Make the actual controller more generic
- Rename DRAMCtrl to MemCtrl
- Rename DRAMacket to MemPacket
- Rename dram_ctrl.cc to mem_ctrl.cc
- Rename dram_ctrl.hh to mem_ctrl.hh
- Create MemCtrl debug flag
Move the memory interface classes/functions to separate files
- mem_interface.cc
- mem_interface.hh
Change-Id: I1acba44c855776343e205e7733a7d8bbba92a82c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/31654
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Add NVM interface to memory controller.
This can be used with or instead of the existing
DRAM interface. Therefore, a single controller can interface
to either DRAM or NVM, or both.
Specifically, a memory channel can be configured as:
- Memory controller interfacing to DRAM only
- Memory controller interfacing to NVM only
- Memory controller interfacing to both DRAM and NVM
How data is placed or migrated between media types is outside
of the scope of this change.
The NVM interface incorporates new static delay parameters
for read and write completion. The interface defines a 2
stage read to manage non-deterministic read delays while
enabling deterministic data transfer, similar to NVDIMM-P.
The NVM interface also includes parameters to define
read and write buffers on the media side (on-DIMM). These are
utilized to quickly offload commands and write data, mitigating
the effects of lower latency and bandwidth media characteristics.
Change-Id: I6b22ddb495877f88d161f0bd74ade32cc8fdcbcc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/29027
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wendy Elsasser <wendy.elsasser@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Made DRAMCtrl a ClockedObject, with DRAMInterface
defined as an AbstractMemory. The address
ranges are now defined per interface. Currently
the model only includes a DRAMInterface but this
can be expanded for other media types.
The controller object includes a parameter to the
interface, which is setup when gem5 is configured.
Change-Id: I6a368b845d574a713c7196c5671188ca8c1dc5e8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28968
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This commit makes it possible to make invocations such as:
gem5.opt se.py --stats-root 'system.cpu[:].dtb' --stats-root 'system.membus'
When --stats-root is given, only stats that are under any of the root
SimObjects get dumped. E.g. the above invocation would dump stats such as:
system.cpu0.dtb.walker.pwrStateResidencyTicks::UNDEFINED
system.cpu1.dtb.walker.pwrStateResidencyTicks::UNDEFINED
system.membus.pwrStateResidencyTicks::UNDEFINED
system.membus.trans_dist::ReadReq
but not for example `system.clk_domain.clock`.
If the --stats-root is given, only new stats as defined at:
Idc8ff448b9f70a796427b4a5231e7371485130b4 get dumped, and old ones are
ignored. The commits following that one have done some initial conversion
work, but many stats are still in the old format.
Change-Id: Iadaef26edf9a678b39f774515600884fbaeec497
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28628
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This changeset allows setting a variable for interleaving.
That value is used together with the number of directories to
calculate numa_high_bit, which is in turn used to set up
cache, directory, and memory controller interleaving.
A similar approach is used to set xor_low_bit, and calculate
xor_high_bit for address hashing.
Change-Id: Ia342c77c59ca2e3438db218b5c399c3373618320
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/28134
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This is specialized per arch, and the Workload class is the only thing
actually using it. It doesn't make any sense to dispatch those calls
over to the System object, especially since that was, in most cases,
the only reason an ISA specific system class even still existed.
After this change, only ARM still has an architecture specific System
class.
Change-Id: I81b6c4db14b612bff8840157cfc56393370095e2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24287
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.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>
The main applications are to run baremetal programs and initramfs Linux
kernel.
Before this patch, disks() calls in makeArmSystem would throw:
IOError: Can't find file 'linux-aarch32-ael.img' on M5_PATH.
In order to achieve this, this commit also removes the default hardcoded
disk image basenames.
For example, before this commit, running without a --disk-image in X86
would automatically search for an image with basename x86root.img in
M5_PATH, which means we would either have to ignore any disk image error,
or else running without disk images would fail.
After this commit, you would have to pass --disk-image x86root.img to
achieve the old behaviour.
Change-Id: I0ae8c4b3b93d0074fd4fca0d5ed52181c50b6c04
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27867
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
This simplifies the SPARC FS workload significantly, and removes
assumptions about what ROMs exist, where they go, etc. It removes
other components from the loop which don't have anything to contribute
as far as setting up the ROMs.
One side effect of this is that there isn't specialized support for
adding PC based events which would fire in the ROMs, but that was never
done and the files that were being used were flat binary blobs with no
symbols in the first place.
This also necessitates building a unified image which goes into the single
8MB ROM that is located at address 0xfff0000000. That is simply done
with the following commands:
dd if=/dev/zero of=t1000_rom.bin bs=1024 count=8192
dd if=reset_new.bin of=t1000_rom.bin
dd if=q_new.bin of=t1000_rom.bin bs=1024 seek=64
dd if=openboot_new.bin of=t1000_rom.bin bs=1024 seek=512
This results in an 8MB blob which can be loaded verbatim into the ROM.
Alternatively, and with some extra effort, an ELF file could be
constructed which had each of these components as segments, offset to the
right location in the ELF header. That would be slightly more work to set up,
but wouldn't waste space on regions of the image that are all zeroes.
Change-Id: Id4e08f4e047e7bd36a416c197a36be841eba4a15
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27268
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
I switch between waiting and non-waiting scenario many times per day.
The BaseCPU.wait_for_remote_gdb attribute, introduced in c2baaab0ed,
makes it much less painful by saving many recompiles.
The present commit tries to go a bit further: the se.py script is
under version control, and changing it interferes with smooth git
workflow.
