History log of /gem5/src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 13831:4fba790d88be 06-Mar-2019 Andrea Mondelli <Andrea.Mondelli@ucf.edu>

misc: Removed inconsistency in O3* debug msgs

Added consistency in the DEBUG message form, to allow a better parsing.
Fixed sn/tid type parameter.
Removed some annoying newlines

Change-Id: I4761c49fc12b874a7d8b46779475b606865cad4b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17248
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13641:648f3106ebdf 02-Apr-2018 Tuan Ta <qtt2@cornell.edu>

cpu: fixed how O3 CPU executes an exit system call

When a thread executed an exit syscall in SE mode, the thread context
was removed immediately in the same cycle, which left inflight squash
operations and trap event incomplete. The problem happened when a new
thread was assigned to the CPU later. The new thread started with some
incomplete transactions of the previous thread (e.g., squashing). This
problem could cause incorrect execution flow for the new thread (i.e.,
pc was not reset properly at the exit point), deadlock (i.e., some
stage-to-stage signals were not reset) and incorrect rename map between
logical and physical registers.

This patch adds a new state called 'Halting' to the thread context and
defers removing thread context from a CPU until a trap event initiated
by an exit syscall execution is processed. This patch also makes sure
that the removal of a thread context happens after all inflight
transactions of the to-be-removed thread in the pipeline complete.

Change-Id: If7ef1462fb8864e22b45371ee7ae67e2a5ad38b8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/8184
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13453:4a7a060ea26e 10-Feb-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <rekai.gonzalezalberquilla@arm.com>

cpu,arch-arm: Initialise data members

The value that is not initialized has a bogus value that manifests when
using some debug-flags what makes the usage of tracediff a bit more
challenging.

In addition, while debugging with other techniques, it introduces the
problem of understanding if the value of a field is 'intended' or just
an effect of the lack of initialisation.

Change-Id: Ied88caa77479c6f1d5166d80d1a1a057503cb106
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13125
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 13429:a1e199fd8122 06-Feb-2017 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <rekai.gonzalezalberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Fix the usage of const DynInstPtr

Summary: Usage of const DynInstPtr& when possible and introduction of
move operators to RefCountingPtr.

In many places, scoped references to dynamic instructions do a copy of
the DynInstPtr when a reference would do. This is detrimental to
performance. On top of that, in case there is a need for reference
tracking for debugging, the redundant copies make the process much more
painful than it already is.

Also, from the theoretical point of view, a function/method that
defines a convenience name to access an instruction should not be
considered an owner of the data, i.e., doing a copy and not a reference
is not justified.

On a related topic, C++11 introduces move semantics, and those are
useful when, for example, there is a class modelling a HW structure that
contains a list, and has a getHeadOfList function, to prevent doing a
copy to an internal variable -> update pointer, remove from the list ->
update pointer, return value making a copy to the assined variable ->
update pointer, destroy the returned value -> update pointer.

Change-Id: I3bb46c20ef23b6873b469fd22befb251ac44d2f6
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13105
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 11781:1ae84c76066b 21-Dec-2016 Arthur Perais <arthur.perais@inria.fr>

cpu: Resolve targets of predicted 'taken' decode for O3

The target of taken conditional direct branches does not
need to be resolved in IEW: the target can be computed at
decode, usually using the decoded instruction word and the PC.

The higher-than-necessary penalty is taken only on conditional
branches that are predicted taken but miss in the BTB. Thus,
this is mostly inconsequential on IPC if the BTB is big/associative
enough (fewer capacity/conflict misses). Nonetheless, what gem5
simulates is not representative of how conditional branch targets
can be handled.

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


# 11650:fe601d7bd955 22-Sep-2016 Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla <rekai.gonzalezalberquilla@arm.com>

cpu: Fix the O3 CPU Drain

The drain did not wait until stages were ready again. Therefore, as a
result of messages in the TimeBuffer being drain, the state after the
drain was not consistent and asserts fired in some places when the
draining happened after a stage got blocked, but before the notification
arrived to the previous stages.

