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When a branch micro-op belongs to a flow and the micro-op does not change the nPC and just updates the nuPC (like a 'rep movs' flow), branching() function always returns not-taken no matter actual micro-branch outcome. Provided fix adds to the equation nuPC attribute checking since these kind of branch micro-op only updates that pointer. This issue has been found while debugging the performance of a copy-loop implemented with memcopy function. Without the fix, 'rep movss' internal micro-branch was always predicted as not-taken causing an squash event after every branch micro-branch execution. Using the provided test, branch mispredition went from 1922 without the fix to 7. Change-Id: I1bcbefae26aef47e3135817ef99b53d0ea0a98fa
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.