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Daniel R. Carvalho
79bab1dc5d mem: Adopt a memory namespace for memories
Encapsulate every class inheriting from Abstract or Physical
memories, and the memory controller in a memory namespace.

Change-Id: I228f7e55efc395089e3616ae0a0a6325867bd782
Issued-on: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-983
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/47309
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
2021-07-09 11:24:10 +00:00
Daniel R. Carvalho
974a47dfb9 misc: Adopt the gem5 namespace
Apply the gem5 namespace to the codebase.

Some anonymous namespaces could theoretically be removed,
but since this change's main goal was to keep conflicts
at a minimum, it was decided not to modify much the
general shape of the files.

A few missing comments of the form "// namespace X" that
occurred before the newly added "} // namespace gem5"
have been added for consistency.

std out should not be included in the gem5 namespace, so
they weren't.

ProtoMessage has not been included in the gem5 namespace,
since I'm not familiar with how proto works.

Regarding the SystemC files, although they belong to gem5,
they actually perform integration between gem5 and SystemC;
therefore, it deserved its own separate namespace.

Files that are automatically generated have been included
in the gem5 namespace.

The .isa files currently are limited to a single namespace.
This limitation should be later removed to make it easier
to accomodate a better API.

Regarding the files in util, gem5:: was prepended where
suitable. Notice that this patch was tested as much as
possible given that most of these were already not
previously compiling.

Change-Id: Ia53d404ec79c46edaa98f654e23bc3b0e179fe2d
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/46323
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2021-07-01 19:08:24 +00:00
Daniel R. Carvalho
93e5734685 mem: Rename "memory" variables as "mem"
Pave the way to a "memory" namespace by renaming all
the variables that have a naming conflict.

Change-Id: I8327256ed88f1791225fe158f023132850303472
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/45438
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2021-05-29 11:13:49 +00:00
Gabe Black
8be5be6858 mem: Minor refactor of how the abstract mem backdoor is exposed.
Previously the SimpleMem depended on the fact that it inherited from the
AbstractMem in order to access and export it's back door. Now, the
AbstractMem has a method which will set a back door pointer if
appropriate, which the SimpleMem can use, or anything else which uses an
AbstractMem as its backing store.

Also, make the AbstractMem invalidate any existing back doors and refuse
to give out any new ones while some bit of memory is locked. That's
because if the storage is accessed directly, the AbstractMem will have
no change to manage its bookkeeping, and locking won't work properly.

Change-Id: If8c2a63e0827bb88b583f27ab4151d6b761e116e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/36977
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
2020-11-06 00:58:04 +00:00
Gabe Black
d05a0a4ea1 misc: Delete the now unnecessary create methods.
Most create() methods are no longer necessary. This change deletes them,
and occasionally moves some code from them into the constructors they
call.

Change-Id: Icbab29ba280144b892f9b12fac9e29a0839477e5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/36536
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2020-10-30 04:00:20 +00:00
Gabe Black
91d83cc8a1 misc: Standardize the way create() constructs SimObjects.
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>
2020-10-14 12:06:44 +00:00
Shivani Parekh
392c1ced53 misc: Replaced master/slave terminology
Change-Id: I4df2557c71e38cc4e3a485b0e590e85eb45de8b6
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33553
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
2020-09-10 23:02:28 +00:00
Gabe Black
921a72f4f3 mem: Delete authors lists from mem files.
Change-Id: I439d64d01950463747446a8177086eb276b8db55
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/25443
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
2020-02-17 21:51:08 +00:00
Gabe Black
cdcc55a6a8 mem: Minimize the use of MemObject.
MemObject doesn't provide anything beyond its base ClockedObject any
more, so this change removes it from most inheritance hierarchies.
Occasionally MemObject is replaced with SimObject when I was fairly
confident that the extra functionality of ClockedObject wasn't needed.

Change-Id: Ic014ab61e56402e62548e8c831eb16e26523fdce
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18289
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
2019-04-28 01:19:40 +00:00
Daniel R. Carvalho
d4cee4dc66 mem: Add packet matching functions
Add both block and non-block-aligned packet matching functions,
so that both address and secure bits are checked when checking
whether a packet matches a request.

Change-Id: Id0069befb925d112e06f250741cb47d9dfa249cc
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17533
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2019-04-19 16:34:00 +00:00
Gabe Black
f9e833b1ab mem: Teach SimpleMem to return a MemBackdoor when appropriate.
If the back door SimpleMem inherits from AbstractMem has a pointer and
is hence valid, SimpleMem will return that pointer when asked.

