Alibaba Group Holding Limited
MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT, ADDRESS TRANSLATION METHOD, AND PROCESSOR

Abstract:

The present invention discloses a memory management unit, an address translation method, and a processor. The memory management unit includes: a translation lookaside buffer adapted to store a plurality of translation entries, where each translation entry includes a size flag bit, a virtual address tag, and a physical address tag, the virtual address tag represents a virtual page, the physical address tag represents a physical page corresponding to the virtual pane, and the size flag bit represents a page size of the virtual page; and a translation processing unit adapted to look up a translation entry whose virtual address tag matches a to-be-translated virtual address in the plurality of translation entries based oil the page size represented by the size flag bit of the translation entry, and translate the virtual address into a physical address based on the matching, translation entry,