LDP

Load Pair of Registers calculates an address from a base register value and an immediate offset, loads two 32-bit words or two 64-bit doublewords from memory, and writes them to two registers. For information about memory accesses, see Load/Store addressing modes.

It has encodings from 3 classes: Post-index , Pre-index and Signed offset

Post-index

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
x010100011imm7Rt2RnRt
opcL

32-bit (opc == 00)

LDP <Wt1>, <Wt2>, [<Xn|SP>], #<imm>

64-bit (opc == 10)

LDP <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>], #<imm>

boolean wback = TRUE; boolean postindex = TRUE;

Pre-index

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
x010100111imm7Rt2RnRt
opcL

32-bit (opc == 00)

LDP <Wt1>, <Wt2>, [<Xn|SP>, #<imm>]!

64-bit (opc == 10)

LDP <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>, #<imm>]!

boolean wback = TRUE; boolean postindex = FALSE;

Signed offset

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
x010100101imm7Rt2RnRt
opcL

32-bit (opc == 00)

LDP <Wt1>, <Wt2>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<imm>}]

64-bit (opc == 10)

LDP <Xt1>, <Xt2>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<imm>}]

boolean wback = FALSE; boolean postindex = FALSE;

For information about the constrained unpredictable behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors, and particularly LDP.

Assembler Symbols

<Wt1>

Is the 32-bit name of the first general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.

<Wt2>

Is the 32-bit name of the second general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt2" field.

<Xt1>

Is the 64-bit name of the first general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt" field.

<Xt2>

Is the 64-bit name of the second general-purpose register to be transferred, encoded in the "Rt2" field.

<Xn|SP>

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

<imm>

For the 32-bit post-index and 32-bit pre-index variant: is the signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 4 in the range -256 to 252, encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/4.

For the 32-bit signed offset variant: is the optional signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 4 in the range -256 to 252, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/4.

For the 64-bit post-index and 64-bit pre-index variant: is the signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 8 in the range -512 to 504, encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/8.

For the 64-bit signed offset variant: is the optional signed immediate byte offset, a multiple of 8 in the range -512 to 504, defaulting to 0 and encoded in the "imm7" field as <imm>/8.

Shared Decode

integer n = UInt(Rn); integer t = UInt(Rt); integer t2 = UInt(Rt2); AccType acctype = AccType_NORMAL; MemOp memop = if L == '1' then MemOp_LOAD else MemOp_STORE; if L:opc<0> == '01' || opc == '11' then UNDEFINED; boolean signed = (opc<0> != '0'); integer scale = 2 + UInt(opc<1>); integer datasize = 8 << scale; bits(64) offset = LSL(SignExtend(imm7, 64), scale); boolean tag_checked = wback || n != 31; boolean rt_unknown = FALSE; boolean wb_unknown = FALSE; if memop == MemOp_LOAD && wback && (t == n || t2 == n) && n != 31 then Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_WBOVERLAPLD); assert c IN {Constraint_WBSUPPRESS, Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP}; case c of when Constraint_WBSUPPRESS wback = FALSE; // writeback is suppressed when Constraint_UNKNOWN wb_unknown = TRUE; // writeback is UNKNOWN when Constraint_UNDEF UNDEFINED; when Constraint_NOP EndOfInstruction(); if memop == MemOp_STORE && wback && (t == n || t2 == n) && n != 31 then Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_WBOVERLAPST); assert c IN {Constraint_NONE, Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP}; case c of when Constraint_NONE rt_unknown = FALSE; // value stored is pre-writeback when Constraint_UNKNOWN rt_unknown = TRUE; // value stored is UNKNOWN when Constraint_UNDEF UNDEFINED; when Constraint_NOP EndOfInstruction(); if memop == MemOp_LOAD && t == t2 then Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_LDPOVERLAP); assert c IN {Constraint_UNKNOWN, Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP}; case c of when Constraint_UNKNOWN rt_unknown = TRUE; // result is UNKNOWN when Constraint_UNDEF UNDEFINED; when Constraint_NOP EndOfInstruction();

Operation

bits(64) address; bits(datasize) data1; bits(datasize) data2; constant integer dbytes = datasize DIV 8; if HaveMTE2Ext() then SetTagCheckedInstruction(tag_checked); if n == 31 then CheckSPAlignment(); address = SP[]; else address = X[n]; if ! postindex then address = address + offset; case memop of when MemOp_STORE if rt_unknown && t == n then data1 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN; else data1 = X[t]; if rt_unknown && t2 == n then data2 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN; else data2 = X[t2]; if HaveLSE2Ext() then bits(2*datasize) full_data; if BigEndian(acctype) then full_data = data1:data2; else full_data = data2:data1; boolean ispair = TRUE; Mem[address, 2 * dbytes, AccType_NORMAL, ispair] = full_data; else Mem[address + 0 , dbytes, acctype] = data1; Mem[address + dbytes, dbytes, acctype] = data2; when MemOp_LOAD if HaveLSE2Ext() && !signed then bits(2*datasize) full_data; boolean ispair = TRUE; full_data = Mem[address, 2 * dbytes, AccType_NORMAL, ispair]; if BigEndian(acctype) then data2 = full_data<(datasize-1) : 0>; data1 = full_data<(2*datasize-1) : datasize>; else data1 = full_data<(datasize-1) : 0>; data2 = full_data<(2*datasize-1) : datasize>; else data1 = Mem[address + 0 , dbytes, acctype]; data2 = Mem[address + dbytes, dbytes, acctype]; if rt_unknown then data1 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN; data2 = bits(datasize) UNKNOWN; if signed then X[t] = SignExtend(data1, 64); X[t2] = SignExtend(data2, 64); else X[t] = data1; X[t2] = data2; if wback then if wb_unknown then address = bits(64) UNKNOWN; elsif postindex then address = address + offset; if n == 31 then SP[] = address; else X[n] = address;

Operational information

If PSTATE.DIT is 1, the timing of this instruction is insensitive to the value of the data being loaded or stored.


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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