Fujitsu Fujitsu SPARC64 V manual Automatic Way Reduction of sTLB, Way Reduction Condition

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When a parity error is detected in an ITLB entry when an LDXA instruction attempts to read ASI_ITLB_DATA_ACCESS or ASI_ITLB_TAG_ACCESS, hardware automatically demaps the entry and an instruction urgent error is indicated in ASI_UGESR.IUG_ITLB.

Error in sTLB Entry Detected During Virtual Address

Translation

When a parity error is detected in the sTLB entry during a virtual address translation, hardware automatically demaps the entry and does not report the error to software.

Error in fTLB Entry Detected During Virtual Address

Translation

When an fTLB tag has a parity error, the fTLB entry never matches any virtual address. An fTLB tag error in a locked entry causes a TLB miss for the virtual address already registered as the locked TLB entry.

A parity error in fTLB entry data is detected only when the tag of the fTLB entry matches a virtual address.

When a parity error in the fITLB is detected at the time of an instruction fetch, a precise instruction_access_error exception is generated. The parity error in the fITLB entry and the fITLB entry index is indicated in ASI_IFSR.

When a parity error in fDTLB is detected for the memory access of a load or store instruction, a precise data_access_error exception is generated. The parity error in the fDTLB entry and the fDTLB entry index is indicated in ASI_DFSR.

P.10.2 Automatic Way Reduction of sTLB

When frequent errors occur in sITLB and sDTLB, hardware automatically detects that condition and reduces the way, with no adverse effects on software.

Way Reduction Condition

Hardware counts TLB entry parity error occurrences for each sITLB way and sDTLB way. If the error count per unit of time exceeds a predefined threshold, hardware recognizes an sTLB way reduction condition.

196 SPARC JPS1 Implementation Supplement: Fujitsu SPARC64 V • Release 1.0, 1 July 2002

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Fujitsu Fujitsu SPARC64 V manual Automatic Way Reduction of sTLB, Way Reduction Condition