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<instructionsection id="ESB" title="ESB -- A64" type="instruction">
  <docvars>
    <docvar key="instr-class" value="system"/>
    <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
    <docvar key="mnemonic" value="ESB"/>
  </docvars>
  <heading>ESB</heading>
  <desc>
    <brief>
      <para>Error synchronization barrier</para>
    </brief>
    <authored>
      <para>This instruction is an error synchronization event that might also update <register_link id="AArch64-disr_el1.xml" state="AArch64">DISR_EL1</register_link> and <register_link id="AArch64-vdisr_el2.xml" state="AArch64">VDISR_EL2</register_link>.</para>
      <para>This instruction can be used at all Exception levels and in Debug state.</para>
      <para>In Debug state, this instruction behaves as if SError interrupts are masked at all Exception levels.
For more information, see <xref linkend="ARMARM_RAS_pe_architecture">RAS PE architecture</xref>
and Arm<sup>®</sup> Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) System Architecture, for A-profile architecture (ARM IHI 0100).</para>
      <para>If <xref linkend="ARMARM_FEAT_RAS">FEAT_RAS</xref> is not implemented, this instruction executes as a <instruction>NOP</instruction>.</para>
    </authored>
  </desc>
  <alias_list howmany="0"/>
  <classes>
    <iclass name="System" oneof="1" id="iclass_system" no_encodings="1" isa="A64">
      <docvars>
        <docvar key="instr-class" value="system"/>
        <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
        <docvar key="mnemonic" value="ESB"/>
      </docvars>
      <iclassintro count="1"/>
      <arch_variants>
        <arch_variant feature="FEAT_RAS" name="v8Ap2"/>
      </arch_variants>
      <regdiagram form="32" psname="A64.control.hints.ESB_HI_hints" tworows="1">
        <box hibit="31" width="3" settings="3">
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="28" width="3" settings="3">
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>1</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="25" width="14" settings="14">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="11" width="4" name="CRm" usename="1" settings="4" psbits="xxxx">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="7" width="3" name="op2" usename="1" settings="3" psbits="xxx">
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
          <c>0</c>
        </box>
        <box hibit="4" width="5" settings="5">
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
          <c>1</c>
        </box>
      </regdiagram>
      <encoding name="ESB_HI_hints" oneofinclass="1" oneof="1" label="">
        <docvars>
          <docvar key="instr-class" value="system"/>
          <docvar key="isa" value="A64"/>
          <docvar key="mnemonic" value="ESB"/>
        </docvars>
        <asmtemplate><text>ESB</text></asmtemplate>
      </encoding>
      <ps_section howmany="1">
        <ps name="A64.control.hints.ESB_HI_hints" sections="1" secttype="noheading">
          <pstext mayhavelinks="1" section="Decode" rep_section="decode">if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_RAS) then EndOfDecode(Decode_NOP); end;</pstext></ps>
      </ps_section>
    </iclass>
  </classes>
  <explanations scope="all"/>
  <ps_section howmany="1">
    <ps name="A64.control.hints.ESB_HI_hints" sections="1" secttype="Operation">
      <pstext mayhavelinks="1" section="Execute" rep_section="execute">SynchronizeErrors();
AArch64_ESBOperation();
if PSTATE.EL IN {EL0, EL1} &amp;&amp; EL2Enabled() then
    AArch64_vESBOperation();
elsif IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_E3DSE) &amp;&amp; PSTATE.EL != EL3 then
    AArch64_dESBOperation();
end;
TakeUnmaskedSErrorInterrupts();</pstext></ps>
  </ps_section>
  <timestamp>2026-03-12 12:23:09</timestamp>
  <commit_id>2025-09_rel_asl1</commit_id>
</instructionsection>
