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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2022
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abhishek Raja, Austin, TX (US);
Balaji Vijayan, Austin, TX (US);
Alexander Cole Shulyak, Austin, TX (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus comprises processing circuitry to issue store operations to store data to a data store and load operations to load data from the data store and a store buffer comprising entries to store entry information corresponding to store operations in advance of the store operations completing. Store buffer lookup circuitry is provided to lookup, in response to a load operation, whether the store buffer contains a corresponding entry corresponding to an older store operation for which target addresses of the load operation and the older store operation satisfy an address comparison condition. The store buffer lookup circuitry is configured to perform store-to-load forwarding in response to the load operation when the corresponding entry is a first type of store buffer entry satisfying a forwarding condition, and delay processing of the load operation when the corresponding entry is a second type of store buffer entry satisfying the forwarding condition.