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UG585 (v1.11) September 27, 2016
Chapter 3: Application Processing Unit
32-bit cache address consists of the following fields: [Tag Field], [Index Field], [Word Field], [Byte
Field].
When a cache lookup occurs, the index defines where to look in the cache ways. The number of ways
defines the number of locations with the same index referred to as a set. Therefore, an 8-way set
associative cache has eight locations where an address with index A can exist. There are 2
11
or 2,048
indices in the 512K L2 cache.
Lockdown format C, as the ARM Architecture Reference Manual describes, provides a method to
restrict the replacement algorithm used for allocations of cache lines within a set. This method
enables:
Fetch of code or load data into the L2 cache
Protection from being evicted because of other accesses
This method can also be used to reduce cache pollution.
The lockdown register in the L2 cache controller is used to lock any of the eight ways in the L2 cache.
To apply lockdown, you set each bit to 1 to lock each respective way. For example, set bit [0] for Way
0, bit [1] for Way 1.
Lockdown by Master
The lockdown by master feature is a superset of the lockdown by way feature. It enables multiple
masters to share the L2 cache and makes the L2 cache behave as though these masters have
dedicated smaller L2 caches. This feature enables you to reserve ways of the L2 cache to specific
master IDs.
There are eight Instruction and eight Data Lock-Down registers in the L2 cache controller
(0xF8F02900 to 0xF8F0293C) and each register is associated with one of the master IDs identified
by AR/WUSERSx[7:5] bits. Each register contains a 16-bit DATALOCK or INSTRLOCK field. By setting
any of the 16 bits in those fields to 1, the user can lock down that specific way for its corresponding
master ID.
The L2 cache controller lockdown by master is only able to distinguish up to eight different masters.
However, there are up to 64 AXI master IDs from the Cortex-A9 MP core. Table 3-6 shows how the 64
master ID values are grouped into eight lockable groups.
Table 3-6: Lockdown by Master ID Group
ID Group Transaction Sources L2 DATA/INSTRLOCKxxx
A9 Core 0 All read/write and instruction fetch requests from Core 0 000
A9 Core 1 All read/write and instruction fetch requests from Core 1 001
A9 Core 2 Reserved for future 010
A9 Core 3 Reserved for future 011
ACP Group0 ACP requests with ID = {000, 001} 100
ACP Group1 ACP requests with ID = {010, 011} 101
ACP Group2 ACP requests with ID = {100, 101} 110
ACP Group3 ACP requests with ID = {110, 111} 111