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Ship it!


- Nilay Vaish


On June 24, 2014, 4:28 p.m., Ali Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated June 24, 2014, 4:28 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 10253:992be57d8ca3
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> cpu: Fix incorrect speculative branch predictor behavior
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> When a branch mispredicted gem5 would squash all history after and including
> the mispredicted branch.  However, the mispredicted branch is still 
> speculative
> and its history is required to rollback state if another, older, branch
> mispredicts.  This leads to things like RAS corruption.
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> Diffs
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>   src/cpu/pred/2bit_local.hh a2bb75a474fd 
>   src/cpu/pred/bpred_unit.hh a2bb75a474fd 
>   src/cpu/pred/bpred_unit_impl.hh a2bb75a474fd 
>   src/cpu/pred/tournament.hh a2bb75a474fd 
>   src/cpu/pred/tournament.cc a2bb75a474fd 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2298/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Ali Saidi
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