HCR Hyp Configuration Register when FEAT_AA32EL2 is implemented EL2 EL3 HCR_EL2 Architectural AArch64 31 0 31 0 31 0 31 0 Provides configuration controls for virtualization, including defining whether various Non-secure operations are trapped to Hyp mode. Virt If EL2 is not implemented, this register is RES0 from EL3. HCR is a 32-bit register. 31 31 31 Reserved, RES0. TRVM 30 30 30 Trap Reads of Virtual Memory controls. Traps Non-secure EL1 reads of the virtual memory control registers to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MRC reads of the following registers are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03 and MRRC reads are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x04: SCTLR, TTBR0, TTBR1, TTBCR, TTBCR2, DACR, DFSR, IFSR, DFAR, IFAR, ADFSR, AIFSR, PRRR, NMRR, MAIR0, MAIR1, AMAIR0, AMAIR1, CONTEXTIDR. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 read accesses to the specified Virtual Memory controls are trapped to EL2. '0' AU HCD 29 29 0 HVC instruction disable. Disables Non-secure EL1 and EL2 execution of HVC instructions, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state, reported using EC syndrome value 0x00. HVC instructions are always UNDEFINED at EL0. 0b0 HVC instruction execution is enabled at EL2 and EL1. 0b1 HVC instructions are UNDEFINED at EL2 and Non-secure EL1. The Undefined Instruction exception is taken to the Exception level at which the HVC instruction is executed. '0' AU When EL3 is not implemented 29 29 29 Reserved, RES0. Otherwise 28 28 28 Reserved, RES0. TGE 27 27 27 Trap General Exceptions, from Non-secure EL0. Also, when HCR.TGE is 1: If EL3 is using AArch32, an attempt to change from a Secure PL1 mode to a Non-secure EL1 mode by changing SCR.NS from 0 to 1 results in SCR.NS remaining as 0. The HDCR.{TDRA, TDOSA, TDA, TDE} bits are ignored and treated as being 1 other than for the purpose of a direct read of HDCR. 0b0 This control has no effect on execution at EL0. 0b1 When EL2 is not enabled in the current Security state, this control has no effect on execution at EL0. When EL2 is enabled in the current Security state, then: All exceptions that would be routed to EL1 are routed to EL2. The SCTLR.M bit is treated as being 0 for all purposes other than returning the result of a direct read of SCTLR. The HCR.{FMO, IMO, AMO} bits are treated as being 1 for all purposes other than returning the result of a direct read of HCR. All virtual interrupts are disabled. Any IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED mechanisms for signaling virtual interrupts are disabled. An exception return to EL1 is treated as an illegal exception return. Monitor mode execution of an MSR or CPS instruction that changes PSTATE.M to a Non-secure EL1 mode is an illegal change to PSTATE.M. For more information see 'Illegal changes to PSTATE.M'. '0' AU TVM 26 26 26 Trap Virtual Memory controls. Traps Non-secure EL1 writes to the virtual memory control registers to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MCR writes of the following registers are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03 and MCRR writes are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x04: SCTLR, TTBR0, TTBR1, TTBCR, TTBCR2, DACR, DFSR, IFSR, DFAR, IFAR, ADFSR, AIFSR, PRRR, NMRR, MAIR0, MAIR1, AMAIR0, AMAIR1, CONTEXTIDR. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 write accesses to the specified virtual memory control registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TTLB 25 25 25 Trap TLB maintenance instructions. Traps Non-secure EL1 execution of a TLBI instruction to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MCR and MRC accesses to the following system instructions are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: TLBIALLIS, TLBIMVAIS, TLBIASIDIS, TLBIMVAAIS, TLBIMVALIS, TLBIMVAALIS, ITLBIALL, ITLBIMVA, ITLBIASID, DTLBIALL, DTLBIMVA, DTLBIASID, TLBIALL, TLBIMVA, TLBIASID, TLBIMVAA, TLBIMVAL, TLBIMVAAL 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 accesses to the specified TLB maintenance instructions are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TPU 24 24 24 Trap cache maintenance instructions that operate to the Point of Unification. Traps Non-secure EL1 execution of those cache maintenance instructions to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MRC and MCR accesses of the following system instructions are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: ICIMVAU, ICIALLU, ICIALLUIS, DCCMVAU. An Undefined Instruction exception generated at EL0 is higher priority than this trap to EL2, and these instructions are always UNDEFINED at EL0. If the Point of Unification is before any level of data cache, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the execution of any data or unified cache clean by VA to the Point of Unification instruction can be trapped when the value of this control is 1. If the Point of Unification is before any level of instruction cache, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the execution of any instruction cache invalidate to the Point of Unification instruction can be trapped when the value of this control is 1. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 execution of the specified cache maintenance instructions is trapped to EL2. '0' AU TPC 23 23 23 Trap data or unified cache maintenance instructions that operate to the Point of Coherency. Traps Non-secure EL1 execution of those cache maintenance instructions to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MRC and MCR accesses of the following system instructions are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: DCIMVAC, DCCIMVAC, DCCMVAC. An Undefined Instruction exception generated at EL0 is higher priority than this trap to EL2, and these instructions are always UNDEFINED at EL0. If the Point of Coherency is before any level of data cache, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the execution of any data or unified cache clean, invalidate, or clean and invalidate instruction that operates by VA to the point of coherency can be trapped when the value of this control is 1. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 execution of the specified cache maintenance instructions is trapped to EL2. '0' AU TSW 22 22 22 Trap data or unified cache maintenance instructions that operate by Set/Way. Traps Non-secure EL1 execution of those cache maintenance instructions by set/way to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MRC and MCR accesses of the following system instructions are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: DCISW, DCCSW, DCCISW. An Undefined Instruction exception generated at EL0 is higher priority than this trap to EL2, and these instructions are always UNDEFINED at EL0. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 execution of the specified cache maintenance instructions is trapped to EL2. '0' AU TAC 21 21 21 Trap Auxiliary Control Registers. Traps Non-secure EL1 accesses to the Auxiliary Control Registers to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state, from both Execution states. MRC and MCR accesses of the following registers are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: ACTLR and, if implemented, ACTLR2. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 accesses to the specified registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TIDCP 20 20 20 Trap IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED functionality. Traps Non-secure EL1 accesses to the encodings for IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED System Registers to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. MRC and MCR accesses of the following encodings are trapped and reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: All coproc==p15, CRn==c9, Opcode1 = {0-7}, CRm == {c0-c2, c5-c8}, opcode2 == {0-7}. All coproc==p15, CRn==c10, Opcode1 =={0-7}, CRm == {c0, c1, c4, c8}, opcode2 == {0-7}. All coproc==p15, CRn==c11, Opcode1=={0-7}, CRm == {c0-c8, c15}, opcode2 == {0-7}. When HCR.TIDCP is set to 1, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether any of this functionality accessed from Non-secure EL0 is trapped to EL2. Otherwise, it is UNDEFINED and the PE takes an Undefined Instruction exception to Non-secure Undefined mode. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Non-secure EL1 accesses to the specified System register encodings for IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED functionality are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TSC 19 19 19 Trap SMC instructions. Traps Non-secure EL1 execution of SMC instructions to Hyp mode. The Armv8-A architecture permits, but does not require, this trap to apply to conditional SMC instructions that fail their condition code check, in the same way as with traps on other conditional instructions. This trap is implemented only if the implementation includes EL3.SMC instructions are always UNDEFINED at PL0.This bit traps execution of the SMC instruction, reported using EC syndrome value 0x13. It is not a routing control for the SMC exception. Hyp Trap exceptions and SMC exceptions have different preferred return addresses. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Any attempt to execute an SMC instruction at Non-secure EL1 is trapped to Hyp mode, regardless of the value of SCR.SCD. '0' AU TID3 18 18 18 Trap ID group 3. Traps Non-secure EL1 reads of the following registers to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state as follows: VMRS access to MVFR0, MVFR1, and MVFR2, reported using EC syndrome value 0x08, unless access is also trapped by HCPTR which takes priority. MRC access to the following registers are reported using EC syndrome value 0x03: ID_PFR0, ID_PFR1, ID_PFR2, ID_DFR0, ID_AFR0, ID_MMFR0, ID_MMFR1, ID_MMFR2, ID_MMFR3, ID_ISAR0, ID_ISAR1, ID_ISAR2, ID_ISAR3, ID_ISAR4, and ID_ISAR5. If FEAT_FGT is implemented: ID_MMFR4 and ID_MMFR5 are trapped to EL2. ID_ISAR6 is trapped to EL2. ID_DFR1 is trapped to EL2. This field traps all MRC accesses to registers in the following range that are not already mentioned in this field description: coproc == p15, opc1 == 0, CRn == c0, CRm == {c2-c7}, opc2 == {0-7}. If FEAT_FGT is not implemented: ID_MMFR4 and ID_MMFR5 are trapped to EL2, unless implemented as RAZ, when it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether accesses to ID_MMFR4 or ID_MMFR5 are trapped. ID_ISAR6 is trapped to EL2, unless implemented as RAZ, when it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether accesses to ID_ISAR6 are trapped to EL2. ID_DFR1 is trapped to EL2, unless implemented as RAZ, when it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether accesses to ID_DFR1 are trapped to EL2. Otherwise, it is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether this bit traps MRC accesses to registers not already mentioned, with coproc == p15, opc1 == 0, CRn == c0, CRm == {c2-c7}, opc2 == {0-7}. