For loads and stores, the pc is obviously not related to the vaddr or paddr.

For instruction fetches, you're probably best off just ignoring the pc; the
only reason it's there is because the same packet structure is shared
between fetches and loads/stores.

Steve

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Stevenson Jian <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> Looking at src/mem/request.hh, I see that there are the following 3
> methods: getPC(), getPaddr(), and getVaddr(); The description of each are
> given in the following:
> _pc:  program counter of initiating access; for tracing/debugging
> _paddr: The physical address of the request.
> _vaddr: The virtual address of the request.
>
> So what exactly is _pc? If _pc holds the virtual address to the instruction
> sending out the request to access the cache, then it should be equal to
> _vaddr. If _pc holds the physical address to the instruction sending out the
> request to access the cache, then it should be equal to _paddr. I am
> confused why there are 3 of them, pc, paddr, and vaddr, since one of them
> has to be a repeat...
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If I remember it correctly, the addresses exposed to cache modules are all
>> physical addresses.
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On , Stevenson Jian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,I would like to trace the physical address of the instruction that is
>> accessing the cache. I see that there is in the packet going from the CPU to
>> the cache there is the PacketPtr->getPC() method. I assume that this is the
>> virtual address of the instruction reading the cache. However, what would be
>> the best way to go about getting the physical address of the instruction
>> accessing the cache?
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot of your help,
>> > Steve
>> >
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