PRFW (scalar plus immediate)

Contiguous prefetch words (immediate index)

Contiguous prefetch of word elements from the memory address generated by a 64-bit scalar base and immediate index in the range -32 to 31 which is multiplied by the vector's in-memory size, irrespective of predication, and added to the base address.

The predicate may be used to suppress prefetches from unwanted addresses.

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1000010111imm6010PgRn0prfop
msz<1>msz<0>

PRFW <prfop>, <Pg>, [<Xn|SP>{, #<imm>, MUL VL}]

if !HaveSVE() && !HaveSME() then UNDEFINED; integer esize = 32; integer g = UInt(Pg); integer n = UInt(Rn); integer level = UInt(prfop<2:1>); boolean stream = (prfop<0> == '1'); pref_hint = if prfop<3> == '0' then Prefetch_READ else Prefetch_WRITE; integer scale = 2; integer offset = SInt(imm6);

Assembler Symbols

<prfop>

Is the prefetch operation specifier, encoded in prfop:

prfop <prfop>
0000 PLDL1KEEP
0001 PLDL1STRM
0010 PLDL2KEEP
0011 PLDL2STRM
0100 PLDL3KEEP
0101 PLDL3STRM
x11x #uimm4
1000 PSTL1KEEP
1001 PSTL1STRM
1010 PSTL2KEEP
1011 PSTL2STRM
1100 PSTL3KEEP
1101 PSTL3STRM
<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.

<imm>

Is the optional signed immediate vector offset, in the range -32 to 31, defaulting to 0, encoded in the "imm6" field.

Operation

CheckSVEEnabled(); integer elements = VL DIV esize; bits(PL) mask = P[g]; bits(64) base; if AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then base = if n == 31 then SP[] else X[n]; for e = 0 to elements-1 if ElemP[mask, e, esize] == '1' then integer eoff = (offset * elements) + e; bits(64) addr = base + (eoff << scale); Hint_Prefetch(addr, pref_hint, level, stream);


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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