewrite the HDLCD controller

Rewrite the HDLCD controller to use the new DMA engine and pixel
pump. This fixes several bugs in the current implementation:

* Broken/missing interrupt support (VSync, underrun, DMA end)
* Fragile resolution changes (changing resolutions used
to cause assertion errors).
* Support for resolutions with a width that isn't divisible by 32.
* The pixel clock can now be set dynamically.

This breaks checkpoint compatibility. Checkpoints can be upgraded with
the checkpoint conversion script. However, upgraded checkpoints won't
contain the state of the current frame. That means that HDLCD
controllers restoring from a converted checkpoint immediately start
drawing a new frame (i.e, expect timing differences).
10905:a6ca6831e775 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 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.
10840:48039363f67a Sat May 23 08:37:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> arm: Workaround incorrect HDLCD register order in kernel

Some versions of the kernel incorrectly swap the red and blue color
select registers. This changeset adds a workaround for that by
swapping them when instantiating a PixelConverter.
10839:10cac0f0f419 Sat May 23 08:37:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> base: Redesign internal frame buffer handling

Currently, frame buffer handling in gem5 is quite ad hoc. In practice,
we pass around naked pointers to raw pixel data and expect consumers
to convert frame buffers using the (broken) VideoConverter.

This changeset completely redesigns the way we handle frame buffers
internally. In summary, it fixes several color conversion bugs, adds
support for more color formats (e.g., big endian), and makes the code
base easier to follow.

In the new world, gem5 always represents pixel data using the Pixel
struct when pixels need to be passed between different classes (e.g.,
a display controller and the VNC server). Producers of entire frames
(e.g., display controllers) should use the FrameBuffer class to
represent a frame.

Frame producers are expected to create one instance of the FrameBuffer
class in their constructors and register it with its consumers
once. Consumers are expected to check the dimensions of the frame
buffer when they consume it.

Conversion between the external representation and the internal
representation is supported for all common "true color" RGB formats of
up to 32-bit color depth. The external pixel representation is
expected to be between 1 and 4 bytes in either big endian or little
endian. Color channels are assumed to be contiguous ranges of bits
within each pixel word. The external pixel value is scaled to an 8-bit
internal representation using a floating multiplication to map it to
the entire 8-bit range.
/gem5/src/dev/net/
H A Detherint.hh11263:8dcc6b40f164 Thu Dec 10 05:35:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Move network devices to src/dev/net/
H A Detherint.cc11263:8dcc6b40f164 Thu Dec 10 05:35:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Move network devices to src/dev/net/
H A Dsinic.hh11263:8dcc6b40f164 Thu Dec 10 05:35:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Move network devices to src/dev/net/
/gem5/src/dev/pci/
H A Dcopy_engine.hh11261:2050602b55f7 Thu Dec 10 05:35:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Move the CopyEngine class to src/dev/pci
/gem5/src/mem/ruby/structures/
H A DRubyCache.py11052:3137d34acf29 Fri Aug 21 07:03:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> ruby: Move Rubys cache class from Cache.py to RubyCache.py

This patch serves to avoid name clashes with the classic cache. For
some reason having two 'SimObject' files with the same name creates
problems.
/gem5/src/python/m5/ext/pyfdt/
H A Dpyfdt.py12468:b4b8bdb9712a Wed Dec 16 10:43:00 EST 2015 Glenn Bergmans <glenn.bergmans@arm.com> ext: DT autogeneration - Add PyFtd to m5 space

This patch adds pyfdt.py to the m5.ext module. This is used in
succeeding patches for generating and editing dtb files and flat
device trees for DT autogeneration.

The file is in the m5_root/src/python/m5/ext directory, as opposed to
the m5_root/ext, because this library is part of the m5 object space
and linking to the m5_root/ext directory from the SConscript file
in src/python can not be done reliably. Linking from the root level
SConscript is also not an option, because it doesn't have the PySource
method defined.

