PRFM (literal) -- A64

Prefetch Memory (literal) signals the memory system that data memory accesses from a specified address are likely to occur in the near future. The memory system can respond by taking actions that are expected to speed up the memory accesses when they do occur, such as preloading the cache line containing the specified address into one or more caches.

The effect of a PRFM instruction is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED. For more information, see Prefetch memory.

Assembler Symbols

<prfop>

Is the prefetch operation, defined as <type><target><policy>.

<type> is one of:

PLD: Prefetch for load, encoded in the "Rt<4:3>" field as 0b00.
PLI: Preload instructions, encoded in the "Rt<4:3>" field as 0b01.
PST: Prefetch for store, encoded in the "Rt<4:3>" field as 0b10.

<target> is one of:

L1: Level 1 cache, encoded in the "Rt<2:1>" field as 0b00.
L2: Level 2 cache, encoded in the "Rt<2:1>" field as 0b01.
L3: Level 3 cache, encoded in the "Rt<2:1>" field as 0b10.
SLC: When FEAT_PRFMSLC is implemented, system level cache, encoded in the "Rt<2:1>" field as 0b11.

<policy> is one of:

KEEP: Retained or temporal prefetch, allocated in the cache normally. Encoded in the "Rt<0>" field as 0.
STRM: Streaming or non-temporal prefetch, for data that is used only once. Encoded in the "Rt<0>" field as 1.

For more information on these prefetch operations, see Prefetch memory.

For other encodings of the "Rt" field, use <imm5>.

Rt	<prfop>	Architectural Feature
00000	PLDL1KEEP	-
00001	PLDL1STRM	-
00010	PLDL2KEEP	-
00011	PLDL2STRM	-
00100	PLDL3KEEP	-
00101	PLDL3STRM	-
00110	PLDSLCKEEP	FEAT_PRFMSLC
00111	PLDSLCSTRM	FEAT_PRFMSLC
01000	PLIL1KEEP	-
01001	PLIL1STRM	-
01010	PLIL2KEEP	-
01011	PLIL2STRM	-
01100	PLIL3KEEP	-
01101	PLIL3STRM	-
01110	PLISLCKEEP	FEAT_PRFMSLC
01111	PLISLCSTRM	FEAT_PRFMSLC
10000	PSTL1KEEP	-
10001	PSTL1STRM	-
10010	PSTL2KEEP	-
10011	PSTL2STRM	-
10100	PSTL3KEEP	-
10101	PSTL3STRM	-
10110	PSTSLCKEEP	FEAT_PRFMSLC
10111	PSTSLCSTRM	FEAT_PRFMSLC

<imm5>

Is the prefetch operation encoding as an immediate, in the range 0 to 31, encoded in the "Rt" field.

This syntax is only for encodings that are not accessible using <prfop>.

<label>

Is the program label from which the data is to be loaded. Its offset from the address of this instruction, in the range +/-1MB, is encoded as "imm19" times 4.

Operation

bits(64) address = PC64 + offset; Prefetch(address, t<4:0>);

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1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	imm19																			Rt
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PRFM (literal)

PRFM (<prfop>|#<imm5>), <label>

Assembler Symbols

Operation