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This patch adds support for pinning registers for a certain number of consecutive writes. This is only relevant for timing CPU models (functional-only models are unaffected), and it is primarily needed to provide a realistic execution model for micro-coded operations whose microops can write to non-overlapping portions of a destination register, e.g. vector gather loads. In those cases, this mechanism can disable renaming for a sequence of consecutive writes, thus making the resulting execution more efficient: allocating a new physical register for each microop would introduce a read-modify-write chain of dependencies, while with these modifications the microops can write back in parallel. Please note that this new feature is only leveraged by O3CPU for the time being. Additional authors: - Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com> Change-Id: I07eb5fdbd1fa0b748c9bdc1174d9f330fda34f81 Signed-off-by: Giacomo Gabrielli <giacomo.gabrielli@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/13520 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@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/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.