1. A method, comprising: detecting invocation of a trap handler; determining that said invocation of said trap handler was initiated in response to a failure to locate a valid virtual-to-physical address translation for a given virtual address; in response to said determining, invoking a translation function to translate said given virtual address to a physical address; wherein said translation function takes said given virtual address as an input; and wherein said translation function determines said physical address without reference to a translation table.