Adding an error message in case the binary is not compatible with gem5.
This PR is addressing the comments in issue #807.
Change-Id: I66466ed6f657276c13d237fde3b1ec12c20cfe91
This patch reworks the Linux Kernel panic and oops events. The code has
been re-factored to provide re-usable events that can be applied to all
ISAs from the base `KernelWorkload` `SimObject`. At the moment they are
installed for the Arm workloads.
This update also provides more configuration options that can be
specified using the new `KernelPanicOopsBehaviour` enum. The options are
applied to the Kernel Workload parameters `on_panic` and `on_oops` which
are available to all subclasses of `KernelWorkload`.
The main rationale for this reworking is to add the option to cleanly
exit the simulation after dumping the Dmesg buffer. Without this option,
the simulation would continue running after a Kernel panic. If system
components (e.g. a system timer) keep the event queue alive, this causes
the simulation to run slowly to the maximum allowed tick.
Adding a small python function that allows to display
messages directly in GDB from the python interpreter.
This function is inside the Workload SimObject
(The stub is not a SimObject).
ex:
system.workload.sendToGdb("message to display")
Change-Id: I46ddae079b10d298743e023f95bf15608f50e358
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/63531
Reviewed-by: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The workload would have a better idea of what it's endianness is than
the system object that holds it. This is the first step towards getting
rid of the getByteOrder method on the system object, which currently
checks TARGET_ISA to determine what the default endianness should be.
If it makes sense for a Workload, it could determine the endianness
dynamically by, for instance, reading it out of a binary image before
putting it into memory.
This does assume that the workload has a consistent endianness
throughout which may not be true, but this is not a new assumption.
Also, mark the SEWorkload SimObject class as "abstract", since it isn't
useful until they get subclassed by some arch specific version.
Change-Id: I8d4ba8382f22236a81f9738cc3506cdb97bdbfb2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52104
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This way there will always be a workload object, even if nothing needs
to be set up. This default can also be used in low_power_sweep.py,
where the workload object was just a placeholder.
This will allow required functionality like determining endianness of a
system into the workload, rather than (for instance) in the more generic
System object. This also makes accessing less essential functionality
simpler, because we don't have to detect whether the workload is there,
and can just return default, placeholder values from the StubWorkload.
Change-Id: Idfc3e75c65318d75a3eae6a19944ae1f79a2d111
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52103
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
When calling a method in a superclass, you can/should use the super()
method to get a reference to that class. The python 2 version of that
method takes two parameters, the current class name, and the "self"
instance. The python 3 version takes no arguments. This is better for a
at least three reasons.
First, this version is less verbose because you don't have to specify
any arguments.
Second, you don't have to remember which argument goes where (I always
have to look it up), and you can't accidentally use the wrong class
name, or forget to update it if you copy code from a different class.
Third, this version will work correctly if you use a class decorator.
I don't know exactly how the mechanics of this work, but it is referred
to in a comment on this stackoverflow question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/681953/how-to-decorate-a-class
Change-Id: I427737c8f767e80da86cd245642e3b057121bc3b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52224
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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>
There are two user visible effects of this change. First, all of the
threads for a particular workload are moved under a single GDB instance.
The GDB session can see all the threads at once, and can let you move
between them as you want.
Second, since there is a GDB instance per workload and not per CPU, the
wait_for_gdb parameter was moved to the workload.
Change-Id: I510410c3cbb56e445b0fbb1def94c769d3a7b2e3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/44617
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The workload object is still optional for the sake of compatibility,
even though it probably shouldn't be in the long term. If a simulation
is just a collection of components with nothing in particular running on
it, for instance driven by a traffic generator, should it even have a
System object in the first place?
Change-Id: I8bcda72bdfa3730248226fb62f0bba9a83243d95
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/33278
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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>