Change-Id: I734daba48e4ae5b4ad8ac9a108e7b12b5e82803f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17669
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2019-04-14 01:01:56 +00:00
Gabe Black
d3d24835bc arch, cpu, dev, gpu, mem, sim, python: start using getPort.
Replace the getMasterPort, getSlavePort, and getEthPort functions
with getPort, and remove extraneous mechanisms that are no longer
necessary.

Change-Id: Iab7e3c02d2f3a0cf33e7e824e18c28646b5bc318
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17040
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
2019-03-19 10:22:50 +00:00
Robert Kovacsics
2f17062dd9 mem: Rename Packet::checkFunctional to trySatisfyFunctional
Packet::checkFunctional also wrote data to/from the packet depending
on if it was read/write, respectively, which the 'check' in the name
would suggest otherwise. This renames it to doFunctional, which is
more suggestive. It also renames any function called checkFunctional
which calls Packet::checkFunctional. These are

- Bridge::BridgeMasterPort::checkFunctional
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MSHR::checkFunctional
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MSHR::TargetList::checkFunctional
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- Queue<>::checkFunctional
  (of src/mem/cache/queue.hh, not src/cpu/minor/buffers.h)
  - Instantiated with Queue<WriteQueueEntry> and Queue<MSHR>
- WriteQueueEntry
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- WriteQueueEntry::TargetList
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- MemDelay::checkFunctional
  - calls QueuedSlavePort/QueuedMasterPort::checkFunctional
- Packet::checkFunctional
- PacketQueue::checkFunctional
  - calls Packet::checkFunctional
- QueuedSlavePort::checkFunctional
  - calls PacketQueue::doFunctional
- QueuedMasterPort::checkFunctional
  - calls PacketQueue::doFunctional
- SerialLink::SerialLinkMasterPort::checkFunctional
  - calls Packet::doFunctional

Change-Id: Ieca2579c020c329040da053ba8e25820801b62c5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/11810
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-07-23 11:57:50 +00:00
Daniel R. Carvalho
906ef2f7cd mem: Remove unused 'using namespace'
Removal of unused/barely used 'using namespace' from C++ files.

Change-Id: I66dc548c04506db2e41180b9ea7ab5abd7d5375a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9601
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2018-04-06 08:38:06 +00:00
Sean Wilson
8421362cc2 mem: Replace EventWrapper use with EventFunctionWrapper
NOTE: With this change there is a possibility for `DRAMCtrl::Rank`s
event names to not properly match the rank they were generated by. This
could occur if the public rank member is modified after the Rank's
construction. A patch would mean refactoring Rank and `DRAMCtrl`b to
privatize many of the members of Rank behind getters.

Change-Id: I7b8bd15086f4ffdfd3f40be4aeddac5e786fd78e
Signed-off-by: Sean Wilson <spwilson2@wisc.edu>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3745
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
2017-06-20 18:03:21 +00:00
Brandon Potter
a928a438b8 style: [patch 3/22] reduce include dependencies in some headers
Used cppclean to help identify useless includes and removed them. This
involved erroneously included headers, but also cases where forward
declarations could have been used rather than a full include.
2016-11-09 14:27:40 -06:00
Brandon Potter
7a8dda49a4 style: [patch 1/22] use /r/3648/ to reorganize includes 2016-11-09 14:27:37 -06:00
Andreas Hansson
92f021cbbe mem: Move the point of coherency to the coherent crossbar
This patch introduces the ability of making the coherent crossbar the
point of coherency. If so, the crossbar does not forward packets where
a cache with ownership has already committed to responding, and also
does not forward any coherency-related packets that are not intended
for a downstream memory controller. Thus, invalidations and upgrades
are turned around in the crossbar, and the memory controller only sees
normal reads and writes.

In addition this patch moves the express snoop promotion of a packet
to the crossbar, thus allowing the downstream cache to check the
express snoop flag (as it should) for bypassing any blocking, rather
than relying on whether a cache is responding or not.
2016-02-10 04:08:25 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
0fcb376e5f mem: Make cache terminology easier to understand
This patch changes the name of a bunch of packet flags and MSHR member
functions and variables to make the coherency protocol easier to
understand. In addition the patch adds and updates lots of
descriptions, explicitly spelling out assumptions.

