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MMU: PDR A bit is set for every access

Open wfjm opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

The PDR A bit is described in the Technical Manual as

A bit (bit 7) - This bit is used by software to determine whether or not
any accesses to this page met the trap condition specified by the Access
Control Field (ACF). (A = I is affirmative). The A bit is used in the
process of gathering Memory Management statistics.

It is set when the page ACF enables an MMU trap, thus for

  • ACF=1 and read access
  • ACF=4 and any access
  • ACF=5 and write access

The w11 currently sets the 'A' bit on any non-aborted access regardless of the ACF value.

No practical impact, the 'A' bit in PDR is a 11/45 11/70 only feature and not used in OS software.

wfjm avatar Sep 02 '22 08:09 wfjm