Optional External Control Instructions; Table 2-39. External Control Instructions - IBM PowerPC 750GX User Manual

Table 2-38. User-Level Cache Instructions
Name
Data Cache Block Store
Data Cache Block Flush
Instruction Cache Block
Invalidate
1. A program that uses dcbt and dcbtst instructions improperly performs less efficiently. To improve performance, HID0[NOOPTI]
can be set, which causes dcbt and dcbtst to be no-oped at the cache. These instructions do not cause bus activity and cause only
a 1-clock execution latency. The default state of this bit is zero, which enables the use of these instructions.

2.3.5.4 Optional External Control Instructions

The PowerPC Architecture defines an optional external control feature that, if implemented, is supported by
the two external control instructions, eciwx and ecowx. These instructions allow a user-level program to
communicate with a special-purpose device. The instructions provided are summarized in Table 2-39.

Table 2-39. External Control Instructions

Name
External Control In
Word Indexed
External Control Out
Word Indexed
The eciwx and ecowx instructions let a system designer map special devices in an alternative way. The
MMU translation of the EA is not used to select the special device, as it is used in most instructions such as
loads and stores. Rather, it is used as an address operand that is passed to the device over the address bus.
Four other signals (the burst and size signals on the 60x bus) are used to select the device; these four signals
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Mnemonic Syntax
The EA is computed, translated, and checked for protection violations.
• For cache hits with the tag marked exclusive unmodified (E), no further
• For cache hits with the tag marked M, the cache block is written back to
dcbst rA,rB A dcbst is not broadcast unless HID0[ABE] = 1 regardless of WIMG settings.
The instruction acts like a load with respect to address translation and memory
protection. It executes regardless of whether the cache is disabled or locked.
The exception priorities (from highest to lowest) for dcbst are as follows:
1
2
The EA is computed, translated, and checked for protection violations.
• For cache hits with the tag marked exclusive modified (M), the cache block
• For cache hits with the tag marked exclusive unmodified (E), the entry is
• For cache misses, no further action is taken.
dcbf rA,rB
A dcbf is not broadcast unless HID0[ABE] = 1 regardless of WIMG settings.
The instruction acts like a load with respect to address translation and memory
protection. It executes regardless of whether the cache is disabled or locked.
The exception priorities (from highest to lowest) for dcbf are as follows:
1
2
This instruction performs a virtual lookup into the instruction cache (index only).
The address is not translated, so it cannot cause an exception. All ways of a
icbi rA,rB
selected set are invalidated regardless of whether the cache is disabled or
locked. The 750GX never broadcasts icbi onto the 60x bus.
Mnemonic Syntax
A transfer size of 4 bytes is implied. The TBST and TSIZ[0–2] signals are rede-
eciwx rD,rA,rB
fined to specify the Resource ID (RID), copied from bits EAR[28–31]. For these
operations, TBST carries the EAR[28] data. Misaligned operands for these
instructions cause an alignment exception. Addressing a location where
SR[T] = 1 causes a DSI exception. If MSR[DR] = 0, a programming error
ecowx rS,rA,rB
occurs and the physical address on the bus is undefined.
Note: These instructions are optional in the PowerPC Architecture.
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action is taken.
memory and marked exclusive unmodified (E).
BAT protection violation–DSI exception
TLB protection violation–DSI exception.
is written back to memory and the cache entry is invalidated.
invalidated.
BAT protection violation—DSI exception
TLB protection violation—DSI exception.
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