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 The specified Non-secure EL1 read accesses to ID group 3 registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TID2 17 17 17 Trap ID group 2. Traps the following register MRC and MCR accesses to EL2, reported using EC syndrome value 0x03, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state: Non-secure EL1 and EL0 reads of the CTR, CCSIDR, CCSIDR2, CLIDR, and CSSELR. Non-secure EL1 and EL0 writes to the CSSELR. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 The specified Non-secure EL1 and EL0 accesses to ID group 2 registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TID1 16 16 16 Trap ID group 1. Traps Non-secure EL1 MRC reads of the following registers to EL2, reported using EC syndrome value 0x03, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state: TCMTR, TLBTR, REVIDR, AIDR. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 The specified Non-secure EL1 read accesses to ID group 1 registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TID0 15 15 15 Trap ID group 0. Traps the following register accesses to EL2, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state: Non-secure EL1 VMRS reads of FPSID reported using EC syndrome value 0x08. Non-secure EL0 and EL1 MCR and MRC accesses of JIDR reported using EC syndrome value 0x05. It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether the JIDR is RAZ or UNDEFINED at EL0. If it is UNDEFINED at EL0 then the Undefined Instruction exception takes precedence over this trap.The FPSID is not accessible at EL0.Writes to the FPSID are ignored, and not trapped by this control. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 The specified Non-secure EL1 read accesses to ID group 0 registers are trapped to EL2. '0' AU TWE 14 14 14 Traps Non-secure EL0 and EL1 execution of WFE instructions to EL2, reported using EC syndrome value 0x01, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. The attempted execution of a conditional WFE instruction is only trapped if the instruction passes its condition code check. Since a WFE can complete at any time, even without a Wakeup event, the traps on WFE are not guaranteed to be taken, even if the WFE is executed when there is no Wakeup event. The only guarantee is that if the instruction does not complete in finite time in the absence of a Wakeup event, the trap will be taken. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Any attempt to execute a WFE instruction at Non-secure EL0 or EL1 is trapped to EL2, if the instruction would otherwise have caused the PE to enter a low-power state and it is not trapped by SCTLR.nTWE. '0' AU TWI 13 13 13 Traps Non-secure EL0 and EL1 execution of WFI instructions to EL2, reported using EC syndrome value 0x01, when EL2 is enabled in the current Security state. The attempted execution of a conditional WFI instruction is only trapped if the instruction passes its condition code check. Since a WFI can complete at any time, even without a Wakeup event, the traps on WFI are not guaranteed to be taken, even if the WFI is executed when there is no Wakeup event. The only guarantee is that if the instruction does not complete in finite time in the absence of a Wakeup event, the trap will be taken. 0b0 This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped. 0b1 Any attempt to execute a WFI instruction at Non-secure EL0 or EL1 is trapped to EL2, if the instruction would otherwise have caused the PE to enter a low-power state and it is not trapped by SCTLR.nTWI. '0' AU DC 12 12 12 Default Cacheability. This field has no effect on the EL2 and EL3 translation regimes. This bit is permitted to be cached in a TLB. 0b0 This control has no effect on the Non-secure EL1&0 translation regime. 0b1 In Non-secure state: The SCTLR.M field behaves as 0 for all purposes other than a direct read of the value of the field. The HCR.VM field behaves as 1 for all purposes other than a direct read of the value of the field. The memory type produced by the first stage of the EL1&0 translation regime is Normal Non-Shareable, Inner Write-Back Read-Allocate Write-Allocate, Outer Write-Back Read-Allocate Write-Allocate. '0' AU BSU 11 10 11:10 Barrier Shareability upgrade. This field determines the minimum shareability domain that is applied to any barrier instruction executed from Non-secure EL1 or Non-secure EL0: This value is combined with the specified level of the barrier held in its instruction, using the same principles as combining the shareability attributes from two stages of address translation. 0b00 No effect. 0b01 Inner Shareable. 0b10 Outer Shareable. 0b11 Full system. '00' AU FB 9 9 9 Force broadcast. Causes the following instructions to be broadcast within the Inner Shareable domain when executed from Non-secure EL1: BPIALL, TLBIALL, TLBIMVA, TLBIASID, DTLBIALL, DTLBIMVA, DTLBIASID, ITLBIALL, ITLBIMVA, ITLBIASID, TLBIMVAA, ICIALLU, TLBIMVAL, TLBIMVAAL. 