History log of /gem5/src/cpu/minor/execute.cc
Revision Date Author Comments
# 14105:969b4e972b07 27-Feb-2019 Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>

cpu: Add first-/non-faulting load support to Minor and O3

Some architectures allow masking faults of memory load instructions in
some specific circumstances (e.g. first-faulting and non-faulting
loads in Arm SVE). This patch adds support for such loads in the Minor
and O3 CPU models.

Change-Id: I264a81a078f049127779aa834e89f0e693ba0bea
Signed-off-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19178
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13966:3189413c5894 01-Mar-2019 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

Revert "cpu: fix how a thread starts up in MinorCPU"

This reverts commit 02dafc5498750d9734ba8f2a1608a846f90b71d1.
The commit was part of a patchset which broke MinorCPU regressions
(switcheroo)

Change-Id: I0a8098fc71abe5838014e587dbe372b258d8aa9f
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18604
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13965:347e04956cfe 01-Mar-2019 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

Revert "cpu: stop scheduling suspended threads in MinorCPU"

This reverts commit 6a6668bbc4b038b98eb3ee64ffb034719316afd9.
The commit was part of a patchset which broke MinorCPU regressions
(switcheroo)

Change-Id: I3c16a6478ba44b9d27cdd3d64a710a356999df05
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18603
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13964:e4dbd156a640 01-Mar-2019 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

Revert "cpu: fix branching when thread is suspended in MinorCPU"

This reverts commit e437086341712f1435db655b3527ea29b3311f4e.
The commit was part of a patchset which broke MinorCPU regressions
(switcheroo)

Change-Id: Ib8482034c2402008ccfa552325a8eb31e731b619
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18602
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>


# 13954:2f400a5f2627 07-Jul-2017 Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>

cpu,mem: Add support for partial loads/stores and wide mem. accesses

This changeset adds support for partial (or masked) loads/stores, i.e.
loads/stores that can disable accesses to individual bytes within the
target address range. In addition, this changeset extends the code to
crack memory accesses across most CPU models (TimingSimpleCPU still
TBD), so that arbitrarily wide memory accesses are supported. These
changes are required for supporting ISAs with wide vectors.

Additional authors:
- Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
- Tiago Muck <tiago.muck@arm.com>

Change-Id: Ibad33541c258ad72925c0b1d5abc3e5e8bf92d92
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13518
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>


# 13818:f0126488ef9e 26-Mar-2019 Javier Bueno <javier.bueno@metempsy.com>

cpu: Added a probe to notify the address of retired instructions

A probe is added to notify the address of each retired instruction.

Change-Id: Iefc1b09d74b3aa0aa5773b17ba637bf51f5a59c9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17632
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 13652:45d94ac03a27 22-Jan-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: support atomic memory request type with AtomicOpFunctor

This patch enables all 4 CPU models (AtomicSimpleCPU, TimingSimpleCPU,
MinorCPU and DerivO3CPU) to issue atomic memory (AMO) requests to memory
system.

Atomic memory instruction is treated as a special store instruction in
all CPU models.

In simple CPUs, an AMO request with an associated AtomicOpFunctor is
simply sent to L1 dcache.

In MinorCPU, an AMO request bypasses store buffer and waits for any
conflicting store request(s) currently in the store buffer to retire
before the AMO request is sent to the cache. AMO requests are not buffered
in the store buffer, so their effects appear immediately in the cache.

In DerivO3CPU, an AMO request is inserted in the store buffer so that it
is delivered to the cache only after all previous stores are issued to
the cache. Data forwarding between between an outstanding AMO in the
store buffer and a subsequent load is not allowed since the AMO request
does not hold valid data until it's executed in the cache.

This implementation assumes that a target ISA implementation must insert
enough memory fences as micro-ops around an atomic instruction to
enforce a correct order of memory instructions with respect to its
memory consistency model. Without extra memory fences, this implementation
can allow AMOs and other memory instructions that do not conflict
(i.e., not target the same address) to reorder.

This implementation also assumes that atomic instructions execute within
a cache line boundary since the cache for now is not able to execute an
operation on two different cache lines in one single step. Therefore,
ISAs like x86 that require multi-cache-line atomic instructions need to
either use a pair of locking load and unlocking store or change the
cache implementation to guarantee the atomicity of an atomic
instruction.

Change-Id: Ib8a7c81868ac05b98d73afc7d16eb88486f8cf9a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8188
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13647:7a9b7c0373b1 02-Apr-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: fix how branching is handled when a thread is suspended in MinorCPU

When a thread is suspended, all instructions after the suspension need
to be discarded since the thread will take a different execution stream
when it wakes up.

To do that, in MinorCPU, whenever a thread gets suspended, we change the
current execution stream by updating the current branch with
BranchData::SuspendThread reason.

Change-Id: I7cdcda22c1cf6e8ac8db8800b7d9ec052433fdf3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/9626
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13646:626670cc6da4 02-Apr-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: stop scheduling suspended threads in all stages of MinorCPU

This patch makes suspended threads non-schedulable in Fetch1, Fetch2,
Decode and Execute stages in MinorCPU.

Change-Id: Ie79857e13b7b782d9c58c32310993a132b609cf9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/9625
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13632:483aaa00c69c 02-Apr-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: fix how a thread starts up in MinorCPU

When a thread is activated by another thread calling a clone system
call, the child thread's context is initialized in the middle of the
clone system call and before the context is fully initialized.
Therefore, the child thread starts fetching an unitialized PC, which
could lead to a page fault.