Change-Id: Ie65ffc44b11d78d5e7878f81f2fcdafa143c20a8
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27287
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Since I02919207d6f175854017ae7b603d811da63d618e the fs.py --bootloader
option can be used to select a bootloader explicitly.
Ia3d863db276a023b6a2c7ee7a656d8142ff75589 forgot to pass that parameter
likely due to a rebase issue and it gets searched in M5_PATH.
Change-Id: Ic4cf3ccf041e1c34eac7753424fe842bd34a77f9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26724
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@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>
The requirement to have an environment variable exported to run a program
is not common, and many new users trip up on it.
Before this commit, M5_PATH was a requirement to run those scripts, or
else simulation would fail with:
IOError: Can't find a path to system files.
After this patch, as long as users indicate all required files with
command line options, M5_PATH is not needed.
This patch changes the M5_PATH semantics slightly to more closely match
PATH and so be more intuitive to users: after this commit, if the
given path contains a slash /, then the path is not searched for inside
M5_PATH, which is exactly how PATH works. Users can then select images
in the CWD with a leading ./ just as done for executables.
This is backwards incompatible if users were already specifying their paths
as ./, but this interface feels saner, because otherwise writing on the CLI
e.g.:
--disk-image path/to/my.disk
would previously fail to find the disk, even if it existed, which is very
counter-intuitive. The following will still fail however:
--disk-image my.disk
which is not ideal, but for now is a comprise between backwards
compatibility of having an M5_PATH and what users expect from CLI
interfaces.
Change-Id: Ic91e1cc20557b35b69490b6dc420e7d324fae1fc
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23672
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
All ISAs except SPARC can now take multiple disk images by passing
the --disk-image option multiple times.
Before this patch, several ISAs automatically mounted a secondary disk
called "linux-bigswap2.img", which had to be in M5_PATH even if the end
user did not want more than one disk. This was the case for for example
for X86 but not ARM.
This change was done to:
* allow ARM to have a second disk image in fs.py, which was not possible,
and allow other ISAs like X86 and ARM to take any number of disk images
* provide a simpler, more intuitive CLI interface that does not require
magic disk images to be present in M5_PATH to work for ISAs such as X86.
Linux does not need that secondary image to boot correctly, so it is
more friendly to support a minimal setup that requires the least amount
of binaries to boot, and let supply the second image manually only if
they need it.
* make fs.py --disk-image work more similarly across all ISAs
SPARC was left with a single disk only because its setup was a bit more
complex and would require further testing.
Change-Id: I8b6e08ae6daf0a5b6cd1d57d285a9677f01eb7ad
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23671
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Other scripts (like se.py) blindly try to apply the indirect predictor
if one is set. Because this option defaults to something, there's no
way (as far as I know) to purposefully select nothing, and so the
simulator crashes. Users shouldn't have to proactively prevent gem5
from killing itself regardless, so the default was changed to "None".
Change-Id: Ic3382b8065442d6705b1c6a656646598d9d5c322
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23360
Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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>
This is the second step towards being able to run dynamically linked
applications when the guest ISA != than host ISA.
Once the guest interpreter is loaded to memory, we are able to redirect
shared object loads through the redirectPath interface.
How do we load the guest interpreter?
The elf file is for example asking for the /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so
interpreter.
That would point to a valid dynamic linker/loader if guest ISA == host
ISA, but if we are running on X86 we should point to the guest
(aarch64 in the example) toolchain wherever it is installed.
This patch is adding the --interp-dir option to point to the parent
folder of the guest /lib in the host fs.
Change-Id: Id27b97c060008d2e847776a49323d45c8809a27f
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23066
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This is the first step towards being able to run dynamically linked
applications when the guest ISA != than host ISA.
(Like running a arm application on x86)
By using the --redirects command line option it is possible to specify
via CLI a set of path redirections to be used in SE mode.
This is needed when running a dynamically linked binary in
SE mode in a guest ISA different than the host. The linker will look
for SOs (e.g. libc.so) in /lib/, but will only find the host libraries.
With this option we can redirect to the guest toolchain/file system.
Usage:
gem5.opt [example script]
--redirects /dir1=/path/to/host/dir1 \
--redirects /dir2=/path/to/host/dir2
Change-Id: I558838be2ad6802891707e9a1cc454786859db15
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23065
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Typically, a memory controller is assigned an address range of the
form [start, end). This address range might be interleaved and
therefore only a non-continuous subset of the addresses in the address
range is handed by this controller.
Prior to this patch, the DRAM controller was unaware of the
interleaving and as a result the address range could affect the
mapping of addresses to DRAM ranks, rows and columns. This patch
changes the DRAM controller, to transform the input address to a
continuous range of the form [0, size). As a result the DRAM
controller always operates on a dense and continuous address range
regardlesss of the system configuration.
Change-Id: I7d273a630928421d1854658c9bb0ab34e9360851
Signed-off-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/19328
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Wendy Elsasser <wendy.elsasser@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This patch is pulling the on-chip memory outside of the on_chip_devices
list.
The external interface will be more or less the same: configuration
scripts will still use the attachOnChipIO method; a new kw argument has
been added in order to store mem_ports.
We want to provide to on-chip memory the same mechanism used when
collecting on-chip dma ports. This is needed when using Ruby, since
we need to pass a non None mem_ports to prevent the bootmem to be
wired to the bus.
Change-Id: Ifc519c3072dc5de1530772c70c80dc2094e2c54c
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22000
Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
