DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ADDRESS TRANSLATION

There is provided a data processing apparatus and method of data processing. The data processing apparatus comprises storage circuitry to store a hierarchy of page tables comprising an intermediate level page table. Each entry of the intermediate level page table comprises base address information of a next level page table and control information indicating whether an addressing function has been applied to reorder physical storage locations of entries of the next level page table. Address translation circuitry is provided to perform address translations in response to receipt of a virtual address by performing a lookup in a next level page table dependent on the base address information and a page table index from the virtual address. When the control information indicates that the addressing function has been applied, the lookup is performed at a modified storage location generated by applying the addressing function to the page table index.