Change-Id: Ib50b3b40b7f745b62c1eba2931dec76860824c71
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11320:42ecb523c64a 06-Feb-2016 Steve Reinhardt <steve.reinhardt@amd.com>

style: remove trailing whitespace

Result of running 'hg m5style --skip-all --fix-white -a'.


# 10328:867b536a68be 03-Sep-2014 Mitch Hayenga <mitch.hayenga@arm.com>

cpu: Fix o3 front-end pipeline interlock behavior

The o3 pipeline interlock/stall logic is incorrect. o3 unnecessicarily stalled
fetch and decode due to later stages in the pipeline. In general, a stage
should usually only consider if it is stalled by the adjacent, downstream stage.
Forcing stalls due to later stages creates and results in bubbles in the
pipeline. Additionally, o3 stalled the entire frontend (fetch, decode, rename)
on a branch mispredict while the ROB is being serially walked to update the
RAT (robSquashing). Only should have stalled at rename.


# 10172:790a214be1f4 23-Apr-2014 Dam Sunwoo <dam.sunwoo@arm.com>

cpu: Add O3 CPU width checks

O3CPU has a compile-time maximum width set in o3/impl.hh, but checking
the configuration against this limit was not implemented anywhere
except for fetch. Configuring a wider pipe than the limit can silently
cause various issues during the simulation. This patch adds the proper
checking in the constructor of the various pipeline stages.


# 9944:4ff1c5c6dcbc 17-Oct-2013 Matt Horsnell <matt.horsnell@ARM.com>

cpu: add consistent guarding to *_impl.hh files.


# 9527:68154bc0e0ea 15-Feb-2013 Matt Horsnell <Matt.Horsnell@arm.com>

o3: fix tick used for renaming and issue with range selection

Fixes the tick used from rename:
- previously this gathered the tick on leaving rename which was always 1 less
than the dispatch. This conflated the decode ticks when back pressure built
in the pipeline.
- now picks up tick on entry.

Added --store_completions flag:
- will additionally display the store completion tail in the viewer.
- this highlights periods when large numbers of stores are outstanding (>16 LSQ
blocking)

Allows selection by tick range (previously this caused an infinite loop)


# 9514:40e2bf800921 15-Feb-2013 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

cpu: fix case with o3 cpu blocking and unblocking decode in cycle

Fix a case in the O3 CPU where the decode stage blocks and unblocks in a
single cycle sending both signals to fetch which causes an assert or worse.
The previous check could never work before since the status was set to Blocked
before a test for the status being Unblocking was executed.


# 9444:ab47fe7f03f0 07-Jan-2013 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@ARM.com>

cpu: Rewrite O3 draining to avoid stopping in microcode

Previously, the O3 CPU could stop in the middle of a microcode
sequence. This patch makes sure that the pipeline stops when it has
committed a normal instruction or exited from a microcode
sequence. Additionally, it makes sure that the pipeline has no
instructions in flight when it is drained, which should make draining
more robust.

Draining is controlled in the commit stage, which checks if the next
PC after a committed instruction is in microcode. If this isn't the
case, it requests a squash of all instructions after that the
instruction that just committed and immediately signals a drain stall
to the fetch stage. The CPU then continues to execute until the
pipeline and all associated buffers are empty.


# 9046:a1104cc13db2 05-Jun-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

O3: Clean up the O3 structures and try to pack them a bit better.

DynInst is extremely large the hope is that this re-organization will put the
most used members close to each other.


# 8905:f6faef9f888d 21-Mar-2012 Brian Grayson <b.grayson@samsung.com>

O3: Fix size of skid buffer between fetch and decode when widths are different


# 8842:a02932e2e73d 13-Feb-2012 Mrinmoy Ghosh <mrinmoy.ghosh@arm.com>

BP: Fix several Branch Predictor issues.
1. Updates the Branch Predictor correctly to the state
just after a mispredicted branch, if a squash occurs.
2. If a BTB does not find an entry, the branch is predicted not taken.
The global history is modified to correctly reflect this prediction.
3. Local history is now updated at the fetch stage instead of
execute stage.
4. In the Update stage of the branch predictor the local predictors are
now correctly updated according to the state of local history during
fetch stage.