The following name changes are made:

* the packet memInhibit flag is renamed to cacheResponding

* the packet sharedAsserted flag is renamed to hasSharers

* the packet NeedsExclusive attribute is renamed to NeedsWritable

* the packet isSupplyExclusive is renamed responderHadWritable

* the MSHR pendingDirty is renamed to pendingModified

The cache states, Modified, Owned, Exclusive, Shared are also called
out in the cache and MSHR code to make it easier to understand.
2015-12-31 09:32:58 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
6b70afd0d4 mem: Use the packet delays and do not just zero them out
This patch updates the I/O devices, bridge and simple memory to take
the packet header and payload delay into account in their latency
calculations. In all cases we add the header delay, i.e. the
accumulated pipeline delay of any crossbars, and the payload delay
needed for deserialisation of any payload.

Due to the additional unknown latency contribution, the packet queue
of the simple memory is changed to use insertion sorting based on the
time stamp. Moreover, since the memory hands out exclusive (non
shared) responses, we also need to ensure ordering for reads to the
same address.
2015-11-06 03:26:36 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
8bc925e36d mem: Align rules for sinking inhibited packets at the slave
This patch aligns how the memory-system slaves, i.e. the various
memory controllers and the bridge, identify and deal with sinking of
inhibited packets that are only useful within the coherent part of the
memory system.

In the future we could shift the onus to the crossbar, and add a
parameter "is_point_of_coherence" that would allow it to sink the
aforementioned packets.
2015-11-06 03:26:35 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
ac1368df50 mem: Unify delayed packet deletion
This patch unifies how we deal with delayed packet deletion, where the
receiving slave is responsible for deleting the packet, but the
sending agent (e.g. a cache) is still relying on the pointer until the
call to sendTimingReq completes. Previously we used a mix of a
deletion vector and a construct using unique_ptr. With this patch we
ensure all slaves use the latter approach.
2015-11-06 03:26:21 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
5410660919 mem: Fix (ab)use of emplace to avoid temporary object creation 2015-07-13 08:46:28 -04:00
Andreas Sandberg
ed38e3432c sim: Refactor and simplify the drain API
The drain() call currently passes around a DrainManager pointer, which
is now completely pointless since there is only ever one global
DrainManager in the system. It also contains vestiges from the time
when SimObjects had to keep track of their child objects that needed
draining.

This changeset moves all of the DrainState handling to the Drainable
base class and changes the drain() and drainResume() calls to reflect
this. Particularly, the drain() call has been updated to take no
parameters (the DrainManager argument isn't needed) and return a
DrainState instead of an unsigned integer (there is no point returning
anything other than 0 or 1 any more). Drainable objects should return
either DrainState::Draining (equivalent to returning 1 in the old
system) if they need more time to drain or DrainState::Drained
(equivalent to returning 0 in the old system) if they are already in a
consistent state. Returning DrainState::Running is considered an
error.

Drain done signalling is now done through the signalDrainDone() method
in the Drainable class instead of using the DrainManager directly. The
new call checks if the state of the object is DrainState::Draining
before notifying the drain manager. This means that it is safe to call
signalDrainDone() without first checking if the simulator has
requested draining. The intention here is to reduce the code needed to
implement draining in simple objects.
2015-07-07 09:51:05 +01:00
Andreas Sandberg
e9c3d59aae sim: Make the drain state a global typed enum
The drain state enum is currently a part of the Drainable
interface. The same state machine will be used by the DrainManager to
identify the global state of the simulator. Make the drain state a
global typed enum to better cater for this usage scenario.
2015-07-07 09:51:04 +01:00
Andreas Hansson
5275c9d740 mem: Use emplace front/back for deferred packets
Embrace C++11 for the deferred packets as we actually store the
objects in the data structure, and not just pointers.
2015-03-19 04:06:11 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
f26a289295 mem: Split port retry for all different packet classes
This patch fixes a long-standing isue with the port flow
control. Before this patch the retry mechanism was shared between all
different packet classes. As a result, a snoop response could get
stuck behind a request waiting for a retry, even if the send/recv
functions were split. This caused message-dependent deadlocks in
stress-test scenarios.

The patch splits the retry into one per packet (message) class. Thus,
sendTimingReq has a corresponding recvReqRetry, sendTimingResp has
recvRespRetry etc. Most of the changes to the code involve simply
clarifying what type of request a specific object was accepting.