This patch adds a pipeline wakeup event that is scheduled later in the
cycle when the thread is activated. This event ensures that the first
fetch only happens after the thread context is fully initialized
(e.g., in case of clone syscall, it is when the parent thread copies
its context over to the child thread).

When a thread first starts or wakes up, input queue to the Fetch2 stage
needs to be drained since the execution flow is likely to change and
previously fetched instructions in the queue may no longer be in the
correct flow. This patch dumps/drains all inputs in the input queue
of a thread context in the Fetch2 stage when the associated thread wakes
up.

Change-Id: Iad970638e435858b7289cd471158cc0afdbbb0e5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8182
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>


# 12489:76d7f5f55f40 08-Nov-2017 Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>

cpu: MinorCPU handling IsSquashAfter flag

MinorCPU was not handling IsSquashAfter flagged instructions. The
behaviour was to force a branch (hence enforcing refetching) for
SerializeAfter instructions only. This has now been extended to
SquashAfter in order to correctly support ISB barrier instruction
behaviour.

Change-Id: Ie525b23350b0de121372d3b98b433e36b097d5c4
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/5702
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11793:ef606668d247 09-Nov-2016 Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com>

style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includes


# 11568:91e95eb78191 21-Jul-2016 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

cpu: Fix Minor SMT WFI/drain interaction issues

The behavior of WFI is to cause minor to cease evaluating
pipeline logic until an interrupt is observed, however
a user may wish to drain the system while a core is sleeping
due to a WFI. This patch makes WFI drain. If an actual
drain occurs during a WFI, the CPU is already drained and will
immediately be ready for swapping, checkpointing, etc. This
should not negatively impact performance as WFI instructions
are 'stream-changing' (treated like unpredicted branches), so
all remaining instructions are wrong-path and will be squashed
rapidly.

Change-Id: I63833d5acb53d8dde78f9f0c9611de0ece385e45


# 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


# 11419:9c7b55faea5d 05-Apr-2016 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

cpu: Add instruction opclass histogram to minor


# 11150:a8a64cca231b 30-Sep-2015 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

isa,cpu: Add support for FS SMT Interrupts

Adds per-thread interrupt controllers and thread/context logic
so that interrupts properly get routed in SMT systems.


# 10851:a50657a4f0c1 26-May-2015 Andrew Bardsley <Andrew.Bardsley@arm.com>

cpu: Fix a bug in counting issued instructions in MinorCPU

The MinorCPU would count bubbles in Execute::issue as part of
the num_insts_issued and so sometimes reach the instruction
issue limit incorrectly.

Fixed by checking for a bubble in one new place.


# 10814:46b6043bd32c 05-May-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

cpu: Work around gcc 4.9 issues with Num_OpClasses

This patch fixes a recent issue with gcc 4.9 (and possibly more) being
convinced that indices outside the array bounds are used when
initialising the FUPool members.


# 10774:68d688cbe26c 03-Apr-2015 Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@gmail.com>

cpu: fix system total instructions accounting

The totalInstructions counter is only incremented when the whole instruction is
commited and not on every microop. It was incorrectly reset in atomic and
timing cpus.

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


# 10580:953d7b741619 02-Dec-2014 Andrew Bardsley <Andrew.Bardsley@arm.com>

cpu: Fix memoryIssueLimit checking in Minor

This patch fixes the checking of the number of memory instructions issued
per cycles in the Minor CPU.


# 10563:755b18321206 02-Dec-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

mem: Add const getters for write packet data

This patch takes a first step in tightening up how we use the data
pointer in write packets. A const getter is added for the pointer
itself (getConstPtr), and a number of member functions are also made
const accordingly. In a range of places throughout the memory system
the new member is used.

The patch also removes the unused isReadWrite function.


# 10527:d0c2ba70dc12 06-Nov-2014 Andrew Lukefahr <lukefahr@umich.edu>

cpu: Minor Draining Bug

Fixes a bug where Minor drains in the midst of committing a
conditional store.

While committing a conditional store, lastCommitWasEndOfMacroop is true
(from the previous instruction) as we still haven't finished the conditional
store. If a drain occurs before the cache response, Minor would check just
lastCommitWasEndOfMacroop, which was true, and set drainState=DrainHaltFetch,
which increases the streamSeqNum. This caused the conditional store to be
squashed when the memory responded and it completed. However, to the memory
the store succeeded, while to the instruction sequence it never occurred.

In the case of an LLSC, the instruction sequence will replay the squashed
STREX, which will fail as the cache is no longer in LLSC. Then the
instruction sequence will loop back to a LDREX, which receives the updated
(incorrect) value.

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


# 10464:2a0fe8bca031 16-Oct-2014 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

cpu: Probe points for basic PMU stats

This changeset adds probe points that can be used to implement PMU
counters for CPU stats. The following probes are supported:

* BaseCPU::ppCycles / Cycles
* BaseCPU::ppRetiredInsts / RetiredInsts
* BaseCPU::ppRetiredLoads / RetiredLoads
* BaseCPU::ppRetiredStores / RetiredStores
* BaseCPU::ppRetiredBranches RetiredBranches


# 10366:128c1ed03f4e 12-Sep-2014 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

minor: Fix typo in DPRINTF for Minor branch prediction


# 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