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This patch changes how the MMU and table walkers are created such that a single port is used to connect the MMU and the TLBs to the memory system. Previously two ports were needed as there are two table walker objects (stage one and stage two), and they both had a port. Now the port itself is moved to the Stage2MMU, and each TableWalker is simply using the port from the parent. By using the same port we also remove the need for having an additional crossbar joining the two ports before the walker cache or the L2. This simplifies the creation of the CPU cache topology in BaseCPU.py considerably. Moreover, for naming and symmetry reasons, the TLB walker port is connected through the stage-one table walker thus making the naming identical to x86. Along the same line, we use the stage-one table walker to generate the master id that is used by all TLB-related requests.
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.