Ok, that all makes sense.  I didn't realize that it was squashed.

  Nate

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Gabriel Michael Black
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you referring to the PageFault in the SE only code in the TLB? It's
> really just a signal to the CPU that the translation failed. If the
> translation failure was silent, the CPU might still try to do the access and
> cause more trouble. Once the fault makes it into the CPU, it gets squashed
> and life moves on. Even so, the page fault is appropriate because that's
> what happened, the process didn't have that address in its page table.
>
> Gabe
>
> Quoting nathan binkert <[email protected]>:
>
>> Do we really want to page fault on a prefetch?  I can see a TLB fill,
>> but a fault?  (or are these wrapped into one thing?)
>>
>>  Nate
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