Range checking determines if a given buffer memory address is in-range (valid) or out of range. When an address is out of range, writes are ignored (dropped) and reads return zero. Range checking is controlled by a 2-bit field in the buffer resource: OOB_SELECT (Out of Bounds select).
The final buffer memory address is composed of three parts:
• the base address from the buffer resource (V#),
• the offset from the SGPR, and
• a buffer-offset that is calculated differently, depending on whether the buffer is linearly addressed (a simple Array-of-Structures calculation) or is swizzled.
Instruction Set Architecture
Reads that go out-of-range return zero (except for components with V#.dst_sel = SEL_1 that return 1).
2. Writes that are out-of-range do not write anything.
3. Load/store-format-* instruction and atomics are range-checked "all or nothing" - either entirely in or out.
4. Load/store-Dword-x{2,3,4} and range-check per component. Swizzled Buffer Addressing Swizzled addressing rearranges the data in the buffer and can help provide improved cache locality for arrays of structures. Swizzled addressing also requires Dword-aligned accesses. The buffer’s STRIDE must be a multiple of element_size.
16-bit Memory Operations
The D16 buffer instructions allow a kernel to load or store just 16 bits per work item between VGPRs and memory. There are two variants of these instructions:
• D16 loads data into or stores data from the lower 16 bits of a VGPR.
• D16_HI loads data into or stores data from the upper 16 bits of a VGPR. For example, BUFFER_LOAD_UBYTE_D16 reads a byte per work-item from memory, converts it to a 16-bit integer, then loads it into the lower 16 bits of the data VGPR.
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