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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2016
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Jason Parker, Sheffield, GB;
Bruce James Mathewson, Papworth Everard, GB;
Matthew Lucien Evans, Cambridge, GB;
ARM LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus () comprises processing circuitry () for performing data processing in response to instructions. The processing circuitry () supports a cache maintenance instruction () specifying a virtual page address () identifying a virtual page of a virtual address space. In response to the cache maintenance instruction, the processing circuitry () triggers at least one cache () to perform a cache maintenance operation on one or more cache lines for which a physical address of the data stored by the cache line is within a physical page that corresponds to the virtual page identified by the virtual page address provided by the cache maintenance instruction.