sim: Add drain methods to request additional cleanup operations
This patch adds the following two methods to the Drainable base class: memWriteback() - Write back all dirty cache lines to memory using functional accesses. memInvalidate() - Invalidate memory system buffers. Dirty data won't be written back. Specifying calling memWriteback() after draining will allow us to checkpoint systems with caches. memInvalidate() can be used to drop memory system buffers in preparation for switching to an accelerated CPU model that bypasses the gem5 memory system (e.g., hardware virtualized CPUs). Note: This patch only adds the methods to Drainable, the code for flushing the TLB and the cache is committed separately.
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@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@ def drain(root):
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while (not all_drained):
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all_drained = _drain()
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def memWriteback(root):
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for obj in root.descendants():
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obj.memWriteback()
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def memInvalidate(root):
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for obj in root.descendants():
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obj.memInvalidate()
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def resume(root):
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for obj in root.descendants(): obj.drainResume()
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@@ -189,6 +197,7 @@ def checkpoint(dir):
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if not isinstance(root, objects.Root):
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raise TypeError, "Checkpoint must be called on a root object."
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drain(root)
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memWriteback(root)
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print "Writing checkpoint"
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internal.core.serializeAll(dir)
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resume(root)
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