Patent ID: 7991959

Claim:
A non-transitory information carrier medium containing software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to: receive information from circuit logic that is adapted to collect the information from caches distributed among at least two different cache levels, said received information including information collected from each line frame of each said cache, and said received information further including a representation that at least two of said caches which are actually at a common cache level are instead at respectively different cache levels; apply filter processing to said information collected from each line frame of each said cache to determine whether any of said caches simultaneously contain information associated with a common address indicative of a storage location in a memory other than said caches; and in response to a determination by said filter processing that some of said at least two caches simultaneously contain information associated with said common address, and further in response to said representation, automatically provide to a user of said software only the simultaneously contained information from one of said at least two caches.