Data or unified Cache line Clean and Invalidate by Set/Way
Clean and Invalidate data cache by set/way.
AArch64 System instruction DC CISW performs the same function as AArch32 System instruction DCCISW.
This instruction is present only when FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to DC CISW are UNDEFINED.
DC CISW is a 64-bit System instruction.
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Reserved, RES0.
Contains two fields:
Bits[L-1:4] are RES0.
A = Log2(ASSOCIATIVITY), L = Log2(LINELEN), B = (L + S), S = Log2(NSETS).
ASSOCIATIVITY, LINELEN (line length, in bytes), and NSETS (number of sets) have their usual meanings and are the values for the cache level being operated on. The values of A and S are rounded up to the next integer.
Cache level to operate on, minus 1. For example, this field is 0 for operations on L1 cache, or 1 for operations on L2 cache.
Reserved, RES0.
If this instruction is executed with a set, way or level argument that is larger than the value supported by the implementation then the behavior is CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE and one of the following occurs:
The instruction is UNDEFINED.
The instruction performs cache maintenance on one of:
No cache lines.
A single arbitrary cache line.
Multiple arbitrary cache lines.
This system instruction is an alias of the SYS instruction.
Accesses to this instruction use the following encodings in the System instruction encoding space:
DC CISW, <Xt>
(op0 = 0b01, op1 = 0b000, CRn = 0b0111, CRm = 0b1110, op2 = 0b010)
if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TSW == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HFGITR_EL2().DCCISW == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else AArch64_DC(X{64}(t), CacheType_Data, CacheOp_CleanInvalidate, CacheOpScope_SetWay); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then AArch64_DC(X{64}(t), CacheType_Data, CacheOp_CleanInvalidate, CacheOpScope_SetWay); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then AArch64_DC(X{64}(t), CacheType_Data, CacheOp_CleanInvalidate, CacheOpScope_SetWay); end;
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