This patch also improves performance by as much as 17% on some benchmarks


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

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


# 8798:adaa92be9037 16-Jan-2012 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge yet again with the main repository.


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

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


# 8737:770ccf3af571 31-Jan-2012 Koan-Sin Tan <koansin.tan@gmail.com>

clang: Enable compiling gem5 using clang 2.9 and 3.0

This patch adds the necessary flags to the SConstruct and SConscript
files for compiling using clang 2.9 and later (on Ubuntu et al and OSX
XCode 4.2), and also cleans up a bunch of compiler warnings found by
clang. Most of the warnings are related to hidden virtual functions,
comparisons with unsigneds >= 0, and if-statements with empty
bodies. A number of mismatches between struct and class are also
fixed. clang 2.8 is not working as it has problems with class names
that occur in multiple namespaces (e.g. Statistics in
kernel_stats.hh).

clang has a bug (http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7247) which
causes confusion between the container std::set and the function
Packet::set, and this is currently addressed by not including the
entire namespace std, but rather selecting e.g. "using std::vector" in
the appropriate places.


# 8665:e75d9251f7e6 09-Jan-2012 Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com>

O3: Remove some asserts that no longer seem to be valid.


# 8503:479b186a4652 14-Aug-2011 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

O3: When squashing, restore the macroop that should be used for fetching.


# 8471:18e560ba1539 15-Jul-2011 Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>

O3: Create a pipeline activity viewer for the O3 CPU model.

Implemented a pipeline activity viewer as a python script (util/o3-pipeview.py)
and modified O3 code base to support an extra trace flag (O3PipeView) for
generating traces to be used as inputs by the tool.


# 8240:38befb82b2c9 19-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

stats: rename stats so they can be used as python expressions


# 8232:b28d06a175be 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

trace: reimplement the DTRACE function so it doesn't use a vector
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help


# 8230:845c8eb5ac49 15-Apr-2011 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

includes: fix up code after sorting


# 7720:65d338a8dba4 31-Oct-2010 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

ISA,CPU,etc: Create an ISA defined PC type that abstracts out ISA behaviors.



This change is a low level and pervasive reorganization of how PCs are managed
in M5. Back when Alpha was the only ISA, there were only 2 PCs to worry about,
the PC and the NPC, and the lsb of the PC signaled whether or not you were in
PAL mode. As other ISAs were added, we had to add an NNPC, micro PC and next
micropc, x86 and ARM introduced variable length instruction sets, and ARM
started to keep track of mode bits in the PC. Each CPU model handled PCs in
its own custom way that needed to be updated individually to handle the new
dimensions of variability, or, in the case of ARMs mode-bit-in-the-pc hack,
the complexity could be hidden in the ISA at the ISA implementation's expense.
Areas like the branch predictor hadn't been updated to handle branch delay
slots or micropcs, and it turns out that had introduced a significant (10s of
percent) performance bug in SPARC and to a lesser extend MIPS. Rather than
perpetuate the problem by reworking O3 again to handle the PC features needed
by x86, this change was introduced to rework PC handling in a more modular,
transparent, and hopefully efficient way.


PC type:

Rather than having the superset of all possible elements of PC state declared
in each of the CPU models, each ISA defines its own PCState type which has
exactly the elements it needs. A cross product of canned PCState classes are
defined in the new "generic" ISA directory for ISAs with/without delay slots
and microcode. These are either typedef-ed or subclassed by each ISA. To read
or write this structure through a *Context, you use the new pcState() accessor
which reads or writes depending on whether it has an argument. If you just
want the address of the current or next instruction or the current micro PC,
you can get those through read-only accessors on either the PCState type or
the *Contexts. These are instAddr(), nextInstAddr(), and microPC(). Note the
move away from readPC. That name is ambiguous since it's not clear whether or
not it should be the actual address to fetch from, or if it should have extra
bits in it like the PAL mode bit. Each class is free to define its own
functions to get at whatever values it needs however it needs to to be used in
ISA specific code. Eventually Alpha's PAL mode bit could be moved out of the
PC and into a separate field like ARM.

