Hi all,
I have a question regarding MMU.
I've built a SPARC based small embedded system.
at this system addresses 0x00000000-0x00008000 (32KB) belong to ROM and 0x80000000 - 0x80010000 to RAM.
the problem is that when a code from first ROM page accesses a memory at the address 0x80000000 there is an infinite loop.
- cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring addres 0x00000000
- cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring 0x80000000 and flushes 0x00000000
- cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring 0x00000000 and flushes 0x80000000
...
this can be fixed if I set CPU_TLB_BITS to be 20 bits (assuming page size of 4KB).
is there a better solution?
I was thinking about 2-way TLB so two virtual addresses sharing same TLB entry will be resident.
in order not to degrade performance
1. tcg_out_qemu_ld and tcg_out_qemu_st should remain as it, which mean they will always look into way0.
2. tlb_set_page should copy way0 to way1 and program way0 with new values
3. all other routines dealing with TLB should search both ways.
what do you think?
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Best Regards,
Michael Rolnik