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Review request for Default.


Description
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The current implementation in gem5 just keeps a list of locks per cacheline.  
Due to this, a store to a non-overlapping portion of the cacheline can cause an 
LL/SC pair to fail.  This patch simply adds an address range to the lock 
structure, so that the lock is only invalidated if the store overlaps the lock 
range.


Diffs
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  src/mem/cache/blk.hh 94383c5124d2 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1540/diff/


Testing
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Have been using it myself for a few weeks on mostly SE, single-threaded code.  
Have also run the quick regressions, the o3-timing regressions "fail" simply 
because the stats differ (fewer LL/SC pairs executed, because they are now 
succeeding on their first try).


Thanks,

Mitch Hayenga

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