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Chapter 3: Application Processing Unit
Entries in the lockable region of the main TLB are lockable at the granularity of a single entry. As long
as the lockable region does not contain any locked entries, it can be allocated with non-locked
entries to increase overall main TLB storage size.
Translation Table Base Register 0 and 1
When managing multiple applications with their individual page tables, there is a need to have
multiple copies of the L1 page table, one for each application. Each of these are 16 KB in size. Most
of the entries are identical in each of the tables, as typically only one region of memory is
task-specific, with the kernel space being unchanged in each case. Furthermore, if there is a need to
modify a global page table entry, the change is needed in each of the tables.
To help reduce the effect of these problems, a second page table base register can be used. CP15
contains two page table base registers, TTBR0 and TTBR1. A control register (the TTB Control
register) is used to program a value in the range 0 to 7. This value (denoted by N) tells the MMU how
many upper bits of the virtual address it should check to determine which of the two TTB registers to
use. When N is 0 (the default), all virtual addresses are mapped using TTBR0. With N in the range 1-7,
the hardware looks at the most significant bits of the virtual address. If the N most significant bits
are all zero, TTBR0 is used, otherwise TTBR1 is used.
TTBR0 is used typically for process-specific addresses. On a context switch, TTBR0 is updated to
point to the first-level translation table for the new context and TTBCR is updated if this change
changes the size of the translation table. This table ranges in size from 128 bytes to 16 KB.
TTBR1 is used for operating system and I/O addresses that do not change on a context switch. The
size of this table is always 16 KB.
TLB Match Process
Each TLB entry contains a virtual address, a page size, a physical address, and a set of memory
properties. Each is marked as being associated with a particular application space, or as global for all
application spaces. A TLB entry matches if bits [31: N] of the modified virtual address (MVA) match,
where N is log2 of the page size for the TLB entry. It is either marked as global, or the ASID matched
the current ASID.
A TLB entry matches when these conditions are true:
Its virtual address matches that of the requested address.
Its non-secure TLB ID (NSTID) matches the secure or non-secure state of the MMU request.
Its ASID matches the current ASID or is global.
The operating system must ensure that, at most, one TLB entry matches at any time. A TLB can store
entries based on the following block sizes:
Supersections: 16 MB blocks of memory
Sections:1MB blocks of memory
Large pages: 64 KB blocks of memory
Small pages:4KB blocks of memory