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O3: Enable pipelining icache accesses in fetch stage

Review Request #746 - Created June 16, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Ali Saidi
gem5
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ali, gblack, nate, stever
O3: Fix up pipelining icache accesses in fetch stage to function properly

Fixed up the patch from Yasuko Watanabe that enabled pipelining of fetch accessess to
icache to work with recent changes to main repository.
Also added in ability for fetch stage to delay issuing the fault carrying
nop when a pipeline fetch causes a fault and no fetch bandwidth is available
until the next cycle.
All regressions produce correct output. This provides up to a 10% improvement in sim_ticks for a given workload.