10.1 Notes on CACHE Instruction Operations

Physical Address


The CACHE instruction uses the following portions of the PA to specify a secondary cache block and way:

Since PA[0] is used to indicate the way during CACHE Index operations, alignment errors are suppressed.

When accessing data in the secondary cache, PA[Blocksize-1:3] is also used to read or write a specific doubleword.




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