PRFD (vector plus immediate)

Gather prefetch doublewords (vector plus immediate)

Gather prefetch of doublewords from the active memory addresses generated by a vector base plus immediate index. The index is a multiple of 8 in the range 0 to 248. Inactive addresses are not prefetched from memory.

The <prfop> symbol specifies the prefetch hint as a combination of three options: access type PLD for load or PST for store; target cache level L1, L2 or L3; temporality (KEEP for temporal or STRM for non-temporal).

This instruction is illegal when executed in Streaming SVE mode, unless FEAT_SME_FA64 is implemented and enabled.

It has encodings from 2 classes: 32-bit element and 64-bit element

32-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10000101100imm5111PgZn0prfop
msz<1>msz<0>

PRFD <prfop>, <Pg>, [<Zn>.S{, #<imm>}]

if !HaveSVE() then UNDEFINED; constant integer esize = 32; integer g = UInt(Pg); integer n = UInt(Zn); integer level = UInt(prfop<2:1>); boolean stream = (prfop<0> == '1'); pref_hint = if prfop<3> == '0' then Prefetch_READ else Prefetch_WRITE; integer scale = 3; integer offset = UInt(imm5);

64-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
11000101100imm5111PgZn0prfop
msz<1>msz<0>

PRFD <prfop>, <Pg>, [<Zn>.D{, #<imm>}]

if !HaveSVE() then UNDEFINED; constant integer esize = 64; integer g = UInt(Pg); integer n = UInt(Zn); integer level = UInt(prfop<2:1>); boolean stream = (prfop<0> == '1'); pref_hint = if prfop<3> == '0' then Prefetch_READ else Prefetch_WRITE; integer scale = 3; integer offset = UInt(imm5);

Assembler Symbols

<prfop>

Is the prefetch operation specifier, encoded in prfop:

prfop <prfop>
0000 PLDL1KEEP
0001 PLDL1STRM
0010 PLDL2KEEP
0011 PLDL2STRM
0100 PLDL3KEEP
0101 PLDL3STRM
x11x #uimm4
1000 PSTL1KEEP
1001 PSTL1STRM
1010 PSTL2KEEP
1011 PSTL2STRM
1100 PSTL3KEEP
1101 PSTL3STRM
<Pg>

Is the name of the governing scalable predicate register P0-P7, encoded in the "Pg" field.

<Zn>

Is the name of the base scalable vector register, encoded in the "Zn" field.

<imm>

Is the optional unsigned immediate byte offset, a multiple of 8 in the range 0 to 248, defaulting to 0, encoded in the "imm5" field.

Operation

CheckNonStreamingSVEEnabled(); constant integer VL = CurrentVL; constant integer PL = VL DIV 8; constant integer elements = VL DIV esize; bits(PL) mask = P[g, PL]; bits(VL) base; if AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then base = Z[n, VL]; for e = 0 to elements-1 if ActivePredicateElement(mask, e, esize) then bits(64) addr = ZeroExtend(Elem[base, e, esize], 64) + (offset << scale); Hint_Prefetch(addr, pref_hint, level, stream);


Internal version only: aarchmrs v2023-12_rel, pseudocode v2023-12_rel, sve v2023-12_rel ; Build timestamp: 2023-12-15T16:46

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