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  <registers>
  
    <register is_register="True" is_internal="False" is_stub_entry="False">
      <reg_short_name>GICC_PMR</reg_short_name>
        
        <reg_long_name>CPU Interface Priority Mask Register</reg_long_name>



      
            <reg_condition otherwise="RES0">when FEAT_GICv3_LEGACY is implemented</reg_condition>
      

    
  <reg_address
      external_access="False"
    mem_map_access="True"
      power_domain="None"
  >
    <reg_component>GIC CPU interface</reg_component>
    <reg_offset><hexnumber>0x0004</hexnumber></reg_offset>
    <reg_instance>GICC_PMR</reg_instance>
    <reg_access>
      
        
      <reg_access_state>
          <reg_access_level>When GICD_CTLR.DS == '0'</reg_access_level>
          <reg_access_type>RW</reg_access_type>
      </reg_access_state>
        
      <reg_access_state>
          <reg_access_level>When an access is Secure</reg_access_level>
          <reg_access_type>RW</reg_access_type>
      </reg_access_state>
        
      <reg_access_state>
          <reg_access_level>When an access is Non-secure</reg_access_level>
          <reg_access_type>RW</reg_access_type>
      </reg_access_state>
    </reg_access>
</reg_address>



          <reg_reset_value></reg_reset_value>

      <reg_mappings>
        




      </reg_mappings>

        <reg_purpose>
          
    
      <purpose_text>
        <para>This register provides an interrupt priority filter. Only interrupts with a higher priority than the value in this register are signaled to the PE.</para>

      </purpose_text>
      <purpose_text>
        <note><para>Higher interrupt priority corresponds to a lower value of the Priority field.</para></note>
      </purpose_text>

        </reg_purpose>

      <reg_groups>
            <reg_group>GICC</reg_group>
      </reg_groups>
      <reg_configuration>
        
    
      <configuration_text>
        <para>This register is available in all configurations of the GIC. If the GIC implementation supports two Security states this register is Common.</para>
      </configuration_text>

      </reg_configuration>
      
      
        
      <reg_attributes>
          
    
      <attributes_text>
        <para>GICC_PMR is a 32-bit register.</para>
      </attributes_text>

      </reg_attributes>
      <reg_fieldsets>
        






<fields id="fieldset_0" length="32">
  <text_before_fields/>
  <field id="fieldset_0-31_8" has_partial_fieldset="False" is_linked_to_partial_fieldset="False" is_access_restriction_possible="False" is_variable_length="False" is_constant_value="False" is_partial_field="False" is_conditional_field_name="False" rwtype="RES0">
    <field_msb>31</field_msb>
    <field_lsb>8</field_lsb>
    <rel_range>31:8</rel_range>
    <field_description order="before"/>
    <field_description order="before">
      <para>Reserved, <arm-defined-word>RES0</arm-defined-word>.</para>
    </field_description>
  </field>
  <field id="fieldset_0-7_0" has_partial_fieldset="False" is_linked_to_partial_fieldset="False" is_access_restriction_possible="False" is_variable_length="False" is_constant_value="False" is_partial_field="False" is_conditional_field_name="False">
    <field_name>Priority</field_name>
    <field_msb>7</field_msb>
    <field_lsb>0</field_lsb>
    <rel_range>7:0</rel_range>
    <field_description order="before"><para>The priority mask level for the CPU interface. If the priority of the interrupt is higher than the value indicated by this field, the interface signals the interrupt to the PE.</para>
<para>If the GIC implementation supports fewer than 256 priority levels, some bits might be RAZ/WI as follows:</para>
<list type="unordered">
<listitem><content>For 128 supported levels, bit [0] = <binarynumber>0b0</binarynumber>.</content>
</listitem><listitem><content>For 64 supported levels, bits [1:0] = <binarynumber>0b00</binarynumber>.</content>
</listitem><listitem><content>For 32 supported levels, bits [2:0] = <binarynumber>0b000</binarynumber>.</content>
</listitem><listitem><content>For 16 supported levels, bits [3:0] = <binarynumber>0b0000</binarynumber>.</content>
</listitem></list>
<para>For more information, see <xref filename="AS_interrupt_handling_and_prioritization.fm" linkend="CJHFJEBC">'Interrupt prioritization' in ARM® Generic Interrupt Controller Architecture Specification, GIC architecture version 3.0 and version 4.0 (ARM IHI 0069)</xref>.</para></field_description>
    <field_resets>
      <field_reset reset_type="Warm">
        <field_reset_standard_text>AU</field_reset_standard_text>
      </field_reset>
    </field_resets>
  </field>
  <text_after_fields/>
</fields>




<reg_fieldset length="32">
  <fieldat id="fieldset_0-31_8" msb="31" lsb="8"/>
  <fieldat id="fieldset_0-7_0" msb="7" lsb="0"/>
</reg_fieldset>


      </reg_fieldsets>

      <access_mechanisms>
          


  
    
      <access_permission_text>
        <para>If the GIC implementation supports two Security states:</para>

      </access_permission_text>
      <access_permission_text>
        <list type="unordered">
<listitem><content>Non-secure accesses to this register can only read or write values corresponding to the lower half of the priority range.</content>
</listitem><listitem><content>If a Secure write has programmed the register with a value that corresponds to a value in the upper half of the priority range, then:<list type="unordered">
<listitem><content>Any Non-secure read of the register returns <hexnumber>0x00</hexnumber>, regardless of the value held in the register.</content>
</listitem><listitem><content>Non-secure writes are ignored.</content>
</listitem></list>
</content>
</listitem></list>

      </access_permission_text>
      <access_permission_text>
        <para>For more information, see <xref filename="AS_interrupt_handling_and_prioritization.fm" linkend="CJHFJEBC">'Interrupt prioritization' in ARM&#174; Generic Interrupt Controller Architecture Specification, GIC architecture version 3.0 and version 4.0 (ARM IHI 0069)</xref>.</para>
      </access_permission_text>





    

      </access_mechanisms>

      <arch_variants>
      </arch_variants>
  </register>
</registers>
<timestamp>2026-03-26 20:27:25</timestamp>
<commit_id>2026-03_rel</commit_id>
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