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authorGiacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>2011-02-11 18:29:35 -0600
committerGiacomo Gabrielli <Giacomo.Gabrielli@arm.com>2011-02-11 18:29:35 -0600
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downloadgem5-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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