Digi NS9750 User Manual
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Fine page table descriptor
A fine page table descriptor provides the base address of a page table that contains
second-level descriptors for large page, small page, or tiny page accesses. Fine page
tables have 1024 entries, splitting the 1 MB that the table describes into 1 KB blocks.
Figure 30 shows the format of a fine page table descriptor. Table 36 describes the fine
page table descriptor bit assignments.
Note:
If a fine page table descriptor is returned from the first-level fetch, a
second-level fetch is initiated.
Figure 30: Fine page table descriptor
[1:0]
Must be 01 to indicate a coarse page descriptor.
Bits
Description
[31:12]
Forms the base for referencing the second-level descriptor (the fine page table index for
the entry is derived from the MVA).
[11:9]
Always written as 0.
[8:5]
Specifies one of the 16 possible domains (held in the Domain Access Control register) that
contain primary access controls.
4
Always written as 1.
[3:2}
Always written as 0.
[1:0]
Must be 11 to indicate a fine page table descriptor.
Table 36: Fine page table descriptor bits
Bits
Description
Table 35: Coarse page table descriptor bits
Fine page table base address
SBZ
Domain
1
1
1
1
0
2
3
4
5
8
9
11
12
31
SBZ