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DIT

DIT, Data Independent Timing

The DIT characteristics are:

Purpose

Allows access to the Data Independent Timing bit.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_DIT is implemented and FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to DIT are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

DIT is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
RES0
RES0DITRES0

Bits [63:25]

Reserved, RES0.

DIT, bit [24]

Data Independent Timing.

DITMeaning
0b0

The architecture makes no statement about the timing properties of any instructions.

0b1

The architecture requires that the execution time of a data-independent-time sequence of code must be independent of all data-independent-time values. For more information, see About PSTATE.DIT.

The list of data-independent-time instructions is:

The reset behavior of this field is:

Bits [23:0]

Reserved, RES0.

Accessing DIT

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

MRS <Xt>, DIT

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0110b01000b00100b101

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_DIT) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{39} :: PSTATE.DIT :: Zeros{24}; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{39} :: PSTATE.DIT :: Zeros{24}; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{39} :: PSTATE.DIT :: Zeros{24}; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{39} :: PSTATE.DIT :: Zeros{24}; end;

MSR DIT, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0110b01000b00100b101

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_DIT) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then PSTATE.DIT = X{64}(t)[24]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then PSTATE.DIT = X{64}(t)[24]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then PSTATE.DIT = X{64}(t)[24]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then PSTATE.DIT = X{64}(t)[24]; end;

MSR DIT, #<imm>

op0op1CRnop2
0b000b0110b01000b010

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