History log of /gem5/src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14024:abe47b13653d 02-May-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, base, cpu, gpu, sim: Merge getMemProxy and getVirtProxy.

These two functions were performing the same function but had two
different names for historical reasons. This change merges them
together, keeping the getVirtProxy name to be consistent with the
getPhysProxy method used to get a non-translating proxy port.

Change-Id: Idd83c6b899f9343795075b030ccbc723a79e52a4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18581
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 14022:a7cdc33dab35 02-May-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu, sim: Return PortProxy &s from all the proxy accessors.

This is a step towards merging the accessors for SE and FS modes.

Change-Id: I76818ab88b97097ac363e243be9cc1911b283090
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18579
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13905:5cf30883255c 27-Apr-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch: cpu: Track kernel stats using the base ISA agnostic type.

Then cast to the ISA specific type when necessary. This removes
(mostly) an ISA specific aspect to some of the interfaces. The ISA
specific version of the kernel stats still needs to be constructed and
stored in a few places which means that kernel_stats.hh still needs to
be a switching arch header, for instance.

In the future, I'd like to make the kernel its own object like the
Process objects in SE mode, and then it would be able to instantiate
and maintain its own stats.

Change-Id: I8309d49019124f6bea1482aaea5b5b34e8c97433
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18429
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13865:cca49fc49c57 13-Apr-2019 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu: Eliminate the ProxyThreadContext class.

Replace it with direct inheritance from the ThreadContext class in the
SimpleThread class which was the only place it was used.

Also take the opportunity to use some specialized types instead of
ints, etc., add some consts, and fix some style issues.

Change-Id: I5d2cfa87b20dc43615e33e6755c9d016564e9c0e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18048
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13693:85fa3a41014b 14-Feb-2019 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

cpu: Add ISA* getter in Thread interface

This patch is adding a ISA* getter to the TC interface

Change-Id: Ib8ddc5d8fdd44e782f50a2ad15878a6bcf931e58
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16462
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>


# 13628:332f730a1855 04-Feb-2019 Andrea Mondelli <Andrea.Mondelli@ucf.edu>

misc: added missing override specifier

Added missing specifier for various virtual functions.

Change-Id: I4783e92d78789a9ae182fad79aadceafb00b2458
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16103
Reviewed-by: Hoa Nguyen <hoanguyen@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13622:ba31c2a23eca 21-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu, arch: Replace the CCReg type with RegVal.

Most architectures weren't using the CCReg type, and in x86 and arm
it was already a uint64_t.

Change-Id: I0b3d5e690e6b31db6f2627f449c89bde0f6750a6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14515
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13611:c8b7847b4171 19-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch: cpu: Rename *FloatRegBits* to *FloatReg*.

Now that there's no plain FloatReg, there's no reason to distinguish
FloatRegBits with a special suffix since it's the only way to read or
write FP registers.

Change-Id: I3a60168c1d4302aed55223ea8e37b421f21efded
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14460
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13610:5d5404ac6288 16-Oct-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

arch,cpu: Add vector predicate registers

Latest-gen. vector/SIMD extensions, including the Arm Scalable Vector
Extension (SVE), introduce the notion of a predicate register file.
This changeset adds this feature across architectures and CPU models.

Change-Id: Iebcadbad89c0a582ff8b1b70de353305db603946
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13715
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13582:989577bf6abc 18-Oct-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch: cpu: Stop passing around misc registers by reference.

These values are all basic integers (specifically uint64_t now), and
so passing them by const & is actually less efficient since there's a
extra level of indirection and an extra value, and the same sized value
(a 64 bit pointer vs. a 64 bit int) is being passed around.

Change-Id: Ie9956b8dc4c225068ab1afaba233ec2b42b76da3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13626
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13557:fc33e6048b25 13-Oct-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

cpu: dev: sim: gpu-compute: Banish some ISA specific register types.

These types are IntReg, FloatReg, FloatRegBits, and MiscReg. There are
some remaining types, specifically the vector registers and the CCReg.
I'm less familiar with these new types of registers, and so will look
at getting rid of them at some later time.

