X86 had a private/arch specific request flag called StoreCheck which it
used to signal to the TLB that it should fault on a load if it would
have faulted had it been a store. That way, you can detect whether a
read-modify-write type of operation is going to fail due to a
translation problem during the read, and don't have to worry about not
doing anything architecturally visible until the store had succeeded,
while also making sure not to do the store part if the modify part
could fail.
It seems that Ruby had hijacked that flag and had an architecture
specific check which was looking for a load which was going to be
followed by a store. The x86 flag was never intended to communicate that
beyond the TLB, and this nominally architecture agnostic component
shouldn't be reaching into the ISA specific flags to try to get that
information.
Instead, this change introduces a new Request flag called
READ_MODIFY_WRITE which is used for the same purpose in x86, but in
general means that a load will be followed by a write in the near
future.
With this new globally applicable flag, the ruby Sequencer class no
longer needs to check what the arch is, nor does it need to access ISA
private data in the request flags. Always doing this check should be no
less efficient than before, because checking the arch involved calling
into the system object, while checking the flag only requires masking a
bit on the flags which the compiler probably already has floating around
for other logic in this function.
Change-Id: Ied5b744d31e7aa8bf25e399b6b321f9d2020a92f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/48710
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Ruby assumes protocols use directory controllers as memory interface.
Thus, recvAtomic() uses the machine type of directory when it calls
mapAddressToMachine(). However, it doesn't work for CHI since
CHI does not use directory controllers as memory controller interface.
Therefore, the code was modified to check which controller type is used
for memory interface between MachineType_Directory and
MachineType_Memory, which is used for CHI.
Change-Id: If35a06a8a3772ce5e5b994df05c9d94c7770c90d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/48403
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
As prefetcher can use VA and need translation, it is
interesting to see both VA and PA when printing the queues.
PA is printed as 0 if translation has not happened yet.
Also fix a bug when the pkt is not yet created.
Change-Id: I7cd225379c2930a8d6a7882efdb3dc7bc49fb8a3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/48683
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Now that we're using c++17, the type_traits with a ::value member have
a _v alias which reduces verbosity. Or on other words
std::is_integral<T>::value
can be replaced with
std::is_integral_v<T>
Make this substitution throughout the code base. In places where gem5
introduced it's own similar templates, add a V alias, spelled
differently to match gem5's internal style.
gem5: :IsVarArgs<T>::value => gem5::IsVarArgsV<T>
Change-Id: I1d84ffc4a236ad699471569e7916ec17fe5f109a
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/48604
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Previously, we assumed that the maximum number of requests that would be
issued by an instruction was equal to the number of threads that were
active for that instruction.
However, if a thread has an access that crosses a cache line, that
thread has a misaligned access, and needs to request both cache lines.
This patch takes that into account by checking the status vector for
each thread in that instruction to determine the number of requests.
Change-Id: I1994962c46d504b48654dbd22bcd786c9f382fd9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/48341
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Poremba <matthew.poremba@amd.com>
Maintainer: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
Add an accuracy and coverage stat for the prefetchers.
Accuracy is defined as the ratio of the number of prefetch
request that have been counted as useful over the number
of prefetch request issued.
Accuracy tells whether the prefetcher is producing useful
requests or not.
Coverage is defined as the ratio of of the number of prefetch
request that have been counted as useful over the number of
demand misses if there was no prefetch, which is counted as
the number of useful prefetch request plus the remaining
demand misses. Due to the way stats are defined in the cache,
I have to add a stat to count the number of remaining demand
misses directly in the prefetcher stat. Demand is defined
as being one of this request type: ReadReq, WriteReq,
WriteLineReq, ReadExReq, ReadCleanReq, ReadSharedReq.
Coverage tells what part of misses are covered by the prefetcher.
Change-Id: I3bb8838f87b42665fdd782889f6ba56ca2a802fc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/47603
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Count how many time a prefetch is useful, meaning
a hit has happened on a prefetched cache block.
Another stat (pfUsefulButMiss) has been added to count
the special case where there is a hit on prefetched block
but it is counted as a miss because the block is not in
the requested coherency state.
Change-Id: I253216b9ac96d5f21139b710c489d6eb3fce7136
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/47602
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Add a non-standard extension to the RSP protocol: the "." command
requests a dump of the simulated page table.
The dump consists of concatenated records, one record per page table
entry. Each record contains the entry's "virtual" value written as
hex, followed by a colon (:), followed by the entry's "physical" value
written as hex, followed by a semicolon (;).
At the time of writing, one practical use of this feature (in
combination with the "shared_backstore" parameter) is extremely fast
Miranda-Ingalls simulation of JIT compilers.
Change-Id: I333ed11d4ce671251d0b93cddae3bbcea44ea4ca
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/47719
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
In C, to refer to a type without a struct or enum tag on the type, you
need to typedef it like this:
typedef struct
{
} Foo;
Foo foo;
In C++, this is unnecessary:
struct Foo
{
};
Foo foo;
Remove all of the first form in C++ files and replace them with the
second form.
Change-Id: I37cc0d63b2777466dc6cc51eb5a3201de2e2cf43
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/46199
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>
Table policies (i.e., replacement, compression, etc) behave
differently depending on the workload, and it is often desired
to be able to selectively switch between them. In this case
the relevant metadata for all the policies must be added to
all of the entries being analyzed.
In order to avoid having to monitor all table entries, a few
of these entries are selected to be sampled and estimate
overall behavior. These sampled entries belong each to a
single policy. Then, based on the predominance of these
samples, the winning policy is applied to the other sets
(followers).
As of now, in order to avoid having to iterate over a vector,
there is a limited number of dueling instances, but it may be
easily extended, if needed.
Based on Set Dueling, proposed in "Adaptive Insertion Policies
for High Performance Caching".
Change-Id: I692a3e5e0ad98581d68167ad7e6b45ab2f4c7b10
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/37895
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
