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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1993
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A page table walk is performed in response to a data translation lookaside buffer miss based on a speculative memory instruction. In the event of a data translation lookaside buffer miss, a page miss handler determines whether the memory micro-instruction causing the miss is a speculative or non-speculative micro-instruction. If non-speculative, the page miss handler performs a non-speculative page table walk. If the memory micro-instruction causing the miss is a speculative micro-instruction, the page miss handler initiates a speculative page table walk. While performing the speculative page table walk, the page miss handler determines whether page table memory accessed during the page table walk is speculateable or non-speculateable memory. If non-speculateable, the speculative page table walk is aborted. A micro-instruction assisted page table walk is performed whenever access or dirty bits must be set for the pages accessed in the page table walk.