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>
This class used to drive from SimObject so that it could be derived
from to get both the interface and SimObject while still using single
inheritance.
With this change, EtherObject is now just an interface class with only
one pure virtual function which can be inherited alongside SimObject.
This makes it more flexible so that it can be used in places where you
might want a different inheritance hierarchy, for instance to inherit
from MemObject.
Change-Id: I0f07664d104eed012cf4ce6e30c416ada19505a7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17028
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
The object is called EtherTap (as opposed to EtherTapStub, what the former
EtherTap was renamed to), and its existance is gated on the linux/if_tun.h
header file existing. That's probably overly strict, but it will hopefully
be minimally likely to break the build for other systems.
Change-Id: Ie03507fadf0d843a4d4d52f283c44a416c6f2a74
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3646
Reviewed-by: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Maintainer: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
A lot of the implementation of EtherTapStub can be shared with a version
which uses a tap device directly. This change factors out those parts to
accommodate that.
Change-Id: I9c2e31f1be139ca73859a83f05457cef90101006
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3645
Reviewed-by: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Maintainer: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
The EtherTap object is going to be reworked so that it connects to a tap
device directly, but it's worthwhile to still be able to use the m5tap
utility (util/tap) to send/receive packets on systems which don't support
tap but do support the pcap API. It can also be used to replay ethernet
frames, to capture the ethernet frames coming from gem5 for analysis, to
programmatically consume and/or generate the frames, or even to forward
them to/from a remote system.
Change-Id: Ic7bd763d86cd913ac373dd10a8d6d1fc6b35f95a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3644
Reviewed-by: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Maintainer: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
