commit cf20e8211e2c3f1b2085c949a1e992a1f5d1071c
author Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Mon Sep 24 16:45:30 2018 +0100
committer Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Mon Oct 01 08:16:33 2018 +0000
tree 6d4489eb579e813c69732f224ed4d0687467f39a
parent a43e3108b4a9bd34cf382588e2e3bc0b81381623

sim: Extend (UN)SERIALIZE_ARRAY to BitUnions

This patch is making it possible to use SERIALIZE_ARRAY and UNSERIALIZE
array for serializing arrays of BitUnions.

Change-Id: I682766b472585f70a89338f373fb94dff5db53c3
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12924
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

src/sim/serialize.hh

diff --git a/src/sim/serialize.hh b/src/sim/serialize.hh
index 024d29c..b3081ad 100644
--- a/src/sim/serialize.hh
+++ b/src/sim/serialize.hh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015 ARM Limited
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, 2018 ARM Limited
  * All rights reserved
  *
  * The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #define __SERIALIZE_HH__
 
 
+#include <algorithm>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <list>
 #include <map>
@@ -144,6 +145,31 @@
 void
 objParamIn(CheckpointIn &cp, const std::string &name, SimObject * &param);
 
+template <class T>
+static void
+arrayParamOut(CheckpointOut &cp, const std::string &name,
+              const BitUnionType<T> *param, unsigned size)
+{
+    // We copy the array into a vector. This is needed since we cannot
+    // directly typecast a pointer to BitUnionType<T> into a pointer
+    // of BitUnionBaseType<T> but we can typecast BitUnionType<T>
+    // to BitUnionBaseType<T> since we overloaded the typecast operator
+    std::vector<BitUnionBaseType<T>> bitunion_vec(param, param + size);
+
+    arrayParamOut(cp, name, bitunion_vec);
+}
+
+template <class T>
+static void
+arrayParamIn(CheckpointIn &cp, const std::string &name,
+             BitUnionType<T> *param, unsigned size)
+{
+    std::vector<BitUnionBaseType<T>> bitunion_vec(size);
+
+    arrayParamIn(cp, name, bitunion_vec);
+    std::copy(bitunion_vec.begin(), bitunion_vec.end(), param);
+}
+
 //
 // These macros are streamlined to use in serialize/unserialize
 // functions.  It's assumed that serialize() has a parameter 'os' for