
12. System Interface

12.5 Handling Requests
This section details the sequence, protocol, and syntax (See Terminology, in this chapter, for definitions of these terms) of both processor and external requests. The following system events are discussed:
- load miss in secondary-cache mode and no-secondary-cache mode
- store miss in secondary-cache mode and no-secondary-cache mode
- store hit
- uncached loads/stores
- CACHE operations
- load linked store conditional.

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