Change-Id: Ide8f76b15c531286f61427330053b44074b8ac9b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13624
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 13500:6e0a2a7c6d8c 19-Nov-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch, cpu: Remove float type accessors.

Use the binary accessors instead.

Change-Id: Iff1877e92c79df02b3d13635391a8c2f025776a2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14457
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12406:86bde4a026b5 22-Dec-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

arch,cpu: "virtualize" the TLB interface.

CPUs have historically instantiated the architecture specific version
of the TLBs to avoid a virtual function call, making them a little bit
more dependent on what the current ISA is. Some simple performance
measurement, the x86 twolf regression on the atomic CPU, shows that
there isn't actually any performance benefit, and if anything the
simulator goes slightly faster (although still within margin of error)
when the TLB functions are virtual.

This change switches everything outside of the architectures themselves
to use the generic BaseTLB type, and then inside the ISA for them to
cast that to their architecture specific type to call into architecture
specific interfaces.

The ARM TLB needed the most adjustment since it was using non-standard
translation function signatures. Specifically, they all took an extra
"type" parameter which defaulted to normal, and translateTiming
returned a Fault. translateTiming actually doesn't need to return a
Fault because everywhere that consumed it just stored it into a
structure which it then deleted(?), and the fault is stored in the
Translation object when the translation is done.

A little more work is needed to fully obviate the arch/tlb.hh header,
so the TheISA::TLB type is still visible outside of the ISAs.
Specifically, the TlbEntry type is used in the generic PageTable which
lives in src/mem.

Change-Id: I51b68ee74411f9af778317eff222f9349d2ed575
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6921
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12109:f29e9c5418aa 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Added interface for vector reg file

This patch adds some more functionality to the cpu model and the arch to
interface with the vector register file.

This change consists mainly of augmenting ThreadContexts and ExecContexts
with calls to get/set full vectors, underlying microarchitectural elements
or lanes. Those are meant to interface with the vector register file. All
classes that implement this interface also get an appropriate implementation.

This requires implementing the vector register file for the different
models using the VecRegContainer class.

This change set also updates the Result abstraction to contemplate the
possibility of having a vector as result.

The changes also affect how the remote_gdb connection works.

There are some (nasty) side effects, such as the need to define dummy
numPhysVecRegs parameter values for architectures that do not implement
vector extensions.

Nathanael Premillieu's work with an increasing number of fixes and
improvements of mine.

Change-Id: Iee65f4e8b03abfe1e94e6940a51b68d0977fd5bb
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues and CC reg free list initialisation ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2705


# 12106:7784fac1b159 05-Apr-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <Rekai.GonzalezAlberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Simplify the rename interface and use RegId

With the hierarchical RegId there are a lot of functions that are
redundant now.

The idea behind the simplification is that instead of having the regId,
telling which kind of register read/write/rename/lookup/etc. and then
the function panic_if'ing if the regId is not of the appropriate type,
we provide an interface that decides what kind of register to read
depending on the register type of the given regId.

Change-Id: I7d52e9e21fc01205ae365d86921a4ceb67a57178
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
[ Fix RISCV build issues ]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2702


# 11886:43b882cada33 27-Feb-2017 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [PATCH 15/22] add clone/execve for threading and multiprocess simulations

Modifies the clone system call and adds execve system call. Requires allowing
processes to steal thread contexts from other processes in the same system
object and the ability to detach pieces of process state (such as MemState)
to allow dynamic sharing.


# 11877:5ea85692a53e 20-Jul-2015 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

syscall_emul: [patch 13/22] add system call retry capability

This changeset adds functionality that allows system calls to retry without
affecting thread context state such as the program counter or register values
for the associated thread context (when system calls return with a retry
fault).

This functionality is needed to solve problems with blocking system calls
in multi-process or multi-threaded simulations where information is passed
between processes/threads. Blocking system calls can cause deadlock because
the simulator itself is single threaded. There is only a single thread
servicing the event queue which can cause deadlock if the thread hits a
blocking system call instruction.

