This virtual method can trivially be shared among different CPUs, making
it unnecessary to cast from a BaseCPU pointer to some more specific CPU
class. The existing similar functions which implement this functionality
are only trivially different, and can be merged into overloads of this
common method.
Noteably this method is not implemented for the MinorCPU which uses the
SimpleThread class, typedef-ed to be MinorThread. If the previous
version of this method had been called on that CPU, it would have
crashed the simulator since a dynamic_cast would have failed. This
doesn't provide an implementation for the MinorCPU, but it also doesn't
make the problem worse, and provides a way to actually implement it some
day.
Change-Id: I23399ea6bbbbabd87e6c8bf7a66d48902745d2cf
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52084
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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