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PAL_CACHE_FLUSH
The
progress_indicator
is an unsigned 64-bit integer specifying the starting position of
the flush operation. Values in this parameter are model specific and will vary across
processor implementations.
The first time this procedure is called, the
progress_indicator
must be set to zero. If this
procedure exits due to an external interrupt and this procedure is then again called to
resume flushing, the
progress_indicator
must be set to the value previously returned by
PAL_CACHE_FLUSH. Software must program no value other than zero or the value
previously returned by PAL_CACHE_FLUSH otherwise behavior is undefined.
This procedure makes one flush pass through all caches specified by
cache_type
and all
sets and associativities within those caches. The specified
cache_type
(s) are ensured to
be flushed only of cache lines resident in the caches prior to PAL_CACHE_FLUSH initially
being called with the
progress_indicator
set to 0.
This procedure ensures that prefetches initiated prior to making this call with
progress_indicator
set to 0 are flushed based on the
cache_type
argument passed.
• If
cache_type
specifies to flush all instruction caches then the call ensures all prior
instruction prefetches are flushed.
• If
cache_type
specifies to flush all data caches then the call ensures all prior data
prefetches are flushed.
• If
cache_type
specifies to flush all caches then the call ensures all prior instruction
and data prefetches are flushed from the caches.
• If
cache_type
specifies to make local instruction caches coherent with the data
caches, then the call will ensure all prior instruction prefetches are flushed.
Due to the following conditions, software cannot assume that when this procedure
completes the entire flush pass that the specified
cache_type
(s) are empty of all clean
and/or modified cache lines.
• After an interruption, the flush pass resumes at the interruption point (specified by
progress_indicator
). Due to execution of the interrupt handlers during the flush
pass, the specified caches may contain new and possibly modified cache lines in
sections of the caches already flushed. The caller specifies if this procedure should
poll for interrupts via the
int
bit of the
operation
parameter.
• Prior prefetches initiated before this procedure is called are disabled and flushed
from the cache as described above. However, if a speculative translation exists in
either the ITLB or DTLB, speculative instruction or data prefetch operation could
immediately reload a non-modified cache line after it was flushed. To ensure
prefetches do not occur, software must remove all speculative translation before
Table 11-66. Cache Line State when
inv
= 1
Old State
New State
Comments
Invalid
Invalid
Clean
Invalid
Modified
Invalid
Modified data is copied back to memory.
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