Update documentation to reference fusesoc init for Xilinx boards, for
those like me who have never used fusesoc before. Add a reference to the
board files for Digilent boards and comment on perhaps installing them
for other boards as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Antony Vennard <antony@vennard.ch>
Our SPI controller sends 8 dummy clocks at boot which Ben
added for some Xilinx boards. This should be harmless but
it is confusing the flash testbench in the Caravel project.
Add a parameter so it can be overridden at the top level.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
We want much smaller caches and tlbs when building for sky130, so
allow the toplevel file to override the defaults.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
Make sure the SPRs are initialized and we can't read X state.
(Mikey: rebased and added console/bin file for testing)
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
If the DAR and DSISR are read before they are written, we assert with:
register_file.vhdl:55:25:@60195ns:(report note): Writing GPR 09 00000000XXXXXXXX
register_file.vhdl:61:17:@60195ns:(assertion failure): Assertion violation
This initialises DAR/DSISR to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Check that stb, cyc and ack are never undefined. While not really needed
here, this also tests if --pragma synthesis_off/--pragma synthesis_on
works on all the tools we use.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
The idea here is that we can have multiple instructions in progress at
the same time as long as they all go to the same unit, because that
unit will keep them in order. If we get an instruction for a
different unit, we wait for all the previous instructions to finish
before executing it. Since the loadstore unit is the only one that is
currently pipelined, this boils down to saying that loadstore
instructions can go ahead while l_in.in_progress = 1 but other
instructions have to wait until it is 0.
This gives a 2% increase on coremark performance on the Arty A7-100
(from ~190 to ~194).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This makes loadstore use a 3-stage pipeline. For now, only one
instruction goes through the pipe at a time. Completion and writeback
are still combinatorial off the valid signal back from the dcache, so
performance should be the same as before. In future it should be able
to sustain one load or store per cycle provided they hit in the
dcache.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This fixes two bugs which show up when multiple operations are in
flight in the dcache, and adds a 'hold' input which will be needed
when loadstore1 is pipelined.
The first bug is that dcache needs to sample the data for a store on
the cycle after the store request comes in even if the store request
is held up because of a previous request (e.g. if the previous request
is a load miss or a dcbz).
The second bug is that a load request coming in for a cache line being
refilled needs to be handled immediately in the case where it is for
the row whose data arrives on the same cycle. If it is not, then it
will be handled as a separate cache miss and the cache line will be
refilled again into a different way, leading to two ways both being
valid for the same tag. This can lead to data corruption, in the
scenario where subsequent writes go to one of the ways and then that
way gets displaced but the other way doesn't. This bug could in
principle show up even without having multiple operations in flight in
the dcache.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This moves the logic for redirecting fetching and writing SRR0 and
SRR1 to writeback. The aim is that ultimately units other than
execute1 can send their interrupts to writeback along with their
instruction completions, so that there can be multiple instructions
in flight without needing execute1 to keep track of the address
of each outstanding instruction.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This changes the bypass path. Previously it went from after
execute1's output to after decode2's output. Now it goes from before
execute1's output register to before decode2's output register. The
reason is that the new path will be simpler to manage when there are
possibly multiple instructions in flight. This means that the
bypassing can be managed inside decode2 and control.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This changes the way GPR hazards are detected and tracked. Instead of
having a model of the pipeline in gpr_hazard.vhdl, which has to mirror
the behaviour of the real pipeline exactly, we now assign a 2-bit tag
to each instruction and record which GSPR the instruction writes.
Subsequent instructions that need to use the GSPR get the tag number
and stall until the value with that tag is being written back to the
register file.
For now, the forwarding paths are disabled. That gives about a 8%
reduction in coremark performance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This uses the instruction doubling machinery to convert conditional
branch instructions that update both CTR and LR (e.g., bdnzl, bdnzlrl)
into two instructions, of which the first updates CTR and determines
whether the branch is taken, and the second updates LR and does the
redirect if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This uses the instruction-doubling machinery to send load with update
instructions down to loadstore1 as two separate ops, rather than
one op with two destinations. This will help to simplify the value
tracking mechanisms.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This implements a cache in fetch1, where each entry stores the address
of a simple branch instruction (b or bc) and the target of the branch.
When fetching sequentially, if the address being fetched matches the
cache entry, then fetching will be redirected to the branch target.
The cache has 1024 entries and is direct-mapped, i.e. indexed by bits
11..2 of the NIA.
The bus from execute1 now carries information about taken and
not-taken simple branches, which fetch1 uses to update the cache.
The cache entry is updated for both taken and not-taken branches, with
the valid bit being set if the branch was taken and cleared if the
branch was not taken.
If fetching is redirected to the branch target then that goes down the
pipe as a predicted-taken branch, and decode1 does not do any static
branch prediction. If fetching is not redirected, then the next
instruction goes down the pipe as normal and decode1 does its static
branch prediction.
In order to make timing, the lookup of the cache is pipelined, so on
each cycle the cache entry for the current NIA + 8 is read. This
means that after a redirect (from decode1 or execute1), only the third
and subsequent sequentially-fetched instructions will be able to be
predicted.
This improves the coremark value on the Arty A7-100 from about 180 to
about 190 (more than 5%).
The BTC is optional. Builds for the Artix 7 35-T part have it off by
default because the extra ~1420 LUTs it takes mean that the design
doesn't fit on the Arty A7-35 board.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Using the main adder for comparisons has the disadvantage of creating
a long path from the CA/OV bit forwarding to v.busy via the carry
input of the adder, the comparison result, and determining whether a
trap instruction would trap. Instead we now have dedicated
comparators for the high and low words of a_in vs. b_in, and combine
their results to get the signed and unsigned comparison results.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This breaks up the enormous if .. elsif .. case .. elsif statement in
execute1 in order to try to make it simpler and more understandable.
We now have decode2 deciding whether the instruction has a value to be
written back to a register (GPR, GSPR, FPR, etc.) rather than
individual cases in execute1 setting result_en. The computation of
the data to be written back is now independent of detection of various
exception conditions. We now have an if block determining if any
exception condition exists which prevents the next instruction from
being executed, then the case statement which performs actions such as
setting carry/overflow bits, determining if a trap exception exists,
doing branches, etc., then an if statement for all the r.busy = 1
cases (continuing execution of an instruction which was started in a
previous cycle, or writing SRR1 for an interrupt).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
This adds an explicit multiplexer feeding v.e.write_data in execute1,
with the select lines determined in the previous cycle based on the
insn_type. Similarly, for multiply and divide instructions, there is
now an explicit multiplexer.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Paul Mackerras
Antony Vennard
Michael Neuling