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HVC

Hypervisor call

This instruction causes an exception to EL2. Software executing at EL1 can use this instruction to call the hypervisor to request a service.

The HVC instruction is UNDEFINED:

• When EL3 is implemented and SCR_EL3.HCE is set to 0.
• When EL3 is not implemented and HCR_EL2.HCD is set to 1.
• When EL2 is not implemented.
• At EL1 if EL2 is not enabled in the current Security state.
• At EL0.

On executing an HVC instruction, the PE records the exception as a Hypervisor Call exception in ESR_ELx, using the EC syndrome value 0x16, and the value of the immediate argument.

Decode for this encoding

if !HaveEL(EL2) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); end; let imm : bits(16) = imm16;