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AMAIR_EL1

AMAIR_EL1, Auxiliary Memory Attribute Indirection Register (EL1)

The AMAIR_EL1 characteristics are:

Purpose

Provides IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED memory attributes for the memory regions specified by MAIR_EL1.

Configuration

AArch64 System register AMAIR_EL1 bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register AMAIR0[31:0].

AArch64 System register AMAIR_EL1 bits [63:32] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register AMAIR1[31:0].

This register is present only when FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to AMAIR_EL1 are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

AMAIR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED
IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED

AMAIR_EL1 is permitted to be cached in a TLB.

IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED, bits [63:0]

IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED.

The reset behavior of this field is:

Accessing AMAIR_EL1

When the Effective value of HCR_EL2.E2H is 1, without explicit synchronization, accesses from EL3 using the accessor name AMAIR_EL1 or AMAIR_EL12 are not guaranteed to be ordered with respect to accesses using the other accessor name.

Accesses to this register use the following encodings in the System register encoding space:

MRS <Xt>, AMAIR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00110b000

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TRVM == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HFGRTR_EL2().AMAIR_EL1 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'111'} then X{64}(t) = NVMem(0x148); else X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL1(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL2(); else X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL1(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL1(); end;

MSR AMAIR_EL1, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00110b000

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2().TVM == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HFGWTR_EL2().AMAIR_EL1 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'111'} then NVMem(0x148) = X{64}(t); else AMAIR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then AMAIR_EL2() = X{64}(t); else AMAIR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then AMAIR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end;

When FEAT_VHE is implemented

MRS <Xt>, AMAIR_EL12

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1010b10100b00110b000

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '101' then X{64}(t) = NVMem(0x148); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL1(); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then X{64}(t) = AMAIR_EL1(); else Undefined(); end; end;

When FEAT_VHE is implemented

MSR AMAIR_EL12, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1010b10100b00110b000

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '101' then NVMem(0x148) = X{64}(t); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then AMAIR_EL1() = X{64}(t); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then AMAIR_EL1() = X{64}(t); else Undefined(); end; end;


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