This commit contains the rest of the base 2 vs base 10 cache/memory
size clarifications. It also changes the warning message to use
warn(). With these changes, the warning message should now no
longer show up during a fresh compilation of gem5.
Change-Id: Ia63f841bdf045b76473437f41548fab27dc19631
The function had been introduced in the past when we needed to
instantiate either an ArmSystem or a LinuxArmSystem depending on the
workload. Now that the workload object has been introduced in gem5, we
always instantiate an ArmSystem in FS mode, hence we don't need a
function to generate the System object
Change-Id: I79ccf31087b84521cce32da71bc835ff202dc432
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/43285
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Since the beginning fs_bigLITTLE has been pointing to a default
default_rcs = 'bootscript.rcS'
as a System.readfile parameter. That script is not present in
the gem5 repo and all the other fs scripts (starter_fs.py, fs.py
through Options.py) are using an emptry string as default
readfile param value.
We are hence aligning to the other scripts by removing this
default value
Change-Id: I20dc7714deae890d61706459c8d13bd8f5aac7a0
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/38815
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Information about what kernel to load and how to load it was built
into the System object and its subclasses. That overloaded the System
object and made it responsible for too many things, and also was
somewhat awkward when working with SE mode which doesn't have a kernel.
This change extracts the kernel and information related to it from the
System object and puts into into a OsKernel or Workload object.
Currently the idea of a "Workload" to run and a kernel are a bit
muddled, an unfortunate carry-over from the original code. It's also an
implication of trying not to make too sweeping of a change, and to
minimize the number of times configs need to change, ie avoiding
creating a "kernel" parameter which would shortly thereafter be
renamed to "workload".
In future changes, the ideas of a kernel and a workload will be
disentangled, and workloads will be expanded to include emulated
operating systems which shephard and contain Process-es for syscall
emulation.
This change was originally split into pieces to make reviewing it
easier. Those reviews are here:
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22243
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24144
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24145
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24146
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24147
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24286
Change-Id: Ia3d863db276a023b6a2c7ee7a656d8142ff75589
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26466
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
9p allows the guest Linux kernel to mount a host directory into the guest.
This allows to very easily modify test programs after a run at the end of
boot, without the need to re-insert the changes into a disk image.
It is enabled on both fs.py and fs_bigLITTLE.py with the --vio-9p
option.
Adapted from code originally present on the wiki: http://gem5.org/WA-gem5
As documented in the CLI option help, the current setup requires the guest
to know the full path to the host share, which is annoying, but overcoming
that would require actually parsing a bit of the protocol rather than just
forwarding everything to diod.
Change-Id: Iaeb1ed185dccfa8332fe6657a54e7550f64230eb
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22831
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
(1) Two new options are added to fs_bigLITTLE.py:
- "root": disk/partition containing the rootfs (def. "/dev/vda1")
- "machine-type": hardware platform class (def. "VExpress_GEM5_V1")
+ Accepts platform classes from PlatformConfig
(2) Default kernel is not available in public uploads, force the user
to provide its own kernel instead of crashing.
Change-Id: I88283ae12cd7289e15b9277ea2cc382e9136f11c
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/20148
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The option allows to set SimObject params from the CLI.
The existing config scripts have a large number of options that simply set
a single SimObject parameter, and many still are not exposed.
This commit allows users to pass arbitrary parameters from the command
line to prevent the need for this kind of trivial option.
Change-Id: Ic4bd36948aca4998d2eaf6369c85d3668efa3944
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12985
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
The change "config: Change mem_range attribute naming in ARM
SimpleSystem" modified the SimpleSystem class to be compatible with
the MemConfig utility script. While doing so, the way we report the
memory ranges supported by the system changed, which broke the bL
example configration. This changeset introduces the necessary changes
to make the script work again.
Change-Id: I789987950ff04b6c5ae1c8b807355bcba34f6b3c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4380
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Old ARM systems used to pass the machine type in the ATAGS list passed
to the kernel. This has been largely deprecated by the introduction of
device trees. Switch to the DTOnly machine type by default in gem5
since all new platforms and kernel will require this behavior.
Change-Id: Icfd085e4862863b4ef495566bfddbd11591866c3
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4260
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
This patch enables using calibrated big and LITTLE cores, ex5_big and
ex5_LITTLE instead of the default 'arm_detailed' and 'minor' cpus. The ex5
model is based on the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa (5422) SoC. Operation and memory
hierarchy latencies have been calibrated using the lmbench micro-benchmark
suite. The preliminary validation results have been published as: 'Full-System
Simulation of big.LITTLE Multicore Architecture for Performance and Energy
Exploration', in International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core
Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC'16), Lyon, France (Sep, 2016).
From http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3666
Change-Id: I4935dee0a9222bd1bf7adfccb9443014945bb2d7
Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Butko <abutko@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau <pierre-yves.peneau@lirmm.fr>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2464
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Add support for KVM in the big.LITTLE(tm) example configuration. This
replaces the --atomic option with a --cpu-type option that can be used
to switch between atomic, kvm, and timing simulation.
When running in KVM mode, the simulation script automatically assigns
separate event queues (threads) to each of the simulated CPUs. All
simulated devices, including CPU child devices (e.g., interrupt
controllers and caches), are assigned to event queue 0.
Change-Id: Ic9a3f564db91f5a3d3cb754c5a02fdd5c17d5fdf
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2561
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>
The vanilla bL configuration file and the dist-gem5 configuration file
use slightly different code paths when restoring from
checkpoints. Unify this by passing the parsed options to the
instantiate() method and adding an optional checkpoint keyword
argument for checkpoint directories (only used by the dist-gem5
script).
Change-Id: I9943ec10bd7a256465e29c8de571142ec3fbaa0e
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2560
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Weiping Liao <weipingliao@google.com>
This patch prepares future extensions and customisation of the example
big.LITTLE configuration script. It breaks out the major phases into
functions so they can be called from other python scripts.
Change-Id: I2cb7c207c410fe14602cf17af7482719abba6c24
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
This patch adds an IOCache to the example bigLITTLE
configuration. An IOCache is required for correct DMA
transfers when we have caches in the system.
Change-Id: Ifeddc1b360aacbb16b1393f361dd98873c834012
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Continue along the same line as the recent patch that made the
Ruby-related config scripts Python packages and make also the
configs/common directory a package.
All affected config scripts are updated (hopefully).
Note that this change makes it apparent that the current organisation
and naming of the config directory and its subdirectories is rather
chaotic. We mix scripts that are directly invoked with scripts that
merely contain convenience functions. While it is not addressed in
this patch we should follow up with a re-organisation of the
config structure, and renaming of some of the packages.
This patch refactors the configuration file to use a more
object-oriented design.
Change-Id: I44ac2d063c2b5901f385544fb6ce3f259459cb05
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big
CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little
CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script
can run a full system simulation with various number of big
and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes
two example device tree files for booting Linux on the
bigLITTLE system.
Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