Cloned from: https://github.com/superna9999/pyfdt
Commit: accbcd254584c9295a18878d32999d0c7c156f8e
Version: 0.3

Change-Id: I928bdc912a9507d1f8a3290acf445c7cae496552
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5961
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
/gem5/src/python/m5/ext/
H A D__init__.py12468:b4b8bdb9712a Wed Dec 16 10:43:00 EST 2015 Glenn Bergmans <glenn.bergmans@arm.com> ext: DT autogeneration - Add PyFtd to m5 space

This patch adds pyfdt.py to the m5.ext module. This is used in
succeeding patches for generating and editing dtb files and flat
device trees for DT autogeneration.

The file is in the m5_root/src/python/m5/ext directory, as opposed to
the m5_root/ext, because this library is part of the m5 object space
and linking to the m5_root/ext directory from the SConscript file
in src/python can not be done reliably. Linking from the root level
SConscript is also not an option, because it doesn't have the PySource
method defined.

Cloned from: https://github.com/superna9999/pyfdt
Commit: accbcd254584c9295a18878d32999d0c7c156f8e
Version: 0.3

Change-Id: I928bdc912a9507d1f8a3290acf445c7cae496552
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5961
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
/gem5/tests/configs/
H A Dlearning-gem5-p1-simple.py11105:9a1c2b16a2f9 Wed Sep 16 10:35:00 EDT 2015 Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com> tests: Add tests for the Learning gem5 scripts

These tests will ensure that Learning gem5 scripts are always up to date with
the changes in the mainline of gem5.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
/gem5/util/
H A Ddecode_inst_trace.py10695:ef2c71a5f02e Mon Feb 16 03:32:00 EST 2015 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com> cpu: add support for outputing a protobuf formatted CPU trace

Doesn't support x86 due to static instruction representation.
H A Dmemtest-soak.py10750:30efc3828bb4 Thu Mar 19 04:06:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> config: Add soak test for memtest.py

This patch adds a random option to memtest.py which allows the user to
easily test valid random tree topologies. The patch also adds a
wrapper script to run soak tests using the newly introduced option.

We also adjust the progress interval and progress limit check to make
the output less noisy, and avoid false positives.

Bring on the pain.
/gem5/src/dev/storage/
H A Dsimple_disk.cc11264:dc389d2d2f79 Thu Dec 10 05:35:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev: Move storage devices to src/dev/storage/

Move the IDE controller and the disk implementations to
src/dev/storage.
/gem5/src/mem/cache/prefetch/
H A Dindirect_memory.hh13772:31b71dadc472 Thu Mar 07 09:42:00 EST 2019 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com> mem-cache: Added the Indirect Memory Prefetcher

Reference:
Xiangyao Yu, Christopher J. Hughes, Nadathur Satish, and Srinivas Devadas.
2015. IMP: indirect memory prefetcher. In Proceedings of the 48th
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-48). ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 178-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2830772.2830807

Change-Id: I52790f69c13ec55b8c1c8b9396ef9a1fb1be9797
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/16223
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
/gem5/src/mem/
H A Dnoncoherent_xbar.hh10912:b99a6662d7c2 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> sim: Decouple draining from the SimObject hierarchy

Draining is currently done by traversing the SimObject graph and
calling drain()/drainResume() on the SimObjects. This is not ideal
when non-SimObjects (e.g., ports) need draining since this means that
SimObjects owning those objects need to be aware of this.

This changeset moves the responsibility for finding objects that need
draining from SimObjects and the Python-side of the simulator to the
DrainManager. The DrainManager now maintains a set of all objects that
need draining. To reduce the overhead in classes owning non-SimObjects
that need draining, objects inheriting from Drainable now
automatically register with the DrainManager. If such an object is
destroyed, it is automatically unregistered. This means that drain()
and drainResume() should never be called directly on a Drainable
object.

While implementing the new functionality, the DrainManager has now
been made thread safe. In practice, this means that it takes a lock
whenever it manipulates the set of Drainable objects since SimObjects
in different threads may create Drainable objects
dynamically. Similarly, the drain counter is now an atomic_uint, which
ensures that it is manipulated correctly when objects signal that they
are done draining.

A nice side effect of these changes is that it makes the drain state
changes stricter, which the simulation scripts can exploit to avoid
redundant drains.
10888:85a001f2193b Fri Jul 03 10:14:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Delay responses in the crossbar before forwarding

This patch changes how the crossbar classes deal with
responses. Instead of forwarding responses directly and burdening the
neighbouring modules in paying for the latency (through the
pkt->headerDelay), we now queue them before sending them.

