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2Atomic Operation Control (ATOMCTL) Register
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4
5We Have Atomic Operation Control (ATOMCTL) Register.
6This register determines the effect of using a S32C1I instruction
7with various combinations of:
8
9 1. With and without an Coherent Cache Controller which
10 can do Atomic Transactions to the memory internally.
11
12 2. With and without An Intelligent Memory Controller which
13 can do Atomic Transactions itself.
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15The Core comes up with a default value of for the three types of cache ops::
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17 0x28: (WB: Internal, WT: Internal, BY:Exception)
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19On the FPGA Cards we typically simulate an Intelligent Memory controller
20which can implement RCW transactions. For FPGA cards with an External
21Memory controller we let it to the atomic operations internally while
22doing a Cached (WB) transaction and use the Memory RCW for un-cached
23operations.
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25For systems without an coherent cache controller, non-MX, we always
26use the memory controllers RCW, thought non-MX controlers likely
27support the Internal Operation.
28
29CUSTOMER-WARNING:
30 Virtually all customers buy their memory controllers from vendors that
31 don't support atomic RCW memory transactions and will likely want to
32 configure this register to not use RCW.
33
34Developers might find using RCW in Bypass mode convenient when testing
35with the cache being bypassed; for example studying cache alias problems.
36
37See Section 4.3.12.4 of ISA; Bits::
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39 WB WT BY
40 5 4 | 3 2 | 1 0
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43 2 Bit
44 Field
45 Values WB - Write Back WT - Write Thru BY - Bypass
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47 0 Exception Exception Exception
48 1 RCW Transaction RCW Transaction RCW Transaction
49 2 Internal Operation Internal Operation Reserved
50 3 Reserved Reserved Reserved
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