The biggest change in functionality is in the cache downstream packet
queue, facing the memory. This queue was shared by requests and snoop
responses, and it is now split into two queues, each with their own
flow control, but the same physical MasterPort. These changes fixes
the previously seen deadlocks.
2015-03-02 04:00:35 -05:00
Marco Balboni
268d9e59c5 mem: Clarification of packet crossbar timings
This patch clarifies the packet timings annotated
when going through a crossbar.

The old 'firstWordDelay' is replaced by 'headerDelay' that represents
the delay associated to the delivery of the header of the packet.

The old 'lastWordDelay' is replaced by 'payloadDelay' that represents
the delay needed to processing the payload of the packet.

For now the uses and values remain identical. However, going forward
the payloadDelay will be additive, and not include the
headerDelay. Follow-on patches will make the headerDelay capture the
pipeline latency incurred in the crossbar, whereas the payloadDelay
will capture the additional serialisation delay.
2015-02-11 10:23:47 -05:00
Ali Saidi
b31d9e93e2 arm, mem: Fix drain bug and provide drain prints for more components. 2014-10-29 23:18:26 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
df973abef3 mem: Dynamically determine page bytes in memory components
This patch takes a step towards an ISA-agnostic memory
system by enabling the components to establish the page size after
instantiation. The swap operation in the memory is now also allowing
any granularity to avoid depending on the IntReg of the ISA.
2014-10-16 05:49:43 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
1f6d5f8f84 mem: Rename Bus to XBar to better reflect its behaviour
This patch changes the name of the Bus classes to XBar to better
reflect the actual timing behaviour. The actual instances in the
config scripts are not renamed, and remain as e.g. iobus or membus.

As part of this renaming, the code has also been clean up slightly,
making use of range-based for loops and tidying up some comments. The
only changes outside the bus/crossbar code is due to the delay
variables in the packet.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/Bus.py => src/mem/XBar.py
rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.cc => src/mem/coherent_xbar.cc
rename : src/mem/coherent_bus.hh => src/mem/coherent_xbar.hh
rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.cc => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.cc
rename : src/mem/noncoherent_bus.hh => src/mem/noncoherent_xbar.hh
rename : src/mem/bus.cc => src/mem/xbar.cc
rename : src/mem/bus.hh => src/mem/xbar.hh
2014-09-20 17:18:32 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
377f081251 mem: Check return value of checkFunctional in SimpleMemory
Simple fix to ensure we only iterate until we are done.
2014-09-19 10:35:06 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
9aa939891f mem: Fix scheduling bug in SimpleMemory
This patch ensures that a dequeue event is not scheduled if the memory
controller is waiting for a retry already. Without this check it is
possible for the controller to attempt sending something whilst
already having one packet that is in retry, thus causing the bus to
have an assertion failure.
2013-09-18 08:46:33 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
2a675aecb9 mem: Add an internal packet queue in SimpleMemory
This patch adds a packet queue in SimpleMemory to avoid using the
packet queue in the port (and thus have no involvement in the flow
control). The port queue was bound to 100 packets, and as the
SimpleMemory is modelling both a controller and an actual RAM, it
potentially has a large number of packets in flight. There is
currently no limit on the number of packets in the memory controller,
but this could easily be added in a follow-on patch.

As a result of the added internal storage, the functional access and
draining is updated. Some minor cleaning up and renaming has also been
done.

The memtest regression changes as a result of this patch and the stats
will be updated.
2013-08-19 03:52:25 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
860155a5fc mem: Enforce strict use of busFirst- and busLastWordTime
This patch adds a check to ensure that the delay incurred by
the bus is not simply disregarded, but accounted for by someone. At
this point, all the modules do is to zero it out, and no additional
time is spent. This highlights where the bus timing is simply dropped
instead of being paid for.

As a follow up, the locations identified in this patch should add this
additional time to the packets in one way or another. For now it
simply acts as a sanity check and highlights where the delay is simply
ignored.

