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mem: Add probe support to the CommMonitor

Review Request #2891 - Created June 16, 2015 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Andreas Sandberg
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Changeset 10876:9613201373b3
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mem: Add probe support to the CommMonitor

This changeset adds a standardized probe point type to monitor packets
in the memory system and adds two probe points to the CommMonitor
class. These probe points enable monitoring of successfully delivered
requests and successfully delivered responses.

Memory system probe listeners should use the BaseMemProbe base class
to provide a unified configuration interface and reuse listener
registration code. Unlike the ProbeListenerObject class, the
BaseMemProbe allows objects to be wired to multiple ProbeManager
instances as long as they use the same probe point name.