History log of /gem5/src/arch/alpha/system.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14010:0e1e887507c0 01-May-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, base, dev, sim: Remove now unnecessary casts from PortProxy methods.

Change-Id: Ia73b2d86a10d02fa09c924a4571477bb5f200eb7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18572
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: 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


# 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.


# 9847:29941c87f7b0 04-Sep-2013 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

alpha: Move system virtProxy to Alpha only

This patch moves the system virtual port proxy to the Alpha system
only to make the resurrection of the NOISA slightly less
painful. Alpha is the only ISA that is actually using it.


# 9292:e57c7d9736a5 15-Oct-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Checkpoint: Make system serialize call children

This patch changes how the serialization of the system works. The base
class had a non-virtual serialize and unserialize, that was hidden by
a function with the same name for a number of subclasses (most likely
not intentional as the base class should have been virtual). A few of
the derived systems had no specialization at all (e.g. Power and x86
that simply called the System::serialize), but MIPS and Alpha adds
additional symbol table entries to the checkpoint.

Instead of overriding the virtual function, the additional entries are
now printed through a virtual function (un)serializeSymtab. The reason
for not calling System::serialize from the two related systems is that
a follow up patch will require the system to also serialize the
PhysicalMemory, and if this is done in the base class if ends up being
between the general parts and the specialized symbol table.

With this patch, the checkpoint is not modified, as the order of the
segments is unchanged.


# 9153:dc656c4af516 17-Aug-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

Alpha System: override startup(), instead of loadState()
Alpha System was overriding loadState() function to setup some functional
event. The system tried to read/write to memory before the Ruby memory had
unserialized the state. With this patch, Alpha System overrides the
startup() function, and sets up functional events in this function. This
works because startup() is called after Ruby memory system has unserialized
the memory state.


# 8885:52bbd95b31ed 09-Mar-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

System: Move code in initState() back into constructor whenever possible.

The change to port proxies recently moved code out of the constructor into
initState(). This is needed for code that loads data into memory, however
for code that setups symbol tables, kernel based events, etc this is the wrong
thing to do as that code is only called when a checkpoint isn't being restored
from.


# 8852:c744483edfcf 24-Feb-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Make port proxies use references rather than pointers

This patch is adding a clearer design intent to all objects that would
not be complete without a port proxy by making the proxies members
rathen than dynamically allocated. In essence, if NULL would not be a
valid value for the proxy, then we avoid using a pointer to make this
clear.

The same approach is used for the methods using these proxies, such as
loadSections, that now use references rather than pointers to better
reflect the fact that NULL would not be an acceptable value (in fact
the code would break and that is how this patch started out).

Overall the concept of "using a reference to express unconditional
composition where a NULL pointer is never valid" could be done on a
much broader scale throughout the code base, but for now it is only
done in the locations affected by the proxies.


# 8799:dac1e33e07b0 28-Jan-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge with the main repo.


# 8741:491297d019f3 30-Sep-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Remove System::platform and Platform::intrFrequency.

In order for a system object to work in SE mode and FS mode, it has to either
always require a platform object even in SE mode, or get rid of the
requirement all together. Making SE mode carry around unnecessary/unused bits
of FS seems less than ideal, so I decided to go with the second option. The
platform pointer in the System class was used for exactly one purpose, a path
for the Alpha Linux system object to get to the real time clock and read its
frequency so that it could short cut the loops_per_jiffy calculation. There
was also a copy and pasted implementation in MIPS, but since it was only there
because it was there in Alpha I still count that as one use.

This change reverses the mechanism that communicates the RTC frequency so that
the Tsunami platform object pushes it up to the AlphaSystem object. This is
slightly less specific than it could be because really only the
AlphaLinuxSystem uses it. Because the intrFrequency function on the Platform
class was no longer necessary (and unimplemented on anything but Alpha) it was
eliminated.

After this change, a platform will need to have a system, but a system won't
have to have a platform.


