History log of /gem5/src/arch/alpha/SConscript
Revision Date Author Comments
# 12222:6db0fc7407a5 15-Oct-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

scons: Stop generating inc.d in the isa parser.

Generating dependency/build product information in the isa parser breaks scons
idea of how a build is supposed to work. Arm twisting it into working forced
a lot of false dependencies which slowed down the build.

Change-Id: Iadee8c930fd7c80136d200d69870df7672a6b3ca
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5081
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 11705:d40bdd3c5778 17-Nov-2016 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

alpha: Remove ALPHA tru64 support and associated tests

No one appears to be using it, and it is causing build issues
and increases the development and maintenance effort.


# 10196:be0e1724eb39 09-May-2014 Curtis Dunham <Curtis.Dunham@arm.com>

arch: teach ISA parser how to split code across files

This patch encompasses several interrelated and interdependent changes
to the ISA generation step. The end goal is to reduce the size of the
generated compilation units for instruction execution and decoding so
that batch compilation can proceed with all CPUs active without
exhausting physical memory.

The ISA parser (src/arch/isa_parser.py) has been improved so that it can
accept 'split [output_type];' directives at the top level of the grammar
and 'split(output_type)' python calls within 'exec {{ ... }}' blocks.
This has the effect of "splitting" the files into smaller compilation
units. I use air-quotes around "splitting" because the files themselves
are not split, but preprocessing directives are inserted to have the same
effect.

Architecturally, the ISA parser has had some changes in how it works.
In general, it emits code sooner. It doesn't generate per-CPU files,
and instead defers to the C preprocessor to create the duplicate copies
for each CPU type. Likewise there are more files emitted and the C
preprocessor does more substitution that used to be done by the ISA parser.

Finally, the build system (SCons) needs to be able to cope with a
dynamic list of source files coming out of the ISA parser. The changes
to the SCons{cript,truct} files support this. In broad strokes, the
targets requested on the command line are hidden from SCons until all
the build dependencies are determined, otherwise it would try, realize
it can't reach the goal, and terminate in failure. Since build steps
(i.e. running the ISA parser) must be taken to determine the file list,
several new build stages have been inserted at the very start of the
build. First, the build dependencies from the ISA parser will be emitted
to arch/$ISA/generated/inc.d, which is then read by a new SCons builder
to finalize the dependencies. (Once inc.d exists, the ISA parser will not
need to be run to complete this step.) Once the dependencies are known,
the 'Environments' are made by the makeEnv() function. This function used
to be called before the build began but now happens during the build.
It is easy to see that this step is quite slow; this is a known issue
and it's important to realize that it was already slow, but there was
no obvious cause to attribute it to since nothing was displayed to the
terminal. Since new steps that used to be performed serially are now in a
potentially-parallel build phase, the pathname handling in the SCons scripts
has been tightened up to deal with chdir() race conditions. In general,
pathnames are computed earlier and more likely to be stored, passed around,
and processed as absolute paths rather than relative paths. In the end,
some of these issues had to be fixed by inserting serializing dependencies
in the build.

Minor note:
For the null ISA, we just provide a dummy inc.d so SCons is never
compelled to try to generate it. While it seems slightly wrong to have
anything in src/arch/*/generated (i.e. a non-generated 'generated' file),
it's by far the simplest solution.


# 9384:877293183bdf 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@arm.com>

arch: Make the ISA class inherit from SimObject

The ISA class on stores the contents of ID registers on many
architectures. In order to make reset values of such registers
configurable, we make the class inherit from SimObject, which allows
us to use the normal generated parameter headers.

This patch introduces a Python helper method, BaseCPU.createThreads(),
which creates a set of ISAs for each of the threads in an SMT
system. Although it is currently only needed when creating
multi-threaded CPUs, it should always be called before instantiating
the system as this is an obvious place to configure ID registers
identifying a thread/CPU.


# 9057:f5ee56466b91 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

ISA: Back-out NoopMachInst as a StaticInstPtr change.


# 9040:cdfe09f9bdee 04-Jun-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ISA: Turn the ExtMachInst NoopMachinst into the StaticInstPtr NoopStaticInst.

