CHAPTER 2 VR4120A
144 Preliminary User’s Manual S15543EJ1V0UM
2.5.4.3 Priority of exceptionsWhile more than one exception can occur for a single instruction, only the exception with the highest priority isreported. Table 2-38 lists the priorities.Table 2-38. Exception Priority Order
High
Low
Cold Reset
Soft Reset
NMI
Address Error (instruction fetch)
TLB/XTLB Refill (instruction fetch)
TLB Invalid (instruction fetch)
Bus Error (instruction fetch)
System Call
Breakpoint
Coprocessor Unusable
Reserved Instruction
Trap
Integer Overflow
Address Error (data access)
TLB/XTLB Refill (data access)
TLB Invalid (data access)
TLB Modified (data write)
Watch
Bus Error (data access)
Interrupt (other than NMI)
Hereafter, handling exceptions by hardware is referred to as "process", and handling exception by software isreferred to as "service".