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4. Virtual address bits A[27:28] are used to select one of the four doublewords in each line. A cache
hit indicates that the selected doubleword in that cache line contains valid data (for a read access),
or can be written with new data depending on the status of the W access control bit from the MMU
(for a write access).
13.3.2.3 Cache Line Replacement Algorithm
On a cache read miss, the cache controller uses a pseudo-round-robin replacement algorithm to determine
which cache line is selected to be replaced. There is a single replacement counter for the entire cache. The
replacement algorithm acts as follows: on a miss, if the replacement pointer is pointing to a way which is
not enabled for replacement by the type of the miss access (the selected line or way is locked), it is
incremented until an available way is selected (if any). After a cache line is successfully filled without
error, the replacement pointer increments to point to the next cache way.
13.3.2.4 Cache Power Reduction
The device provides additional user control over cache power utilization via the L1CSR0[WID], [AWID],
[WDD], and [AWDD] way disable bits and the L1CSR0[WAM] control bit. When WAM is set to 1, ways
that are disabled for allocation on miss by a particular access type (instruction or data) via the
L1CSR0[WID], [AWID], [WDD], and [AWDD] way disable bits are also disabled (not selected) during
normal cache lookup operations, thus avoiding the power associated with reading tag and data information
for a disabled way. This provides the capability of disabling some ways for instruction accesses and some
ways for data accesses to reduce power. In doing so however, certain restrictions must be followed, and
the ability to lock by way is no longer functional, since a locked way would never be accessed.
When setting WAM to 1, restrictions are required to avoid coherency issues between instruction and data
accesses, and to avoid multiple ways hitting on a given access. The restriction on coherency is due to the
fact that a given line could possibly be present twice in the cache; a copy in a way disabled for instruction
access which can be read and written by data accesses, and a second copy in a way disabled for data access
which can be executed via an instruction fetch. A data write to the line results in the possibility of
instruction fetches obtaining stale data, in the same manner as exists in a non-unified cache. Another
restriction is that multiple hits to the same line must be avoided on any given instruction or data access.
This must be avoided by controlling the ways via the L1CSR0[WID,] [WDD], [AWID], and [AWDD] bits
such that no common way exists that can be accessed by both instructions and data, or by ensuring that
MMU permissions are set so that no cacheable page has X (execute) permission which also has R (read)
or W (write) permission, i.e.,can be cacheable and accessed with both instruction and data accesses.
When WAM is set to 1, ways disabled for instruction access are not affected by the icbt, icblc, icbtls, and
icbi instructions. Ways disabled for data accesses are not affected by the dcba, dcbf, dcbi, dcblc, dcbst,
dcbt, dcbtls, dcbtst, dcbtstls, and dcbz instructions. Cache control operations using L1CSR0[CINV] and
L1FINV0 operations are not affected by the WAM setting and proceed normally.
13.3.2.5 L1 Cache Control and Status Register 0 (L1CSR0)
The L1 cache control and status register 0 (L1CSR0) is a 32-bit register. The L1CSR0 register is accessed
using a mfspr or mtspr instruction. The SPR number for L1CSR0 is 1010 in decimal. The L1CSR0
register is shown in Figure 13-16.
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