base: Move SatCounter to base directory

Saturating counters are used by many objects, not only
the cpu predictors. Therefore, move the class to the
base folder so that it can be more easily used.

Change-Id: I26f799324bdd8720ab8834c72a2002149cee777c
Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17993
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>

cpu: Revamp saturating counters

Revamp the SatCounter class, improving comments, implementing
increment, decrement and read operators to solve an old todo,
and adding missing error checking.

Change-Id: Ia057c423c90652ebd966b6b91a3471b17800f933
Signed-off-by: Daniel <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17992
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>

cpu: Made TAGE a SimObject that can be used by other predictors

The TAGE implementation is now a SimObject so that other branch predictors
can easily use it. It has also been updated with the latest available TAGE
implementation from Andre Seznec:

http://www.irisa.fr/alf/downloads/seznec/TAGE-GSC-IMLI.tar

Change-Id: I2251b8b2d7f94124f9955f52b917dc3b064f090e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15317
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

cpu: disallow speculative update of branch predictor tables (o3)

The Minor and o3 cpu models share the branch prediction
code. Minor relies on the BPredUnit::squash() function
to update the branch predictor tables on a branch mispre-
diction. This is fine because Minor executes in-order, so
the update is on the correct path. However, this causes the
branch predictor to be updated on out-of-order branch
mispredictions when using the o3 model, which should not
be the case.

This patch guards against speculative update of the branch
prediction tables. On a branch misprediction, BPredUnit::squash()
calls BpredUnit::update(..., squashed = true). The underlying
branch predictor tests against the value of squashed. If it is
true, it restores any speculatively updated internal state
it might have (e.g., global/local branch history), then returns.
If false, it updates its prediction tables. Previously, exist-
ing predictors did not test against the "squashed" parameter.

To accomodate for this change, the Minor model must now call
BPredUnit::squash() then BPredUnit::update(..., squashed = false)
on branch mispredictions. Before, calling BpredUnit::squash()
performed the prediction tables update.

The effect is a slight MPKI improvement when using the o3
model. A further patch should perform the same modifications
for the indirect target predictor and BTB (less critical).

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

cpu: Implement per-thread GHRs

Branch predictors that use GHRs should index them on a
per-thread basis. This makes that so.

This is a re-spin of fb51231 after the revert (bd1c6789).

Revert power patch sets with unexpected interactions

The following patches had unexpected interactions with the current
upstream code and have been reverted for now:

e07fd01651f3: power: Add support for power models
831c7f2f9e39: power: Low-power idle power state for idle CPUs
4f749e00b667: power: Add power states to ClockedObject

Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>

cpu: Implement per-thread GHRs

Branch predictors that use GHRs should index them on a
per-thread basis. This makes that so.

cpu: re-organizes the branch predictor structure.

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

cpu: Fix incorrect speculative branch predictor behavior

When a branch mispredicted gem5 would squash all history after and including
the mispredicted branch. However, the mispredicted branch is still speculative
and its history is required to rollback state if another, older, branch
mispredicts. This leads to things like RAS corruption.

branch predictor: move out of o3 and inorder cpus
This patch moves the branch predictor files in the o3 and inorder directories
to src/cpu/pred. This allows sharing the branch predictor across different
cpu models.

This patch was originally posted by Timothy Jones in July 2010
but never made it to the repository.

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

move: put predictor includes and cc files into the same place