Memory Copy Forward-only, reads unprivileged and non-temporal. These instructions perform a memory copy. The prologue, main, and epilogue instructions are expected to be run in succession and to appear consecutively in memory: CPYFPRTRN, then CPYFMRTRN, and then CPYFERTRN.
CPYFPRTRN performs some preconditioning of the arguments suitable for using the CPYFMRTRN instruction, and performs an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED amount of the memory copy. CPYFMRTRN performs an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED amount of the memory copy. CPYFERTRN performs the last part of the memory copy.
The inclusion of IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED amounts of memory copy allows some optimization of the size that can be performed.
The memory copy performed by these instructions is in the forward direction only, so the instructions are suitable for a memory copy only where there is no overlap between the source and destination locations, or where the source address is greater than the destination address.
The architecture supports two algorithms for the memory copy: option A and option B. Which algorithm is used is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED.
Portable software should not assume that the choice of algorithm is constant.
After execution of CPYFPRTRN, option A (which results in encoding PSTATE.C = 0):
After execution of CPYFPRTRN, option B (which results in encoding PSTATE.C = 1):
For CPYFMRTRN, option A (encoded by PSTATE.C = 0), the format of the arguments is:
For CPYFMRTRN, option B (encoded by PSTATE.C = 1), the format of the arguments is:
For CPYFERTRN, option A (encoded by PSTATE.C = 0), the format of the arguments is:
For CPYFERTRN option B (encoded by PSTATE.C = 1), the format of the arguments is:
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if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_MOPS) || sz != '00' then UNDEFINED; CPYParams memcpy; memcpy.d = UInt(Rd); memcpy.s = UInt(Rs); memcpy.n = UInt(Rn); bits(4) options = op2; boolean rnontemporal = options<3> == '1'; boolean wnontemporal = options<2> == '1'; case op1 of when '00' memcpy.stage = MOPSStage_Prologue; when '01' memcpy.stage = MOPSStage_Main; when '10' memcpy.stage = MOPSStage_Epilogue; otherwise SEE "Memory Copy and Memory Set";
For information about the CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors, and particularly Memory Copy and Memory Set CPY*.
CheckMOPSEnabled(); CheckCPYConstrainedUnpredictable(memcpy.n, memcpy.d, memcpy.s); memcpy.nzcv = PSTATE.<N,Z,C,V>; memcpy.toaddress = X[memcpy.d, 64]; memcpy.fromaddress = X[memcpy.s, 64]; memcpy.cpysize = SInt(X[memcpy.n, 64]); memcpy.implements_option_a = CPYFOptionA(); boolean rprivileged = if options<1> == '1' then AArch64.IsUnprivAccessPriv() else PSTATE.EL != EL0; boolean wprivileged = if options<0> == '1' then AArch64.IsUnprivAccessPriv() else PSTATE.EL != EL0; AccessDescriptor raccdesc = CreateAccDescMOPS(MemOp_LOAD, rprivileged, rnontemporal); AccessDescriptor waccdesc = CreateAccDescMOPS(MemOp_STORE, wprivileged, wnontemporal); if memcpy.stage == MOPSStage_Prologue then if memcpy.cpysize<63> == '1' then memcpy.cpysize = 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF; if memcpy.implements_option_a then memcpy.nzcv = '0000'; // Copy in the forward direction offsets the arguments. memcpy.toaddress = memcpy.toaddress + memcpy.cpysize; memcpy.fromaddress = memcpy.fromaddress + memcpy.cpysize; memcpy.cpysize = 0 - memcpy.cpysize; else memcpy.nzcv = '0010'; memcpy.stagecpysize = MemCpyStageSize(memcpy); if memcpy.stage != MOPSStage_Prologue then CheckMemCpyParams(memcpy, options); integer copied; boolean iswrite; AddressDescriptor memaddrdesc; PhysMemRetStatus memstatus; memcpy.forward = TRUE; boolean fault = FALSE; integer B; if memcpy.implements_option_a then while memcpy.stagecpysize != 0 && !fault do // IMP DEF selection of the block size that is worked on. While many // implementations might make this constant, that is not assumed. B = CPYSizeChoice(memcpy); assert B <= -1 * memcpy.stagecpysize; (copied, iswrite, memaddrdesc, memstatus) = MemCpyBytes(memcpy.toaddress + memcpy.cpysize, memcpy.fromaddress + memcpy.cpysize, memcpy.forward, B, raccdesc, waccdesc); if copied != B then fault = TRUE; else memcpy.cpysize = memcpy.cpysize + B; memcpy.stagecpysize = memcpy.stagecpysize + B; else while memcpy.stagecpysize > 0 && !fault do // IMP DEF selection of the block size that is worked on. While many // implementations might make this constant, that is not assumed. B = CPYSizeChoice(memcpy); assert B <= memcpy.stagecpysize; (copied, iswrite, memaddrdesc, memstatus) = MemCpyBytes(memcpy.toaddress, memcpy.fromaddress, memcpy.forward, B, raccdesc, waccdesc); if copied != B then fault = TRUE; else memcpy.fromaddress = memcpy.fromaddress + B; memcpy.toaddress = memcpy.toaddress + B; memcpy.cpysize = memcpy.cpysize - B; memcpy.stagecpysize = memcpy.stagecpysize - B; UpdateCpyRegisters(memcpy, fault, copied); if fault then if IsFault(memaddrdesc) then AArch64.Abort(memaddrdesc.vaddress, memaddrdesc.fault); if IsFault(memstatus) then AccessDescriptor accdesc = if iswrite then waccdesc else raccdesc; HandleExternalAbort(memstatus, iswrite, memaddrdesc, B, accdesc); if memcpy.stage == MOPSStage_Prologue then PSTATE.<N,Z,C,V> = memcpy.nzcv;
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