SWPP, SWPPA, SWPPAL, SWPPL

Swap quadword in memory

This instruction atomically loads a 128-bit quadword from a memory location, and stores the value held in a pair of registers back to the same memory location. The value initially loaded from memory is returned in the same pair of registers.

SWPPA and SWPPAL load from memory with acquire semantics.

SWPPL and SWPPAL store to memory with release semantics.

SWPP has neither acquire nor release semantics.

Encoding: Integer

Variants: FEAT_LSE128 (ARMv9.4)

31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1			1						1	0	0	0	0	0
	S							A	R		Rt2					o3	opc					Rn					Rt

SWPP (A == 0 && R == 0)

SWPP <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>]

SWPPA (A == 1 && R == 0)

SWPPA <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>]

SWPPAL (A == 1 && R == 1)

SWPPAL <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>]

SWPPL (A == 0 && R == 1)

SWPPL <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>]

Decoding algorithm

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_LSE128) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF);
if Rt  == '11111' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF);
if Rt2 == '11111' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF);

constant integer t = UInt(Rt);
constant integer t2 = UInt(Rt2);
constant integer n = UInt(Rn);

constant boolean acquire = A == '1';
constant boolean release = R == '1';
constant boolean tagchecked = n != 31;

boolean rt_unknown = FALSE;

if t == t2 then
    constant Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_LSE128OVERLAP);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNKNOWN    rt_unknown = TRUE;    // result is UNKNOWN
        when Constraint_UNDEF      EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF);
        when Constraint_NOP        EndOfDecode(Decode_NOP);

Operation

bits(64) address;
constant bits(64) value1 = X[t, 64];
constant bits(64) value2 = X[t2, 64];
bits(128) data;
bits(128) store_value;

constant boolean privileged = PSTATE.EL != EL0;
constant AccessDescriptor accdesc = CreateAccDescAtomicOp(MemAtomicOp_SWP, acquire, release,
                                                          tagchecked, privileged);

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

store_value = if BigEndian(accdesc.acctype) then value1:value2 else value2:value1;

constant bits(128) comparevalue = bits(128) UNKNOWN; // Irrelevant when not executing CAS
data = MemAtomic(address, comparevalue, store_value, accdesc);

if rt_unknown then
    data = bits(128) UNKNOWN;

if BigEndian(accdesc.acctype) then
    X[t, 64]  = data<127:64>;
    X[t2, 64] = data<63:0>;
else
    X[t, 64]  = data<63:0>;
    X[t2, 64] = data<127:64>;

Explanations

<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.

Operational Notes

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