The coherency protocol is not affected as requests and any snoop
requests/responses are still passed on in zero time. Thus, the
responses end up paying for any header delay accumulated when passing
through the crossbar. Any latency incurred on the request path will be
paid for on the response side, if no other module has dealt with it.

As a result of this patch, responses are returned at a later
point. This affects the number of outstanding transactions, and quite
a few regressions see an impact in blocking due to no MSHRs, increased
cache-miss latencies, etc.

Going forward we should be able to use the same concept also for snoop
responses, and any request that is not an express snoop.
10719:b4fc9ad648aa Mon Mar 02 04:00:00 EST 2015 Marco Balboni <Marco.Balboni@ARM.com> mem: Add crossbar latencies

This patch introduces latencies in crossbar that were neglected
before. In particular, it adds three parameters in crossbar model:
front_end_latency, forward_latency, and response_latency. Along with
these parameters, three corresponding members are added:
frontEndLatency, forwardLatency, and responseLatency. The coherent
crossbar has an additional snoop_response_latency.

The latency of the request path through the xbar is set as
--> frontEndLatency + forwardLatency

In case the snoop filter is enabled, the request path latency is charged
also by look-up latency of the snoop filter.
--> frontEndLatency + SF(lookupLatency) + forwardLatency.

The latency of the response path through the xbar is set instead as
--> responseLatency.

In case of snoop response, if the response is treated as a normal response
the latency associated is again
--> responseLatency;

If instead it is forwarded as snoop response we add an additional variable
+ snoopResponseLatency
and the latency associated is
--> snoopResponseLatency;

Furthermore, this patch lets the crossbar progress on the next clock
edge after an unused retry, changing the time the crossbar considers
itself busy after sending a retry that was not acted upon.
10713:eddb533708cb Mon Mar 02 04:00:00 EST 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.
/gem5/src/mem/ruby/common/
H A DSConscript11210:64c0ebeae224 Mon Jul 20 10:15:00 EDT 2015 Brad Beckmann <Brad.Beckmann@amd.com> ruby: added stl vector of ints to be used by SLICC
11208:fa3e56b6e0b6 Fri Nov 13 17:30:00 EST 2015 Joe Gross <joseph.gross@amd.com> ruby: add BoolVec

The BoolVec typedef and insertion operator overload function simplify usage of
vectors of type bool
11085:f1fe63d949c0 Sat Sep 05 10:34:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: set: reimplement using std::bitset
The current Set data structure is slow and therefore is being reimplemented
using std::bitset. A maximum limit of 64 is being set on the number of
controllers of each type. This means that for simulating a system with more
controllers of a given type, one would need to change the value of the variable
NUMBER_BITS_PER_SET
10920:58fbfddff18d Fri Jul 10 17:05:00 EDT 2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com> ruby: replace global g_abs_controls with per-RubySystem var

This is another step in the process of removing global variables
from Ruby to enable multiple RubySystem instances in a single simulation.

The list of abstract controllers is per-RubySystem and should be
represented that way, rather than as a global.

Since this is the last remaining Ruby global variable, the
src/mem/ruby/Common/Global.* files are also removed.
/gem5/src/arch/arm/kvm/
H A DBaseArmKvmCPU.py10860:cba0f26038b4 Mon Jun 01 14:44:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> kvm, arm: Add support for aarch64

This changeset adds support for aarch64 in kvm. The CPU module
supports both checkpointing and online CPU model switching as long as
no devices are simulated by the host kernel. It currently has the
following limitations:

* The system register based generic timer can only be simulated by
the host kernel. Workaround: Use a memory mapped timer instead to
simulate the timer in gem5.

* Simulating devices (e.g., the generic timer) in the host kernel
requires that the host kernel also simulates the GIC.

* ID registers in the host and in gem5 must match for switching
between simulated CPUs and KVM. This is particularly important
for ID registers describing memory system capabilities (e.g.,
ASID size, physical address size).

