Re: vhpt_miss handler question?

David Mosberger
2003-09-26T15:48:24Z

>>>>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:43:55 -0500, Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> said:

Mario> Some work I'm doing has taken me to the vhpt_miss
Mario> handler. I've been looking at the following snippet just
Mario> wondering what happens in the case where the present bit is 0
Mario> and p10,p11 predicates are not set anotherwords they retain
Mario> their application values. Would this not cause an errant
Mario> insertion if either p10 or p11 were true in the application
Mario> prior to the VHPT handler?

Mario> (p7) tbit.nz.unc p10,p11=r19,32

Did you miss the .unc qualifier on that instruction? It causes p10 and
p11 to be set to FALSE when p7 is FALSE.

--david