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Major update to branch predictor

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Created by: rosethompson

Significant performance improvements to branch predictor. Solved several bugs with btb's valid bit and ghr corruption on branch class misprediction.

  • Optomized gshare.
  • BTB cleanup.
  • Found minor bug in gshare.
  • Updated gitflow.
  • More btb cleanup.
  • Added logic to forward btb prediction results.
  • Fixed subtle bug in btb.
  • Cleaned up branch predictor.
  • More branch predictor improvements.
  • Improved RAS.
  • Improved RAS again.
  • RAS is now compliant with our header and documentation guide.
  • Fixed typos.
  • Intermediate commit. Passes regression tests, but RAS is not correct.
  • Modified the RAS to correctly repair itself.
  • Improved no class prediction mode.
  • Fixed compressed branch class decode.
  • Fixed another bug with the compressed instruction class decode.
  • Changed the performance counters to track different data. Now rather than tracking jump(r) we track jump(r) and taken branches.
  • Very hacky. But I think gshare is now correct with respect to repair on instruction class miss prediction.
  • Found issue with branch predictor.
  • Removed pessimistic x propagation issue for wally32priv test in the branch predictor.
  • Clarified gshare bp.
  • Possible fix for speculative gshare.
  • Possible workign instruction class prediction repair.
  • Found an issue where the btb was not forwarding the valid bit!
  • Added another performance counter to track overall branch miss-predictions.
  • Fixed bug with the new csr.
  • Fixed another bug with the speculative gshare with instruction class prediction.
  • Fixed bug with the btb's valid bit not beind held on a stall.
  • Updated testbench for branch logger.
  • Fixed bug in the branch logger.
  • Fixed another bug with the branch logger.
  • Fixed typo in testbench branch logger.
  • Updated benchmark parsing script.
  • Found bug in gshare.
  • Gshare cleanup.
  • gshare cleanup.

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