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Abstract

Managing an instruction cache of a processing element, the instruction cache including a plurality of instruction cache entries, each entry including a mapping of a virtual memory address to one or more processor instructions, includes: issuing, at the processing element, a translation lookaside buffer invalidation instruction for invalidating a translation lookaside buffer entry in a translation lookaside buffer, the translation lookaside buffer entry including a mapping from a range of virtual memory addresses to a range of physical memory addresses; causing invalidation of one or more of the instruction cache entries of the plurality of instruction cache entries in response to the translation lookaside buffer invalidation instruction.

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