There is a design which has been put forward which eliminates the idea
of a zero register entirely, but in the mean time, to get rid of one
more ISA specific constant, this change moves the ZeroReg constant into
the RegClassInfo class, specifically the IntRegClass instance which is
published by each ISA.
When the idea of zero registers has been eliminated entirely from
non ISA specific code, this and the existing machinery can be
eliminated.
Change-Id: I4302a53220dd5ff6b9b47ecc765bddc6698310ca
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/42685
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The nullStaticInstPtr was low overhead, but the nopStaticInstPtr needed
an actual StaticInst implementation it could point to, and that brought
with it some (minor) additional dependencies. Specifically, the
implementation of advancePC needs the definition of TheISA::PCState,
while all other signatures/impementations in StaticInst are already
passing around that type by reference or could be made to, reducing
dependencies further.
Change-Id: I9ac6a6e5a3106858ea1fc727648f61dc39738a59
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/42968
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Despite the generic sounding name and sort of generic contents, the
BaseDynInst was actually tied to the O3 CPU. Having the two independent
moving pieces created complexity but provided no real benefit. This was
evidenced by the fact that no CPU other than O3 actually used that
class.
Change-Id: I4ea1d053e2e172ececdc3113b8d76d5ad7490fc7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/42094
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
In most ISAs except MIPS and Power, this was implemented as
inst->advancePC(). It works just fine to call this function all the
time, but the idea had originally been that for ISAs which could simply
advance the PC using the PC itself, they could save the virtual function
call. Since the only ISAs which could skip the call were MIPS and Power,
and neither is at the point where that level of performance tuning
matters, this function can be collapsed with little downside.
If this turns out to be a performance bottleneck in the future, the way
the PC is managed could be revisited to see if we can factor out this
trip to the instruction object in the first place.
Change-Id: I533d1ad316e5c936466c529b7f1238a9ab87bd1c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39335
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Dutu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
The patch is using the newly defined PARAMS macro to replace
custom params() getters in derived class.
The patch is also removing redundant _params:
Instead of creating yet another _params field, SimObject descendants
should use params() to expose the real type of SimObject::_params they
already have.
Change-Id: I43394cebb9661fe747bdbb332236f0f0181b3dba
Signed-off-by: Alexander Klimov <Alexander.Klimov@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39900
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This was mostly not used to begin with, but also when it was used, it
would obscure places where there were types, functions, etc, which were
switched between ISAs at compile time, and which would need to be
cleaned up to allow more than one ISA at a time.
Change-Id: Ieb372feff91b7e946b477fb78e54bcd0c2138966
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39655
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The create() method on Params structs usually instantiate SimObjects
using a constructor which takes the Params struct as a parameter
somehow. There has been a lot of needless variation in how that was
done, making it annoying to pass Params down to base classes. Some of
the different forms were:
const Params &
Params &
Params *
const Params *
Params const*
This change goes through and fixes up every constructor and every
create() method to use the const Params & form. We use a reference
because the Params struct should never be null. We use const because
neither the create method nor the consuming object should modify the
record of the parameters as they came in from the config. That would
make consuming them not idempotent, and make it impossible to tell what
the actual simulation configuration was since it would change from any
user visible form (config script, config.ini, dot pdf output).
Change-Id: I77453cba52fdcfd5f4eec92dfb0bddb5a9945f31
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35938
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The byteEnable variable is used for masking bytes in a memory request.
The default behaviour is to provide from the ExecContext to the CPU
(and then to the LSQ) an empty vector, which is the same as providing
a vector where every element is true.
Such vectors basically mean: do not mask any byte in the memory request.
This behaviour adds more complexity to the downstream LSQs, which now
have to distinguish between an empty and non-empty byteEnable.
This patch is simplifying things by transforming an empty vector into
a all true one, making sure the CPUs are always receiving a non empty
byteEnable.
JIRA: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-196
Change-Id: I1d1cecd86ed64c53a314ed700f28810d76c195c3
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23285
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
System calls should now be requested from the workload directly and not
routed through ExecContext or ThreadContext interfaces. That removes a
major special case for SE mode from those interfaces.
For now, when the SE workload gets a request for a system call, it
dispatches it to the appropriate Process object. In the future, the
ISA specific Workload subclasses will be responsible for handling system
calls and not the Process classes.
For simplicity, the Workload syscall() method is defined in the base
class but will panic everywhere except when SEWorkload overrides it. In
the future, this mechanism will turn into a way to request generic
services from the workload which are not necessarily system calls. For
instance, it could be a way to request handling of a page fault without
having to have another PseudoInst just for that purpose.
Change-Id: I18d36d64c54adf4f4f17a62e7e006ff2fc0b22f1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33282
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
isa_traits.hh used to have much more in it, but now it only has
PageShift, PageBytes, and (for now) the guest endianness. These values
should only be retrieved from the System class generally speaking, so
only the system class should include arch/isa_traits.hh.
Some gpu compute related files need PageBytes or PageShift. Even though
those files don't advertise their ISA dependence, they are tied to x86.
In those files, they can include arch/x86/isa_traits.hh.
The only other file which legitimately needs arch/isa_traits.hh is the
decoder cache since it uses PageBytes to size an array.
Change-Id: I12686368715623e3140a68a7027c136bd52567b1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33203
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
In most cases, the microcode ROM doesn't actually do anything. The
structural existence of a microcode ROM doesn't make sense in the
general case, and in architectures that know they have one and need to
interact with it, they can cast their decoder into an arch specific type
and access the ROM that way.
