This patch fixes the MESI_Three_Level protocols so that it correctly
informers the Ruby sequencer when a line eviction occurs. Furthermore,
the patch allows the protocol to recognize the 'Store_Conditional'
RubyRequestType and shortcuts this operation if the monitored line
has been cleared from the address monitor. This prevents certain
livelock behaviour in which a line could ping-pong between competing
cores.
The patch establishes a new C/C++ preprocessor definition which allows
the Sequencer to send the 'Store_Conditional' RubyRequestType to
MESI_Three_Level instead of 'ST'. This is a temporary measure until
the other protocols explicitely recognize 'Store_Conditional'.
Change-Id: I27ae041ab0e015a4f54f20df666f9c4873c7583d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28328
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The implementation for load-linked/store-conditional did not work
correctly for multi-core simulations. Since load-links were treated as
stores, it was not possible for a line to have multiple readers which
often resulted in livelock when using these instructions to implemented
mutexes. This improved implementation treats load-linked instructions
similarly to loads but locks the line after a copy has been fetched
locally. Writes to a monitored address ensure the 'linked' property is
blown away and any subsequent store-conditional will fail.
Change-Id: I19bd74459e26732c92c8b594901936e6439fb073
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27103
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The MESI_Three_Level protocol includes a transition in its L1
definition to invalidate an SM state but this transition does
not notify the L0 cache. The unintended side effect of this
allows stale values to be read by the L0 cache. This can cause
incorrect behaviour when executing LL/SC based mutexes. This
patch ensures that all invalidates to SM states are exposed to
the L0 cache.
Change-Id: I7fefabdaa8027fdfa4c9c362abd7e467493196aa
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28047
Reviewed-by: John Alsop <johnathan.alsop@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This patch addresses multiple cases:
- When a controller has read/write permissions while others have read
only permissions, the one with r/w permissions performs the read as
the others may have stale data
- When controllers only have lines with stale or busy access permissions,
a valid copy of the line may be in a message in transit in the network
or in a message buffer (not seen by the controller yet). In this case,
we forward the functional request accordingly.
- Sequencer messages should not accept functional reads
- Functional writes also update the packet data on the sequencer
outstanding request lists and the cpu-side response queue.
Change-Id: I6b0656f1a2b81d41bdcf6c783dfa522a77393981
Signed-off-by: Tiago Mück <tiago.muck@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22022
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: John Alsop <johnathan.alsop@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
A new Prefetcher namespace was added which holds the gem5 prefetchers
and means they don't all need a "Prefetcher" in their name. Unfortunately
that means that there is now both a Prefetcher namespace and a
Prefetcher class which conflict with each other.
This change tries to resolve the conflict with as little disruption as
possible by simply renaming the c++ ruby Pretcher class RubyPrefetcher,
leaving the python name alone so that configs aren't affected.
Issue-on: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-447
Change-Id: I7afdf5dbc57dbf46d82552113c52f3a9207870f2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27949
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Calls to queueMemoryRead and queueMemoryWrite do not consider the size
of the queue between ruby directories and DRAMCtrl which causes infinite
buffering in the queued port between the two. This adds a MessageBuffer
in between which uses enqueues in SLICC and is therefore size checked
before any SLICC transaction pushing to the buffer can occur, removing
the infinite buffering between the two.
Change-Id: Iedb9070844e4f6c8532a9c914d126105ec98d0bc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27427
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Fix MOESI_hammer checkpoint hanging.
The function markRemoved() should be called before hitCallback(),
not after it. The reason is that hitCallback() checks if draining is
complete based on the value of "m_outstanding_count". And since
markRemoved() is responsible for decrementing "m_outstanding_count",
hitCallback() does not see that there are no outstanding requests.
Reported by: Timothy Hayes
Jira: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-331
Change-Id: I14c34be79843b172ae994ab1792fe4ce6cf5cf6e
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/25683
Reviewed-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: John Alsop <johnathan.alsop@amd.com>
Maintainer: Bradford Beckmann <brad.beckmann@amd.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
All over gem5 the params pointers are not deleted within the classes
that they were created for. Although this is a potential memory leak
as of now, it is probably safer to follow general convention so that
it can be fixed at once in the future.
Change-Id: If96f04058d51513fa8763610880e5524785ee9cf
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24249
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
All over gem5 the params pointers are not deleted within the classes
that they were created for. Although this is a potential memory leak
as of now, it is probably safer to follow general convention so that
it can be fixed at once in the future.
Change-Id: I74b662a8e635cdfb4dc1eae732dd114659fab2e9
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24246
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
While the up-to-date data may reside in any agent of Ruby's memory
hierarchy, there's an optional backing store in Ruby that provides
a 'correct' view of the physical memory. When it is enabled by the
user, every Ruby memory access will update this global memory view
as well upon finishing.
The issue is that Ruby's atomic access, used in fast-forward, does
not currently access the backing store, leading to data
incorrectness. More specifically, at the very beginning stage of the
simulation, a loader loads the program into the backing store using
functional accesses. Then the program starts execution with
fast-forward enabled, using atomic accesses for faster simulation. But
because atomic access only accesses the real memory hierarchy, the CPU
fetches incorrect instructions.
The fix is simple. Just make Ruby's atomic access update the backing
store as well as the real physical memory.
Change-Id: I2541d923e18ea488d383097ca7abd4124e47e59b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26343
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Onur Kayıran <onur.kayiran@amd.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This patch was created by Bihn Pham during his internship at AMD.
This patch fixes a very significant performance bug when using the O3
CPU model and Ruby. The issue was Ruby returned false when it received
a request to the same address that already has an outstanding request or
when the memory is blocked. As a result, O3 unnecessary squashed the
pipeline and re-executed instructions. This fix merges readRequestTable
and writeRequestTable in Sequencer into a single request table that
keeps track of all requests and allows multiple outstanding requests to
the same address. This prevents O3 from squashing the pipeline.
Change-Id: If934d57b4736861e342de0ab18be4feec464273d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21219
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Add support in Ruby to use all replacement policies in Classic.
Furthermore, if new replacement policies are added to the
Classic system, the Ruby system will recognize new policies
without any other changes in Ruby system. The following list
all the major changes:
* Make Ruby cache entries (AbstractCacheEntry) inherit from
Classic cache entries (ReplaceableEntry). By doing this,
replacement policies can use cache entries from Ruby caches.
AccessPermission and print function are moved from
AbstractEntry to AbstractCacheEntry, so AbstractEntry is no
longer needed.
* DirectoryMemory and all SLICC files are changed to use
AbstractCacheEntry as their cache entry interface. So do the
python files in mem/slicc/ast which check the entry
interface.
* "main='false'" argument is added to the protocol files where
the DirectoryEntry is defined. This change helps
differentiate DirectoryEntry from CacheEntry because they are
both the instances of AbstractCacheEntry now.
* Use BaseReplacementPolicy in Ruby caches instead of
AbstractReplacementPolicy so that Ruby caches will recognize
the replacement policies from Classic.
* Add getLastAccess() and useOccupancy() function to Classic
system so that Ruby caches can use them. Move lastTouchTick
to ReplacementData struct because it's needed by
getLastAccess() to return the correct value.
* Add a 2-dimensional array of ReplacementData in Ruby caches
to store information for different replacement policies. Note
that, unlike Classic caches, where policy information is
stored in cache entries, the policy information needs to be
stored in a new 2-dimensional array. This is due to Ruby
caches deleting the cache entry every time the corresponding
cache line get evicted.
Change-Id: Idff6fdd2102a552c103e9d5f31f779aae052943f
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20879
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Matt Sinclair <mattdsinclair@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
