Abstract: Prefetching across a page boundary in a data processing system. The system determines whether a prefetch will cross a page boundary of memory, and if so, it determines whether a translation source has an entry corresponding to the virtual address of the prefetch. If the translation source has an entry corresponding the virtual address, a physical address of the virtual address is used to prefetch the information.

Abstract: Generating a hashed value of the program counter in a data processing system. The hashed value can be used for prefetching in the data processing system. In some examples, the hashed value is used to identify whether a load instruction associated with the hashed value has an address that is part of a strided stream in an address stream. In some examples, the hashed value is a subset of bits of the bits of the program counter. In other examples, the hashed value may be derived in other ways from the program counter.