Change-Id: I25b67bfe65df1fdb84eb5bc894cfcb83da1ce64b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/32898
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This parameter is associated with a periodic event which would take a
sample for a kernel profile in FS mode. Unfortunately the only ISA which
had working versions of the necessary classes was alpha, and that has
been deleted. That means that without additional work for any given ISA,
the profile parameter has no chance of working.
Ideally, this parameter should be moved to the Workload classes. There
it can intrinsically be tied to a particular kernel, rather than having
to assume a particular kernel and gate everything on whether you're in
FS mode.
Because this isn't (IMHO) where this parameter should live in the long
term, and because it's currently unusable without additional development
for each of the ISAs, I think it makes the most sense to remove the
front end for this mechanism from the CPU.
Since the sampling/profiling mechanism itself could be useful and could
be re-plumbed somewhere else, the back end and its classes are left alone.
Change-Id: I2a3319c1d5ad0ef8c99f5d35953b93c51b2a8a0b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/32214
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The version of vtophys which didn't take a ThreadContext had only been
implemented on Alpha which has since been removed, so this version of
the function was completely unimplemented and never used.
This change also gets rid of the dbg_vtophys which was sometimes
implemented but also never used, and takes the opportunity to fix up
some style problems in some of the vtophys arch files.
Change-Id: Ie10f881f8ce08c7188e71805357cf3264be4c81a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26224
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The new local access mechanism installs a callback in the request which
implements what the mmapped IPR was doing. That avoids having to have
stubs in ISAs that don't have mmapped IPRs, avoids having to encode
what to do to communicate from the TLB and the mmapped IPR functions,
and gets rid of another global ISA interface function and header files.
Jira Issue: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-187
Change-Id: I772c2ae2ca3830a4486919ce9804560c0f2d596a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23188
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The logic that determines which syscall to call was built into the
implementation of faults/exceptions or even into the instruction
decoder, but that logic can depend on what OS is being used, and
sometimes even what version, for example 32bit vs. 64bit.
This change pushes that logic up into the Process objects since those
already handle a lot of the aspects of emulating the guest OS. Instead,
the ISA or fault implementations just notify the rest of the system
that a nebulous syscall has happened, and that gets propogated upward
until the process does something with it. That's very analogous to how
a system call would work on a real machine.
When a system call happens, the low level component which detects that
should call tc->syscall(&fault), where tc is the relevant thread (or
execution) context, and fault is a Fault which can ultimately be set
by the system call implementation.
The TC implementor (probably a CPU) will then have a chance to do
whatever it needs to to handle a system call. Currently only O3 does
anything special here. That implementor will end up calling the
Process's syscall() method.
Once in Process::syscall, the process object will use it's contextual
knowledge to determine what system call is being requested. It then
calls Process::doSyscall with the right syscall number, where doSyscall
centralizes the common mechanism for actually retrieving and calling
into the system call implementation.
Jira Issue: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-187
Change-Id: I937ec1ef0576142c2a182ff33ca508d77ad0e7a1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23176
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
An earlier change accidentally left out the actualTC-> prefix in the
getCurrentInstCount method which was supposed to delegate the call to
another thread context. Without that, it just called itself and would
infinitely recurse.
This bug was pointed out in email by Robert Henry.
Change-Id: Ibf1fee6b48ff87790309c6d435bd76fa95c6cab9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22623
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This was useful when transitioning away from the CPU based
comInstEventQueue, but now that objects backing the ThreadContexts have
access to the underlying comInstEventQueue and can manipulate it
directly, they don't need to do so through a generic interface.
Getting rid of this function narrows and simplifies the interface.
Change-Id: I202d466d266551675ef6792d38c658d8a8f1cb8b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22113
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This switches to letting the ThreadContexts use a thread based/local
comInstEventQueue instead of falling back to the CPU's array. Because
the implementation is no longer shared and it's not given where the
comInstEventQueue (or other implementation) should be accessed, the
default implementation has been removed.
Also, because nobody is using the CPU's array of event queues, those
have been removed.
Change-Id: I515e6e00a2174067a928c33ef832bc5c840bdf7f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22110
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This change is based on modify the way we move the AtomicOpFunctor*
through gem5 in order to mantain proper ownership of the object and
ensuring its destruction when it is no longer used.
Doing that we fix at the same time a memory leak in Request.hh
where we were assigning a new AtomicOpFunctor* without destroying the
previous one.
This change creates a new type AtomicOpFunctor_ptr as a
std::unique_ptr<AtomicOpFunctor> and move its ownership as needed. Except
for its only usage when AtomicOpFunc() is called.
Change-Id: Ic516f9d8217cb1ae1f0a19500e5da0336da9fd4f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20919
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
No caller uses any of the MasterPort specific properties of these
function's return values, so we can instead return a reference to the
base Port class. This makes it possible for the data and inst ports
to be of any port type, not just gem5 style MasterPorts. This makes
life simpler for, for example, systemc based CPUs which might have TLM
ports.
It also makes it possible for any two CPUs which have compatible ports
to be switched between, as long as the ports they use support being
unbound. Unfortunately that does not include TLM or systemc ports which
are bound permanently.
Change-Id: I98fce5a16d2ef1af051238e929dd96d57a4ac838
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20240
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