These types can be reset to a particular pc (where npc = pc +
sizeof(MachInst), nnpc = npc + sizeof(MachInst), upc = 0, nupc = 1 as
appropriate), printed, serialized, and compared. There is a branching()
function which encapsulates code in the CPU models that checked if an
instruction branched or not. Exactly what that means in the context of branch
delay slots which can skip an instruction when not taken is ambiguous, and
ideally this function and its uses can be eliminated. PCStates also generally
know how to advance themselves in various ways depending on if they point at
an instruction, a microop, or the last microop of a macroop. More on that
later.

Ideally, accessing all the PCs at once when setting them will improve
performance of M5 even though more data needs to be moved around. This is
because often all the PCs need to be manipulated together, and by getting them
all at once you avoid multiple function calls. Also, the PCs of a particular
thread will have spatial locality in the cache. Previously they were grouped
by element in arrays which spread out accesses.


Advancing the PC:

The PCs were previously managed entirely by the CPU which had to know about PC
semantics, try to figure out which dimension to increment the PC in, what to
set NPC/NNPC, etc. These decisions are best left to the ISA in conjunction
with the PC type itself. Because most of the information about how to
increment the PC (mainly what type of instruction it refers to) is contained
in the instruction object, a new advancePC virtual function was added to the
StaticInst class. Subclasses provide an implementation that moves around the
right element of the PC with a minimal amount of decision making. In ISAs like
Alpha, the instructions always simply assign NPC to PC without having to worry
about micropcs, nnpcs, etc. The added cost of a virtual function call should
be outweighed by not having to figure out as much about what to do with the
PCs and mucking around with the extra elements.

One drawback of making the StaticInsts advance the PC is that you have to
actually have one to advance the PC. This would, superficially, seem to
require decoding an instruction before fetch could advance. This is, as far as
I can tell, realistic. fetch would advance through memory addresses, not PCs,
perhaps predicting new memory addresses using existing ones. More
sophisticated decisions about control flow would be made later on, after the
instruction was decoded, and handed back to fetch. If branching needs to
happen, some amount of decoding needs to happen to see that it's a branch,
what the target is, etc. This could get a little more complicated if that gets
done by the predecoder, but I'm choosing to ignore that for now.


Variable length instructions:

To handle variable length instructions in x86 and ARM, the predecoder now
takes in the current PC by reference to the getExtMachInst function. It can
modify the PC however it needs to (by setting NPC to be the PC + instruction
length, for instance). This could be improved since the CPU doesn't know if
the PC was modified and always has to write it back.


ISA parser:

To support the new API, all PC related operand types were removed from the
parser and replaced with a PCState type. There are two warts on this
implementation. First, as with all the other operand types, the PCState still
has to have a valid operand type even though it doesn't use it. Second, using
syntax like PCS.npc(target) doesn't work for two reasons, this looks like the
syntax for operand type overriding, and the parser can't figure out if you're
reading or writing. Instructions that use the PCS operand (which I've
consistently called it) need to first read it into a local variable,
manipulate it, and then write it back out.


Return address stack:

The return address stack needed a little extra help because, in the presence
of branch delay slots, it has to merge together elements of the return PC and
the call PC. To handle that, a buildRetPC utility function was added. There
are basically only two versions in all the ISAs, but it didn't seem short
enough to put into the generic ISA directory. Also, the branch predictor code
in O3 and InOrder were adjusted so that they always store the PC of the actual
call instruction in the RAS, not the next PC. If the call instruction is a
microop, the next PC refers to the next microop in the same macroop which is
probably not desirable. The buildRetPC function advances the PC intelligently
to the next macroop (in an ISA specific way) so that that case works.


Change in stats:

There were no change in stats except in MIPS and SPARC in the O3 model. MIPS
runs in about 9% fewer ticks. SPARC runs with 30%-50% fewer ticks, which could
likely be improved further by setting call/return instruction flags and taking
advantage of the RAS.