To illustrate the problem, consider two processes using the producer/consumer
sharing model. The processes can use file descriptors and the read and write
calls to pass information to one another. If the consumer calls the blocking
read system call before the producer has produced anything, the call will
block the event queue (while executing the system call instruction) and
deadlock the simulation.

The solution implemented in this changeset is to recognize that the system
calls will block and then generate a special retry fault. The fault will
be sent back up through the function call chain until it is exposed to the
cpu model's pipeline where the fault becomes visible. The fault will trigger
the cpu model to replay the instruction at a future tick where the call has
a chance to succeed without actually going into a blocking state.

In subsequent patches, we recognize that a syscall will block by calling a
non-blocking poll (from inside the system call implementation) and checking
for events. When events show up during the poll, it signifies that the call
would not have blocked and the syscall is allowed to proceed (calling an
underlying host system call if necessary). If no events are returned from the
poll, we generate the fault and try the instruction for the thread context
at a distant tick. Note that retrying every tick is not efficient.

As an aside, the simulator has some multi-threading support for the event
queue, but it is not used by default and needs work. Even if the event queue
was completely multi-threaded, meaning that there is a hardware thread on
the host servicing a single simulator thread contexts with a 1:1 mapping
between them, it's still possible to run into deadlock due to the event queue
barriers on quantum boundaries. The solution of replaying at a later tick
is the simplest solution and solves the problem generally.


# 11005:e7f403b6b76f 07-Aug-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.


# 10935:acd48ddd725f 28-Jul-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

revert 5af8f40d8f2c


# 10934:5af8f40d8f2c 26-Jul-2015 Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>

cpu: implements vector registers

This adds a vector register type. The type is defined as a std::array of a
fixed number of uint64_ts. The isa_parser.py has been modified to parse vector
register operands and generate the required code. Different cpus have vector
register files now.


# 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.


# 10698:829adc48e175 16-Feb-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

arch: Make readMiscRegNoEffect const throughout

Finally took the plunge and made this apply to all ISAs, not just ARM.


# 10664:61a0b02aa800 25-Jan-2015 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

cpu: Remove all notion that we know when the cpu is misspeculating.

We have no way of knowing if a CPU model is on the wrong path with
our execute-in-execute CPU models. Don't pretend that we do.


# 10407:a9023811bf9e 20-Sep-2014 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

alpha,arm,mips,power,x86,cpu,sim: Cleanup activate/deactivate

activate(), suspend(), and halt() used on thread contexts had an optional
delay parameter. However this parameter was often ignored. Also, when used,
the delay was seemily arbitrarily set to 0 or 1 cycle (no other delays were
ever specified). This patch removes the delay parameter and 'Events'
associated with them across all ISAs and cores. Unused activate logic
is also removed.


# 10190:fb83d025d1c3 09-May-2014 Akash Bagdia <akash.bagdia@arm.com>

cpu, arm: Allow the specification of a socket field

Allow the specification of a socket ID for every core that is reflected in the
MPIDR field in ARM systems. This allows studying multi-socket / cluster
systems with ARM CPUs.


# 10110:580b47334a97 07-Mar-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

cpu: Make CPU and ThreadContext getters const

This patch merely tidies up the CPU and ThreadContext getters by
making them const where appropriate.


# 10033:21c14a2b2117 24-Jan-2014 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

arch, cpu: Add support for flattening misc register indexes.

With ARMv8 support the same misc register id results in accessing different
registers depending on the current mode of the processor. This patch adds
the same orthogonality to the misc register file as the others (int, float, cc).
For all the othre ISAs this is currently a null-implementation.

Additionally, a system variable is added to all the ISA objects.


# 9920:028e4da64b42 15-Oct-2013 Yasuko Eckert <yasuko.eckert@amd.com>

cpu: add a condition-code register class

Add a third register class for condition codes,
in parallel with the integer and FP classes.
No ISAs use the CC class at this point though.


# 9426:0548b3e9734d 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

cpu: Implement a flat register interface in thread contexts

Some architectures map registers differently depending on their mode
of operations. There is currently no architecture independent way of
accessing all registers. This patch introduces a flat register
interface to the ThreadContext class. This interface is useful, for
example, when serializing or copying thread contexts.


