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This class implements a subset of the ARM PMU v3 specification as described in the ARMv8 reference manual. It supports most of the features of the PMU, however the following features are known to be missing: * Event filtering (e.g., from different privilege levels). * Access controls (the PMU currently ignores the execution level). * The chain counter (event no. 0x1E) is unimplemented. The PMU itself does not implement any events, it merely provides an interface for the configuration scripts to hook up probes that drive events. Configuration scripts should call addEventProbe() to configure custom events or high-level methods to configure architected events. The Python implementation of addEventProbe() automatically delays event type registration until after instantiation. In order to support CPU switching and some combined counters (e.g., memory references synthesized from loads and stores), the PMU allows multiple probes per event type. When creating a system that switches between CPU models that share the same PMU, PMU events for all of the CPU models can be registered with the PMU. Kudos to Matt Horsnell for the initial gem5 implementation of the PMU.
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.