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30-Nov-2017 |
Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> |
misc: Rename misc.(hh|cc) to logging.(hh|cc)
These files aren't a collection of miscellaneous stuff, they're the definition of the Logger interface, and a few utility macros for calling into that interface (panic, warn, etc.).
Change-Id: I84267ac3f45896a83c0ef027f8f19c5e9a5667d1 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6226 Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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20-Jul-2015 |
Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com> |
syscall_emul: [patch 13/22] add system call retry capability
This changeset adds functionality that allows system calls to retry without affecting thread context state such as the program counter or register values for the associated thread context (when system calls return with a retry fault).
This functionality is needed to solve problems with blocking system calls in multi-process or multi-threaded simulations where information is passed between processes/threads. Blocking system calls can cause deadlock because the simulator itself is single threaded. There is only a single thread servicing the event queue which can cause deadlock if the thread hits a blocking system call instruction.
To illustrate the problem, consider two processes using the producer/consumer sharing model. The processes can use file descriptors and the read and write calls to pass information to one another. If the consumer calls the blocking read system call before the producer has produced anything, the call will block the event queue (while executing the system call instruction) and deadlock the simulation.
The solution implemented in this changeset is to recognize that the system calls will block and then generate a special retry fault. The fault will be sent back up through the function call chain until it is exposed to the cpu model's pipeline where the fault becomes visible. The fault will trigger the cpu model to replay the instruction at a future tick where the call has a chance to succeed without actually going into a blocking state.
In subsequent patches, we recognize that a syscall will block by calling a non-blocking poll (from inside the system call implementation) and checking for events. When events show up during the poll, it signifies that the call would not have blocked and the syscall is allowed to proceed (calling an underlying host system call if necessary). If no events are returned from the poll, we generate the fault and try the instruction for the thread context at a distant tick. Note that retrying every tick is not efficient.
As an aside, the simulator has some multi-threading support for the event queue, but it is not used by default and needs work. Even if the event queue was completely multi-threaded, meaning that there is a hardware thread on the host servicing a single simulator thread contexts with a 1:1 mapping between them, it's still possible to run into deadlock due to the event queue barriers on quantum boundaries. The solution of replaying at a later tick is the simplest solution and solves the problem generally.
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09-Nov-2016 |
Brandon Potter <brandon.potter@amd.com> |
style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includes
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25-Jan-2015 |
Ali Saidi <Ali.Saidi@ARM.com> |
cpu: Remove all notion that we know when the cpu is misspeculating.
We have no way of knowing if a CPU model is on the wrong path with our execute-in-execute CPU models. Don't pretend that we do.
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27-Sep-2014 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
arch: Use const StaticInstPtr references where possible
This patch optimises the passing of StaticInstPtr by avoiding copying the reference-counting pointer. This avoids first incrementing and then decrementing the reference-counting pointer.
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02-Nov-2011 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
SE/FS: Get rid of FULL_SYSTEM in sim.
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27-Sep-2011 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Faults: Make the generic faults more consistent between SE and FS.
All of the classes will now be available in both modes, and only GenericPageTableFault will continue to check the mode for conditional compilation. It uses a process object to handle the fault in SE mode, and for now those aren't available in FS mode.
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13-Sep-2011 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
LSQ: Only trigger a memory violation with a load/load if the value changes.
Only create a memory ordering violation when the value could have changed between two subsequent loads, instead of just when loads go out-of-order to the same address. While not very common in the case of Alpha, with an architecture with a hardware table walker this can happen reasonably frequently beacuse a translation will miss and start a table walk and before the CPU re-schedules the faulting instruction another one will pass it to the same address (or cache block depending on the dendency checking).
This patch has been tested with a couple of self-checking hand crafted programs to stress ordering between two cores.
The performance improvement on SPEC benchmarks can be substantial (2-10%).
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09-Sep-2011 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Stack: Tidy up some comments, a warning, and make stack extension consistent.
Do some minor cleanup of some recently added comments, a warning, and change other instances of stack extension to be like what's now being done for x86.
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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
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15-Apr-2011 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
includes: sort all includes
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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.
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13-Sep-2010 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Faults: Pass the StaticInst involved, if any, to a Fault's invoke method.
Also move the "Fault" reference counted pointer type into a separate file, sim/fault.hh. It would be better to name this less similarly to sim/faults.hh to reduce confusion, but fault.hh matches the name of the type. We could change Fault to FaultPtr to match other pointer types, and then changing the name of the file would make more sense.
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15-Jun-2010 |
Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org> |
stats: get rid of the never-really-used event stuff
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12-Jan-2010 |
Lisa Hsu <Lisa.Hsu@amd.com> |
faults: i think these fault invocations should be panic and not fatal. it definitely made implementing a trace cpu easier this way.
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15-Nov-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
put the flattenIndex stuff back in O3 AND put fatal() back in faults
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14-Nov-2007 |
Korey Sewell <ksewell@umich.edu> |
Get MIPS_SE actually working again by actually by fixing TLB stuff and running hello world
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26-Aug-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Address translation: Make the page table more flexible. The page table now stores actual page table entries. It is still a templated class here, but this will be corrected in the near future.
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09-May-2007 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
fix the translating ports so it can add a page on a fault
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07-Mar-2007 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
fix compiling of FS after Gabe's last compile
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07-Mar-2007 |
Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> |
Move the magic m5 PageTableFault into sim/faults.[hh,cc] since it's the same across all architectures.