* Switching between a virtualized CPU and a simulated CPU is
currently not supported if in-kernel device emulation is
used. This could be worked around by adding support for switching
to the gem5 (e.g., the KvmGic) side of the device models. A
simpler workaround is to avoid in-kernel device models
altogether.
H A DArmV8KvmCPU.py10860:cba0f26038b4 Mon Jun 01 14:44:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> kvm, arm: Add support for aarch64

This changeset adds support for aarch64 in kvm. The CPU module
supports both checkpointing and online CPU model switching as long as
no devices are simulated by the host kernel. It currently has the
following limitations:

* The system register based generic timer can only be simulated by
the host kernel. Workaround: Use a memory mapped timer instead to
simulate the timer in gem5.

* Simulating devices (e.g., the generic timer) in the host kernel
requires that the host kernel also simulates the GIC.

* ID registers in the host and in gem5 must match for switching
between simulated CPUs and KVM. This is particularly important
for ID registers describing memory system capabilities (e.g.,
ASID size, physical address size).

* Switching between a virtualized CPU and a simulated CPU is
currently not supported if in-kernel device emulation is
used. This could be worked around by adding support for switching
to the gem5 (e.g., the KvmGic) side of the device models. A
simpler workaround is to avoid in-kernel device models
altogether.
/gem5/src/dev/x86/
H A Di8042.hh11175:2324ed5fa9f4 Fri Oct 23 09:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> x86: Add missing explicit overrides for X86 devices

Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/X86/gem5.opt on OSX.
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
11007:179bc8ca2d8c Fri Aug 07 04:59:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> dev, x86: Fix serialization bug in the i8042 device

The i8042 device drops the contents of a PS2 device's buffer when
serializing, which results in corrupted PS2 state when continuing
simulation after a checkpoint. This changeset fixes this bug and
transitions the i8042 model to use the new serialization API that
requires the serialize() method to be const.
10905:a6ca6831e775 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 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.
H A Di8254.hh11175:2324ed5fa9f4 Fri Oct 23 09:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> x86: Add missing explicit overrides for X86 devices

Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/X86/gem5.opt on OSX.
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
10905:a6ca6831e775 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 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.
10642:9d3b6e7dd205 Tue Jan 06 17:10:00 EST 2015 cdirik<cdirik@micron.com> dev: prevent intel 8254 timer counter events firing before startup

This change includes edits to Intel8254Timer to prevent counter events firing
before startup to comply with SimObject initialization call sequence.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
H A Dcmos.hh11175:2324ed5fa9f4 Fri Oct 23 09:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> x86: Add missing explicit overrides for X86 devices

Make clang >= 3.5 happy when compiling build/X86/gem5.opt on OSX.
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
10905:a6ca6831e775 Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 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.
10631:6d6bfdb036ce Sat Jan 03 18:51:00 EST 2015 Cagdas Dirik <cdirik@micron.com> dev: prevent RTC events firing before startup

This change includes edits to MC146818 timer to prevent RTC events
firing before startup to comply with SimObject initialization call sequence.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
/gem5/tests/quick/fs/10.linux-boot/ref/alpha/linux/tsunami-simple-atomic/
H A Dstats.txt11268:8b4b55d79ddd Sat Dec 12 17:27:00 EST 2015 Anthony Gutierrez <atgutier@umich.edu> stats: bump stats to reflect ruby tester changes
11245:1c5102c0a7a9 Fri Dec 04 19:11:00 EST 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> stats: Update to reflect changes to PCI handling
11219:b65d4e878ed2 Mon Nov 16 06:08:00 EST 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> stats: updates due to recent chagnesets
11201:b1bd4afb6b16 Fri Nov 06 03:26:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to match cache changes
11138:a611a23c8cc2 Fri Sep 25 07:27:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to reflect snoop-filter changes
10892:bd37e25fb3b7 Fri Jul 03 10:15:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats for cache, crossbar and DRAM changes

This update includes the changes to whole-line writes, the refinement
of Read to ReadClean and ReadShared, the introduction of CleanEvict
for snoop-filter tracking, and updates to the DRAM command scheduler
for bank-group-aware scheduling.

