Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd.

Ruchir Dalal

Jiang Lin

Chunhui Zhang

Feng Zeng

This disclosure provides a method for tagging control information associated with a physical address in a processing system, including setting a hardware tag for the control information, the hardware tag being invisible to a software system in the processing system; joining the hardware tag with the physical address to form a compound physical address, the hardware tag including M bits carried by a dedicated hardware tag control line, the physical address including N bits carried by a physical address bus, M and N being positive integers; and tagging the control information with the hardware tag in the compound physical address.

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Ruchir Dalal