10.1 Notes on CACHE Instruction Operations

Virtual Address


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

Since VA[0] is used to indicate the way, it does not cause alignment errors.

When accessing data in the primary caches, VA[Blocksize-1] is also used to read or write a specific word.




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