Index

LDNP

Load Pair of Registers, with non-temporal hint, calculates an address from a base register value and an immediate offset, loads two 32-bit words or two 64-bit doublewords from memory, and writes them to two registers.

For information about memory accesses, see Load/Store addressing modes. For information about Non-temporal pair instructions, see Load/Store Non-temporal pair.

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x 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 imm7 Rt2 Rn Rt
opc L

32-bit (opc == 00)

LDNP <Wt1>, <Wt2>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<imm>}]

64-bit (opc == 10)

LDNP <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<imm>}]

// Empty.

For information about the CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors, and particularly LDNP.

Assembler Symbols

<Wt1>

Is the 32-bit name of the first general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.
<Wt2>

Is the 32-bit name of the second general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt2" field.
<Xt1>

Is the 64-bit name of the first general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.
<Xt2>

Is the 64-bit name of the second general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt2" field.
<Xn|SP>

Is the 64-bit name of the general-purpose base register or stack pointer, encoded in the "Rn" field.
<imm>

For the 32-bit variant: is the optional signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 4 in the range -256 to 252, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/4.

For the 64-bit variant: is the optional signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 8 in the range -512 to 504, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/8.

Shared Decode

integer n = UInt(Rn);
integer t = UInt(Rt);
integer t2 = UInt(Rt2);
if opc<0> == '1' then UNDEFINED;
integer scale = 2 + UInt(opc<1>);
constant integer datasize = 8 << scale;
bits(64) offset = LSL(SignExtend(imm7, 64), scale);
boolean tagchecked = n != 31;

boolean rt_unknown = FALSE;

if t == t2 then
    Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_LDPOVERLAP);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNKNOWN rt_unknown = TRUE;    // result is UNKNOWN
        when Constraint_UNDEF   UNDEFINED;
        when Constraint_NOP     EndOfInstruction();

Operation

bits(64) address;
bits(64) address2;
bits(datasize) data1;
bits(datasize) data2;
constant integer dbytes = datasize DIV 8;
boolean privileged = PSTATE.EL != EL0;

AccessDescriptor accdesc = CreateAccDescGPR(MemOp_LOAD, TRUE, privileged, tagchecked);

if n == 31 then
    CheckSPAlignment();
    address = SP[];
else
    address = X[n, 64];

address = GenerateAddress(address, offset, accdesc);

if IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_LSE2) then
    bits(2*datasize) full_data;
    accdesc.ispair = TRUE;
    full_data = Mem[address, 2*dbytes, accdesc];
    if BigEndian(accdesc.acctype) then
        data2 = full_data<(datasize-1):0>;
        data1 = full_data<(2*datasize-1):datasize>;
    else
        data1 = full_data<(datasize-1):0>;
        data2 = full_data<(2*datasize-1):datasize>;
else
    address2 = GenerateAddress(address, dbytes, accdesc);
    data1 = Mem[address, dbytes, accdesc];
    data2 = Mem[address2, dbytes, accdesc];
if rt_unknown then
    data1 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN;
    data2 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN;
X[t, datasize] = data1;
X[t2, datasize] = data2;

Operational information

If PSTATE.DIT is 1, the timing of this instruction is insensitive to the value of the data being loaded or stored.