0b0 This field has no effect on the operation of the specified instructions. 0b1 When one of the specified instruction is executed at Non-secure EL1, the instruction is broadcast within the Inner Shareable shareability domain. '0' AU VA 8 8 8 Virtual SError exception. The virtual SError exception is enabled only when the value of HCR.{TGE, AMO} is {0, 1}. The Guest OS cannot distinguish the virtual exception from the corresponding physical exception. 0b0 This mechanism is not making a virtual SError exception pending. 0b1 A virtual SError exception is pending because of this mechanism. '0' AU VI 7 7 7 Virtual IRQ exception. The virtual IRQ is enabled only when the value of HCR.{TGE, IMO} is {0, 1}. The Guest OS cannot distinguish the virtual exception from the corresponding physical exception. 0b0 This mechanism is not making a virtual IRQ pending. 0b1 A virtual IRQ is pending because of this mechanism. '0' AU VF 6 6 6 Virtual FIQ exception. The virtual FIQ is enabled only when the value of HCR.{TGE, FMO} is {0, 1}. The Guest OS cannot distinguish the virtual exception from the corresponding physical exception. 0b0 This mechanism is not making a virtual FIQ pending. 0b1 A virtual FIQ is pending because of this mechanism. '0' AU AMO 5 5 5 SError exception Mask Override. When this bit is set to 1, it overrides the effect of PSTATE.A, and enables virtual exception signaling by the VA bit. If the value of HCR.TGE is 0, then virtual SError exceptions are enabled in Non-secure state. If the value of HCR.TGE is 1, then in Non-secure state the HCR.AMO bit behaves as 1 for all purposes other than a direct read of the value of the bit. '0' AU IMO 4 4 4 IRQ Mask Override. When this bit is set to 1, it overrides the effect of PSTATE.I, and enables virtual exception signaling by the VI bit. If the value of HCR.TGE is 0, then Virtual IRQ interrupts are enabled in the Non-secure state. If the value of HCR.TGE is 1, then in Non-secure state the HCR.IMO bit behaves as 1 for all purposes other than a direct read of the value of the bit. '0' AU FMO 3 3 3 FIQ Mask Override. When this bit is set to 1, it overrides the effect of PSTATE.F, and enables virtual exception signaling by the VF bit. If the value of HCR.TGE is 0, then Virtual FIQ interrupts are enabled in the Non-secure state. If the value of HCR.TGE is 1, then in Non-secure state the HCR.FMO bit behaves as 1 for all purposes other than a direct read of the value of the bit. '0' AU PTW 2 2 2 Protected Table Walk. In the Non-secure PL1&0 translation regime, a translation table access made as part of a stage 1 translation table walk is subject to a stage 2 translation. The combining of the memory type attributes from the two stages of translation means the access might be made to a type of Device memory. If this occurs then the value of this bit determines the behavior: This bit is permitted to be cached in a TLB. 0b0 The translation table walk occurs as if it is to Normal Non-cacheable memory. This means it can be made speculatively. 0b1 The memory access generates a stage 2 Permission fault. '0' AU SWIO 1 1 1 Set/Way Invalidation Override. Causes Non-secure EL1 execution of the data cache invalidate by set/way instructions to perform a data cache clean and invalidate by set/way. When this bit is set to 1, DCISW performs the same invalidation as a DCCISW instruction. As a result of changes to the behavior of DCISW, this bit is redundant in Armv8. This bit can be implemented as RES1. 0b0 This control has no effect on the operation of data cache invalidate by set/way instructions. 0b1 Data cache invalidate by set/way instructions perform a data cache clean and invalidate by set/way. '0' AU VM 0 0 0 Virtualization enable. Enables stage 2 address translation for the Non-secure EL1&0 translation regime. If the HCR.DC bit is set to 1, then the behavior of the PE when executing in a Non-secure mode other than Hyp mode is consistent with HCR.VM being 1, regardless of the actual value of HCR.VM, other than the value returned by an explicit read of HCR.VM. When the value of this bit is 1, data cache invalidate instructions executed at Non-secure EL1 perform a data cache clean and invalidate. For the invalidate by set/way instruction this behavior applies regardless of the value of the HCR.SWIO bit. This bit is permitted to be cached in a TLB. 0b0 Non-secure EL1&0 stage 2 address translation disabled. 0b1 Non-secure EL1&0 stage 2 address translation enabled. '0' AU MRC{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>} if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2().T1 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR().T1 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then R(t) = HCR(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR().NS == '0' then Undefined(); else R(t) = HCR(); end; end; MCR{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>} if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2().T1 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR().T1 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else Undefined(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then HCR() = R(t); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR().NS == '0' then Undefined(); else HCR() = R(t); end; end; 2026-03-26 20:27:25 2026-03_rel