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author | Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com> | 2011-02-11 18:29:35 -0600 |
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committer | Giacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com> | 2011-02-11 18:29:35 -0600 |
commit | e2507407b17188dca802082434cfe0230d9bfa61 (patch) | |
tree | 6913f9325a7c2fc9c6e99119c61f014e10707842 /src/cpu/thread_state.hh | |
parent | 453dbc772dba92dbceb44eaeef3c617d17d63e84 (diff) | |
download | gem5-e2507407b17188dca802082434cfe0230d9bfa61.tar.xz |
O3: Enhance data address translation by supporting hardware page table walkers.
Some ISAs (like ARM) relies on hardware page table walkers. For those ISAs,
when a TLB miss occurs, initiateTranslation() can return with NoFault but with
the translation unfinished.
Instructions experiencing a delayed translation due to a hardware page table
walk are deferred until the translation completes and kept into the IQ. In
order to keep track of them, the IQ has been augmented with a queue of the
outstanding delayed memory instructions. When their translation completes,
instructions are re-executed (only their initiateAccess() was already
executed; their DTB translation is now skipped). The IEW stage has been
modified to support such a 2-pass execution.
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