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Coarse page table descriptor
A coarse page table descriptor provides the base address of a page table that
contains second-level descriptors for either large page or small page accesses. Coarse
page tables have 256 entries, splitting the 1 MB that the table describes into 4 KB
blocks. Figure 29 shows the coarse page table descriptor format; Table 35 describes
the coarse page table descriptor bit assignments.
Note:
If a coarse page table descriptor is returned from the first-level fetch, a
second-level fetch is initiated.
Figure 29: Coarse page table descriptor
[8:5]
Specifies one of the 16 possible domains (held in the Domain and Access Control register)
that contain the primary access controls.
4
Should be written as 1, for backwards compatibility.
[3:2]
Indicate if the area of memory mapped by this section is treated as writeback cachable,
write-through cachable, noncached buffered, or noncached nonbuffered.
[1:0]
Must be 10 to indicate a section descriptor.
Bits
Description
[31:10]
Forms the base for referencing the second-level descriptor (the coarse page table index for
the entry derived from the MVA).
9
Always written as 0.
[8:5]
Specifies one of the 16 possible domains (held in the Domain Access Control registers)
that contain the primary access controls.
4
Always written as 1.
[3:2]
Always written as 0.
Table 35: Coarse page table descriptor bits
Bits
Description
Table 34: Section descriptor bits
Coarse page table base address
S
B
Z
1
0
1
1
0
2
3
4
5
8
9
31
SBZ
10
Domain