TODO:

Add != operators to the PCState classes, defined trivially to be !(a==b).
Smooth out places where PCs are split apart, passed around, and put back
together later. I think this might happen in SPARC's fault code. Add ISA
specific constructors that allow setting PC elements without calling a bunch
of accessors. Try to eliminate the need for the branching() function. Factor
out Alpha's PAL mode pc bit into a separate flag field, and eliminate places
where it's blindly masked out or tested in the PC.


# 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


# 6221:58a3c04e6344 26-May-2009 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

types: add a type for thread IDs and try to use it everywhere


# 6036:f0841ee466a5 18-Apr-2009 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

o3-delay-slot-bpred: fix decode stage handling of uncdtl. branches.\n decode stage was not setting the predicted PC correctly or passing that information back to fetch correctly


# 5529:9ae69b9cd7fd 11-Aug-2008 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

params: Convert the CPU objects to use the auto generated param structs.
A whole bunch of stuff has been converted to use the new params stuff, but
the CPU wasn't one of them. While we're at it, make some things a bit
more stylish. Most of the work was done by Gabe, I just cleaned stuff up
a bit more at the end.


# 4636:afc8da9f526e 14-Apr-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Add support for microcode and pull out the special branch delay slot handling. Branch delay slots need to be squash on a mispredict as well because the nnpc they saw was incorrect.


# 4632:be5b8f67b8fb 13-Apr-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Remove most of the special handling for delay slots since they have to be squashed anyway on a mispredict. This is because the NNPC value they saw when executing was incorrect.


# 4329:52057dbec096 04-Apr-2007 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Pass ISA-specific O3 CPU as a constructor parameter instead of using setCPU functions.

src/cpu/o3/alpha/cpu_impl.hh:
Pass ISA-specific O3 CPU to FullO3CPU as a constructor parameter instead of using setCPU functions.


# 4318:eb4241362a80 02-Apr-2007 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Remove/comment out DPRINTFs that were causing a segfault.

The removed ones were unnecessary. The commented out ones could be useful in the future, should this problem get fixed. See flyspray task #243.

src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
Remove/comment out DPRINTFs that were causing a segfault.


# 3970:d54945bab95d 03-Jan-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Merge zizzer:/bk/newmem
into zower.eecs.umich.edu:/eecshome/m5/newmem


# 3967:1f1dff08a596 28-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Some fixes for decode stage branches without delay slots. This will need some work to be compatible with delay slots too. Also changed some direct variable uses to use an accessor function.


# 3867:807483cfab77 21-Dec-2006 Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

don't use (*activeThreads).begin(), use activeThreads->blah().
Also don't call (*activeThreads).end() over and over. Just
call activeThreads->end() once and save the result.
Make sure we always check that there are elements in the list
before we grab the first one.


# 3796:9cb1eaf3a461 16-Dec-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Make the decoder use the new setup in the dyninsts for branch prediction.


# 3093:b09c33e66bce 31-Aug-2006 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

add ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT directive instead of "#if THE_ISA == ALPHA_ISA" throughout CPU models

src/arch/alpha/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.hh:
src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh:
define 'ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT'
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
use ISA_HAS_DELAY_SLOT instead of THE_ISA == ALPHA_ISA


# 2980:eab855f06b79 15-Aug-2006 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Cleaned up include files and got rid of many using directives in header files.


# 2935:d1223a6c9156 23-Jul-2006 Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu>

This changeset gets the MIPS ISA pretty much working in the O3CPU. It builds, runs, and gets very very close to completing the hello world
succesfully but there are some minor quirks to iron out. Who would've known a DELAY SLOT introduces that much complexity?! arrgh!

