These namespaces were used to set up an environment/context where there
was an implicit guest namespace. This is an issue when there may be
multiple guest endiannesses which might be different. In cases where
we don't know what the guest endianness is, we can't rely on it being
an implicit part of our context since that would be ambiguous. In cases
where we do know, for instance in ISA specific code, we can just use
the endianness specific version that's appropriate for that context.
This also (somewhat) removes the assumption that there is a single
endianness that applies for a particular ISA. Practically speaking this
assumption will probably still stand though, since there would likely
be a non-trivial performance penalty to apply a configurable endianness
instead of a fixed one the compiler can optomize/remove.
Change-Id: I2dff338b58726d724f387388efe32d9233885680
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22374
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This abstraction will allow scheduling PCEvents for a particular
ThreadContext, all contexts on a CPU, all contexts in a system, etc.,
and delegates scheduling and removing events to each particular scope.
Right now the PCEventQueue is the only implementor of the PCEventSCope
interface.
Change-Id: I8fb62931511136229915c2e19d36aae7ffdec9df
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22099
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
A memory image can be described by an object file, but an object file
is more than a memory image. Also, it makes sense to manipulate a
memory image to, for instance, change how it's loaded into memory. That
takes on larger implications (relocations, the entry point, symbols,
etc.) when talking about the whole object file, and also modifies
aspects which may not need to change. For instance if an image needs
to be loaded into memory at addresses different from what's in the
object file, but other things like symbols need to stay unmodified.
Change-Id: Ia360405ffb2c1c48e0cc201ac0a0764357996a54
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21466
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
The interpreter is a separate object file, and while it's convenient to
hide loading it in the code which loads the main object file, it breaks
the conceptual abstraction since you only asked it to load the main
object file.
Also, this makes every object file format reimplement the idea of
loading the interpreter. Admittedly only ELF recognizes and sets up
an interpreter, but other formats conceptually could too.
This does move that limitted hypothetical redundancy out of the object
file formats and moves it into the process objects, but I think
conceptually that's where it belongs. It would also probably be pretty
easy to add a method to the base Process class that would handle
loading an image and also the interpreter image.
This change does not (yet) separate reading symbol tables.
Change-Id: I4a165eac599a9bcd30371a162379e833c4cc89b4
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21465
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
The ObjectFile class has hardcoded assumptions that there are three
segments, text, bss and data. There are some files which have one
"segment" like raw files, where the entire file's contents are
considered a single segment. There are also ELF files which can have
an arbitrary number of segments, and those segments can hold any
number of sections, including the text, data and/or bss sections.
Removing this assumption frees up some object file formats from having
to twist themselves to fit in that structure, possibly introducing
ambiguities when some segments may fulfill multiple roles.
Change-Id: I976e06a3a90ef852b17a6485e2595b006b2090d5
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21463
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
ELF is, in my opinion, the most important object file format gem5
currently understands, and in ELF terminolgy the blob of data that
needs to be loaded into memory to a particular location is called a
segment. A section is a software level view of what's in a region
of memory, and a single segment may contain multiple sections which
happen to follow each other in memory.
Change-Id: Ib810c5050723d5a96bd7550515b08ac695fb1b02
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21462
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
This expands those functions into code which extracts the virt proxy
and then uses the appropriate method on it. This has two benefits.
First, the Copy* functions where mostly redundant wrappers around the
methods the proxy port already had. Second, using them forced a
particular port which might not actually be what the user wanted.
Change-Id: I62084631dd080061e3c74997125164f40da2d77c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18575
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Set the default release to that single value for all ISAs.
glibc has checks for the kernel version based on uname, and refuses
to start any syscall emulation programs if those checks don't pass with
error:
FATAL: kernel too old
The ideal solution to this problem is to actually implement all missing
system calls for the required kernel version and bumping the release
accordingly.
However, it is very hard to implement all missing syscalls and verify
compliance.
Previously, we have simply bumped the version manually from time to
time when major glibc versions started breaking.
This commit alleviates the problem in two ways.
Firstly, having a single kernel version for all versions means that it is
easier to bump all versions at once.
Secondly, it makes it is possible to set the release with a parameter,
which in turn can be set from the command line with:
se.py --param 'system.cpu[:].workload[:].release = "4.18.0"'
Change-Id: I9e3c31073bfe68735f7b0775c8e299aa62b98222
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17849
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The system calls had four parameters. One of the parameters
is ThreadContext and another is Process. The ThreadContext
holds the value of the current process so the Process parameter
is redundant since the system call functions already have
indirect access.
With the old API, it is possible to call into the functions with
the wrong supplied Process which could end up being a confusing
error.
This patch removes the redundancy by forcing access through the
ThreadContext field within each system call.
