Freescale Semiconductor PowerPC e500 Core - Integer Load and Store Address Generation

PowerPC e500 Core Family Reference Manual, Rev. 1
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Instruction Model
The following sequence synchronizes the instruction stream (using either dcbst or dcbf):
dcbst (or dcbf) |update memory
msync |wait for update
icbi |remove (invalidate) copy in instruction cache
msync |ensure the ICBI invalidate is complete
isync |remove copy in own instruction buffer
These operations are required because the data cache is a write-back cache. Because instruction
fetching bypasses the data cache, changes to items in the data cache cannot be reflected in memory
until the fetch operations complete. The msync after the icbi is required to ensure that the icbi
invalidation has completed in the instruction cache.
Special care must be taken to avoid coherency paradoxes in systems that implement unified
secondary caches (like the e500), and designers should carefully follow the guidelines for
maintaining cache coherency discussed in Chapter 11, “L1 Caches.”
3.3.1.2.2 Integer Load and Store Address Generation
Integer load and store operations generate effective addresses using register indirect with
immediate index mode, register indirect with index mode, or register indirect mode, which are
described as follows:
• Register indirect with immediate index addressing for integer loads and stores. Instructions
using this addressing mode contain a signed 16-bit immediate index (d operand), which is
sign extended and added to the contents of a general-purpose register specified in the
instruction (rA operand), to generate the effective address. If the rA field of the instruction
specifies r0, a value of zero is added to the immediate index (d operand) in place of the
contents of r0. The option to specify rA or 0 is shown in the instruction descriptions as
(rA|0). Figure 3-1 shows how an effective address is generated using this addressing mode.
Figure 3-1. Register Indirect with Immediate Index Addressing for Integer Loads/Stores
No
0 15 16 31
Sign Extension d
32 63
GPR (rA)
0
32 63
GPR (rD/rS)
Store
Load
Ye s
Instruction Encoding:
05610111516 31
Opcode rD/rS rAd
+
031
Effective Address
rA=0?
Memory
Interface