History log of /gem5/src/arch/x86/isa/microops/debug.isa
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14277:73d5e60b3a7c 06-Sep-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, x86: Rework the debug faults and microops.

This makes the non-fatal microops advance the PC, and adds missing
functions. The *_once Faults now also can be run once per *something*.
They would previously be run once per Fault invoke function which is
common to all M5WarnOnceFaults. The warn_once microop will now warn
once per message.

Change-Id: I05974b93f3b2700077a411b243679c2ff0e8c2cb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20739
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 12236:126ac9da6050 04-Nov-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

alpha,arm,mips,power,riscv,sparc,x86: Merge exec decl templates.

In the ISA instruction definitions, some classes were declared with
execute, etc., functions outside of the main template because they
had CPU specific signatures and would need to be duplicated with
each CPU plugged into them. Now that the instructions always just
use an ExecContext, there's no reason for those templates to be
separate. This change folds those templates together.

Change-Id: I13bda247d3d1cc07c0ea06968e48aa5b4aace7fa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5401
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alec Roelke <ar4jc@virginia.edu>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 12234:78ece221f9f5 02-Nov-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

alpha,arm,mips,power,riscv,sparc,x86,isa: De-specialize ExecContexts.

The ISA parser used to generate different copies of exec functions
for each exec context class a particular CPU wanted to use. That's
since been changed so that those functions take a pointer to the base
ExecContext, so the code which would generate those extra functions
can be removed, and some functions which used to be templated on an
ExecContext subclass can be untemplated, or minimally less templated.

Now that some functions aren't going to be instantiated multiple times
with different signatures, there are also opportunities to collapse
templates and make many instruction definitions simpler within the
parser. Since those changes will be less mechanical, they're left for
later changes and will probably be done in smaller increments.

Change-Id: I0015307bb02dfb9c60380b56d2a820f12169ebea
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5381
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 10474:799c8ee4ecba 16-Oct-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

arch: Use shared_ptr for all Faults

This patch takes quite a large step in transitioning from the ad-hoc
RefCountingPtr to the c++11 shared_ptr by adopting its use for all
Faults. There are no changes in behaviour, and the code modifications
are mostly just replacing "new" with "make_shared".


# 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.


# 9211:46c3a74952ec 11-Sep-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

x86: Add a separate register for D flag bit
The D flag bit is part of the cc flag bit register currently. But since it
is not being used any where in the implementation, it creates an unnecessary
dependency. Hence, it is being moved to a separate register.


# 9010:7891b96e1526 22-May-2012 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

X86: Split Condition Code register
This patch moves the ECF and EZF bits to individual registers (ecfBit and
ezfBit) and the CF and OF bits to cfofFlag registers. This is being done
so as to lower the read after write dependencies on the the condition code
register. Ultimately we will have the following registers [ZAPS], [OF],
[CF], [ECF], [EZF] and [DF]. Note that this is only one part of the
solution for lowering the dependencies. The other part will check whether
or not the condition code register needs to be actually read. This would
be done through a separate patch.


# 7975:4ddb6f13cf13 15-Feb-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Get rid of "inline" on the MicroPanic constructor in decoder.cc.

This was making certain versions of gcc omit the function from the object file
which would break the build.


# 7965:f4c89fe1246b 13-Feb-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Define fault objects to carry debug messages.

These faults can panic/warn/warn_once, etc., instead of instructions doing
that themselves directly. That way, instructions can be speculatively
executed, and only if they're actually going to commit will their fault be
invoked and the panic, etc., happen.


# 7626:bdd926760470 23-Aug-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Get rid of the flagless microop constructor.

This will reduce clutter in the source and hopefully speed up compilation.


# 7620:3d8a23caa1ef 23-Aug-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Consolidate extra microop flags into one parameter.

This single parameter replaces the collection of bools that set up various
flavors of microops. A flag parameter also allows other flags to be set like
the serialize before/after flags, etc., without having to change the
constructor.


# 7087:fb8d5786ff30 24-May-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

copyright: Change HP copyright on x86 code to be more friendly


# 5788:6d4161a36ca1 07-Jan-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Autogenerate macroop generateDisassemble function.


# 5591:b05a5c5452e0 09-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Fix the debugging microops. The debug functions can't handle a string object format.


# 5425:4226f6c2d03c 12-Jun-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

X86: Add microops which panic, fatal, warn, and warn_once.