Anyways, a lot of this stuff had to do with my project at MIPS and me needing to know how I was going to get this working for the MIPS
ISA. So I figured I would try to touch it up and throw it in here (I hate to introduce non-completely working components... )

src/arch/alpha/isa/mem.isa:
spacing
src/arch/mips/faults.cc:
src/arch/mips/faults.hh:
Gabe really authored this
src/arch/mips/isa/decoder.isa:
add StoreConditional Flag to instruction
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/basic.isa:
Steven really did this file
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/branch.isa:
fix bug for uncond/cond control
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/mem.isa:
Adjust O3CPU memory access to use new memory model interface.
src/arch/mips/isa/formats/util.isa:
update LoadStoreBase template
src/arch/mips/isa_traits.cc:
update SERIALIZE partially
src/arch/mips/process.cc:
src/arch/mips/process.hh:
no need for this for NOW. ASID/Virtual addressing handles it
src/arch/mips/regfile/misc_regfile.hh:
add in clear() function and comments for future usage of special misc. regs
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
add in nextNPC variable and supporting functions.

add isCondDelaySlot function

Update predTaken and mispredicted functions
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
init nextNPC
src/cpu/o3/SConscript:
add MIPS files to compile
src/cpu/o3/alpha/thread_context.hh:
no need for my name on this file
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
Update RAS appropriately for MIPS
src/cpu/o3/comm.hh:
add some extra communication variables to aid in handling the
delay slots
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
minor name fix for nextNPC functions.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
Fix necessary variables and functions for squashes with delay slots
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
Update function interface ...

adjust removeInstsNotInROB function to recognize delay slots insts
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
update removeInstsNotInROB
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
declare necessary variables for handling delay slot
src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst.hh:
Add in MipsDynInst
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
declare necessary variables and adjust functions for handling delay slot
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
no need for my name here
src/cpu/o3/isa_specific.hh:
add in MIPS files
src/cpu/o3/scoreboard.hh:
dont include alpha specific isa traits!
src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh:
no need for my name here, i just rearranged where the file goes
src/cpu/static_inst.hh:
add isCondDelaySlot function
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mips/thread_context.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mips/thread_context.hh:
MIPS file for O3CPU...mirrors ALPHA definition


# 2863:2592e056dc5c 06-Jul-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fix the O3CPU to support the multi-pass method for checking if the system has fully drained.

src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
Return a value so that the CPU can instantly return from draining if the pipeline is already drained.
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
Use values returned from pipeline stages so that the CPU can instantly return from draining if the pipeline is already drained.


# 2843:19c4c6c2b5b1 06-Jul-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Support for draining, and the new method of switching out. Now switching out happens after the pipeline has been drained, deferring the three way handshake to the normal drain mechanism. The calls of switchOut() and takeOverFrom() both take action immediately.

src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
Support for draining, new method of switching out.


# 2733:e0eac8fc5774 16-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Two updates that got combined into one ChangeSet accidentally. They're both pretty simple so they shouldn't cause any trouble.

First: Rename FullCPU and its variants in the o3 directory to O3CPU to differentiate from the old model, and also to specify it's an out of order model.

Second: Include build options for selecting the Checker to be used. These options make sure if the Checker is being used there is a CPU that supports it also being compiled.

SConstruct:
Add in option USE_CHECKER to allow for not compiling in checker code. The checker is enabled through this option instead of through the CPU_MODELS list. However it's still necessary to treat the Checker like a CPU model, so it is appended onto the CPU_MODELS list if enabled.
configs/test/test.py:
Name change for DetailedCPU to DetailedO3CPU. Also include option for max tick.
src/base/traceflags.py:
Add in O3CPU trace flag.
src/cpu/SConscript:
Rename AlphaFullCPU to AlphaO3CPU.

Only include checker sources if they're necessary. Also add a list of CPUs that support the Checker, and only allow the Checker to be compiled in if one of those CPUs are also being included.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Rename typedef to ImplCPU instead of FullCPU, to differentiate from the old FullCPU.
src/cpu/cpu_models.py:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Rename AlphaFullCPU to AlphaO3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
src/python/m5/objects/AlphaO3CPU.py:
Rename FullCPU to O3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Rename FullCPU to O3CPU to differentiate from old FullCPU model.
Also #ifdef the checker code so it doesn't need to be included if it's not selected.


