Is there a decent guide explaining how to use the TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) tables on an ARM1176JZF-S core? Having looked over the technical documentation for the that ARM platform I sti...

Linux is the OS and ARM is the processor referred in this context. Does the TLB contain both kernel and user space virtual addresses? Kernel memory starts at 0xc000_0000 and goes to 0xFFFF_FFFF wh...

In the linux kernel, I wrote code that resembles copy_page_range (mm/memory.c) so copy memory from one process to another with COW optimization. The destination and source addresses can be offset b...

Memory barriers guarantee that the data cache will be consistent. However, does it guarantee that the TLB will be consistent? I am seeing a problem where the JVM (java 7 update 1) sometimes crashe...

I'm doing some research with the MIPS architecture and was wondering how operating systems are implemented with the limited instructions and memory protection that mips offers. I'm specifically won...

My current work needs to generate a specified number of TLB misses on CPU of Intel Core series, while it's not going on well. I've tried many methods but all of them have a very high rate of TLB hi...

I'm trying to get my head round this (okay, tbh cramming a night before the exams :) but i can't figure out (nor find a good high level overview on the net) of this: 'page table entries can be map...

I wonder if there is a common mechanism implemented in operating systems to minimize TLB flushes, by for instance grouping threads in the same process together in a "to be scheduled" list. I think...