# 9180:ee8d7a51651d 28-Aug-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

Clock: Add a Cycles wrapper class and use where applicable

This patch addresses the comments and feedback on the preceding patch
that reworks the clocks and now more clearly shows where cycles
(relative cycle counts) are used to express time.

Instead of bumping the existing patch I chose to make this a separate
patch, merely to try and focus the discussion around a smaller set of
changes. The two patches will be pushed together though.

This changes done as part of this patch are mostly following directly
from the introduction of the wrapper class, and change enough code to
make things compile and run again. There are definitely more places
where int/uint/Tick is still used to represent cycles, and it will
take some time to chase them all down. Similarly, a lot of parameters
should be changed from Param.Tick and Param.Unsigned to
Param.Cycles.

In addition, the use of curTick is questionable as there should not be
an absolute cycle. Potential solutions can be built on top of this
patch. There is a similar situation in the o3 CPU where
lastRunningCycle is currently counting in Cycles, and is still an
absolute time. More discussion to be had in other words.

An additional change that would be appropriate in the future is to
perform a similar wrapping of Tick and probably also introduce a
Ticks class along with suitable operators for all these classes.


# 9020:14321ce30881 25-May-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Decode: Make the Decoder class defined per ISA.


# 8931:7a1dfb191e3f 06-Apr-2012 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memories

This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of
PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual
memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous
address range.

All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic
behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access
methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now
SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of
memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory.

To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now
distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called
PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and
their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an
infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut"
accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the
global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some
testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to
the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and
any potential ACPI tables.

Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the
same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the
checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible
re-organisation.


# 8887:20ea02da9c53 09-Mar-2012 Geoffrey Blake <geoffrey.blake@arm.com>

CheckerCPU: Make CheckerCPU runtime selectable instead of compile selectable

Enables the CheckerCPU to be selected at runtime with the --checker option
from the configs/example/fs.py and configs/example/se.py configuration
files. Also merges with the SE/FS changes.


# 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.


# 8809:bb10807da889 01-Feb-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge with head, hopefully the last time for this batch.


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

Merge with the main repo.


# 8793:5f25086326ac 18-Nov-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in the CPU directory.


# 8767:e575781f71b8 30-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Make getProcessPtr available in both modes, and get rid of FULL_SYSTEMs.


# 8764:e4660687c49f 16-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Include getMemPort in FS.


# 8761:20322354b80b 16-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

SE/FS: Build/expose vport in SE mode.


# 8754:0996451df6de 16-Oct-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Make physPort and getPhysPort available in SE mode.


# 8733:64a7bf8fa56c 31-Jan-2012 Geoffrey Blake <geoffrey.blake@arm.com>

CheckerCPU: Re-factor CheckerCPU to be compatible with current gem5

Brings the CheckerCPU back to life to allow FS and SE checking of the
O3CPU. These changes have only been tested with the ARM ISA. Other
ISAs potentially require modification.


# 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


# 7679:f26cc2c68b48 14-Sep-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

CPU: Get rid of the now unnecessary getInst/setInst family of functions.

This code is no longer needed because of the preceeding change which adds a
StaticInstPtr parameter to the fault's invoke method, obviating the only use
for this pair of functions.


# 6658:f4de76601762 23-Sep-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

arch: nuke arch/isa_specific.hh and move stuff to generated config/the_isa.hh


# 6314:781969fbeca9 09-Jul-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Registers: Get rid of the float register width parameter.


# 6029:007c36616f47 15-Apr-2009 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

Get rid of the Unallocated thread context state.
Basically merge it in with Halted.
Also had to get rid of a few other functions that
called ThreadContext::deallocate(), including:
- InOrderCPU's setThreadRescheduleCondition.
- ThreadContext::exit(). This function was there to avoid terminating
simulation when one thread out of a multi-thread workload exits, but we
need to find a better (non-cpu-centric) way.


# 6022:410194bb3049 09-Apr-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

tlb: Don't separate the TLB classes into an instruction TLB and a data TLB


# 5958:2d9737bf3c2f 27-Feb-2009 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Processes: Make getting and setting system call arguments part of a process object.


