Alibaba Group Holding Limited
PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER FLUSH INSTRUCTION

Abstract:

The present invention discloses an instruction processing apparatus, including: a first register adapted to store address information; a second register adapted to store address space identification information; a decoder adapted to receive and decode a translation lookaside buffer flush instruction, where the translation lookaside buffer flush instruction indicates that the first register serves as a first operand, and the second register serves as a second operand; and an execution unit coupled to the first register, the second register, and the decoder and executing the decoded translation lookaside buffer flush instruction, so as to acquire address information from the first register, to acquire address space identification information from the second register, and to broadcast the acquired address, information and address space identification information on a bus coupled to the instruction processing apparatus, so that another processing unit coupled to the bus performs purging on a translation lookaside buffer, corresponding to the address information, in an address space indicated by the address space identification information, The present invention also discloses a corresponding instruction processing method, a computing system, and a system-on-chip.