History log of /gem5/src/cpu/simple/BaseSimpleCPU.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 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>


# 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>


# 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>


# 10061:3b0d0c988ed6 09-Feb-2014 Andreas Sandberg <andreas@sandberg.pp.se>

cpu: simple: Add support for using branch predictors

This changesets adds branch predictor support to the
BaseSimpleCPU. The simple CPUs normally don't need a branch predictor,
however, there are at least two cases where it can be desirable:

1) A simple CPU can be used to warm the branch predictor of an O3
CPU before switching to the slower O3 model.

2) The simple CPU can be used as a quick way of evaluating/debugging
new branch predictors since it exposes branch predictor
statistics.

Limitations:
* Since the simple CPU doesn't speculate, only one instruction will
be active in the branch predictor at a time (i.e., the branch
predictor will never see speculative branches).

* The outcome of a branch prediction does not affect the performance
of the simple CPU.


# 9338:97b4a2be1e5b 02-Nov-2012 Andreas Sandberg <Andreas.Sandberg@arm.com>

sim: Include object header files in SWIG interfaces

When casting objects in the generated SWIG interfaces, SWIG uses
classical C-style casts ( (Foo *)bar; ). In some cases, this can
degenerate into the equivalent of a reinterpret_cast (mainly if only a
forward declaration of the type is available). This usually works for
most compilers, but it is known to break if multiple inheritance is
used anywhere in the object hierarchy.

This patch introduces the cxx_header attribute to Python SimObject
definitions, which should be used to specify a header to include in
the SWIG interface. The header should include the declaration of the
wrapped object. We currently don't enforce header the use of the
header attribute, but a warning will be generated for objects that do
not use it.


# 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.


# 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.


# 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.