Hi,

First, I'm not too concerned w/InOrder at the moment, I just didn't realize
that TimingSimple and InOrder were different.

Second, I've got a SimObject (which I'm calling TraceCache for lack of a
better term).   I'm trying to create a hook in the TimingSimple CPU to call
my TraceCache object.  My question is how do I reference it?

I'm assuming I need a reference for it in the .py script and in the .hh
file. But I'm not sure how to "connect" my TraceCache to a TimingSimpleCPU.
Do I need to specify it as an additional parameter when I create the CPU?
If I do that, do I need to modify the "tree" (eg TimingSimpleCPU,
BaseSimpleCPU, BaseCPU, etc) to support the additional parameter?

Thanks

Andrew Lukefahr
[email protected]

Open Source, Open Minds


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Gabriel Michael Black <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Andrew Lukefahr <[email protected]>:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I managed to create my own SimObject, and get that to compile/run into m5.
>> Now I want my SimObject track each pc on commit. How can I get m5 to call
>> a
>> function in my object when the pc changes?  Is there some event based
>> mechanism for that, or should I just modify some of the source code in one
>> of the cores to directly call my object?
>>
>
> There's no hook there, as far as I know, so you'd want to modify the CPU.
> Where exactly to do that depends on the CPU model. For O3 and I think
> InOrder you'll also need to decide whether you want the speculative fetch PC
> or the commit PC. In any of the CPUs finding where to make changes shouldn't
> be too hard, and actually making the changes should be pretty easy.
>
>
>
>> FYI, originally I was planning on making my module extend the trace
>> system,
>> but eventually I want to build m5.fast, which I think disables tracing.
>> Also, its not really a trace mechanism (I'm not dumping out any stats),
>> its
>> more of a control mechanism to decide when to offload exection to an
>> accelerator.
>>
>
> That makes sense.
>
> Gabe
>
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