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Repository: gem5


Description
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Changeset 10610:b2007283d4e0
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arm: Raise an alignment fault if a PC has illegal alignment

We currently don't handle unaligned PCs correctly. There is one check
for unaligned PCs in the TLB when running in aarch64 mode, but this
check does not cover cases where the CPU does not do a TLB lookup when
decoding an instruction (e.g., a branch stays within the same cache
line). Additionally, the Decoder class sometimes throws an assertion
for unaligned PCs which breaks speculation.

This changeset introduces a decoder fault bit field in the ExtMachInst
structure. This field can be used to signal a decoder failure. If set,
the decoder generates an internal gem5fault instruction instead of a
normal instruction. This instruction in turns either panics (fault
type PANIC), returns an PCAlignmentFault (fault type UNALIGNED,
aarch64) or PrefetchAbort (fault type UNALIGNED, aarch32).

The patch causes minor changes to the realview64 regressions, and a
stats bump will follow.


Diffs
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  src/arch/arm/SConscript 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/decoder.cc 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/insts/pseudo.hh PRE-CREATION 
  src/arch/arm/insts/pseudo.cc PRE-CREATION 
  src/arch/arm/isa/bitfields.isa 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/isa/decoder/decoder.isa 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/isa/formats/formats.isa 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/isa/formats/pseudo.isa PRE-CREATION 
  src/arch/arm/isa/includes.isa 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/tlb.cc 8fc6e7a835d1 
  src/arch/arm/types.hh 8fc6e7a835d1 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2566/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Andreas Hansson

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