Hello,
There is something unclear to me after reading the PMA section or the Privileged ISA manual (i.e. Section 3.6). Can a virtual paged be mapped to addresses that cross PMA regions? For example, is it acceptable to map a 1GB page such that half its physical addresses have the (e.g.) cacheable attribute but the other half of physical addresses are uncacheable? You could think about this with every attribute: vacant, idempotent, etc.
This sounds odd, but the ISA does not explicitly allow or forbid it. Is it something that must to be supported? If so, are there example use-cases?
Thanks for the help!