clear out DEC in core.cur_state.dec due to spurious interrupt.
this is slightly complicated. the STATE regfile contains pc, msr, svstate, dec, and tb, being a reflection of CoreState. reading from STATE regfile is on a one-clock delay. the DEC/TB FSM needs to decrement DEC and increment TB, by reading from the STATE regfile and then writing a new value. of course, the SPR pipeline has to get a word in edgeways as well. but... the complication comes in that it is the PowerDecoder2 which receives a *cached* copy of DEC, and this cached copy is what has (up until now) been out-of-date with what is in the STATE regfile. the hack-job-solution is to zero-out the cached copy when the SPR pipeline writes a new value to DEC. the DEC/TB FSM will then rewrite a correct value into it. given that PowerDecoder2 only uses the MSB of DEC (and the EE bit of MSR) to determine whether to fire an interrupt, this should be perfectly fine.
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