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by oshepherd 3566 days ago
The architecture states that CTR_EL0 reports the _minimum_ ICache line size across all cores.

In this system, that would be 64 bytes.

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Can you point me to the manual that does say so? This is all I could find on the subject

> [3:0] IminLine Log 2 of the number of words in the smallest cache line of all the Instruction Caches that the processor controls.

> This values is:

> 0x4

> Smallest Instruction Cache line size is 16 words.