This vestigial device provides a thin layer of indirection between
devices and the CPUs in a system. It's basically a collection of helper
functions, but since it's a SimObject it needs to be instantiated in
python and added to configurations.
Change-Id: I029d2314ae0bb890678e1e68dafcdab4bfe49beb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/43347
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The function had been introduced in the past when we needed to
instantiate either an ArmSystem or a LinuxArmSystem depending on the
workload. Now that the workload object has been introduced in gem5, we
always instantiate an ArmSystem in FS mode, hence we don't need a
function to generate the System object
Change-Id: I79ccf31087b84521cce32da71bc835ff202dc432
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/43285
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The baremetal platform is the platform we use for running
user supplied binaries on baremetal hardware.
(simply put, it runs provided binaries without adding
a gem5 bootloader)
Some layers of this software stack might not have a pci driver.
This might be the case for firmware images like edkII
which needs to use a block device to extract the bootloader
and/or the kernel image. Those can use the memory mapped
(in host domain) virtio block device which is already
part of the VExpress_GEM5 platforms
Change-Id: I9c6ba7e1b4566a3999fd9ba20a2bebe191dc3ef8
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39995
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Cooper <richard.cooper@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Before the commit, the bootloader had a hardcoded entry point that it
would jump to.
However, the Linux kernel arm64 v5.8 forced us to change the kernel
entry point because the required memory alignment has changed at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
commit/?h=v5.8&id=cfa7ede20f133cc81cef01dc3a516dda3a9721ee
Therefore the only way to have a single bootloader that boots both
pre-v5.8 and post-v5.8 kernels is to pass that information from gem5
to the bootloader, which we do in this patch via registers.
This approach was already used by the 32-bit bootloader, which passed
that value via r3, and we try to use the same register x3 in 64-bit.
Since we are now passing this information, the this patch also removes
the hardcoding of DTB and cpu-release-addr, and also passes those
values via registers.
We store the cpu-release-addr in x5 as that value appears to have a
function similar to flags_addr, which is used only in 32-bit arm and
gets stored in r5.
This commit renames atags_addr to dtb_addr, since both are mutually
exclusive, and serve a similar purpose, DTB being the newer recommended
approach.
Similarly, flags_addr is renamed to cpu_release_addr, and it is moved
from ArmSystem into ArmFsWorkload, since it is not an intrinsic system
property, and should be together with dtb_addr instead.
Before this commit, flags_addr was being set from FSConfig.py and
configs/example/arm/devices.py to self.realview.realview_io.pio_addr
+ 0x30. This commit moves that logic into RealView.py instead, and
sets the flags address 8 bytes before the start of the DTB address.
JIRA: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-787
Change-Id: If70bea9690be04b84e6040e256a9b03e46710e10
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35076
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Since the beginning fs_bigLITTLE has been pointing to a default
default_rcs = 'bootscript.rcS'
as a System.readfile parameter. That script is not present in
the gem5 repo and all the other fs scripts (starter_fs.py, fs.py
through Options.py) are using an emptry string as default
readfile param value.
We are hence aligning to the other scripts by removing this
default value
Change-Id: I20dc7714deae890d61706459c8d13bd8f5aac7a0
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/38815
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The workload object is still optional for the sake of compatibility,
even though it probably shouldn't be in the long term. If a simulation
is just a collection of components with nothing in particular running on
it, for instance driven by a traffic generator, should it even have a
System object in the first place?
Change-Id: I8bcda72bdfa3730248226fb62f0bba9a83243d95
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33278
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This commit does not make any functional changes but just rearranges
the existing code with regard to the power states. Previously, all
code regarding power states was in the ClockedObjects. However, it
seems more logical and cleaner to move this code into a separate
class, called PowerState. The PowerState is a now SimObject. Every
ClockedObject has a PowerState but this patch also allows for objects
with PowerState which are not ClockedObjects.
Change-Id: Id2db86dc14f140dc9d0912a8a7de237b9df9120d
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28049
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
fs_power.py is an example script that demonstrates how power models
can be used with gem5. Previously, the formulas used to calculate the
dynamic and static power of the cores and the L2 cache were using
stats in equations as determined by their path relative to the
SimObject where the power model is attached to or full paths. This CL
changes these formulas to refer to the stats only by their full paths.
Change-Id: I91ea16c88c6a884fce90fd4cd2dfabcba4a1326c
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27893
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Information about what kernel to load and how to load it was built
into the System object and its subclasses. That overloaded the System
object and made it responsible for too many things, and also was
somewhat awkward when working with SE mode which doesn't have a kernel.
This change extracts the kernel and information related to it from the
System object and puts into into a OsKernel or Workload object.
Currently the idea of a "Workload" to run and a kernel are a bit
muddled, an unfortunate carry-over from the original code. It's also an
implication of trying not to make too sweeping of a change, and to
minimize the number of times configs need to change, ie avoiding
creating a "kernel" parameter which would shortly thereafter be
renamed to "workload".
In future changes, the ideas of a kernel and a workload will be
disentangled, and workloads will be expanded to include emulated
operating systems which shephard and contain Process-es for syscall
emulation.
This change was originally split into pieces to make reviewing it
easier. Those reviews are here:
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22243
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24144
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24145
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24146
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24147
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24286
Change-Id: Ia3d863db276a023b6a2c7ee7a656d8142ff75589
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26466
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
9p allows the guest Linux kernel to mount a host directory into the guest.
This allows to very easily modify test programs after a run at the end of
boot, without the need to re-insert the changes into a disk image.
It is enabled on both fs.py and fs_bigLITTLE.py with the --vio-9p
option.
Adapted from code originally present on the wiki: http://gem5.org/WA-gem5
As documented in the CLI option help, the current setup requires the guest
to know the full path to the host share, which is annoying, but overcoming
that would require actually parsing a bit of the protocol rather than just
forwarding everything to diod.
Change-Id: Iaeb1ed185dccfa8332fe6657a54e7550f64230eb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22831
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
