Arm® A32/T32 Instruction Set Architecture: Armv8, for Armv8-A architecture profile Documentation

VMSR

Move general-purpose register to SIMD&FP Special register moves the value of a general-purpose register to a floating-point System register.

Depending on settings in the CPACR, NSACR, HCPTR, and FPEXC registers, and the Security state and PE mode in which the instruction is executed, an attempt to execute the instruction might be undefined, or trapped to Hyp mode. For more information see Enabling Advanced SIMD and floating-point support.

When these settings permit the execution of floating-point and Advanced SIMD instructions:

• If the specified floating-point System register is FPSID or FPEXC, the instruction is undefined if executed in User mode.
• If the specified floating-point System register is the FPSID and the instruction is executed in a mode other than User mode, the instruction is ignored.

It has encodings from the following instruction sets: A32 ( A1 ) and T32 ( T1 ) .

A1

t = UInt(Rt);
if reg != '000x' && reg != '1000' then
    Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_VMSR);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNDEF
            UNDEFINED;
        when Constraint_NOP
            EndOfInstruction();
if t == 15 then UNPREDICTABLE; // Armv8-A removes UNPREDICTABLE for R13

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If reg != '000x' && reg != '1000', then one of the following behaviors must occur:

• The instruction is undefined.
• The instruction executes as NOP.
• The instruction transfers the value in the general-purpose register to one of the allocated registers accessible using VMSR at the same Exception level.

T1

t = UInt(Rt);
if reg != '000x' && reg != '1000' then
    Constraint c = ConstrainUnpredictable(Unpredictable_VMSR);
    assert c IN {Constraint_UNDEF, Constraint_NOP};
    case c of
        when Constraint_UNDEF
            UNDEFINED;
        when Constraint_NOP
            EndOfInstruction();
if t == 15 then UNPREDICTABLE; // Armv8-A removes UNPREDICTABLE for R13

CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behavior

If reg != '000x' && reg != '1000', then one of the following behaviors must occur:

• The instruction is undefined.
• The instruction executes as NOP.
• The instruction transfers the value in the general-purpose register to one of the allocated registers accessible using VMSR at the same Exception level.

For more information about the constrained unpredictable behavior of this instruction, see Architectural Constraints on UNPREDICTABLE behaviors.

Assembler Symbols

if ConditionPassed() then
    EncodingSpecificOperations();
    if reg == '0001' then                 // FPSCR
        CheckVFPEnabled(TRUE);
        FPSCR = R[t];
    elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
        UNDEFINED;                        // Non-FPSCR registers accessible only at PL1 or above
    else
        CheckVFPEnabled(FALSE);           // Non-FPSCR registers are not affected by FPEXC.EN
        case reg of
            when '0000'                   // VMSR access to FPSID is ignored
            when '1000'  FPEXC = R[t];
            otherwise    Unreachable();   // Dealt with above or in encoding-specific pseudocode