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Hardware Operations: In a TLB miss, the SH7709 hardware executes a set of prescribed
operations, as follows:
1. The VPN field of the virtual address causing the exception is written to the PTEH register.
2. The virtual address causing the exception is written to the TEA register.
3. Either exception code H'040 for a load access, or H'060 for a store access, is written to the
EXPEVT register.
4. The PC value indicating the address of the instruction in which the exception occurred is
written to the save program counter (SPC). If the exception occurred in a delay slot, the PC
value indicating the address of the related delayed branch instruction is written to the SPC.
5. The contents of the status register (SR) at the time of the exception are written to the save
status register (SSR).
6. The mode (MD) bit in SR is set to 1 to place the SH7709 in privileged mode.
7. The block (BL) bit in SR is set to 1 to mask any further exception requests.
8. The register bank (RB) bit in SR is set to 1.
9. The RC field in the MMU control register (MMUCR) is incremented by 1 when all entries
indexed are valid. When some entries indexed are invalid, the smallest way number of them is
set in RC.
10. Execution branches to the address obtained by adding the value of the VBR contents and
H'00000400 to invoke the user-written TLB miss exception handler.
Software (TLB Miss Handler) Operations: The software searches the page tables in external
memory and allocates the required page table entry. Upon retrieving the required page table entry,
the software must execute the following operations:
1. Write the value of the physical page number (PPN) field and the protection key (PR), page size
(SZ), cacheable (C), dirty (D), share status (SH), and valid (V) bits of the page table entry
recorded in the address translation table in external memory into the PTEL register in the
SH7709.
2. If using software for way selection for entry replacement, write the desired value to the RC
field in MMUCR.
3. Issue the LDTLB instruction to load the contents of PTEH and PTEL into the TLB.
4. Issue the return from exception handler (RTE) instruction to terminate the handler routine and
return to the instruction stream.
3.5.2
TLB Protection Violation Exception
A TLB protection violation exception results when the virtual address and the address array of the
selected TLB entry are compared and a valid entry is found to match, but the type of access is not
permitted by the access rights specified in the PR field. TLB protection violation exception
handling includes both hardware and software operations.