SMSW—Store Machine Status Word
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SMSW—Store Machine Status Word
Instruction Operand Encoding
Description
Stores the machine status word (bits 0 through 15 of control register CR0) into the destination operand. The desti-
nation operand can be a general-purpose register or a memory location.
In non-64-bit modes, when the destination operand is a 32-bit register, the low-order 16 bits of register CR0 are
copied into the low-order 16 bits of the register and the high-order 16 bits are undefined. When the destination
operand is a memory location, the low-order 16 bits of register CR0 are written to memory as a 16-bit quantity,
regardless of the operand size.
In 64-bit mode, the behavior of the SMSW instruction is defined by the following examples:
•
SMSW r16 operand size 16, store CR0[15:0] in r16
•
SMSW r32 operand size 32, zero-extend CR0[31:0], and store in r32
•
SMSW r64 operand size 64, zero-extend CR0[63:0], and store in r64
•
SMSW m16 operand size 16, store CR0[15:0] in m16
•
SMSW m16 operand size 32, store CR0[15:0] in m16 (not m32)
•
SMSW m16 operands size 64, store CR0[15:0] in m16 (not m64)
SMSW is only useful in operating-system software. However, it is not a privileged instruction and can be used in
application programs if CR4.UMIP = 0. It is provided for compatibility with the Intel 286 processor. Programs and
procedures intended to run on IA-32 and Intel 64 processors beginning with the Intel386 processors should use the
MOV CR instruction to load the machine status word.
See “Changes to Instruction Behavior in VMX Non-Root Operation” in Chapter 25 of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Archi-
tectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3C, for more information about the behavior of this instruction in
VMX non-root operation.
Operation
DEST ← CR0[15:0];
(* Machine status word *)
Flags Affected
None.
Opcode*
Instruction
Op/
En
64-Bit
Mode
Compat/
Leg Mode
Description
0F 01 /4
SMSW r/m16
M
Valid
Valid
Store machine status word to r/m16.
0F 01 /4
SMSW r32/m16
M
Valid
Valid
Store machine status word in low-order 16
bits of r32/m16; high-order 16 bits of r32 are
undefined.
REX.W + 0F 01 /4
SMSW r64/m16
M
Valid
Valid
Store machine status word in low-order 16
bits of r64/m16; high-order 16 bits of r32 are
undefined.
Op/En
Operand 1
Operand 2
Operand 3
Operand 4
M
ModRM:r/m (w)
NA
NA
NA