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CP15DMB

CP15DMB, Data Memory Barrier System instruction

The CP15DMB characteristics are:

Purpose

Performs a Data Memory Barrier.

Arm deprecates any use of this System instruction, and strongly recommends that software use the DMB instruction instead.

Configuration

This instruction is present only when FEAT_AA32 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to CP15DMB are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

CP15DMB is a 32-bit System instruction.

Field descriptions

This instruction has no applicable fields.

The value in the register specified by <Rt> is ignored.

Executing CP15DMB

Accesses to this instruction use the following encodings in the System instruction encoding space:

MCR{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>}

coprocopc1CRnCRmopc2
0b11110b0000b01110b10100b101

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then if IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL1) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL1) && !ELIsInHost(EL0) && SCTLR_EL1().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); elsif ELIsInHost(EL0) && SCTLR_EL2().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); elsif IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL1) && ELUsingAArch32(EL1) && SCTLR().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && !ELIsInHost(EL0) && HSTR_EL2().T7 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && HSTR().T7 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else CP15DMB(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2().T7 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR().T7 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); elsif SCTLR().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); else CP15DMB(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HSCTLR().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); else CP15DMB(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCTLR().CP15BEN == '0' then Undefined(); else CP15DMB(); end; end;


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