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STLXR

Store-Release Exclusive Register stores a 32-bit word or a 64-bit doubleword to memory if the PE has exclusive access to the memory address, from two registers, and returns a status value of 0 if the store was successful, or of 1 if no store was performed. See Synchronization and semaphores. The memory access is atomic. The instruction also has memory ordering semantics as described in Load-Acquire, Store-Release. For information about memory accesses, see Load/Store addressing modes.

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1 x 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rs 1 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Rn Rt
size L o0 Rt2

32-bit (size == 10)

STLXR <Ws>, <Wt>, [<Xn|SP>{,#0}]

64-bit (size == 11)

STLXR <Ws>, <Xt>, [<Xn|SP>{,#0}]

integer n = UInt(Rn);
integer t = UInt(Rt);
integer s = UInt(Rs);    // ignored by all loads and store-release

constant integer elsize = 8 << UInt(size);
boolean tagchecked = n != 31;

boolean rt_unknown = FALSE;
boolean rn_unknown = FALSE;
if s == t then
    Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_DATAOVERLAP);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNKNOWN rt_unknown = TRUE;    // store UNKNOWN value
        when Constraint_UNDEF   UNDEFINED;
        when Constraint_NOP     EndOfInstruction();
if s == n && n != 31 then
    Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_BASEOVERLAP);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNKNOWN rn_unknown = TRUE;    // address is UNKNOWN
        when Constraint_UNDEF   UNDEFINED;
        when Constraint_NOP     EndOfInstruction();

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

Assembler Symbols

<Ws>

Is the 32-bit name of the general-purpose register into which the status result of the store exclusive is written, encoded in the "Rs" field. The value returned is:

0
If the operation updates memory.
1
If the operation fails to update memory.
<Xt>

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

<Wt>

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

<Xn|SP>

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

Aborts and alignment

If a synchronous Data Abort exception is generated by the execution of this instruction:

Accessing an address that is not aligned to the size of the data being accessed causes an Alignment fault Data Abort exception to be generated, subject to the following rules:

If AArch64.ExclusiveMonitorsPass() returns FALSE and the memory address, if accessed, would generate a synchronous Data Abort exception, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the exception is generated.

Operation

bits(64) address;
bits(elsize) data;
constant integer dbytes = elsize DIV 8;

AccessDescriptor accdesc = CreateAccDescExLDST(MemOp_STORE, TRUE, tagchecked);

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

if rt_unknown then
    data = bits(elsize) UNKNOWN;
else
    data = X[t, elsize];

bit status = '1';
// Check whether the Exclusives monitors are set to include the
// physical memory locations corresponding to virtual address
// range [address, address+dbytes-1].

// If AArch64.ExclusiveMonitorsPass() returns FALSE and the memory address,
// if accessed, would generate a synchronous Data Abort exception, it is
// IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the exception is generated.
// It is a limitation of this model that synchronous Data Aborts are never
// generated in this case, as Mem[] is not called.
// If FEAT_SPE is implemented, it is also IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether or not the
// physical address packet is output when permitted and when
// AArch64.ExclusiveMonitorPass() returns FALSE for a Store Exclusive instruction.
// This behavior is not reflected here due to the previously stated limitation.
if AArch64.ExclusiveMonitorsPass(address, dbytes, accdesc) then
    // This atomic write will be rejected if it does not refer
    // to the same physical locations after address translation.
    Mem[address, dbytes, accdesc] = data;
    status = ExclusiveMonitorsStatus();
X[s, 32] = ZeroExtend(status, 32);

Operational information

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