Needless to say, almost every regression is affected.
10827:7f5467f2f8b8 Tue May 05 03:22:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to reflect cache changes
/gem5/tests/quick/se/00.hello/ref/x86/linux/simple-timing/
H A Dstats.txt11268:8b4b55d79ddd Sat Dec 12 17:27:00 EST 2015 Anthony Gutierrez <atgutier@umich.edu> stats: bump stats to reflect ruby tester changes
11219:b65d4e878ed2 Mon Nov 16 06:08:00 EST 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> stats: updates due to recent chagnesets
11201:b1bd4afb6b16 Fri Nov 06 03:26:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to match cache changes
11138:a611a23c8cc2 Fri Sep 25 07:27:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to reflect snoop-filter changes
10892:bd37e25fb3b7 Fri Jul 03 10:15:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats for cache, crossbar and DRAM changes

This update includes the changes to whole-line writes, the refinement
of Read to ReadClean and ReadShared, the introduction of CleanEvict
for snoop-filter tracking, and updates to the DRAM command scheduler
for bank-group-aware scheduling.

Needless to say, almost every regression is affected.
10827:7f5467f2f8b8 Tue May 05 03:22:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to reflect cache changes
10726:8a20e2a1562d Mon Mar 02 05:04:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> stats: Update stats to reflect cache and interconnect changes

This is a bulk update of stats to match the changes to cache timing,
interconnect timing, and a few minor changes to the o3 CPU.
/gem5/src/mem/cache/
H A Dmshr_queue.hh11284:b3926db25371 Thu Dec 31 09:32:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Make cache terminology easier to understand

This patch changes the name of a bunch of packet flags and MSHR member
functions and variables to make the coherency protocol easier to
understand. In addition the patch adds and updates lots of
descriptions, explicitly spelling out assumptions.

The following name changes are made:

* the packet memInhibit flag is renamed to cacheResponding

* the packet sharedAsserted flag is renamed to hasSharers

* the packet NeedsExclusive attribute is renamed to NeedsWritable

* the packet isSupplyExclusive is renamed responderHadWritable

* the MSHR pendingDirty is renamed to pendingModified

The cache states, Modified, Owned, Exclusive, Shared are also called
out in the cache and MSHR code to make it easier to understand.
11278:18411ccc4f3c Mon Dec 28 11:14:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Remove unused cache squash functionality

This patch removes the unused squash function from the MSHR queue, and
the associated (and also unused) threadNum member from the MSHR.
11197:f8fdd931e674 Fri Nov 06 03:26:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Add cache clusivity

This patch adds a parameter to control the cache clusivity, that is if
the cache is mostly inclusive or exclusive. At the moment there is no
intention to support strict policies, and thus the options are: 1)
mostly inclusive, or 2) mostly exclusive.

The choice of policy guides the behaviuor on a cache fill, and a new
helper function, allocOnFill, is created to encapsulate the decision
making process. For the timing mode, the decision is annotated on the
MSHR on sending out the downstream packet, and in atomic we directly
pass the decision to handleFill. We (ab)use the tempBlock in cases
where we are not allocating on fill, leaving the rest of the cache
unaffected. Simple and effective.

This patch also makes it more explicit that multiple caches are
allowed to consider a block writable (this is the case
also before this patch). That is, for a mostly inclusive cache,
multiple caches upstream may also consider the block exclusive. The
caches considering the block writable/exclusive all appear along the
same path to memory, and from a coherency protocol point of view it
works due to the fact that we always snoop upwards in zero time before
querying any downstream cache.

Note that this patch does not introduce clean writebacks. Thus, for
clean lines we are essentially removing a cache level if it is made
mostly exclusive. For example, lines from the read-only L1 instruction
cache or table-walker cache are always clean, and simply get dropped
rather than being passed to the L2. If the L2 is mostly exclusive and
does not allocate on fill it will thus never hold the line. A follow
on patch adds the clean writebacks.

The patch changes the L2 of the O3_ARM_v7a CPU configuration to be
mostly exclusive (and stats are affected accordingly).
11168:f98eb2da15a4 Mon Oct 12 04:07:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> misc: Remove redundant compiler-specific defines

This patch moves away from using M5_ATTR_OVERRIDE and the m5::hashmap
(and similar) abstractions, as these are no longer needed with gcc 4.7
and clang 3.1 as minimum compiler versions.
10913:38dbdeea7f1f Tue Jul 07 04:51:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> sim: Refactor and simplify the drain API

The drain() call currently passes around a DrainManager pointer, which
is now completely pointless since there is only ever one global
DrainManager in the system. It also contains vestiges from the time
when SimObjects had to keep track of their child objects that needed
draining.

