Hi all,

I have a question regarding MMU.
I've built a SPARC based small embedded system.
at this system addresses 0x00000000-0x00008000  (32KB) belong to ROM and
0x80000000 - 0x80010000 to RAM.
the problem is that when a code from first ROM page accesses a memory at
the address 0x80000000 there is an infinite loop.

   - cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring addres 0x00000000
   - cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring 0x80000000 and flushes
0x00000000
   - cpu_sparc_handle_mmu_fault is called to bring 0x00000000 and flushes
0x80000000
 ...

this can be fixed if I set CPU_TLB_BITS to be 20 bits (assuming page size
of 4KB).

is there a better solution?


I was thinking about 2-way TLB so two virtual addresses sharing same TLB
entry will be resident.
in order not to degrade performance
    1. *tcg_out_qemu_ld* and *tcg_out_qemu_st* should remain as it, which
mean they will always look into way0.
    2. *tlb_set_page* should copy way0 to way1 and program way0 with new
values
    3. all other routines dealing with TLB should search both ways.

what do you think?

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Best Regards,
Michael Rolnik

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