The event in KVM x86 SE mode plays double duty, triggering a system call
or a page fault depending on where it's called from (the system call
handler vs page fault handler).
This means we can eliminate the page fault gem5 op and the
pseudo_inst.hh switching header file.
This change touches a lot of things, but there wasn't really a good
place to split it up which still made sense and was consistent and
functional.
Change-Id: Ic414829917bcbd421893aa6c89d78273e4926b78
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34165
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Duțu <alexandru.dutu@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
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>
With some exceptions (in arm/x86) the standard memory read/write interface
for instructions relies upon the helper functions in
src/arch/generic/memhelpers.hh
which wrap the ExecContext interface.
(readMem, writeMem...)
Those helpers rely on the source/destination data to be provided (as
expected) but not on the size of the transaction. The latter gets
evaluated via the host size of the source/destination data
(sizeof(MemT)).
For this reason some instructions, which are instead using an
incompatible MemT data (as an example, a SIMD operation loading data in
an array of integers), make direct use of the ExecContext interface,
which is simply requesting for a pointer and a number of bytes.
Some other instructions are using the ExecContext interface since the
helpers do not accept a byteEnable argument.
This patch is adding some helpers to address these issues. The idea is
to deprecate direct usage of the ExecContext APIs.
These new wrappers do not work with the type detection mechanism
to evaluate the number of bytes we are accessing.
JIRA: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-196
Change-Id: I5b822d278bdf325a68a01aa1861b6487c6628245
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23527
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Gem5 Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM)
Here we provide a brief note describing HTM support in Gem5 at
a high level.
HTM is an architectural feature that enables speculative concurrency in
a shared-memory system; groups of instructions known as transactions are
executed as an atomic unit. The system allows that transactions be
executed concurrently but intervenes if a transaction's
atomicity/isolation is jeapordised and takes corrective action. In this
implementation, corrective active explicitely means rolling back a
thread's architectural state and reverting any memory updates to a point
just before the transaction began.
This HTM implementation relies on--
(1) A checkpointing mechanism for architectural register state.
(2) Buffering speculative memory updates.
This patch is focusing on the definition of the HTM checkpoint (1)
The checkpointing mechanism is architecture dependent. Each ISA
leveraging HTM support can define a class HTMCheckpoint inhereting from
the generic one (GenericISA::HTMCheckpoint).
Those will need to save/restore the architectural state by overriding
the virtual HTMCheckpoint::save (when starting a transaction) and
HTMCheckpoint::restore (when aborting a transaction).
Instances of this class live in O3's ThreadState and Atomic's
SimpleThread. It is up to the ISA to populate this instance when
executing an instruction that begins a new transaction.
JIRA: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-587
Change-Id: Icd8d1913d23652d78fe89e930ab1e302eb52363d
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/30314
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.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>
Also remove it's Alpha centric implementation. All existing ISAs will
panic since they all define the guarding constant as false. Even if they
defined it as true, this function assumes that there is necessarily a misc
reg which can be read to find the current thread_info struct, and how
the contents of that register should be manipulated.
This code is already fairly fragile since it depends on things in the
Linux kernel having certain names and relationships with each other, but
that's a larger problem I don't want to fix right now.
Change-Id: Ic107793ebcd25ee25c4d3713c84c1d2b5209f1a3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/32921
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
Instead of calling into object files after the fact and asking them to
put symbols into a target symbol table, this change makes object files
fill in a symbol table themselves at construction. Then, that table can
be retrieved and used to fill in aggregate tables, masked, moved,
and/or filtered to have only one type of symbol binding.
This simplifies the symbol management API of the object file types
significantly, and makes it easier to deal with symbol tables alongside
binaries in the FS workload classes.
Change-Id: Ic9006ca432033d72589867c93d9c5f8a1d87f73c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24787
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The SymbolTable class had been tracking symbols as two independent
pieces, a name and an address, and acted as a way to translate between
them. Symbols can be more complex than that, and so this change
encapsulates the information associated with a symbol in a new class.
As a step towards simplifying the API for reading symbols from a
binary, this change also adds a "binding" field to that class so that
global, local and weak symbols can all go in the same table and be
differentiated later as needed. That should unify the current API
which has a method for each symbol type.
While the innards of SymbolTable were being reworked, this change
also makes that class more STL like by adding iterators, and begin
and end methods. These iterate over a new vector which holds all the
symbols. The address and name keyed maps now hold indexes into that
vector instead of the other half of the symbol.
Change-Id: I8084f86fd737f697ec041bac86a635a315fd1194
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24784
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This Patch will fix the alignment problem that appears sometimes
when we try to create a view of 128 bits over the VecRegContainer
object.
