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CNTPOFF_EL2

CNTPOFF_EL2, Counter-timer Physical Offset Register

The CNTPOFF_EL2 characteristics are:

Purpose

Holds the 64-bit physical offset. This is the offset for the AArch64 EL1 physical timer and counter when Enhanced Counter Virtualization is enabled.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_ECV_POFF is implemented and FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to CNTPOFF_EL2 are UNDEFINED.

The physical offset applies to:

The physical offset only applies under conditions described by the relevant sections.

If EL2 is not implemented, this register is RES0 from EL3.

Attributes

CNTPOFF_EL2 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
PO
PO

PO, bits [63:0]

Physical offset.

The reset behavior of this field is:

Accessing CNTPOFF_EL2

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

MRS <Xt>, CNTPOFF_EL2

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b11100b00000b110

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_ECV_POFF) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'1x1'} then X{64}(t) = NVMem(0x1A8); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3().ECVEn == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3().ECVEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else X{64}(t) = CNTPOFF_EL2(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = CNTPOFF_EL2(); end;

MSR CNTPOFF_EL2, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b11100b00000b110

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_ECV_POFF) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'1x1'} then NVMem(0x1A8) = X{64}(t); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3().ECVEn == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3().ECVEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else CNTPOFF_EL2() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then CNTPOFF_EL2() = X{64}(t); end;


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