LDFF1B (scalar plus scalar)

Contiguous load first-fault unsigned bytes to vector (scalar index)

Contiguous load with first-faulting behavior of unsigned bytes to elements of a vector register from the memory address generated by a 64-bit scalar base and scalar index which is added to the base address. After each element access the index value is incremented, but the index register is not updated. Inactive elements will not cause a read from Device memory or signal a fault, and are set to zero in the destination vector.

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

It has encodings from 4 classes: 8-bit element , 16-bit element , 32-bit element and 64-bit element

8-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10100100000Rm011PgRnZt
dtype<3:1>dtype<0>

LDFF1B { <Zt>.B }, <Pg>/Z, [<Xn|SP>{, <Xm>}]

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) then UNDEFINED; constant integer t = UInt(Zt); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer g = UInt(Pg); constant integer esize = 8; constant integer msize = 8; constant boolean unsigned = TRUE;

16-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10100100001Rm011PgRnZt
dtype<3:1>dtype<0>

LDFF1B { <Zt>.H }, <Pg>/Z, [<Xn|SP>{, <Xm>}]

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) then UNDEFINED; constant integer t = UInt(Zt); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer g = UInt(Pg); constant integer esize = 16; constant integer msize = 8; constant boolean unsigned = TRUE;

32-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10100100010Rm011PgRnZt
dtype<3:1>dtype<0>

LDFF1B { <Zt>.S }, <Pg>/Z, [<Xn|SP>{, <Xm>}]

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) then UNDEFINED; constant integer t = UInt(Zt); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer g = UInt(Pg); constant integer esize = 32; constant integer msize = 8; constant boolean unsigned = TRUE;

64-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10100100011Rm011PgRnZt
dtype<3:1>dtype<0>

LDFF1B { <Zt>.D }, <Pg>/Z, [<Xn|SP>{, <Xm>}]

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SVE) then UNDEFINED; constant integer t = UInt(Zt); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer g = UInt(Pg); constant integer esize = 64; constant integer msize = 8; constant boolean unsigned = TRUE;

Assembler Symbols

<Zt>

Is the name of the scalable vector register to be transferred, encoded in the "Zt" field.

<Pg>

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

<Xn|SP>

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

<Xm>

Is the optional 64-bit name of the general-purpose offset register, defaulting to XZR, encoded in the "Rm" field.

Operation

CheckNonStreamingSVEEnabled(); constant integer VL = CurrentVL; constant integer PL = VL DIV 8; constant integer elements = VL DIV esize; bits(64) base; constant bits(PL) mask = P[g, PL]; bits(VL) result; constant bits(VL) orig = Z[t, VL]; bits(msize) data; bits(64) offset; bits(64) addr; constant integer mbytes = msize DIV 8; boolean fault = FALSE; boolean faulted = FALSE; boolean unknown = FALSE; constant boolean contiguous = TRUE; constant boolean tagchecked = TRUE; AccessDescriptor accdesc = CreateAccDescSVEFF(contiguous, tagchecked); if !AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then if n == 31 && ConstrainUnpredictableBool(Unpredictable_CHECKSPNONEACTIVE) then CheckSPAlignment(); else if n == 31 then CheckSPAlignment(); base = if n == 31 then SP[] else X[n, 64]; offset = X[m, 64]; addr = AddressAdd(base, UInt(offset) * mbytes, accdesc); assert accdesc.first; for e = 0 to elements-1 if ActivePredicateElement(mask, e, esize) then if accdesc.first then // Mem[] will not return if a fault is detected for the first active element data = Mem[addr, mbytes, accdesc]; accdesc.first = FALSE; else // MemNF[] will return fault=TRUE if access is not performed for any reason (data, fault) = MemNF[addr, mbytes, accdesc]; else (data, fault) = (Zeros(msize), FALSE); addr = AddressIncrement(addr, mbytes, accdesc); // FFR elements set to FALSE following a suppressed access/fault faulted = faulted || fault; if faulted then ElemFFR[e, esize] = '0'; // Value becomes CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE after an FFR element is FALSE unknown = unknown || ElemFFR[e, esize] == '0'; if unknown then if !fault && ConstrainUnpredictableBool(Unpredictable_SVELDNFDATA) then Elem[result, e, esize] = Extend(data, esize, unsigned); elsif ConstrainUnpredictableBool(Unpredictable_SVELDNFZERO) then Elem[result, e, esize] = Zeros(esize); else // merge Elem[result, e, esize] = Elem[orig, e, esize]; else Elem[result, e, esize] = Extend(data, esize, unsigned); Z[t, VL] = result;


Internal version only: aarchmrs v2024-03_relA, pseudocode v2024-03_rel, sve v2024-03_rel ; Build timestamp: 2024-03-26T09:45

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