Remove the prefetch_on_access and prefetch_on_pf_hit from BaseCache.
BasePrefetch no longer expects this params to exist in the parent.
Configurations that set these parameter using the cache object were
fixed.
Change-Id: I9ab6a545eaf930ee41ebda74e2b6b8bad0ca35a7
Signed-off-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com>
This patches decouples the prefetchers from the cache implementation
as the first step to allow using the classic prefetchers with ruby
caches. The prefetchers that need do cache lookups can do so using
the accessor object provided when the probes are notified. This may
also facilitate connecting the same prefetcher to multiple caches.
Related JIRA:
https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-457https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-1112
Change-Id: I4fee1a3613ae009fabf45d7b747e4582cad315ef
Signed-off-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com>
Major refactoring of the branch predictor unit.
- Clearer control flow of the main branch predictor
- Remove `uncondBranch` and `btbUpdate` functions in favor
of a common `historyUpdate` function. There is now only
one lookup function for conditional branches and the new
`historyUpdate` for speculative history update.
- Added a new *target provider* class.
- More expressive statistics depending on the different branch
types.
- Cleanup the branch history management
Unfortunately Actions uses docker contaienrs to create files on the
system with root permissions. The 'vagrant' user which we login to run
the Actions Runner, can't remove these files. However, 'vagrant' is part
of the sudo group and can therefore use sudo to remove these files.
I don't like this, but it works.
Major refactoring of the branch predictor unit.
- Clearer control flow of the main branch predictor
- Remove `uncondBranch` and `btbUpdate` functions in favour of a
common `historyUpdate` function. There is now only one lookup
function for conditional branches and the new `historyUpdate` for
speculative history update.
- Added a new *target provider* class.
- More expressive statistics depending on the different branch types.
- Cleanup the branch history management
Change-Id: I21fa555b5663e4abad7c836fc1d41a9c8b205263
Signed-off-by: David Schall <david.schall@ed.ac.uk>
Some debug registers were incorrectly tagged
(e.g. as being writeable). This was causing a bug in some gem5-KVM runs
where gem5 was trying to initialize the state of those registers
(OSLSR_EL1) [1] but KVM was returning an error (as the registers were
RO).
[1]: https://github.com/gem5/gem5/blob/stable/\
src/arch/arm/kvm/armv8_cpu.cc#L408
Capstone is an open source disassembler [1] already used by
other projects (like QEMU).
gem5 is already capable of disassembling instructions. Every StaticInst
is supposed to define a generateDisassembly method which returns the
instruction mnemonic (opcode + operand list) as a string.
This "distributed" implementation of a disassembler relies
on the developer to properly populate the metadata fields
of the base instruction class.
The growing complexity of the ISA code and the massive reuse
of base classes beyond their intended use has led to a
disassembling logic which contains several bugs.
By allowing a tracer to rely on a third party disassembler, we fill the
instruction trace with a more trustworthy instruction stream.
This will make any trace parsing tool to work better and it will
also allow us to spot/fix our own bugs by comparing instruction
traces with native vs custom disassembler
[1]: http://www.capstone-engine.org/
Capstone is an open source disassembler [1] already used by
other projects (like QEMU).
gem5 is already capable of disassembling instructions. Every StaticInst
is supposed to define a generateDisassembly method which returns the
instruction mnemonic (opcode + operand list) as a string.
This "distributed" implementation of a disassembler relies
on the developer to properly populate the metadata fields
of the base instruction class.
The growing complexity of the ISA code and the massive reuse
of base classes beyond their intended use has led to a
disassembling logic which contains several bugs.
By allowing a tracer to rely on a third party disassembler, we fill the
intruction trace with a more trustworthy instruction stream.
This will make any trace parsing tool to work better and it will
also allow us to spot/fix our own bugs by comparing instruction
traces with native vs custom disassembler
[1]: http://www.capstone-engine.org/
Change-Id: I3c4db5072c03d2731265d0398d3863c101dcb180
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
We move it to the child class which is what the TarmacTracer
actually uses.
Change-Id: Ia30892723d2e1f7306dae87c6c9c1d69d00ad73d
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
We want to be able to configure from python the disassembler
used by an instruction tracer. The default/base version will
reuse existing instruction logic and it will simply
call the StaticInst::disassemble method.
Change-Id: Ieb16f059a436757c5892dcc82882f6d42090927f
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
The scons function Detect will return the program name if the program
is exists in the system. However, the HAVE_PKG_CONFIG is used to
check the pkg-config program is exists and it should be the boolean
type.
Change-Id: I18c4813d36eea68b8851a41db41777bdb2a80b7b
Currently the type of HAVE_DEPRECATED_NAMESPACE is used to detect
if the compiler support gnu::deprecated feature. The return type
of conf.TryCompile is int, but HAVE_DEPRECATED_NAMESPACE is used
as boolean type. The CL is add bool type caster to ensure the type
of it is boolean.
