> Given a physical address of a word i want to find out the complete
> cache-line. Meaning i want to find out the lowest address and highest
> address of the word which is mapped to that cache line.
> Now one easiest apporach is to just find out the nearest multiples of
> 64byte(cache line size) above and below that address.. Will that be
> sufficient and correct all the time?

Yes.  Cache lines are always aligned to 64 bytes.  You  can simply
mask off the low 6 bits of the address to determine the lowest address
of a line.
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