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21-Oct-2006 |
Steve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu> |
Tweak a few things for better page fault debugging.
src/sim/faults.cc: Fix fault message. src/kern/tru64/tru64.hh: Add DPRINTF to see where new thread stacks are allocated. src/arch/alpha/faults.cc: Add print statement so we know what the faulting address is in SE mode.
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06-Jun-2006 |
Kevin Lim <ktlim@umich.edu> |
Change ExecContext to ThreadContext. This is being renamed to differentiate between the interface used objects outside of the CPU, and the interface used by the ISA. ThreadContext is used by objects outside of the CPU and is specifically defined in thread_context.hh. ExecContext is more implicit, and is defined by files such as base_dyn_inst.hh or cpu/simple/base.hh.
Further renames/reorganization will be coming shortly; what is currently CPUExecContext (the old ExecContext from m5) will be renamed to SimpleThread or something similar.
src/arch/alpha/arguments.cc: src/arch/alpha/arguments.hh: src/arch/alpha/ev5.cc: src/arch/alpha/faults.cc: src/arch/alpha/faults.hh: src/arch/alpha/freebsd/system.cc: src/arch/alpha/freebsd/system.hh: src/arch/alpha/isa/branch.isa: src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa: src/arch/alpha/isa/main.isa: src/arch/alpha/linux/process.cc: src/arch/alpha/linux/system.cc: src/arch/alpha/linux/system.hh: src/arch/alpha/linux/threadinfo.hh: src/arch/alpha/process.cc: src/arch/alpha/regfile.hh: src/arch/alpha/stacktrace.cc: src/arch/alpha/stacktrace.hh: src/arch/alpha/tlb.cc: src/arch/alpha/tlb.hh: src/arch/alpha/tru64/process.cc: src/arch/alpha/tru64/system.cc: src/arch/alpha/tru64/system.hh: src/arch/alpha/utility.hh: src/arch/alpha/vtophys.cc: src/arch/alpha/vtophys.hh: src/arch/mips/faults.cc: src/arch/mips/faults.hh: src/arch/mips/isa_traits.cc: src/arch/mips/isa_traits.hh: src/arch/mips/linux/process.cc: src/arch/mips/process.cc: src/arch/mips/regfile/float_regfile.hh: src/arch/mips/regfile/int_regfile.hh: src/arch/mips/regfile/misc_regfile.hh: src/arch/mips/regfile/regfile.hh: src/arch/mips/stacktrace.hh: src/arch/sparc/faults.cc: src/arch/sparc/faults.hh: src/arch/sparc/isa_traits.hh: src/arch/sparc/linux/process.cc: src/arch/sparc/linux/process.hh: src/arch/sparc/process.cc: src/arch/sparc/regfile.hh: src/arch/sparc/solaris/process.cc: src/arch/sparc/stacktrace.hh: src/arch/sparc/ua2005.cc: src/arch/sparc/utility.hh: src/arch/sparc/vtophys.cc: src/arch/sparc/vtophys.hh: src/base/remote_gdb.cc: src/base/remote_gdb.hh: src/cpu/base.cc: src/cpu/base.hh: src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh: src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc: src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh: src/cpu/checker/exec_context.hh: src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.cc: src/cpu/cpu_exec_context.hh: src/cpu/cpuevent.cc: src/cpu/cpuevent.hh: src/cpu/exetrace.hh: src/cpu/intr_control.cc: src/cpu/memtest/memtest.hh: src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu.hh: src/cpu/o3/alpha_cpu_impl.hh: src/cpu/o3/alpha_dyn_inst_impl.hh: src/cpu/o3/commit.hh: src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh: src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc: src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh: src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh: src/cpu/o3/regfile.hh: src/cpu/o3/thread_state.hh: src/cpu/ozone/back_end.hh: src/cpu/ozone/cpu.hh: src/cpu/ozone/cpu_impl.hh: src/cpu/ozone/front_end.hh: src/cpu/ozone/front_end_impl.hh: src/cpu/ozone/inorder_back_end.hh: src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end.hh: src/cpu/ozone/lw_back_end_impl.hh: src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq.hh: src/cpu/ozone/lw_lsq_impl.hh: src/cpu/ozone/thread_state.hh: src/cpu/pc_event.cc: src/cpu/pc_event.hh: src/cpu/profile.cc: src/cpu/profile.hh: src/cpu/quiesce_event.cc: src/cpu/quiesce_event.hh: src/cpu/simple/atomic.cc: src/cpu/simple/base.cc: src/cpu/simple/base.hh: src/cpu/simple/timing.cc: src/cpu/static_inst.cc: src/cpu/static_inst.hh: src/cpu/thread_state.hh: src/dev/alpha_console.cc: src/dev/ns_gige.cc: src/dev/sinic.cc: src/dev/tsunami_cchip.cc: src/kern/kernel_stats.cc: src/kern/kernel_stats.hh: src/kern/linux/events.cc: src/kern/linux/events.hh: src/kern/system_events.cc: src/kern/system_events.hh: src/kern/tru64/dump_mbuf.cc: src/kern/tru64/tru64.hh: src/kern/tru64/tru64_events.cc: src/kern/tru64/tru64_events.hh: src/mem/vport.cc: src/mem/vport.hh: src/sim/faults.cc: src/sim/faults.hh: src/sim/process.cc: src/sim/process.hh: src/sim/pseudo_inst.cc: src/sim/pseudo_inst.hh: src/sim/syscall_emul.cc: src/sim/syscall_emul.hh: src/sim/system.cc: src/cpu/thread_context.hh: src/sim/system.hh: src/sim/vptr.hh: Change ExecContext to ThreadContext.
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31-May-2006 |
Ali Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu> |
Updated Authors from bk prs info
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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.
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