> On 2011-03-30 09:29:31, Gabe Black wrote:
> > src/arch/arm/table_walker.cc, line 128
> > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/617/diff/1/?file=11356#file11356line128>
> >
> >     This panic doesn't do anything any more.
> 
> Ali Saidi wrote:
>     it does still catch some cases.

Oh, yeah. Duh :-P.


> On 2011-03-30 09:29:31, Gabe Black wrote:
> > src/arch/arm/faults.cc, line 233
> > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/617/diff/1/?file=11355#file11355line233>
> >
> >     The "Faults" trace flag can be useful during boot to see where things 
> > go haywire since early on there shouldn't be any, at least in ISAs with 
> > hardware TLB miss handlers. Perhaps you should make this and any other 
> > artificial faults use FaultsVerbose or similar so they get ignored unless 
> > you really wanted to see them.
> 
> Ali Saidi wrote:
>     It's extraordinarily rare that this occurs. The number of things that 
> have to occur are numerous. You have to be running with O3, execute a branch 
> instruction, predict the branch as taken, that prediction has to have an 
> entry in the BTB, the BTB entry has to miss in the TLB, a table walk has to 
> occur to satisfy the miss, and MISCREG_CONTEXIDR has to be written while all 
> this happens. At boot this is never going to happen because the context isn't 
> going to change. I'm inclined to leave it as is.

That's fair. Go ahead then.


- Gabe


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On 2011-03-30 09:05:28, Ali Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-03-30 09:05:28)
> 
> 
> Review request for Default, Ali Saidi, Gabe Black, Steve Reinhardt, and 
> Nathan Binkert.
> 
> 
> Summary
> -------
> 
> ARM: Fix table walk going on while ASID changes error
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   src/arch/arm/faults.hh d54b7775a6b0 
>   src/arch/arm/faults.cc d54b7775a6b0 
>   src/arch/arm/table_walker.cc d54b7775a6b0 
>   src/arch/arm/tlb.cc d54b7775a6b0 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/617/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ali
> 
>

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