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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Leslie Mark Debruyne, Cary, NC (US);
James Norris Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Michael Scott Mcilvaine, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brian Michael Stempel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Leslie Mark DeBruyne, Cary, NC (US);
James Norris Dieffenderfer, Apex, NC (US);
Michael Scott McIlvaine, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brian Michael Stempel, Raleigh, NC (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining an instruction cache including extended cache lines and page attributes for main cache line portions of the extended cache lines and, at least for one or more predefined potential page-crossing instruction locations, additional page attributes for extra data portions of the corresponding extended cache lines. In addition, systems and methods are disclosed for processing page-crossing instructions fetched from an instruction cache having extended cache lines.