Systemd, which is used by many main stream Linux distributions,
will lead to slow boot if entropy is low. On X86 platforms,
this problem can be alleviated by enabling RDRAND instructions.
However, RISC-V doesn't have similar instructions. For QEMU/KVM,
this problem can be solved by passing randomness from the host
via virtio_rng. But gem5 doesn't have VirtIORng support now.
Some user report that the boot time of riscv-ubuntu-run.py is
too long. To alleviate this problem, this patch add VirtIORng
device support for gem5.
Change-Id: Id93b5703161701212fd6683837034cb0cff590c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/55483
Reviewed-by: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This resource has been deprecated in favor of 'x86-ubuntu-18.04-img'. In
practise, these are the same resource (i.e., the same disk image), but
we deprecate 'x86-ubuntu-img' as 'x86-ubuntu-18.04-img' is more explicit
on what the disk image contains. Going forward we may want different
disk image resources with different Ubuntu versions, and we want it to
be clear what the user is retrieving.
Change-Id: I06b08e6b65cf431067ffda35ebd10d419068d073
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/54583
Reviewed-by: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Remove the line "For use for simulation and test purposes only" in files
were AMD is the only copyright holder listed in the header. This happens
to be the case for all files where this line exists, removing it
completely from gem5.
Change-Id: I623f266b002f564301b28774f49081099cfc60fd
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/53943
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 SPEC2006 and SPEC2017 example configs require the passing of SPEC
disk image to function correctly. Prior to this commit a root partition
parameter was required. However, disk images don't necessarily have
partitions. In this case an empty string needed passed.
This patch makes the root partition parameter optional. If a disk image
does not have a root partition, it does not need specified.
Change-Id: Ic0093c70c72ab83ffaca54c8ad24245d84a5e5ba
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/53846
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 CustomResource can be used to specify a custom, local disk image.
It allows the user to specify the disk root partition parameter
considerably easier than when setting a disk image through a
CustomResource.
Change-Id: I8189ad065124d028aea9fab1c7f07108aa4ce6d5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/53844
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 change removes the code base for SingleChannelMemory and
replaces it with MultiChannelMemory. muli_channel defines all
the classes that were defined by single_channel. Basically any
SingleChannelMemory could be thought of as a MultiChannelMemory
with 1 channel.
Change-Id: If96079d5f77be5a3ba26d2c2ddb98f5c60375cd8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/53304
Reviewed-by: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Enable a gem5 system to be an SST::Component.
This change includes,
- SST::gem5Component: responsible for,
- initializing the Python environment for gem5
- instantiating gem5 SimObjects
- connecting SST::SSTResponderSubComponent to
gem5::OutgoingRequestBridge
- hanlding the gem5 event queue (no thread-synchronization)
- handling executing gem5 events
- SST::SSTResponderSubComponent: responsible for,
- receiving gem5 requests and sending the requests to
memory.
- sending responses to the corresponding
gem5::OutgoingRequestBridge.
- SST::SSTResponder: owned by SSTResponderSubComponent, the
actual actor that sends gem5's requests to memory.
- gem5::OutgoingRequestBridge: receives the requests from
gem5 and sends them to SST. This SimObject allows the initialization
requests to be cached and the receiver could query the
initialization data later on.
- gem5::SSTResponderInterface: the interface specifying how SST
communicates with gem5.
- A working example of a gem5/SST setup.
More information is available at ext/sst/README.md.
For installation instructions, please refer to ext/sst/INSTALL.md.
Change-Id: I6b81260ef825415bcfe72b8a078854f4c94de782
Signed-off-by: Hoa Nguyen <hoanguyen@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/50468
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
In order to fix several regression failures [1] the master/slave
terminology in src/cpu/BaseCPU.py was reintroduced [2].
This patch is addressing the issue by providing 2 different
ways of connecting cpu ports:
*) connectBus: The method assumes an object with a bus interface is
passed as an argument, therefore it tries to bind cpu ports to the
bus.mem_side_ports and bus.cpu_side_ports
*) connectAllPorts: No assumption on the port owning device is made.
The method simply accepts ports as arguments which will be directly
connected to the peer cpu ports
This will be used for example by ruby Sequencers
[1]: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-775
[2]: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34495
Change-Id: I715ab8471621d6e5eb36731d7eaefbedf9663a71
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52584
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
This enables an SE mode execution of binary if added a Board's
superclass.
This has been abstracted from the SimpleBoard.
The 'set_workload' function has been renamed 'set_se_binary_workload'.
This is clearer on its purpose and doesn't overlap with other
'set_workload' functions.
Change-Id: I714425a3b6b98b91e762ad076eba583bc5953ddd
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52186
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
This patch moves 'connect_things' to the AbstractBoard constructor,
thereby meaning it does not need to be called directly in gem5
configuration scripts. This method has been changed to private as a
result.
As boards that inherit from AbstractBoard require certain things to be
setup prior to `connect_things` being called, a new abstract function,
`_setup_board` has been created. This is called in the AbstractBoard
constructor before `connect_things` and can be overridden by boards to
setup board properties as required.
Change-Id: I558a4321b850a6b19e20b7d56d0bcae5805114b6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52184
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The override parameter in the constructor has been renamed to to
'download_md5_mismatch'. This makes the purpose of this parameter
clearer.
The default value has been changed from False to True. We found in most
cases we want to re-download files if the md5 values have changes. Not
wanting to do so is the corner case. This allows us to remove a lot of
parameters from test and example scripts, included in this patch.
Change-Id: I99fc7743f5adf78bf6f4f8efc6222e6df83ac6da
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52086
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The purpose of this class is to:
* Create a standard way to set a typical kernel/disk image workload.
* Cleans up the manner in which readfile values/contents are set.
* Allows a user to specify their own kernel arguments, but still sets
sensible defaults.
As of this commit, this interface has been added to the X86Board and the
RISCVBoard.
Change-Id: I34f4c2b829f1ae5c1cae12039436cbb345a89d09
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/51949
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This device and the file it's in have the same name as one already
defined by arm. This is basically ok when those are mutually exclusive,
but can't coexist when both ISAs can be included at the same time. This
is because the file name would put them both under
m5.objects.VirtIOMMIO, and the name of the object itself would conflict
when importing * from m5.objects.
Change-Id: I558676b7d64cc68adb2d81b070a1816aa0bea6ba
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/50335
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
The 'components_library' name was always a placeholder. A more accurate
name would be the 'gem5 library'. This is analogous to standard
libraries shipped as part of programming languages. Over time this will
begin to incorporate more commonly used code at the Python configuration
script level. Most of the former 'components_library' is now in
'gem5.components'.
Change-Id: I5927db7004c43b29c39e7767da3f779627081618
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/49691
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
There has been some debate on how best to distribute the components
library. This change builds the components library into the gem5 binary.
The components library will now function similar to the `m5` library.
There is no need for awkward imports or obtaining the library from some
third-party source.
Additional incorporated in this patch:
* Added `__init__.py` to the Python modules.
* Fixed a typo in the `abstract_ruby_cache_hierarchy.py` filename.
* Ensured that imports within the library are relative.
Issue-on: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-1023
Change-Id: I3988c8710cda8dcf7b21109a2cf5c3f1608cc71a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/49690
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Austin Harris <mail@austin-harris.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
