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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.
14
15The Core comes up with a default value of for the three types of cache ops::
16
17      0x28: (WB: Internal, WT: Internal, BY:Exception)
18
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.
24
25For systems without an coherent cache controller, non-MX, we always
26use the memory controllers RCW, though non-MX controllers 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::
38
39                             WB     WT      BY
40                           5   4 | 3   2 | 1   0
41
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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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