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antonblanchard.microwatt/writeback.vhdl
Paul Mackerras 6701e7346b core: Use a busy signal rather than a stall
This changes the instruction dependency tracking so that we can
generate a "busy" signal from execute1 and loadstore1 which comes
along one cycle later than the current "stall" signal.  This will
enable us to signal busy cycles only when we need to from loadstore1.

The "busy" signal from execute1/loadstore1 indicates "I didn't take
the thing you gave me on this cycle", as distinct from the previous
stall signal which meant "I took that but don't give me anything
next cycle".  That means that decode2 proactively gives execute1
a new instruction as soon as it has taken the previous one (assuming
there is a valid instruction available from decode1), and that then
sits in decode2's output until execute1 can take it.  So instructions
are issued by decode2 somewhat earlier than they used to be.

Decode2 now only signals a stall upstream when its output buffer is
full, meaning that we can fill up bubbles in the upstream pipe while a
long instruction is executing.  This gives a small boost in
performance.

This also adds dependency tracking for rA updates by update-form
load/store instructions.

The GPR and CR hazard detection machinery now has one extra stage,
which may not be strictly necessary.  Some of the code now really
only applies to PIPELINE_DEPTH=1.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
2020-06-13 20:10:07 +10:00

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VHDL

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;
library work;
use work.common.all;
use work.crhelpers.all;
entity writeback is
port (
clk : in std_ulogic;
e_in : in Execute1ToWritebackType;
l_in : in Loadstore1ToWritebackType;
w_out : out WritebackToRegisterFileType;
c_out : out WritebackToCrFileType;
complete_out : out std_ulogic
);
end entity writeback;
architecture behaviour of writeback is
begin
writeback_0: process(clk)
variable x : std_ulogic_vector(0 downto 0);
variable y : std_ulogic_vector(0 downto 0);
variable w : std_ulogic_vector(0 downto 0);
begin
if rising_edge(clk) then
-- Do consistency checks only on the clock edge
x(0) := e_in.valid;
y(0) := l_in.valid;
assert (to_integer(unsigned(x)) + to_integer(unsigned(y))) <= 1 severity failure;
x(0) := e_in.write_enable or e_in.exc_write_enable;
y(0) := l_in.write_enable;
assert (to_integer(unsigned(x)) + to_integer(unsigned(y))) <= 1 severity failure;
w(0) := e_in.write_cr_enable;
x(0) := (e_in.write_enable and e_in.rc);
assert (to_integer(unsigned(w)) + to_integer(unsigned(x))) <= 1 severity failure;
end if;
end process;
writeback_1: process(all)
variable cf: std_ulogic_vector(3 downto 0);
variable zero : std_ulogic;
variable sign : std_ulogic;
variable scf : std_ulogic_vector(3 downto 0);
begin
w_out <= WritebackToRegisterFileInit;
c_out <= WritebackToCrFileInit;
complete_out <= '0';
if e_in.valid = '1' or l_in.valid = '1' then
complete_out <= '1';
end if;
if e_in.exc_write_enable = '1' then
w_out.write_reg <= e_in.exc_write_reg;
w_out.write_data <= e_in.exc_write_data;
w_out.write_enable <= '1';
else
if e_in.write_enable = '1' then
w_out.write_reg <= e_in.write_reg;
w_out.write_data <= e_in.write_data;
w_out.write_enable <= '1';
end if;
if e_in.write_cr_enable = '1' then
c_out.write_cr_enable <= '1';
c_out.write_cr_mask <= e_in.write_cr_mask;
c_out.write_cr_data <= e_in.write_cr_data;
end if;
if e_in.write_xerc_enable = '1' then
c_out.write_xerc_enable <= '1';
c_out.write_xerc_data <= e_in.xerc;
end if;
if l_in.write_enable = '1' then
w_out.write_reg <= gpr_to_gspr(l_in.write_reg);
w_out.write_data <= l_in.write_data;
w_out.write_enable <= '1';
end if;
if l_in.rc = '1' then
-- st*cx. instructions
scf(3) := '0';
scf(2) := '0';
scf(1) := l_in.store_done;
scf(0) := l_in.xerc.so;
c_out.write_cr_enable <= '1';
c_out.write_cr_mask <= num_to_fxm(0);
c_out.write_cr_data(31 downto 28) <= scf;
end if;
-- Perform CR0 update for RC forms
-- Note that loads never have a form with an RC bit, therefore this can test e_in.write_data
if e_in.rc = '1' and e_in.write_enable = '1' then
sign := e_in.write_data(63);
zero := not (or e_in.write_data);
c_out.write_cr_enable <= '1';
c_out.write_cr_mask <= num_to_fxm(0);
cf(3) := sign;
cf(2) := not sign and not zero;
cf(1) := zero;
cf(0) := e_in.xerc.so;
c_out.write_cr_data(31 downto 28) <= cf;
end if;
end if;
end process;
end;