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diff --git a/target/alpha/helper.c b/target/alpha/helper.c
index 34121f4cad..36407f77f5 100644
--- a/target/alpha/helper.c
+++ b/target/alpha/helper.c
@@ -163,6 +163,14 @@ static int get_physical_address(CPUAlphaState *env, target_ulong addr,
pt = env->ptbr;
+ /* TODO: rather than using ldq_phys() to read the page table we should
+ * use address_space_ldq() so that we can handle the case when
+ * the page table read gives a bus fault, rather than ignoring it.
+ * For the existing code the zero data that ldq_phys will return for
+ * an access to invalid memory will result in our treating the page
+ * table as invalid, which may even be the right behaviour.
+ */
+
/* L1 page table read. */
index = (addr >> (TARGET_PAGE_BITS + 20)) & 0x3ff;
L1pte = ldq_phys(cs->as, pt + index*8);