Christopher Celio
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separate btb response mask from the frontend mask
It is now the job of the pipeline to monitor the frontend's valid mask (of instructions) and the BTB's suggested valid mask (based on the prediction it makes). Some processors may want to ignore or override the BTB's prediction and thus can supply their own instruction mask.
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