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Description
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Changeset 10783:84330bcae3c6
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mem: Snoop into caches on uncacheable accesses

This patch takes a last step in fixing issues related to uncacheable
accesses. We do not separate uncacheable memory from uncacheable
devices, and in cases where it is really memory, there are valid
scenarios where we need to snoop since we do not support cache
maintenance instructions (yet). On snooping an uncacheable access we
thus provide data if possible. In essence this makes uncacheable
accesses IO coherent.

The snoop filter is also queried to steer the snoops, but not updated
since the uncacheable accesses do not allocate a block.

At the moment there are quite a few special cases where we
need to check to ensure uncacheable accesses do not steal exclusivity
etc, and perhaps there is a nicer way to embed these checks in the
existing packet methods.


Diffs
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  src/mem/cache/mshr.cc 8a7285d6197e 
  src/mem/coherent_xbar.cc 8a7285d6197e 
  src/mem/snoop_filter.cc 8a7285d6197e 
  src/cpu/o3/cpu.cc 8a7285d6197e 
  src/dev/dma_device.cc 8a7285d6197e 
  src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh 8a7285d6197e 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2717/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Andreas Hansson

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