Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Instruction cache coherence
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Application No.: US16520657Application Date: 2019-07-24
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Publication No.: US11194718B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Yasuo Ishii , Matthew Andrew Rafacz
- Applicant: Arm Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0815 ; G06F12/0875 ; G06F12/0808 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F12/1018

Abstract:
A data processing apparatus is provided, which includes a cache to store operations produced by decoding instructions fetched from memory. The cache is indexed by virtual addresses of the instructions in the memory. Receiving circuitry receives an incoming invalidation request that references a physical address in the memory. Invalidation circuitry invalidates entries in the cache where the virtual address corresponds with the physical address. Coherency is thereby achieved when using a cache that is indexed using virtual addresses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210026770A1 INSTRUCTION CACHE COHERENCE Public/Granted day:2021-01-28
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