# 8706:b1838faf3bcc 17-Jan-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Add port proxies instead of non-structural ports

Port proxies are used to replace non-structural ports, and thus enable
all ports in the system to correspond to a structural entity. This has
the advantage of accessing memory through the normal memory subsystem
and thus allowing any constellation of distributed memories, address
maps, etc. Most accesses are done through the "system port" that is
used for loading binaries, debugging etc. For the entities that belong
to the CPU, e.g. threads and thread contexts, they wrap the CPU data
port in a port proxy.

The following replacements are made:
FunctionalPort > PortProxy
TranslatingPort > SETranslatingPortProxy
VirtualPort > FSTranslatingPortProxy


# 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


# 7723:ee4ac00d0774 08-Nov-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

sim: Use forward declarations for ports.

Virtual ports need TLB data which means anything touching a file in the arch
directory rebuilds any file that includes system.hh which in everything.


# 7580:6f77f379a594 23-Aug-2010 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@arm.com>

Loader: Make the load address mask be a parameter of the system rather than a constant.

This allows one two different OS requirements for the same ISA to be handled.
Some OSes are compiled for a virtual address and need to be loaded into physical
memory that starts at address 0, while other bare metal tools generate
images that start at address 0.


# 7447:3fc243687abb 03-Jun-2010 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

More minor gdb-related cleanup.
Found several more stale includes and forward decls.


# 5569:baeee670d4ce 28-Sep-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

style: Make a style pass over the whole arch/alpha directory.


# 5568:d14250d688d2 28-Sep-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

alpha: Clean up namespace usage.


# 5566:3440c9ad49b4 28-Sep-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

alpha: Get rid fo the namespace called EV5.
We're never going to do an alpha platform other than the one we've got.


# 5543:3af77710f397 10-Sep-2008 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

style: Remove non-leading tabs everywhere they shouldn't be. Developers should configure their editors to not insert tabs


# 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.


# 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.


# 3567:76b849656311 07-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Force remote gdb code to use signal numbers and not ISA specific trap numbers.


# 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.


# 3125:febd811bccc6 30-Sep-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zamp:./local/clean/o3-merge/m5
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/o3-merge/newmem

configs/boot/micro_memlat.rcS:
configs/boot/micro_tlblat.rcS:
src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc:
src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa:
src/arch/alpha/isa_traits.hh:
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/cpu/base.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha/params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/checker_builder.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/front_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple_thread.cc:
src/cpu/simple_thread.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
src/dev/ide_disk.cc:
src/python/m5/objects/O3CPU.py:
src/python/m5/objects/Root.py:
src/python/m5/objects/System.py:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:
src/sim/pseudo_inst.hh:
src/sim/system.hh:
util/m5/m5.c:
Hand merge.


# 2902:695d4683916e 13-Jul-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

add system.mem_mode = ['timing', 'atomic']
update scripts acordingly

configs/test/SysPaths.py:
new syspaths from nate, this one allows you to set script, binary, and disk paths like
system.dir = 'aouaou' in your script
configs/test/fs.py:
update for system mem_mode
Put small checkpoint example
Make clock 1THz
configs/test/test.py:
src/arch/alpha/freebsd/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/linux/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/system.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tru64/system.cc:
src/arch/sparc/system.cc:
src/python/m5/objects/System.py:
src/sim/system.cc:
src/sim/system.hh:
update for system mem_mode
src/dev/io_device.cc:
Use time returned from sendAtomic to delay


# 2760:4dbf498165ac 17-Jun-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Add myself to list of authors


# 2716:b9114064d77a 11-Jun-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

Merge iceaxe.:/Volumes/work/research/m5/head
into iceaxe.:/Volumes/work/research/m5/merge

src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/kern/kernel_stats.cc:
src/kern/kernel_stats.hh:
src/kern/system_events.cc:
src/kern/system_events.hh:
src/python/m5/objects/System.py:
src/sim/system.cc:
src/sim/system.hh:
hand merge


# 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.