# 2731:822b96578fba 14-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Minor code cleanup of BaseDynInst.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Minor code cleanup by putting several bools into a bitset instead.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
Changed around some things in BaseDynInst.


# 2703:638e5b90f4c6 12-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fix output messages.

src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
Fix output message.


# 2678:1f86b91dc3bb 05-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Fixes to get new CPU model working for simple test case. The CPU does not yet support retrying accesses.

src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
Delete the allocated data in destructor.
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
Only copy the addresses if the translation succeeded.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
Return actual translating port.
Don't panic on setNextNPC() as it's always called, regardless of the architecture, when the process initializes.
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
Pass in memobject to the thread state in SE mode.
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
Initialize all variables.
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
Handle early resolution of branches properly.
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
Switch structure back to requests.
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
Initialize all variables, create/delete requests properly.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
Include sender state along with the packet. Also include a more generic writeback event that's only used for stores forwarding data to loads.
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
Redo writeback code to support the response path of the memory system.
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit_impl.hh:
Wrap variables in #ifdefs.
src/cpu/o3/store_set.cc:
Include to get panic() function.
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Create with MemObject as well.
src/cpu/thread_state.hh:
Have a translating port in the thread state object.
src/python/m5/objects/AlphaFullCPU.py:
Mem parameter no longer needed.


# 2674:6d4afef73a20 04-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zamp:/z/ktlim2/clean/m5-o3
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/newmem-merge

src/cpu/checker/o3_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh:
Hand merge.


# 2670:9107b8bd08cd 02-Jun-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zizzer:/bk/newmem
into zizzer.eecs.umich.edu:/.automount/zamp/z/ktlim2/clean/newmem


# 2665:a124942bacb8 31-May-2006 Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>

Updated Authors from bk prs info


# 2654:9559cfa91b9d 30-May-2006 Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu>

Merge ktlim@zizzer:/bk/m5
into zamp.eecs.umich.edu:/z/ktlim2/clean/newmem

SConstruct:
src/SConscript:
src/arch/SConscript:
src/arch/alpha/faults.cc:
src/arch/alpha/tlb.cc:
src/base/traceflags.py:
src/cpu/SConscript:
src/cpu/base.cc:
src/cpu/base.hh:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.cc:
src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/exec_context.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh:
src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh:
src/cpu/simple/base.cc:
src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh:
src/cpu/o3/2bit_local_pred.cc:
src/cpu/o3/2bit_local_pred.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_builder.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst.cc:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/alpha_params.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/bpred_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/btb.cc:
src/cpu/o3/btb.hh:
src/cpu/o3/comm.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/commit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/cpu_policy.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode.cc:
src/cpu/o3/decode.hh:
src/cpu/o3/decode_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.cc:
src/cpu/o3/fetch.hh:
src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/free_list.cc:
src/cpu/o3/free_list.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew.cc:
src/cpu/o3/iew.hh:
src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.cc:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue.hh:
src/cpu/o3/inst_queue_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.cc:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit.hh:
src/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/ras.cc:
src/cpu/o3/ras.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rename.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rename_map.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rename_map.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob.cc:
src/cpu/o3/rob.hh:
src/cpu/o3/rob_impl.hh:
src/cpu/o3/sat_counter.cc:
src/cpu/o3/sat_counter.hh:
src/cpu/o3/store_set.cc:
src/cpu/o3/store_set.hh:
src/cpu/o3/tournament_pred.cc:
src/cpu/o3/tournament_pred.hh:
Hand merges.


# 2632:1bb2f91485ea 22-May-2006 Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>

New directory structure:
- simulator source now in 'src' subdirectory
- imported files from 'ext' repository
- support building in arbitrary places, including
outside of the source tree. See comment at top
of SConstruct file for more details.
Regression tests are temporarily disabled; that
syetem needs more extensive revisions.

SConstruct:
Update for new directory structure.
Modify to support build trees that are not subdirectories
of the source tree. See comment at top of file for
more details.
Regression tests are temporarily disabled.
src/arch/SConscript:
src/arch/isa_parser.py:
src/python/SConscript:
Update for new directory structure.