O3: Enhance data address translation by supporting hardware page table walkers.
Review Request #422 - Created Jan. 12, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Ali Saidi | |
| gem5 | |
| Reviewers | |
| Default | |
| ali, gblack, nate, stever | |
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.
