Provides information to software as to whether the buffer can be programmed at the current Exception level.
This register is present only when FEAT_SPE is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to PMBIDR_EL1 are UNDEFINED.
PMBIDR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.
| 63 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
| 31 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| RES0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RES0 | EA | RES0 | F | P | Align | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reserved, RES0.
External Abort handling. Describes how the PE manages External aborts on writes made by the Statistical Profiling Unit to the Profiling Buffer.
The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:
| EA | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0000 |
Not described. |
| 0b0001 |
The PE ignores External aborts on writes made by the Statistical Profiling Unit. |
| 0b0010 |
The External abort generates an SError exception at the PE. |
All other values are reserved.
From Armv8.8, the value 0b0000 is not permitted.
PMBIDR_EL1.EA describes only External aborts generated by the write to memory. External aborts on a translation table walk made by the Statistical Profiling Unit generate Profiling Buffer management events reported as MMU faults using PMBSR_EL1.
Access to this field is RO.
Reserved, RES0.
Flag updates. Describes how address translations performed by the Statistical Profiling Unit manage the Access flag and dirty state.
The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:
| F | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Hardware management of the Access flag and dirty state for accesses made by the Statistical Profiling Unit is always disabled for all translation stages. |
| 0b1 |
Hardware management of the Access flag and dirty state for accesses made by the Statistical Profiling Unit is controlled in the same way as explicit memory accesses in the Profiling Buffer owning translation regime. |
If hardware management of the Access flag is disabled for a stage of translation, an access to a Page or Block with the Access flag bit not set in the descriptor will generate an Access Flag fault.
If hardware management of the dirty state is disabled for a stage of translation, an access to a Page or Block will ignore the Dirty Bit Modifier in the descriptor and might generate a Permission fault, depending on the values of the access permission bits in the descriptor.
From Armv8.8, the value 0 is not permitted.
Access to this field is RO.
Programming not allowed. When read at EL3, this field reads as zero. Otherwise, indicates that the Profiling Buffer is owned by a higher Exception level or another Security state. Defined values are:
| P | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Programming is allowed. |
| 0b1 |
Programming not allowed. |
The value read from this field depends on the current Exception level and the Effective values of MDCR_EL3.NSPB, MDCR_EL3.NSPBE, and MDCR_EL2.E2PB:
Otherwise, this field reads as zero.
Defines the minimum alignment constraint for writes to PMBPTR_EL1.
The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:
| Align | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0000 |
Byte. |
| 0b0001 |
Halfword. |
| 0b0010 |
Word. |
| 0b0011 |
Doubleword. |
| 0b0100 |
16 bytes. |
| 0b0101 |
32 bytes. |
| 0b0110 |
64 bytes. |
| 0b0111 |
128 bytes. |
| 0b1000 |
256 bytes. |
| 0b1001 |
512 bytes. |
| 0b1010 |
1KB. |
| 0b1011 |
2KB. |
All other values are reserved.
For more information, see 'Restrictions on the current write pointer'.
If this field is nonzero, then every record is a multiple of this size.
Access to this field is RO.
Accesses to this register use the following encodings in the System register encoding space:
MRS <Xt>, PMBIDR_EL1
| op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0b11 | 0b000 | 0b1001 | 0b1010 | 0b111 |
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3.FGTEn == '1') && HDFGRTR_EL2.PMBIDR_EL1 == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else X[t, 64] = PMBIDR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then X[t, 64] = PMBIDR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = PMBIDR_EL1;