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By default, registers are the size of RegVal, the type often used to store them. For some types of registers, like vector or vector predicate registers, the size of each individual register is larger, and can't fit in a primitive type. To help facilitate storing even these outliers in a generalized way, this change adds two fields to RegClassInfo to track the size of individual registers. One tracks the raw size of the registers themselves, and the other tracks the minimal shift necessary to find the offset of a register in a contiguous(ish) array of bytes. By forcing each register to be aligned to a power of two boundary, we avoid having to do a multiplication to find their address even if the registers are oddly sized. We can instead do a shift with a precomputed shift amount which should be faster. Change-Id: I035f1b4cb00ece4e8306d7953ea358af75a0d1de Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/49104 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details concerning the minimum versions of these tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<CONFIG>/gem5.opt' where CONFIG is one of the options in build_opts like ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, X86, Garnet_standalone, etc. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) with the the specified configuration. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The main source tree includes these subdirectories: - build_opts: pre-made default configurations for gem5 - build_tools: tools used internally by gem5's build process. - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - include: include files for use in other programs - site_scons: modular components of the build system - 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 may need compiled system firmware, kernel binaries and one or more disk images, depending on gem5's configuration and what type of workload you're trying to run. Many of those resources can be downloaded from http://resources.gem5.org, and/or from the git repository here: https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/ If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.