when a tlb miss happens, will the access bit of pte entry of the page be affected?? Thanks On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 bellucda@tiscali.it wrote: > > >-- Messaggio Originale -- > >Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:25 -0400 (EDT) > >From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu> > >To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu> > >cc: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu>, > > kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > >Subject: Re: tlb misses > > > > > > > So is there no way that i can account for tlb misses. For my purpose i > need to catch the tlb misses. Is there no way in x86 to catch the tlb > misses. Is there a documentation about the tlbs anywhere. I searched thru > intel documentation, but dint g > >t any useful info. > > IMHO i don't think is possible to account tlb misses. > > anyway, linux pagefault handler isn't invoked on tlb misses. > > > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ed L Cashin wrote: > > > "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu> writes: > > > > > hi, > > > > > > How are tlb misses handled in linux? > > > > In x86 the hardware handles the miss by > >ooking up the translation in > > the page tables, starting with the pgd pointer stored in cr3. > > > > > are tlb misses accounted as minor faults ?? > > > > In the above case, I don't think so, since the page fault handler > > isn't invoked. > > > > -- > > --Ed > >L Cashin | PGP public key: > > ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/ > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kerne > >newbies.org/faq/ > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Partecipa al concorso Tiscali "collegati e vinci", > il primo premio e' un viaggio per 2 persone a Zanzibar! > http://point.tiscali.it/numerounico/ > > > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