That container is initially created as std::array<uint8_t, SIZE>, so
there is no obligation to be aligned to 16 bytes. This patches forces
all containers to be aligned to 16 bytes.
The problem has been observed in the Jira Issue:
https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-320
Change-Id: Id9fdd427bd7a4dc904edd519f31cc29c5b29c5e6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27968
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This generalized Workload SimObject is not geared towards FS or SE
simulations, although currently it's only used in FS. This gets rid
of the ARM specific highestELIs64 property (from the workload, not the
system) and replaces it with a generic getArch.
The old globally accessible kernel symtab has been replaced with a
symtab accessor which takes a ThreadContext *. The parameter isn't used
for anything for now, but in cases where there might be multiple
symbol tables to choose from (kernel vs. current user space?) the
method will now be able to distinguish which to use. This also makes
it possible for the workload to manage its symbol table with whatever
policy makes sense for it.
That method returns a const SymbolTable * since most of the time the
symbol table doesn't need to be modified. In the one case where an
external entity needs to modify the table, two pseudo instructions,
the table to modify isn't necessarily the one that's currently active.
For instance, the pseudo instruction will likely execute in user space,
but might be intended to add a symbol to the kernel in case something
like a module was loaded.
To support that usage, the workload has a generic "insertSymbol" method
which will insert the symbol in the table that "makes sense". There is
a lot of ambiguity what that means, but it's no less ambiguous than
today where we're only saved by the fact that there is generally only
one active symbol table to worry about.
This change also introduces a KernelWorkload SimObject class which
inherits from Workload and adds in kernel related members for cases
where the kernel is specified in the config and loaded by gem5 itself.
That's the common case, but the base Workload class would be used
directly when, for instance, doing a baremetal simulation or if the
kernel is loaded by software within the simulation as is the case for
SPARC FS.
Because a given architecture specific workload class needs to inherit
from either Workload or KernelWorkload, this change removes the
ability to boot ARM without a kernel. This ability should be restored
in the future.
To make having or not having a kernel more flexible, the kernel
specific members of the KernelWorkload should be factored out into
their own object which can then be attached to a workload through a
(potentially unused) property rather than inheritance.
Change-Id: Idf72615260266d7b4478d20d4035ed5a1e7aa241
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24283
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
When defining a static constexpr variable in C++11, it is still
required to have a separate definition someplace, something that can
be particularly problematic in template classes. C++17 fixes this
problem by adding inline variables which don't, but in the mean time
having a static constexpr value with no backing store will, if the
compiler decides to not fold away the storage location, cause linking
errors.
This happened to me when trying to build the debug build of ARM just
now.
By turning these expressions into static inline functions, then they
no longer need definitions elsewhere, still fold away to nothing, and
are compliant with C++11 which is currently the standard gem5 expects
to be using.
Change-Id: I647d7cf4a1e8de98251ee9ef116f007e08eac1f3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24964
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Chun-Chen TK Hsu <chunchenhsu@google.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
These don't have anything in them at the moment since making some ISA
methods virtual and not inlined will likely add overhead, specifically
the ones for flattening registers. Some code may need to be rearranged
to minimize that overhead before the ISA objects can be truly put
behind a generic interface.
Change-Id: Ie36a771e977535a7996fdff701ce202bb95c8c58
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/25007
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
The default constructor of the micropc enabled generic PCState class
set the next micropc to 0, when the non-default constructor and at
least the x86 initCPU utility function set it to 1. This makes more
sense since either the micropc doesn't matter as a concept if the
instruction isn't microcoded, or, unless redirected by a micropc
branch, you're going to want to execute the next microop and not just
repeat the first one.
Change-Id: I418ea986a071453563c4c8aad4fc4eb4f7beb641
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24184
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Right now, there are only two places which call the pseudoInst function
directly, the ARM KVM CPU and the generic mmapped IPR. These two
callers currently use the generic "PseudoInstABI" which is just a
wrapper around the existing getArgument function.
In the future, this getArgument function will be disolved, and the
PseudoInstABI will be defined for each ABI. Since it currently mimics
the Linux ABI since gem5 can only handle one ABI at a time right now,
this implementation will probably be shared by linux system calls,
except that the pseudo inst implementation will eat return values since
those are returned through other means when the pseudo inst is based on
magic address ranges.
Jira Issue: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-187
Change-Id: Ied97e4a968795158873e492289a1058c8e4e411b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23178
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
This makes the non-fatal microops advance the PC, and adds missing
functions. The *_once Faults now also can be run once per *something*.
They would previously be run once per Fault invoke function which is
common to all M5WarnOnceFaults. The warn_once microop will now warn
once per message.
Change-Id: I05974b93f3b2700077a411b243679c2ff0e8c2cb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20739
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
