Nios II Classic Processor Reference Guide

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Date 10/28/2016
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3.2.3.3. Data Cacheability

Each partition has a rule that determines the default data cacheability property of each memory access. When data cacheability is enabled on a partition of the address space, a data access to that partition can be cached, if a data cache is present in the system. When data cacheability is disabled, all access to that partition goes directly to the Avalon® switch fabric. Bit 31 is not used to specify data cacheability, as it is in Nios II cores without MMUs. Virtual memory partitions that bypass the TLB have a default data cacheability property, as described in the above table, Virtual Memory Partitions. For partitions that are mapped through the TLB, data cacheability is controlled by the TLB on a per-page basis.

Non-I/O load and store instructions use the default data cacheability property. I/O load and store instructions are always noncacheable, so they ignore the default data cacheability property.