# 5715:e8c1d4e669a7 04-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

get rid of all instances of readTid() and getThreadNum(). Unify and eliminate
redundancies with threadId() as their replacement.


# 5712:199d31b47f7b 02-Nov-2008 Lisa Hsu <hsul@eecs.umich.edu>

make BaseCPU the provider of _cpuId, and cpuId() instead of being scattered
across the subclasses. generally make it so that member data is _cpuId and
accessor functions are cpuId(). The ID val comes from the python (default -1 if
none provided), and if it is -1, the index of cpuList will be given. this has
passed util/regress quick and se.py -n4 and fs.py -n4 as well as standard
switch.


# 5668:5b5a9f4203d1 12-Oct-2008 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Get rid of old RegContext code.


# 5499:8bfc7650c344 01-Jul-2008 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Remove delVirtPort() and make getVirtPort() only return cached version.


# 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.


# 4172:141705d83494 07-Mar-2007 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

*MiscReg->*MiscRegNoEffect, *MiscRegWithEffect->*MiscReg


# 3548:85e64c82c522 07-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Moved the switched version of kernel_stats.hh back to kern, and moved the base kernel_stats to base_kernel_stats


# 3521:0b0b3551def0 03-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Got rid of "inPalMode". Some places are still effectively checking if they are in PAL mode, however.


# 3468:cf23ad1ceef2 01-Nov-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Adjustments for the AlphaTLB changing to AlphaISA::TLB and changing register file functions to not take faults


# 3225:9872d6c27222 09-Oct-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fix checker bug.

src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
Checker's TC should only copy state, and not fully take over from the old context (prevents it from accidentally stealing the quiesce event).


# 2972:f84c6c5309ce 11-Aug-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Pushed most of constants.hh back into isa_traits.hh and regfile.hh and created a seperate file for the syscallreturn class.


# 2887:c4d893b14e07 10-Jul-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Minor fixes.

src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
Change functions to match Korey's changes.
src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh:
Fix compile error.


# 2690:f4337c0d9e6f 08-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Get O3 CPU mostly working in full system, and fix an FP bug that showed up.

It still does not yet handle retries.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Get working in full-system mode and fix some FP bugs.
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Get working in full system.
src/cpu/checker/o3_cpu_builder.cc:
Checker does not take a MemObject as a simobj parameter.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
Fix up float regs.
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
Fix up an fp error, print out more useful output messages.


# 2689:dbf969c18a65 07-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Update copyright.


# 2683:d6b72bb2ed97 07-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Reorganization/renaming of CPUExecContext. Now it is called SimpleThread in order to clear up the confusion due to the many ExecContexts. It also derives from a common ThreadState object, which holds various state common to threads across CPU models.

Following with the previous check-in, ExecContext now refers only to the interface provided to the ISA in order to access CPU state. ThreadContext refers to the interface provided to all objects outside the CPU in order to access thread state. SimpleThread provides all thread state and the interface to access it, and is suitable for simple execution models such as the SimpleCPU.

src/SConscript:
Include thread state file.
src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh:
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.cc:
src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/simple/base.hh:
src/cpu/simple/timing.cc:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Make thread member variables protected..
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
Make various members of ThreadState protected.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Push generation of TranslatingPort into the CPU itself.
Make various members of ThreadState protected.
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Pull a lot of common code into the base ThreadState class.
src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, move a lot of common code into base ThreadState class.
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Push a lot of common code into base ThreadState class. This goes along with renaming CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, and making it derive from ThreadState.
src/cpu/simple_thread.cc:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, make it derive from ThreadState. This helps push a lot of common code/state into a single class that can be used by all CPUs.
src/cpu/simple_thread.hh:
Rename CPUExecContext to SimpleThread, make it derive from ThreadState.
src/kern/system_events.cc:
Rename cpu_exec_context to thread_context.
src/sim/process.hh:
Remove unused forward declaration.


# 2682:52ac6338355d 07-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Move checker's exec_context.hh to match the other changes. Also add in some more comments.

src/cpu/thread_context.hh:
Add more comments.