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PIR_EL2: Permission Indirection Register 2 (EL2)

Purpose

Stage 1 Permission Indirection Register for privileged access of the EL2 or EL2&0 translation regime.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_S1PIE is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to PIR_EL2 are UNDEFINED.

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

Attributes

PIR_EL2 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
Perm15Perm14Perm13Perm12Perm11Perm10Perm9Perm8
Perm7Perm6Perm5Perm4Perm3Perm2Perm1Perm0

Perm<m>, bits [4m+3:4m], for m = 15 to 0

Represents stage 1 Base Permissions.

Perm<m>Meaning
0b0000

No access, Overlay applied.

0b0001

Read, Overlay applied.

0b0010

Execute, Overlay applied.

0b0011

Read and Execute, Overlay applied.

0b0100

Reserved - treated as No access, Overlay applied.

0b0101

Read and Write, Overlay applied.

0b0110

Read, Write and Execute, Overlay applied.

0b0111

Read, Write and Execute, Overlay applied.

0b1000

Read, Overlay not applied.

0b1001

Read, GCS Read and GCS Write, Overlay not applied.

0b1010

Read and Execute, Overlay not applied.

0b1011

Reserved - treated as No access, Overlay not applied.

0b1100

Read and Write, Overlay not applied.

0b1101

Reserved - treated as No access, Overlay not applied.

0b1110

Read, Write and Execute, Overlay not applied.

0b1111

Reserved - treated as No access, Overlay not applied.

This field is permitted to be cached in a TLB.

When stage 1 Indirect Permission mechanism is disabled, this register is ignored.

The reset behavior of this field is:

Accessing PIR_EL2

When the Effective value of HCR_EL2.E2H is 1, without explicit synchronization, accesses from EL2 using the register name PIR_EL2 or PIR_EL1 are not guaranteed to be ordered with respect to accesses using the other register name.

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

MRS <Xt>, PIR_EL2

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b10100b00100b011

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else X[t, 64] = PIR_EL2; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = PIR_EL2;

MSR PIR_EL2, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b10100b00100b011

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else PIR_EL2 = X[t, 64]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then PIR_EL2 = X[t, 64];

MRS <Xt>, PIR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00100b011

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.TRVM == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3.FGTEn == '1') && HFGRTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '111' then X[t, 64] = NVMem[0x2A0]; else X[t, 64] = PIR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); elsif ELIsInHost(EL2) then X[t, 64] = PIR_EL2; else X[t, 64] = PIR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = PIR_EL1;

MSR PIR_EL1, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00100b011

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.TVM == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3.FGTEn == '1') && HFGWTR_EL2.nPIR_EL1 == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '111' then NVMem[0x2A0] = X[t, 64]; else PIR_EL1 = X[t, 64]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then UNDEFINED; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.PIEn == '0' then if EL3SDDUndef() then UNDEFINED; else AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); elsif ELIsInHost(EL2) then PIR_EL2 = X[t, 64]; else PIR_EL1 = X[t, 64]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then PIR_EL1 = X[t, 64];