changeset 7a9b5e0335a6 in /z/repo/gem5
details: http://repo.gem5.org/gem5?cmd=changeset;node=7a9b5e0335a6
description:
sim: Add drain methods to request additional cleanup operations
This patch adds the following two methods to the Drainable base class:
memWriteback() - Write back all dirty cache lines to memory using
functional accesses.
memInvalidate() - Invalidate memory system buffers. Dirty data
won't be written back.
Specifying calling memWriteback() after draining will allow us to
checkpoint systems with caches. memInvalidate() can be used to drop
memory system buffers in preparation for switching to an accelerated
CPU model that bypasses the gem5 memory system (e.g., hardware
virtualized CPUs).
Note: This patch only adds the methods to Drainable, the code for
flushing the TLB and the cache is committed separately.
diffstat:
src/python/m5/simulate.py | 9 +++++++++
src/sim/drain.hh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diffs (59 lines):
diff -r b557fcea030d -r 7a9b5e0335a6 src/python/m5/simulate.py
--- a/src/python/m5/simulate.py Fri Nov 02 11:32:02 2012 -0500
+++ b/src/python/m5/simulate.py Fri Nov 02 11:32:02 2012 -0500
@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@
while (not all_drained):
all_drained = _drain()
+def memWriteback(root):
+ for obj in root.descendants():
+ obj.memWriteback()
+
+def memInvalidate(root):
+ for obj in root.descendants():
+ obj.memInvalidate()
+
def resume(root):
for obj in root.descendants(): obj.drainResume()
@@ -189,6 +197,7 @@
if not isinstance(root, objects.Root):
raise TypeError, "Checkpoint must be called on a root object."
drain(root)
+ memWriteback(root)
print "Writing checkpoint"
internal.core.serializeAll(dir)
resume(root)
diff -r b557fcea030d -r 7a9b5e0335a6 src/sim/drain.hh
--- a/src/sim/drain.hh Fri Nov 02 11:32:02 2012 -0500
+++ b/src/sim/drain.hh Fri Nov 02 11:32:02 2012 -0500
@@ -202,6 +202,29 @@
*/
virtual void drainResume();
+ /**
+ * Write back dirty buffers to memory using functional writes.
+ *
+ * After returning, an object implementing this method should have
+ * written all its dirty data back to memory. This method is
+ * typically used to prepare a system with caches for
+ * checkpointing.
+ */
+ virtual void memWriteback() {};
+
+ /**
+ * Invalidate the contents of memory buffers.
+ *
+ * When the switching to hardware virtualized CPU models, we need
+ * to make sure that we don't have any cached state in the system
+ * that might become stale when we return. This method is used to
+ * flush all such state back to main memory.
+ *
+ * @warn This does <i>not</i> cause any dirty state to be written
+ * back to memory.
+ */
+ virtual void memInvalidate() {};
+
State getDrainState() const { return _drainState; }
protected:
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