This eliminates a use of the ExtMachInst type outside of the ISAs.


# 9022:bb25e7646c41 25-May-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ISA: Make the decode function part of the ISA's decoder.


# 8780:89e0822462a1 01-Nov-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Get rid of uses of FULL_SYSTEM in Alpha.


# 8777:dd43f1c9fa0a 31-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Make the functions available from the TC consistent between SE and FS.


# 8755:a9934545489d 16-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Alpha: Turn on vtophys in SE mode.


# 8745:575cab0db076 09-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Build the Interrupt objects in SE mode.


# 6330:786136379872 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Alpha: Pull the MiscRegFile fully into the ISA object.


# 6329:5d8b91875859 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Registers: Add a registers.hh file as an ISA switched header.
This file is for register indices, Num* constants, and register types.
copyRegs and copyMiscRegs were moved to utility.hh and utility.cc.


# 6327:f6148086f997 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Alpha: Move reg_redir into its own files, and move some constants into regfile.hh.


# 6321:c14676e17110 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Alpha: Phase out Alpha's intregfile.hh and intregfile.cc.


# 6315:c7295a4826d5 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Registers: Eliminate the ISA defined floating point register file.


# 6313:95f69a436c82 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Registers: Add an ISA object which replaces the MiscRegFile.
This object encapsulates (or will eventually) the identity and characteristics
of the ISA in the CPU.


# 5647:b06b49498c79 12-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Turn Interrupts objects into SimObjects. Also, move local APIC state into x86's Interrupts object.


# 5217:bb810bb8ca2d 08-Nov-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Add function to explictly compare thread contexts after copying.


# 5192:582e583f8e7e 31-Oct-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Traceflags: Add SCons function to created a traceflag instead of having one file with them all.


# 4997:e7380529bd2d 26-Aug-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Address Translation: Make SE mode use an actual TLB/MMU for translation like FS.


# 4826:259b996a6da6 01-Aug-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Arguments: Get rid of duplicate code for the Arguments class in each architecture.
Move the argument files to src/sim and add a utility.cc file with a function
getArguments() that returns the given argument in the architecture specific fashion.
getArguments() was getArg() is the architecture specific Argument class and has had
all magic numbers replaced with meaningful constants. Also add a function to the
Argument class for testing if an argument is NULL.


# 4486:aaeb03a8a6e1 27-May-2007 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Move SimObject python files alongside the C++ and fix
the SConscript files so that only the objects that are
actually available in a given build are compiled in.
Remove a bunch of files that aren't used anymore.


# 4202:f7a05daec670 11-Mar-2007 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Rework the way SCons recurses into subdirectories, making it
automatic. The point is that now a subdirectory can be added
to the build process just by creating a SConscript file in it.
The process has two passes. On the first pass, all subdirs
of the root of the tree are searched for SConsopts files.
These files contain any command line options that ought to be
added for a particular subdirectory. On the second pass,
all subdirs of the src directory are searched for SConscript
files. These files describe how to build any given subdirectory.
I have added a Source() function. Any file (relative to the
directory in which the SConscript resides) passed to that
function is added to the build. Clean up everything to take
advantage of Source().
function is added to the list of files to be built.


# 3960:1dca397b2bab 20-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Initial work to make remote gdb available in SE mode. This is completely untested.


# 3592:1288f259d55c 10-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Moved the Alpha float regfile into it's own regfile and got rid of constants.hh and isa_traits.cc


# 3591:5c36532efd3c 10-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Split out alpha integer register file into it's own files.


# 3586:c5cc95fc5a61 09-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Moved the Alpha MiscRegFile into it's own file, and got rid of the Alpha specific DepTag constants.


# 3565:6ad587fb7dfd 07-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Put kernel_stats back into arch.


# 3536:89aa06409e4d 06-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Remote GDB support has been changed to use inheritance. Alpha should work, but isn't tested. Other architectures will not.


# 3457:7479ebe49444 31-Oct-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Make the IPRs use regular miscreg indexes, and make a table or two to find the miscreg index of a specific IPR.


# 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.