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SPMACCESSR_EL2

SPMACCESSR_EL2, System Performance Monitors Access Register (EL2)

The SPMACCESSR_EL2 characteristics are:

Purpose

Controls access to System PMUs from EL1 and EL0.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_SPMU is implemented and FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to SPMACCESSR_EL2 are UNDEFINED.

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

Attributes

SPMACCESSR_EL2 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
P31P30P29P28P27P26P25P24P23P22P21P20P19P18P17P16
P15P14P13P12P11P10P9P8P7P6P5P4P3P2P1P0

P<m>, bits [2m+1:2m], for m = 31 to 0

System PMU <m> access. Controls access to System PMU <m>.

P<m>Meaning
0b00

MRS read and MSR write System register accesses to System PMU <m> at EL1 and EL0 are trapped to EL2, unless the instruction generates a higher priority exception.

0b01

MSR write System register accesses to System PMU <m> at EL1 and EL0 are trapped to EL2, unless the instruction generates a higher priority exception.

0b11

This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped.

All other values are reserved.

The registers trapped by this control are:

AArch64: SPMCFGR_EL1, SPMCGCR<n>_EL1, SPMCNTENCLR_EL0, SPMCNTENSET_EL0, SPMCR_EL0, SPMDEVAFF_EL1, SPMDEVARCH_EL1, SPMEVCNTR<n>_EL0, SPMEVFILT2R<n>_EL0, SPMEVFILTR<n>_EL0, SPMEVTYPER<n>_EL0, SPMIIDR_EL1, SPMINTENCLR_EL1, SPMINTENSET_EL1, SPMOVSCLR_EL0, SPMOVSSET_EL0, and SPMSCR_EL1.

This field is ignored by the PE when EL2 is not implemented or disabled in the current Security state.

The reset behavior of this field is:

Accessing this field has the following behavior:

Accessing SPMACCESSR_EL2

When the Effective value of HCR_EL2.E2H is 1, without explicit synchronization, accesses from EL2 using the accessor name SPMACCESSR_EL2 or SPMACCESSR_EL1 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>, SPMACCESSR_EL2

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b100b1000b10010b11010b011

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SPMU) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL2(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL2(); end;

MSR SPMACCESSR_EL2, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b100b1000b10010b11010b011

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SPMU) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else SPMACCESSR_EL2() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then SPMACCESSR_EL2() = X{64}(t); end;

MRS <Xt>, SPMACCESSR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b100b0000b10010b11010b011

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SPMU) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT2) && ((HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3().FGTEn2 == '0') || HDFGRTR2_EL2().nSPMACCESSR_EL1 == '0') then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2().EnSPM == '0' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'111'} then X{64}(t) = NVMem(0x8E8); else X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL1(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; elsif ELIsInHost(EL2) then X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL2(); else X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL1(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = SPMACCESSR_EL1(); end;

MSR SPMACCESSR_EL1, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b100b0000b10010b11010b011

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_SPMU) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT2) && ((HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3().FGTEn2 == '0') || HDFGWTR2_EL2().nSPMACCESSR_EL1 == '0') then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2().EnSPM == '0' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'111'} then NVMem(0x8E8) = X{64}(t); else SPMACCESSR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().EnPM2 == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; elsif ELIsInHost(EL2) then SPMACCESSR_EL2() = X{64}(t); else SPMACCESSR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then SPMACCESSR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end;


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