Extract cache attribute facility and instruction therefore

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2011-01-11

2011-01-11

Choe, Yong (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S118000, C711S144000, C712S236000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07870339

ABSTRACT:
A facility and cache machine instruction of a computer architecture for specifying a target cache cache-level and a target cache attribute of interest for obtaining a cache attribute of one or more target caches. The requested cache attribute of the target cache(s) is saved in a register.

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