Write buffer

Enabling the caches

WO R K I N G W I T H T H E C P U

Caches and write buffer

The caches use pseudo-random or round-robin replacement, selected by the RR bit in R1: Control register.

Cache lockdown registers enable control over which cache ways are used for allocation on a linefill, providing a mechanism for both lockdown and controlling cache pollution.

The DCache stores the Physical Address Tag (PA tag) corresponding to each DCache entry in the tag RAM for use during cache line write-backs, in addition to the virtual address tag stored in the tag RAM. This means that the MMU is not involved in DCache write-back operations, which removes the possibility of TLB misses to the write-back address.

Cache maintenance operations provide efficient invalidation of:

The entire DCache or ICache

Regions of the DCache or ICache

Regions of virtual memory

Cache maintenance operations also provide for efficient cleaning and invalidation of:

The entire DCache

Regions of the DCache

Regions of virtual memory

The latter allows DCache coherency to be efficiently maintained when small code changes occur; for example, for self-modifying code and changes to exception vectors.

The write buffer is used for all writes to a noncachable bufferable region, write- through region, and write misses to a write-back region. A separate buffer is incorporated in the DCache for holding write-back data for cache line evictions or cleaning of dirty cache lines.

The main write buffer has a 16-word data buffer and a four-address buffer.

The DCache write-back buffer has eight data word entries and a single address entry.

The MCR drain write buffer instruction enables both write buffers to be drained under software control.

The MCR wait -for-interrupt causes both write buffers to be drained, and the ARM926EJ-S processor to be put into low-power state until an interrupt occurs.

On reset, the ICache and DCache entries all are invalidated and the caches disabled. The caches are not accessed for reads or writes. The caches are enabled using the I, C, and M bits from the R1: Control register, and can be enabled independently of one another.

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NS9215 specifications

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