> On Feb. 24, 2014, 1:23 a.m., Steve Reinhardt wrote:
> > Does LL put the core to sleep in ARM?  For Alpha, where LLSC was originally 
> > implemented, these were two separate things (LL/SC vs. ARM/QUIESCE).  While 
> > x86 doesn't have LL/SC, we do have ARM/QUIESCE in the form of 
> > MONITOR/MWAIT.  Which makes me wonder whether MONITOR/MWAIT would work on a 
> > system with no caches...
> > 
> > Also, realizing that Alpha almost had an ARM instruction, makes me wonder 
> > if you might add an ALPHA instruction someday just to reciprocate...
> 
> Andreas Hansson wrote:
>     The OS uses the Wait For Event (WFE) mechanism to conserve energy, and an 
> access to any locked address has to wake the core up.

Good to go?


- Andreas


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On Feb. 21, 2014, 1:21 p.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 21, 2014, 1:21 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Default.
> 
> 
> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 10074:2b52a708bc9a
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> mem: Wakeup sleeping CPUs without caches on LLSC
> 
> For systems without caches, the LLSC code does not get snoops for
> wake-ups. We add the LLSC code in the abstract memory to do the job
> for us.
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> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/arch/null/cpu_dummy.hh 2360411a16be 
>   src/mem/abstract_mem.cc 2360411a16be 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2163/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> All regressions pass. Previously stalling multi-core boot now proceeds.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas Hansson
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