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Parameter to inform coprocessor about possible load/store exceptions? #24

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Silabs-ArjanB opened this issue Oct 28, 2021 · 0 comments
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The possibility for a synchronous exception during the handling of offloaded loads/stores as desribed in https://docs.openhwgroup.org/projects/openhw-group-core-v-xif/x_ext.html#memory-request-response-interface) has a potentially significant impact on the coprocessor design and/or performance (e.g. consider an exception during an offloaded vector load instruction). We might want to add a (hardware compile time) parameter for coprocessors so that they can know if they are used in a context where such exceptions are possible (both 'yes' and 'no' would need to be supported by the coprocessor). A processor should simply document whether it can potentially generate exceptions during the handling of offloaded loads/stores or not.

It could also be considered to let the processor provide such information at run-time, but that seems overly complex.

@christian-herber-nxp christian-herber-nxp added post-v1.0 To be fixed after v1.0.0 release memory-if Memory Interface labels Feb 21, 2024
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