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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2007
Brian Joseph Kopec, Cary, NC (US);
Victor Roberts Augsburg, Cary, NC (US);
James Norris Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brian Joseph Kopec, Cary, NC (US);
Victor Roberts Augsburg, Cary, NC (US);
James Norris Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Raleigh, NC (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Address translation performance within a processor is improved by identifying an address that causes a boundary crossing between different pages in memory and linking address translation information associated with both memory pages. According to one embodiment of a processor, the processor comprises circuitry configured to recognize an access to a memory region crossing a page boundary between first and second memory pages. The circuitry is also configured to link address translation information associated with the first and second memory pages. Thus, responsive to a subsequent access the same memory region, the address translation information associated with the first and second memory pages is retrievable based on a single address translation.