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Cycle Timings and Interlock Behavior
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14.15 Synchronization instructions
This section describes the cycle timing behavior for the
CLREX
,
DMB
,
DSB
,
ISB
,
LDREX
,
LDREXB
,
LDREXD , LDREXH , STREX , STREXB , STREXD , STREXH , SWP , and SWPB instructions
In all cases the base register, Rn, is a Very Early Reg. Table 14-20 shows the synchronization
instructions cycle timing behavior.
The synchronization instructions DMB , DSB , and ISB stall the pipeline for a variable number of
cycles, depending on the current state of the memory system.
Table 14-20 Synchronization instructions cycle timing behavior
Instruction Cycles Memory cycles Result latency
CLREX 1 - -
LDREX , [Rn]
1 1 2
LDREXB , [Rn] 1 1 2
LDREXH , [Rn] 1 1 2
LDREXD , [Rn]
a
a. Address must be 64-bit aligned.
1 1 2
STREX , , [Rn] 1 1 2
STREXB , , [Rn] 1 1 2
STREXH , , [Rn]
1 1 2
STREXD , , , [Rn] a 1 1 2
SWP , , [Rn] 2 2 3
SWPB , , [Rn]
2 2 3