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Section 4 Memory Management Unit (MMU)

Rev. 3.00 Jan. 18, 2008 Page 190 of 1458

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J. Execution branches to the address obtained by adding the value of the VBR contents and

H'0000 0100 to invoke the TLB protection violation exception handler.

• Software (TLB Protection Violation Handler) Operations

Software resolves the TLB protection violation and issues the RTE (return from exception

handler) instruction to terminate the handler and return to the instruction stream. Issue the RTE

instruction after issuing two instructions from the LDTLB instruction.

4.5.3

TLB Invalid Exception

A TLB invalid exception results when the virtual address is compared to a selected TLB entry

address array and a match is found but the entry is not valid (the V bit is 0). TLB invalid exception

processing includes both hardware and software operations.

• Hardware Operations

In a TLB invalid exception, this hardware executes a set of prescribed operations, as follows:

A. The VPN field of the virtual address causing the exception is written to the PTEH register.

B. The virtual address causing the exception is written to the TEA register.

C. Either exception code H'040 for a load access, or H'060 for a store access, is written to the

EXPEVT register.

D. The PC value indicating the address of the instruction in which the exception occurred is

written to the SPC. If the exception occurred in a delay slot, the PC value indicating the

address of the delayed branch instruction is written to the SPC.

E. The contents of SR at the time of the exception are written into SSR.

F. The mode (MD) bit in SR is set to 1 to place the privileged mode.

G. The block (BL) bit in SR is set to 1 to mask any further exception requests.

H. The RB bit in SR is set to 1.

I. The way number causing the exception is written to RC in MMUCR.

J. Execution branches to the address obtained by adding the value of the VBR contents and

H'0000 0100, and the TLB protection violation exception handler starts.

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