History log of /gem5/src/arch/arm/isa_device.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13581:b6dcd0183747 13-Oct-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arm: Get rid of some register type definitions.

These are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. These have been
supplanted by the global types RegVal and FloatRegVal.

Change-Id: Ief1cd85d0eff7156282ddb1ce168a2a5677f7435
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13625
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 12972:832a2d71a6cf 23-Mar-2017 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arm: Add support for tracking TCs in ISA devices

ISA devices typically need to keep track of the thread context they
are associated with. Among other things, this is required for
interrupt delivery. Add a BaseISADevice:setThreadContext() method to
wire such models to the right thread context.

Change-Id: Iad354d176c0c4c4e34c6ab8b5acaee0b69da0406
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12399
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 11168:f98eb2da15a4 12-Oct-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.


# 10609:ae5582819481 23-Dec-2014 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

arm: Add support for filtering in the PMU

This patch adds support for filtering events in the PMU. In order to
do so, it updates the ISADevice base class to forward an ISA pointer
to ISA devices. This enables such devices to access the MiscReg file
to determine the current execution level.


# 10461:afeb5cdb3907 16-Oct-2014 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

arm: Add a model of an ARM PMUv3

This class implements a subset of the ARM PMU v3 specification as
described in the ARMv8 reference manual. It supports most of the
features of the PMU, however the following features are known to be
missing:

* Event filtering (e.g., from different privilege levels).
* Access controls (the PMU currently ignores the execution level).
* The chain counter (event no. 0x1E) is unimplemented.

The PMU itself does not implement any events, it merely provides an
interface for the configuration scripts to hook up probes that drive
events. Configuration scripts should call addEventProbe() to configure
custom events or high-level methods to configure architected
events. The Python implementation of addEventProbe() automatically
delays event type registration until after instantiation.

In order to support CPU switching and some combined counters (e.g.,
memory references synthesized from loads and stores), the PMU allows
multiple probes per event type. When creating a system that switches
between CPU models that share the same PMU, PMU events for all of the
CPU models can be registered with the PMU.

Kudos to Matt Horsnell for the initial gem5 implementation of the PMU.