Since no time is added, all regressions remain the same.
2013-02-19 05:56:06 -05:00
Mitch Hayenga
dc4a0aa2fa mem: Fix use-after-free bug
Running with valgrind I noticed a use after free originating from
simple_mem.cc.  It looks like this is a known issue and this additional call
site was missed in an earlier patch.
2013-01-08 08:54:06 -05:00
Ali Saidi
ce5766c409 mem: fix use after free issue in memories until 4-phase work complete. 2012-11-02 11:50:16 -05:00
Andreas Sandberg
b81a977e6a sim: Move the draining interface into a separate base class
This patch moves the draining interface from SimObject to a separate
class that can be used by any object needing draining. However,
objects not visible to the Python code (i.e., objects not deriving
from SimObject) still depend on their parents informing them when to
drain. This patch also gets rid of the CountedDrainEvent (which isn't
really an event) and replaces it with a DrainManager.
2012-11-02 11:32:01 -05:00
Andreas Hansson
2a740aa096 Port: Add protocol-agnostic ports in the port hierarchy
This patch adds an additional level of ports in the inheritance
hierarchy, separating out the protocol-specific and protocl-agnostic
parts. All the functionality related to the binding of ports is now
confined to use BaseMaster/BaseSlavePorts, and all the
protocol-specific parts stay in the Master/SlavePort. In the future it
will be possible to add other protocol-specific implementations.

The functions used in the binding of ports, i.e. getMaster/SlavePort
now use the base classes, and the index parameter is updated to use
the PortID typedef with the symbolic InvalidPortID as the default.
2012-10-15 08:12:35 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
7c55464aac Mem: Add a maximum bandwidth to SimpleMemory
This patch makes a minor addition to the SimpleMemory by enforcing a
maximum data rate. The bandwidth is configurable, and a reasonable
value (12.8GB/s) has been choosen as the default.

The changes do add some complexity to the SimpleMemory, but they
should definitely be justifiable as this enables a far more realistic
setup using even this simple memory controller.

The rate regulation is done for reads and writes combined to reflect
the bidirectional data busses used by most (if not all) relevant
memories. Moreover, the regulation is done per packet as opposed to
long term, as it is the short term data rate (data bus width times
frequency) that is the limiting factor.

A follow-up patch bumps the stats for the regressions.
2012-09-18 10:30:02 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
f00cba34eb Mem: Make SimpleMemory single ported
This patch changes the simple memory to have a single slave port
rather than a vector port. The simple memory makes no attempts at
modelling the contention between multiple ports, and any such
multiplexing and demultiplexing could be done in a bus (or crossbar)
outside the memory controller. This scenario also matches with the
ongoing work on a SimpleDRAM model, which will be a single-ported
single-channel controller that can be used in conjunction with a bus
(or crossbar) to create a multi-port multi-channel controller.

There are only very few regressions that make use of the vector port,
and these are all for functional accesses only. To facilitate these
cases, memtest and memtest-ruby have been updated to also have a
"functional" bus to perform the (de)multiplexing of the functional
memory accesses.
2012-07-12 12:56:13 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
46d9adb68c Port: Make getAddrRanges const
This patch makes getAddrRanges const throughout the code base. There
is no reason why it should not be, and making it const prevents adding
any unintentional side-effects.
2012-07-09 12:35:34 -04:00
Andreas Hansson
b00949d88b MEM: Enable multiple distributed generalized memories
This patch removes the assumption on having on single instance of
PhysicalMemory, and enables a distributed memory where the individual
memories in the system are each responsible for a single contiguous
address range.

All memories inherit from an AbstractMemory that encompasses the basic
behaviuor of a random access memory, and provides untimed access
methods. What was previously called PhysicalMemory is now
SimpleMemory, and a subclass of AbstractMemory. All future types of
memory controllers should inherit from AbstractMemory.

To enable e.g. the atomic CPU and RubyPort to access the now
distributed memory, the system has a wrapper class, called
PhysicalMemory that is aware of all the memories in the system and
their associated address ranges. This class thus acts as an
infinitely-fast bus and performs address decoding for these "shortcut"
accesses. Each memory can specify that it should not be part of the
global address map (used e.g. by the functional memories by some
testers). Moreover, each memory can be configured to be reported to
the OS configuration table, useful for populating ATAG structures, and
any potential ACPI tables.

Checkpointing support currently assumes that all memories have the
same size and organisation when creating and resuming from the
checkpoint. A future patch will enable a more flexible
re-organisation.

--HG--
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/AbstractMemory.py
rename : src/mem/PhysicalMemory.py => src/mem/SimpleMemory.py
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/abstract_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/abstract_mem.hh
rename : src/mem/physical.cc => src/mem/simple_mem.cc
rename : src/mem/physical.hh => src/mem/simple_mem.hh
2012-04-06 13:46:31 -04:00