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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Original Creator: Adria Armejach.
Branch instructions needed to be annotated in x86 as direct/indirect and conditional/unconditional. These annotations where not present causing the branch predictor to misbehave, not using the BTB. In addition, logic to determine the real branch target at decode needed to be added as it was also missing.
Change-Id: I91e707452c1825b9bb4ae75c3f599da489ae5b9a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29154
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This code was at least a little Alpha specific, and now that Alpha is
gone it can no longer be compiled. We could either fix it up to work
with other/all ISAs or delete it, and the consensus was to delete it. It
could potentially be revived in the future by retrieving it from version
control.
Change-Id: Ied073f2b9b166951ecba3442cd762eb19bc690b3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/32954
Reviewed-by: Steve Reinhardt <stever@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
These classes are all basically empty now that Alpha has been deleted,
except in cases where the arch versions had copied versions of the Alpha
code.
This change pulls all the generic logic out of the arch versions, making
the arch versions much simpler and making it clearer what the core
functionality of the class is, and what parts are architecture specific
details.
In the future, the way the StackTrace class is instantiated should be
delegated to the Workload class so that ISA agnostic code doesn't need
to know about a particular ISA's StackTrace class, and so that
StackTrace logic can, at least theoretically, be specialized for a
particular workload. The way a stack trace is collected could vary from
OS to OS, for example.
Change-Id: Id8108f94e9fe8baf9b4056f2b6404571e9fa52f1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/30961
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The O3 model uses ReExec faults to flush the pipeline and restart
after a memory ordering violation, e.g. due to an incoming snoop.
These, just like branch mispredict flushes, are not architectural
faults but micro-architectural events, and should therefore not
show up on the instruction tracing interface.
This adds a check on faulting instructions in commit, to verify
if the instruction faulted due to ReExec, to avoid tracing it.
Change-Id: I1d3eaffb0ff22411e0e16a69ef07961924c88c10
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/30554
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
This patch sets the faulting flag in atomic, timing, minor and o3 CPU
models.
It also fixes the minor/timing CPU models which were not respecting the
ExecFaulting flag. This is now checked before calling dump() on the
tracing object, to bring it in line with the other CPU models.
Change-Id: I9c7b64cc5605596eb7fcf25fdecaeac5c4b5e3d7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/30135
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 ThreadContext can be used to access the cpu if needed, and is a
more representative interface to various pieces of state than the CPU
itself. Also convert some of the methods in Interupts to use the
locally stored ThreadContext pointer instead of taking one as an
argument. This makes calling those methods simpler and less error
prone.
Change-Id: I740bd99f92e54e052a618a4ae2927ea1c4ece193
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28988
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The System class has a few different arrays of values which each
correspond to a thread of execution based on their position. This
change collects them together into a single class to make managing them
easier and less error prone. It also collects methods for manipulating
those threads as an API for that class.
This class acts as a collection point for thread based state which the
System class can look into to get at all its state. It also acts as an
interface for interacting with threads for other classes. This forces
external consumers to use the API instead of accessing the individual
arrays which improves consistency.
Change-Id: Idc4575c5a0b56fe75f5c497809ad91c22bfe26cc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/25144
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
After commit e2a5063e5f some
memory references now tracked as barriers were not having
their completion properly notified to the MemDepUnit.
This patch fixes InstructionQueue and changes MemDepUnit's
completeBarrier to completeInst, which now should be called
for both memory references and barrier instructions.
Change-Id: I28b5f112b45778f6272e71bb3766b364c3d2e7db
Signed-off-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29654
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
When gem5.fast is compiled, an error on a variable
used only for debug purposes is raised:
build/X86/cpu/o3/mem_dep_unit_impl.hh:262:19: error: unused variable 'producing_store' [-Werror=unused-variable]
for (auto producing_store : producing_stores)
This patch remove the variable when *.fast is used.
Change-Id: Ib77c26073db39644e3525bc16edcb7d3bc871d76
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29252
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
