From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 16 21:10:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9421815432 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aron@cs.rice.edu) Received: (from aron@localhost) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id XAA11255 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:10:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:10:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mohit Aron Message-Id: <199909170410.XAA11255@cs.rice.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how the control is given to the software (i.e. what trap is generated), how the handler is called and finally how does the control return back. Thanks, - Mohit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message