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I'm a little confused... are you saying that we could initiate a page table 
walk for a page where there's already a walk outstanding?  Under what 
circumstances does this come up?

Wouldn't it be easier and make more sense just to suppress the later response 
than to delete an existing entry?

Assuming this was causing problems before, is there a place we should add an 
assertion to catch future similar bugs (like someone implementing the TLB in 
another ISA trying to overwrite an existing entry)?

- Steve Reinhardt


On April 17, 2012, 5:45 a.m., Gabe Black wrote:
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> (Updated April 17, 2012, 5:45 a.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Description
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> Changeset 8956:ce879248b675
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> X86: Clear out duplicate TLB entries when adding a new one.
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> It's possible for two page table walks to overlap which will go in the same
> place in the TLB's trie. They would land on top of each other, so this change
> adds some code which clears out any potentially conflicting entries before
> adding a new one.
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> Diffs
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>   src/arch/x86/tlb.cc bbceb6297329 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1155/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Gabe Black
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