History log of /gem5/src/cpu/minor/MinorCPU.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13759:9941fca869a9 16-Oct-2018 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

arch-arm,cpu: Add initial support for Arm SVE

This changeset adds initial support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension
(SVE) by implementing:
- support for most data-processing instructions (no loads/stores yet);
- basic system-level support.

Additional authors:
- Javier Setoain <javier.setoain@arm.com>
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
- Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

Thanks to Pau Cabre for his contribution of bugfixes.

Change-Id: I1808b5ff55b401777eeb9b99c9a1129e0d527709
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13515
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13709:dd6b7ac5801f 26-Jan-2019 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

python: Make iterator handling Python 3 compatible

Many functions that used to return lists (e.g., dict.items()) now
return iterators and their iterator counterparts (e.g.,
dict.iteritems()) have been removed. Switch calls to the Python 2.7
iterator methods to use the Python 3 equivalent and add explicit list
conversions where necessary.

Change-Id: I0c18114955af8f4932d81fb689a0adb939dafaba
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15992
Reviewed-by: Juha Jäykkä <juha.jaykka@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13665:9c7fe3811b88 25-Jan-2019 Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

python: Don't assume SimObjects live in the global namespace

The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects
from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations
to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files
consistent with configuration files.

Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>


# 13172:b816da4c5e9f 14-May-2018 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

cpu: Fix MinorCPU executing Crypto Instructions

Crypto instruction classes added to the MinorDefaultFloatSimdFU.

Change-Id: I0cd4aa422bec74285595312a8cf01f5f425a82cd
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13251
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12563:8d59ed22ae79 06-Mar-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

scons: Switch from the print statement to the print function.

Starting with version 3, scons imposes using the print function instead
of the print statement in code it processes. To get things building
again, this change moves all python code within gem5 to use the
function version. Another change by another author separately made this
same change to the site_tools and site_init.py files.

Change-Id: I2de7dc3b1be756baad6f60574c47c8b7e80ea3b0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/8761
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 11683:f1e198a028be 15-Oct-2016 Fernando Endo <fernando.endo2@gmail.com>

cpu, arm: Distinguish Float* and SimdFloat*, create FloatMem* opClass

Modify the opClass assigned to AArch64 FP instructions from SimdFloat* to
Float*. Also create the FloatMemRead and FloatMemWrite opClasses, which
distinguishes writes to the INT and FP register banks.
Change the latency of (Simd)FloatMultAcc to 5, based on the Cortex-A72,
where the "latency" of FMADD is 3 if the next instruction is a FMADD and
has only the augend to destination dependency, otherwise it's 7 cycles.

Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11567:560d7fbbddd1 21-Jul-2016 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

cpu: Add SMT support to MinorCPU

This patch adds SMT support to the MinorCPU. Currently
RoundRobin or Random thread scheduling are supported.

Change-Id: I91faf39ff881af5918cca05051829fc6261f20e3


# 10785:f56c10663a01 13-Apr-2015 Dibakar Gope <gope@wisc.edu>

cpu: re-organizes the branch predictor structure.

Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>


# 10259:ebb376f73dd2 23-Jul-2014 Andrew Bardsley <Andrew.Bardsley@arm.com>

cpu: `Minor' in-order CPU model

This patch contains a new CPU model named `Minor'. Minor models a four
stage in-order execution pipeline (fetch lines, decompose into
macroops, decompose macroops into microops, execute).

The model was developed to support the ARM ISA but should be fixable
to support all the remaining gem5 ISAs. It currently also works for
Alpha, and regressions are included for ARM and Alpha (including Linux
boot).

Documentation for the model can be found in src/doc/inside-minor.doxygen and
its internal operations can be visualised using the Minorview tool
utils/minorview.py.

Minor was designed to be fairly simple and not to engage in a lot of
instruction annotation. As such, it currently has very few gathered
stats and may lack other gem5 features.

Minor is faster than the o3 model. Sample results:

Benchmark | Stat host_seconds (s)
---------------+--------v--------v--------
(on ARM, opt) | simple | o3 | minor
| timing | timing | timing
---------------+--------+--------+--------
10.linux-boot | 169 | 1883 | 1075
10.mcf | 117 | 967 | 491
20.parser | 668 | 6315 | 3146
30.eon | 542 | 3413 | 2414
40.perlbmk | 2339 | 20905 | 11532
50.vortex | 122 | 1094 | 588
60.bzip2 | 2045 | 18061 | 9662
70.twolf | 207 | 2736 | 1036