CRYPTOGRAPHIC ADDRESS PREFETCH CIRCUITRY AND METHODS

원문 (중국어)

Prefetch (e.g., prefetcher) circuits and methods that allow the safe prefetch of any speculative memory references using cryptographic addressing are described. In certain examples, a computing system includes a memory; a register to store a cryptographic address prefetch key; a core to generate a memory access request for the memory; a cache; and a prefetch circuit to: generate a speculative memory access request for an encrypted memory address based at least in part on the memory access request, decrypt the encrypted memory address to determine a memory line stored at the memory address decrypted by the cryptographic address prefetch key to generate a plaintext address, and store a memory line referenced by the plaintext address in the cache.