Change-Id: Ife7d9716e485a8be8722d58776f064e7c2268a30
At this moment, VLEN and ELEN RVV parameters are set as constants that
need to be modified at compile time if you want to experiment with
different values. With this patch, I want to set a first point to
discuss how to configure these parameters dynamically.
Also, I have modified some data types that were provoking wrong
behaviour in particular instructions when using a large enough VLEN
value in the considered range inside the specification.
Adds the LULESH GPU Tests to our GitHub Actions infrastructure
Co-authored-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Co-authored-by: Harshil Patel <harshilp2107@gmail.com>
This PR aims to enhance our Docker image build and registry management
by implementing multi-platform support and migrating from the Google
Docker registry to the GitHub Container Registry. Issue:
[#336](https://github.com/gem5/gem5/issues/336)
This patch fixes the size of the memory acceses in vswhole and
vlwhole instructions to the maximum vector length.
Change-Id: Ib86b5356d9f1dfa277cb4b367893e3b08242f93e
This patch adds elen as a member of vector configuration instructions so it can be used with the especulative execution
Change-Id: Iaf79015717a006374c5198aaa36e050edde40cee
In first place, vlen is added as a member of Vector Macro Instructions
where it is needed to split the instruction in Micro Instructions.
Then, new PCState methods are used to get dynamic vlen and vlenb
values at execution.
Finally, vector length data types are fixed to 32 bits so every vlen value
is considered.
Change-Id: I5b8ceb0d291f456a30a4b0ae2f58601231d33a7a
This patch add vlen definition to the riscv decoder so it can be used in Vector Instruction Constructors
Change-Id: I52292bc261c43562b690062b16d2b323675c2fe0
This path redefine VecRegContainer for RISCV so it can hold every VLEN + ELEN possible configuration used at execution time
Change-Id: Ie6abd01a1c4ebe9aae3d93f4e835fcfdc4a82dcd
Adds the following hooks:
1. `check-ast`: Verifies all Python files have a AST indicating they are
valid Python.
2. `check-merge-conflict`: Checks to see if files have merge conflict
strings and blocks commits if so.
3. `check-symlinks`: Checks that symlinks in the repo still point to a
valid location.
4. `destroyed-symlinks`: Checks if symlink is replaced with a file and
if that file is identical to the file it was previously pointing too.
None of these commits change any code. They are all checks to ensure bad
code is not committed.
Misc Regs might contain rather important information about the state of
a core, e.g., information in CSR registers.
This patch enforces copying the CSR registers when switching cpus. The
bug and the proposed fix are reported here [1].
[1] https://github.com/gem5/gem5/issues/451
Change-Id: I611782e6e3bcd5530ddac346342a9e0e44b0f757
Signed-off-by: Hoa Nguyen <hn@hnpl.org>
This PR adds the following the GitHub Actions runners:
1. Enables KVM to be run within docker containers within the VMs, if
permitted. Now, any Docker containers wanting to use KVM must create
containers with the `--device /dev/kvm` argument. This may make it hard
or impossible to utilize with GitHub Actions. Nonetheless it is enabled.
2. Improves the docker prune step (a cleanup step carried out after each
job) so it now removes all the Docker images in the VM.
3. Adds the "halt-helper.sh" script which automatically, and safely,
halts (shutsdown) all the VMs so maintenance tasks can be undertaken.
The return address stack (RAS) is restructured to be a separate SimObject.
This enables disabling the RAS and better separation of the functionality.
Furthermore, easier statistics and debugging.
Change-Id: I8aacf7d4c8e308165d0e7e15bc5a5d0df77f8192
Signed-off-by: David Schall <david.schall@ed.ac.uk>
This patch:
1. Adds setup scripting to "provision_root.sh" to setup and enable KVM,
for the 'vagrant' user, for VMs which are capable of this.
2. Runs a check on each VM to see if KVM can be run sucessfully within a
docker container. If so, the GitHub Actions runner is given a 'kvm'
label. It is unknown at this time if GitHub Runners can utlized KVM
but it is open to their processes.
Change-Id: Idfcbb7bfa3e5b7cc47d29aea50fb1ebcafdb7acc
Without `--all` `docker prune --force --volumes` will remove everything
exception non-dangling images. For an image to be considered dangling it
must be untagged and/or not used by a container at that time. As most of
the images we download are tagged (e.g., `:latest`) then most of our
images are never removed without the inclusion of `--all` which will
remove any image not currently used by a container.
Images were starting to accumulate on runners. This will ensure they do
not and are cleaned after each job run.
Change-Id: I6d8441a11d22fdcf827e9c44422dbcf02cf600e0
