Freescale Semiconductor PowerPC e500 Core - Integer Store Instructions

Instruction Model
PowerPC e500 Core Family Reference Manual, Rev. 1
Freescale Semiconductor 3-21
The following notes describe the e500 implementation of integer load instructions:
• Book E cautions programmers that some implementations of the architecture can execute
the load half algebraic (lha, lhax) instructions with greater latency than other types of load
instructions. This is not the case for the e500; these instructions operate with the same
latency as other load instructions.
• Book E cautions programmers that some implementations can run the load/store
byte-reverse (lhbrx, lbrx, sthbrx, stwbrx) instructions with greater latency than other
types of load/store instructions. This is not the case for the e500. These instructions operate
with the same latency as the other load/store instructions.
• The Book E architecture defines lwarx and stwcx. as a way to update memory atomically.
In the e500, reservations are made on behalf of aligned 32-byte sections of the memory
address space. Executing lwarx and stwcx. to a page marked write-through causes a data
storage interrupt if the page is marked cacheable write-through (WIM = 10x), but as with
other memory accesses, data storage interrupts can result for other reasons such as
protection violations or page faults.
3.3.1.2.4 Integer Store Instructions
For integer store instructions, the rS contents are stored into the byte, half word, word, or double
word in memory addressed by the EA (effective address). Many store instructions have an update
form in which rA is updated with the EA. For these forms, the following rules apply:
•If rA ≠ 0, the effective address is placed into rA.
• If rS=rA, the contents of register rS are copied to the target memory element and the
generated EA is placed into rA (rS).
The Book E architecture defines store with update instructions with rA = 0 as an invalid form. In
addition, it defines integer store instructions with the CR update option enabled (Rc field, bit 31,
in the instruction encoding = 1) to be an invalid form. Table 3-12 summarizes integer store
instructions.
Load Word and Zero Indexed lwzx rD,rA,rB
Load Word and Zero with Update lwzu rD,d(rA)
Load Word and Zero with Update Indexed lwzux rD,rA,rB
Table 3-12. Integer Store Instructions
Name Mnemonic Syntax
Store Byte stb rS,d(rA)
Store Byte Indexed stbx rS,rA,rB
Table 3-11. Integer Load Instructions (continued)
Name Mnemonic Syntax