This changeset moves all of the DrainState handling to the Drainable
base class and changes the drain() and drainResume() calls to reflect
this. Particularly, the drain() call has been updated to take no
parameters (the DrainManager argument isn't needed) and return a
DrainState instead of an unsigned integer (there is no point returning
anything other than 0 or 1 any more). Drainable objects should return
either DrainState::Draining (equivalent to returning 1 in the old
system) if they need more time to drain or DrainState::Drained
(equivalent to returning 0 in the old system) if they are already in a
consistent state. Returning DrainState::Running is considered an
error.

Drain done signalling is now done through the signalDrainDone() method
in the Drainable class instead of using the DrainManager directly. The
new call checks if the state of the object is DrainState::Draining
before notifying the drain manager. This means that it is safe to call
signalDrainDone() without first checking if the simulator has
requested draining. The intention here is to reduce the code needed to
implement draining in simple objects.
10764:b32578b2af99 Fri Mar 27 04:55:00 EDT 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Align all MSHR entries to block boundaries

This patch aligns all MSHR queue entries to block boundaries to
simplify checks for matches. Previously there were corner cases that
could lead to existing entries not being identified as matches.

There are, rather alarmingly, a few regressions that change with this
patch.
10679:204a0f53035e Tue Feb 03 14:25:00 EST 2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> mem: Clarify cache behaviour for pending dirty responses

This patch adds a bit of clarification around the assumptions made in
the cache when packets are sent out, and dirty responses are
pending. As part of the change, the marking of an MSHR as in service
is simplified slightly, and comments are added to explain what
assumptions are made.
/gem5/src/mem/ruby/system/
H A DRubySystem.py11172:9261e98e4501 Wed Oct 14 01:29:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: profiler: provide the number of vnets through ruby system

The aim is to ultimately do away with the static function
Network::getNumberOfVirtualNetworks().
11108:6342ddf6d733 Wed Sep 16 00:03:00 EDT 2015 David Hashe <david.hashe@amd.com> ruby: rename System.{hh,cc} to RubySystem.{hh,cc}

The eventual aim of this change is to pass RubySystem pointers through to
objects generated from the SLICC protocol code.

Because some of these objects need to dereference their RubySystem pointers,
they need access to the System.hh header file.

In src/mem/ruby/SConscript, the MakeInclude function creates single-line header
files in the build directory that do nothing except include the corresponding
header file from the source tree.

However, SLICC also generates a list of header files from its symbol table, and
writes it to mem/protocol/Types.hh in the build directory. This code assumes
that the header file name is the same as the class name.

The end result of this is the many of the generated slicc files try to include
RubySystem.hh, when the file they really need is System.hh. The path of least
resistence is just to rename System.hh to RubySystem.hh.
11074:2763a59c73ff Tue Sep 01 16:50:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: remove random seed
We no longer use the C library based random number generator: random().
Instead we use the C++ library provided rng. So setting the random seed for
the RubySystem class has no effect. Hence the variable and the corresponding
option are being dropped.
11049:dfb0aa3f0649 Wed Aug 19 11:02:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: reverts to changeset: bf82f1f7b040
11046:0cd13910b063 Fri Aug 14 20:28:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: profiler: provide the number of vnets through ruby system

The aim is to ultimately do away with the static function
Network::getNumberOfVirtualNetworks().
11041:d3bae341e151 Fri Aug 14 20:28:00 EDT 2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu> ruby: remove random seed

We no longer use the C library based random number generator: random().
Instead we use the C++ library provided rng. So setting the random seed for
the RubySystem class has no effect. Hence the variable and the corresponding
option are being dropped.
10706:4206946d60fe Thu Feb 26 10:58:00 EST 2015 Jason Power <power.jg@gmail.com> Ruby: Update backing store option to propagate through to all RubyPorts

Previously, the user would have to manually set access_backing_store=True
on all RubyPorts (Sequencers) in the config files.
Now, instead there is one global option that each RubyPort checks on
initialization.

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

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