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NAME="HAL-CACHE-CONTROL">Cache Control</H1
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>This section contains definitions for supporting control
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>There might be target specific restrictions on the use of some of the
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>Note that destructive cache macros should be used with caution.
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>Depending on the architecture's capabilities, it may be possible to
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>Some platform HALs now support a pair of cache state query
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respectively. Like most cache control macros, these are optional,
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considerably. Code which uses them, if it is to be considered
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>These macros define the size and dimensions of the Instruction
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>      Defines the number of ways in each set and defines its level
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      of associativity. This would be 1 for a direct mapped
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>HAL_XCACHE_SETS</DT
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>      Defines the number of sets in the cache, and is calculated from
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>       Since the operation may take a very long time, real-time
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