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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1998
James Anthony Steenburgh, Rochester, MN (US);
Sandra S Woodward, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for detecting virtual address parity error for a translation lookaside buffer in a computer system. The computer system includes a processor unit, a cache coupled to the processor unit, a main memory, and a storage control unit including a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a segment lookaside buffer (SLB). A virtual address parity (VAP) is generated for each entry written in the segment lookaside buffer (SLB). A virtual address parity (VAP) is generated for each virtual address entry written in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The SLB virtual address parity (VAP) and the TLB virtual address parity (VAP) are utilized for identifying a translation miss condition.