Hint instruction is for the instruction set space that is reserved for architectural hint instructions.
Some encodings described here are not allocated in this revision of the architecture, and behave as NOPs. These encodings might be allocated to other hint functionality in future revisions of the architecture and therefore must not be used by software.
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HINT #<imm>
SystemHintOp op; case CRm:op2 of when '0000 000' op = SystemHintOp_NOP; when '0000 001' op = SystemHintOp_YIELD; when '0000 010' op = SystemHintOp_WFE; when '0000 011' op = SystemHintOp_WFI; when '0000 100' op = SystemHintOp_SEV; when '0000 101' op = SystemHintOp_SEVL; when '0000 110' if !HaveDGHExt() then EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP op = SystemHintOp_DGH; when '0000 111' SEE "XPACLRI"; when '0001 xxx' case op2 of when '000' SEE "PACIA1716"; when '010' SEE "PACIB1716"; when '100' SEE "AUTIA1716"; when '110' SEE "AUTIB1716"; otherwise EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP when '0010 000' if !HaveRASExt() then EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP op = SystemHintOp_ESB; when '0010 001' if !HaveStatisticalProfiling() then EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP op = SystemHintOp_PSB; when '0010 010' if !HaveSelfHostedTrace() then EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP op = SystemHintOp_TSB; when '0010 100' op = SystemHintOp_CSDB; when '0011 xxx' case op2 of when '000' SEE "PACIAZ"; when '001' SEE "PACIASP"; when '010' SEE "PACIBZ"; when '011' SEE "PACIBSP"; when '100' SEE "AUTIAZ"; when '101' SEE "AUTHASP"; when '110' SEE "AUTIBZ"; when '111' SEE "AUTIBSP"; when '0100 xx0' op = SystemHintOp_BTI; // Check branch target compatibility between BTI instruction and PSTATE.BTYPE SetBTypeCompatible(BTypeCompatible_BTI(op2<2:1>)); otherwise EndOfInstruction(); // Instruction executes as NOP
case op of when SystemHintOp_YIELD Hint_Yield(); when SystemHintOp_DGH Hint_DGH(); when SystemHintOp_WFE integer localtimeout = -1; // No local timeout event is generated Hint_WFE(localtimeout, WFxType_WFE); when SystemHintOp_WFI integer localtimeout = -1; // No local timeout event is generated Hint_WFI(localtimeout, WFxType_WFI); when SystemHintOp_SEV SendEvent(); when SystemHintOp_SEVL SendEventLocal(); when SystemHintOp_ESB if HaveTME() && TSTATE.depth > 0 then FailTransaction(TMFailure_ERR, FALSE); SynchronizeErrors(); AArch64.ESBOperation(); if PSTATE.EL IN {EL0, EL1} && EL2Enabled() then AArch64.vESBOperation(); TakeUnmaskedSErrorInterrupts(); when SystemHintOp_PSB ProfilingSynchronizationBarrier(); when SystemHintOp_TSB TraceSynchronizationBarrier(); when SystemHintOp_CSDB ConsumptionOfSpeculativeDataBarrier(); when SystemHintOp_BTI SetBTypeNext('00'); otherwise // do nothing
Internal version only: isa v33.11seprel, AdvSIMD v29.05, pseudocode v2021-09_rel, sve v2021-09_rc3d ; Build timestamp: 2021-10-06T11:41
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