This is the case; but Korey is right about smtNumFetchingThreads being set
to 1 by default I proactively set it to 2 in se.py script which lead to the
problem. Thanks for all the help.

-Rick

Steve Reinhardt wrote:
> I recall going over this with Kevin when he was designing O3: faults
> are signaled when an instruction marked as faulting reaches commit,
> but when the fault is on the instruction fetch itself then you have no
> actual instruction to mark as faulting.  Hence in this one specific
> case you have to synthesize a no-op just to have something to mark as
> faulting.
>
> Korey, do you recall what smtNumFetchingThreads does with respect to
> the fetch stage?  What I believe Rick is saying is that without
> explicitly setting this variable to 1 then O3 *is* fetching from two
> different threads in the same cycle, which is causing the problem
> (since the bug is that one of them overwrites the other's fetch fault
> no-op).  If you're saying that it wasn't designed to do that, but in
> reality it is doing that in the default configuration, then that
> sounds bad.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Gabe Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> The TLB code didn't add anything with a noop, although I do remember
>> seeing something like that in there to carry faults down to commit.
>>
>> Gabe
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