On the O3 CPU, when the number of threads on the CPU (SMT) is too low to
hold all the old style CPU workload items, then it would increase the
number of threads to match. There are three problems with this.
1. This behavior was only implemented on O3.
2. It could silently hide a bug in the config where the number of
workload items was accidentally too big.
3. It makes the DerivO3CPUParams struct tamper with itself in the
create() method, which means not even config.ini will accurately
reflect the actual config of the system.
Change-Id: I0aab70d4b98093f7f14156ca437e763f031049ab
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35937
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Currently, when the numThreads parameter is set to something larger than
1 in full system mode, the O3 CPU will just silently change it back down
again to 1. This could be confusing to the user since it won't be
immediately apparent, even when looking at config.ini, that their config
isn't being respected.
This change moves that check into the CPU constructor, where CPU
behavior probably should be rather than the create() method which should
just build the object, and also turns it into an error.
Change-Id: I627ff8702b5e8aaad8839aa8d52524690be25619
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35936
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The fetch policy is only meaningful for SMT simulations. The
"SingleThreaded" value is a placeholder which is the default, and is
only supposed to be used in non-SMT simulations.
Rather than have this enum value and have special checks for it in
various places in O3, we can just eliminate it and set the default,
which is still only meaningful in SMT simulations, be an SMT fetch
policy.
The DerivO3CPUParams::create() function would forcefully change the
the fetch policy from "SingleThreaded" to "RoundRobin" anyway if there
were more than one thread, so that can be the actual default instead of
the shadow effective default.
Change-Id: I458fda00b5bcc246b0957e6c937eab0c5b4563c3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35935
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
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>
Commits 02745afd and f9b4e32 introduced a mechanism for creating checkpoint
objects for hardware transactional memory (HTM) and Arm TME. Because the
checkpoint object also contains the local UID of a transaction, it is
needed before any architectural checkpointing takes places. This caused
segfaults when running HTM codes.
This commit allows ISAs to allocate a checkpoint once at the beginning
of simulation. In order to do that we need to remove the validity check
assertion; the cpt will become valid only after a first successfull
transaction start
Change-Id: I233d01805f8ab655131ed8cd6404950a2bf6fbc7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35015
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This change replaces the __attribute__ syntax with the now standard [[]]
syntax. It also reorganizes compiler.hh so that all special macros have
some explanatory text saying what they do, and each attribute which has a
standard version can use that if available and what version of c++ it's
standard in is put in a comment.
Also, the requirements as far as where you put [[]] style attributes are
a little more strict than the old school __attribute__ style. The use of
the attribute macros was updated to fit these new, more strict
requirements.
Change-Id: Iace44306a534111f1c38b9856dc9e88cd9b49d2a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35219
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Before this commit, ExecSymbol would show only the symbol and no address:
0: system.cpu: A0 T0 : @_kernel_flags_le_lo32+6 : mrs x0, currentel
After this commit, it shows the symbol in addition to the address:
0: system.cpu: A0 T0 : 0x10 @_kernel_flags_le_lo32+6 : mrs x0, currentel
Change-Id: I665802f50ce9aeac6bb9e174b5dd06196e757c60
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35077
Reviewed-by: Richard Cooper <richard.cooper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This macro probably would have been defined to "return" in some cases,
to be put after a call to a function that doesn't return so that the
compiler wouldn't think control would reach the end of a non-void
function. It was only ever defined to expand to nothing, and now that
[[noreturn]] is a standard attribute, it should never be needed going
forward.
Change-Id: I37625eab72deeaede77f9347116b9fddd75febf7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35217
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
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>
A comment at the top of StaticInstFlags.py says that if IsMemRef is set,
exactly one of IsStore or IsLoad will be set. That's not strictly true
since IsAtomic may be set as well, in which case neither IsStore or
IsLoad will be set (in one example I found).
The isMemRef accessor still exists, and now just ors the IsStore,
IsLoad, and IsAtomic flags.
Change-Id: Ic5ff104da68978273977a6eff2abab5dd0ae7fda
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33744
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
There were three different StaticInst flags for memory barriers,
IsMemBarrier, IsReadBarrier, and IsWriteBarrier. IsReadBarrier was never
used, and IsMemBarrier was for both loads and stores, so a composite of
IsReadBarrier and IsWriteBarrier.
This change gets rid of IsMemBarrier and replaces by setting
IsReadBarrier and IsWriteBarrier at the same time. An isMemBarrier
accessor is left, but is now implemented by checking if both of the
other flags are set, and renamed to isFullMemBarrier to make it clear
that it's checking both for both types of barrier, not one or the other.
Change-Id: I702633a047f4777be4b180b42d62438ca69f52ea
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33743
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This was set by MIPS in two places, I think largely just because it was
available. This flag refers to IPRs which are an Alpha concept. In the
O3 CPU, IsIprAccess was used as a possible indicator to determine if an
instruction IsSerializeBefore, but we've already got a flag for that. In
the minor CPU, which hasn't been made to work with MIPS as far as I
know, it was used in a condition but not mentioned in the comment
alongside the condition. I think there it was added for the sake of
Alpha.
This change eliminates that flag and removes it from the O3 and minor
CPUs. In the MIPS ISA description, the instructions that were marked as
IsIprAccess have now been marked as IsSerializeBefore since, if there
was a real reason for them to be marked as IsIprAccess, it would have
been to get it them to work in O3, and there IsSerializeBefore gets
equivalent behavior.
Change-Id: Ia874cde12fa70b998d3e638458f13d69798d40b7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33739
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
We currently register global CPU statistics such as sim_insts and
sim_ops from stat_control.cc. This adds an undesriable dependency on
BaseCPU from stats_contro.cc. Move the CPU-specific stats to a global
stat group in BaseCPU. This group is merged with the Root object's
stats which means that they appear as global stats in a typical stat
dump.
Care has been taken to keep the old stat names. However, the order of
the stats.txt will be slightly different due to the way legacy stats
and new-style stats are serialised.
Change-Id: I5410bc432f1a8cf3de58b08ca54a1aa2711d9c76
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34395
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Either return types, brackets and the function body should all be on
their own line, or the entire function should be on a single line.
Consistently place the * or & up against the variable name and not the
type name. There isn't an official rule for which to use, but the
majority of existing uses were this way.
Add overrides for overridden virtual methods.
These fixes get rid of compiler warnings which are breaking the build
for me.
Change-Id: Ifc6ace4794a66ffd031ee686f6b6ef888004d786
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34216
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Add NVM interface to memory controller.
This can be used with or instead of the existing
DRAM interface. Therefore, a single controller can interface
to either DRAM or NVM, or both.
Specifically, a memory channel can be configured as:
- Memory controller interfacing to DRAM only
- Memory controller interfacing to NVM only
- Memory controller interfacing to both DRAM and NVM
How data is placed or migrated between media types is outside
of the scope of this change.
The NVM interface incorporates new static delay parameters
for read and write completion. The interface defines a 2
stage read to manage non-deterministic read delays while
enabling deterministic data transfer, similar to NVDIMM-P.
The NVM interface also includes parameters to define
read and write buffers on the media side (on-DIMM). These are
utilized to quickly offload commands and write data, mitigating
the effects of lower latency and bandwidth media characteristics.
Change-Id: I6b22ddb495877f88d161f0bd74ade32cc8fdcbcc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29027
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wendy Elsasser <wendy.elsasser@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
