#
9792:c02004c2cc5b |
|
27-Jun-2013 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
config: Add a BaseSESystem builder for re-use in regressions
This patch extends the existing system builders to also include a syscall-emulation builder. This builder is deployed in all syscall-emulation regressions that do not involve Ruby, i.e. o3-timing, simple-timing and simple-atomic, as well as the multi-processor regressions o3-timing-mp, simple-timing-mp and simple-atomic-mp (the latter are only used by SPARC at this point).
The values chosen for the cache sizes match those that were used in the existing config scripts (despite being on the large side). Similarly, a mem_class parameter is added to the builder base class to enable simple-atomic to use SimpleMemory and o3-timing to use the default DDR3 configuration.
Due to the different order the ports are connected, the bus stats get shuffled around for the multi-processor regressions. A separate patch bumps the port indices. Besides this, all behaviour is exactly the same.
|
#
9790:ccc428657233 |
|
27-Jun-2013 |
Akash Bagdia <akash.bagdia@arm.com> |
config: Add a system clock command-line option
This patch adds a 'sys_clock' command-line option and use it to assign clocks to the system during instantiation.
As part of this change, the default clock in the System class is removed and whenever a system is instantiated a system clock value must be set. A default value is provided for the command-line option.
The configs and tests are updated accordingly.
|
#
9036:6385cf85bf12 |
|
31-May-2012 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
Bus: Split the bus into a non-coherent and coherent bus
This patch introduces a class hierarchy of buses, a non-coherent one, and a coherent one, splitting the existing bus functionality. By doing so it also enables further specialisation of the two types of buses.
A non-coherent bus connects a number of non-snooping masters and slaves, and routes the request and response packets based on the address. The request packets issued by the master connected to a non-coherent bus could still snoop in caches attached to a coherent bus, as is the case with the I/O bus and memory bus in most system configurations. No snoops will, however, reach any master on the non-coherent bus itself. The non-coherent bus can be used as a template for modelling PCI, PCIe, and non-coherent AMBA and OCP buses, and is typically used for the I/O buses.
A coherent bus connects a number of (potentially) snooping masters and slaves, and routes the request and response packets based on the address, and also forwards all requests to the snoopers and deals with the snoop responses. The coherent bus can be used as a template for modelling QPI, HyperTransport, ACE and coherent OCP buses, and is typically used for the L1-to-L2 buses and as the main system interconnect.
The configuration scripts are updated to use a NoncoherentBus for all peripheral and I/O buses.
A bit of minor tidying up has also been done.
|
#
8931:7a1dfb191e3f |
|
06-Apr-2012 |
Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com> |
MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memories
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous address range.
All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory.
To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut" accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and any potential ACPI tables.
Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible re-organisation.
|