Change-Id: Ib43d3f65824f6d425260dfd9f67de1892b6e8b7c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/12299
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
This doesn't need to be plumbed through generic interfaces. If the
function/instruction got more complex in the future (unlikely since
Alpha doesn't really see development these days), it could be moved to
a helper function defined within Alpha files.
Change-Id: Ib746fad7bb13c5cc9c6ee555c3a46ce686771c12
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18433
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Then cast to the ISA specific type when necessary. This removes
(mostly) an ISA specific aspect to some of the interfaces. The ISA
specific version of the kernel stats still needs to be constructed and
stored in a few places which means that kernel_stats.hh still needs to
be a switching arch header, for instance.
In the future, I'd like to make the kernel its own object like the
Process objects in SE mode, and then it would be able to instantiate
and maintain its own stats.
Change-Id: I8309d49019124f6bea1482aaea5b5b34e8c97433
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18429
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
The AuxVector type has a bunch of accessors which just give access to
the underlying variables through references. We might as well just make
those members accessible directly.
Also, the AuxVector doesn't need to handle endianness flips itself. We
can tell the byteswap mechanism how to flip an AuxVector, and let it
handle that for us.
This gets rid of the entire .cc file which was complicated by trying
to both hide the ISA specific endianness translations, and instantiate
templated functions in a .cc.
Change-Id: I433cd61e73e0b067b6d628fba31be4a4ec1c4cf0
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18373
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
These selected their behavior based on ifdefs and had to be disabled
when on the NULL ISA. The versions which take an explicit endianness
have been renamed to just read/write instead of readGtoH and writeHtoG
since the direction of the translation is obvious from context.
Change-Id: I6cfbfda6c4481962d442d3370534e50532d41814
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/18372
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The importer in Python 3 doesn't like the way we import SimObjects
from the global namespace. Convert the existing SimObject declarations
to import from m5.objects. As a side-effect, this makes these files
consistent with configuration files.
Change-Id: I11153502b430822130722839e1fa767b82a027aa
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15981
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Latest-gen. vector/SIMD extensions, including the Arm Scalable Vector
Extension (SVE), introduce the notion of a predicate register file.
This changeset adds this feature across architectures and CPU models.
Change-Id: Iebcadbad89c0a582ff8b1b70de353305db603946
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13715
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
These values are all basic integers (specifically uint64_t now), and
so passing them by const & is actually less efficient since there's a
extra level of indirection and an extra value, and the same sized value
(a 64 bit pointer vs. a 64 bit int) is being passed around.
Change-Id: Ie9956b8dc4c225068ab1afaba233ec2b42b76da3
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13626
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Fix poll so that it will use the syscall retry capability
instead of causing a blocking call.
Add the accept and wait4 system calls.
Add polling to read to remove deadlocks that occur in the
event queue that are caused by blocking system calls.
Modify the write system call to return an error number in
case of error.
Change-Id: I0b4091a2e41e4187ebf69d63e0088f988f37d5da
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12115
Reviewed-by: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
Some parts of clone are architecture dependent. In some cases, we are
able to use architecture-specific helper functions or register
aliases. However, there is still some architecture-specific that is
protected by ifdefs in the common clone implementation.
Move these architecture-specific bits to the architecture-specific OS
class instead to avoid these ifdefs and make the code a bit more
readable.
Change-Id: Ia0903d738d0ba890863bddfa77e3b717db7f45de
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Cc: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Cc: Javier Setoain <javier.setoain@arm.com>
Cc: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/15435
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
The AuxVector class is responsible for holding Process data.
The data that it holds is normally setup by an OS kernel in
the process address space. The purpose behind doing this is
to pass in information that the process will need for various
reasons. (Check out the enum in the header file for an idea of
what the AuxVector holds.)
The AuxVector struct was changed into a class and encapsulation
methods were added to protect access to the member variables.
The host ISA may have a different endianness than the simulated
ISA. Since data is passed between the process address space and
the simulator for auxiliary vectors, we need to worry about
maintaining endianness for the right context.
Change-Id: I32c5ac4b679559886e1efeb4b5483b92dfc94af9
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12109
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.com>
This patch is changing the underlying type for RequestPtr from Request*
to shared_ptr<Request>. Having memory requests being managed by smart
pointers will simplify the code; it will also prevent memory leakage and
dangling pointers.
Change-Id: I7749af38a11ac8eb4d53d8df1252951e0890fde3
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/10996
Reviewed-by: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
Maintainer: Nikos Nikoleris <nikos.nikoleris@arm.com>
When we transitioned from having PCs and nextPCs stored as individual items
in the ThreadContext and went to having PC objects with abstracted
components (micro PCs, delay slots, variable instruction lengths, etc.), a
small mistake was made when translating the alpha StackTrace code.
Change-Id: Ib5dd65c53a26920e66899f421902607efd139e71
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/9702
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
