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I'm glad to see the Checker CPU brought back from the dead, and I'm especially 
glad I didn't have to do it myself :-). This is a pretty big patch, and there 
are a number of places where things need to be fixed, there were questions, 
clarifications, etc. This isn't ready to commit but it's a solid start. 

I would request this gets broken into smaller patches that do one thing at a 
time instead of doing all this at once, but at this point that's probably 
impractical. Please shoot for that in the future though.


src/cpu/BaseCPU.py
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2119>

    Get rid of debugging output.



src/cpu/BaseCPU.py
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2120>

    What's this doing here?



src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2121>

    This whole result thing is a relic that needs to go away. You shouldn't 
build your functionality on top of it. The results of the instruction are the 
memory request it generates, if any, and the destination registers it sets. You 
should frame things in those terms.
    
    I see you're changing the instResult from a scalar value to a queue which 
partially corrects one of its deficiencies, but it's still a redundant and 
obsolete mechanism.



src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2124>

    Don't comment out code, delete it.



src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2127>

    This fetch logic is as gnarly as it is because O3 is doing branch 
prediction, microcode extraction, fetching a cache line at a time, blah blah 
blah. If you're doing simpler functional execution modeling you might get away 
with something a lot simpler modeled off of, say, the simple CPU. I'm not sure 
how the Checker CPU works in this area (or most others).



src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2125>

    Yes it is. It's unnecessary but accommodated. One of these days I'm 
planning to handle this in a better, less Alpha-y way.



src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2126>

    This is another Alpha-ism I'd like to clean up one of these days.



src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2128>

    The instructions themselves sort out if writes to registers are really 
using registers or the PC. From the CPU's perspective this should all be 
abstracted away.



src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2129>

    Line length?



src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2130>

    Line length?



src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2131>

    What are these for? I don't see anything changing here that would suggest 
you need them now but didn't before, although that's not to say that you needed 
them before and didn't have them. If these are leftovers please get rid of them.



src/cpu/simple_thread.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2122>

    This seems like a more serious problem that should actually be tracked down 
rather than worked around. Maybe NumFloatRegs isn't high enough? Maybe the 
index isn't scaled/offset/whatever properly?



src/cpu/thread_context.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2123>

    Does this belong in the ThreadContext class? I doubt it, but I'm not 
completely sure.



src/mem/packet.hh
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2132>

    by => be



src/mem/packet.cc
<http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/#comment2133>

    What's this function used for? There's a pretty decent chance I just missed 
it, but I didn't see where it was called by anything. If it's not used, then we 
don't need to make any changes to the Packet class.


- Gabe


On 2011-11-03 13:32:25, Ali Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-11-03 13:32:25)
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> 
> Review request for Default, Ali Saidi, Gabe Black, Steve Reinhardt, and 
> Nathan Binkert.
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> 
> Summary
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> 
> CheckerCPU: Re-factor CheckerCPU to be compatible current state of gem5
> 
> Brings the CheckerCPU back to a functioning state allowing FS and SE mode
> checking of the O3CPU. Lacking compatibility with checkpoints and
> fast-forwarding currently. These changes have only been tested on the
> ARM ISA.  Other ISAs should work, but some modification will be required.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   build_opts/ARM_wCHECKER_FS PRE-CREATION 
>   build_opts/ARM_wCHECKER_SE PRE-CREATION 
>   src/arch/arm/isa.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/isa/insts/m5ops.isa 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/isa/insts/misc.isa 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/table_walker.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/table_walker.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/tlb.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/tlb.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/arch/arm/utility.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/BaseCPU.py 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/CheckerCPU.py 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/base.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/base_dyn_inst.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/base_dyn_inst_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/checker/cpu.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/checker/cpu.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/checker/cpu_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/checker/thread_context.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/O3CPU.py 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/O3Checker.py 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/checker_builder.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/commit_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/cpu.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/dyn_inst_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/fetch_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/iew_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/lsq_unit_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/thread_context.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/o3/thread_context_impl.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/simple_thread.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/cpu/thread_context.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/mem/bus.cc 5fb918115c07 
>   src/mem/packet.hh 5fb918115c07 
>   src/mem/packet.cc 5fb918115c07 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/907/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ali
> 
>

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