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POR_EL1: Permission Overlay Register 1 (EL1)

Purpose

Stage 1 Permission Overlay Register for privileged access of the EL1&0 translation regime.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_S1POE is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to POR_EL1 are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

POR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
Perm15Perm14Perm13Perm12Perm11Perm10Perm9Perm8
Perm7Perm6Perm5Perm4Perm3Perm2Perm1Perm0

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

Perm Represents stage 1 Overlay Permissions.

Perm<m>Meaning
0b0000

No access.

0b0001

Read.

0b0010

Execute.

0b0011

Read, Execute.

0b0100

Write.

0b0101

Write, Read.

0b0110

Write, Execute.

0b0111

Read, Write, Execute.

0b1xxx

Reserved - treated as No access

When VMSAv9-128 is not in use, fields Perm[8] to Perm[15] are RES0.

This field is not permitted to be cached in a TLB.

When the stage 1 Overlay mechanism is disabled, this field is IGNORED.

The reset behavior of this field is:

Accessing POR_EL1

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

MRS <Xt>, POR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00100b100

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.nPOR_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[0x2A8]; else X[t, 64] = POR_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] = POR_EL2; else X[t, 64] = POR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = POR_EL1;

MSR POR_EL1, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10100b00100b100

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.nPOR_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[0x2A8] = X[t, 64]; else POR_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 POR_EL2 = X[t, 64]; else POR_EL1 = X[t, 64]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then POR_EL1 = X[t, 64];

MRS <Xt>, POR_EL12

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1010b10100b00100b100

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '101' then X[t, 64] = NVMem[0x2A8]; elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(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] = POR_EL1; else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then X[t, 64] = POR_EL1; else UNDEFINED;

MSR POR_EL12, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1010b10100b00100b100

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() == '101' then NVMem[0x2A8] = X[t, 64]; elsif EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ELIsInHost(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 POR_EL1 = X[t, 64]; else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ELIsInHost(EL2) then POR_EL1 = X[t, 64]; else UNDEFINED;