Activity Monitors Configuration Register
Global configuration register for the activity monitors.
Provides information on supported features, the number of counter groups implemented, the total number of activity monitor event counters implemented, and the size of the counters. AMCFGR is applicable to both the architected and the auxiliary counter groups.
AArch32 System register AMCFGR bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register AMCFGR_EL0[31:0].
AArch32 System register AMCFGR bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to External register AMCFGR[31:0].
This register is present only when FEAT_AMUv1 is implemented and FEAT_AA32 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to AMCFGR are UNDEFINED.
AMCFGR is a 32-bit register.
| 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 |
| NCG | RES0 | HDBG | RAZ | SIZE | N | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Defines the number of counter groups implemented, minus one.
The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:
| NCG | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0000 |
One counter group implemented. |
| 0b0001 |
Two counter groups implemented. |
All other values are reserved.
Access to this field is RO.
Reserved, RES0.
Halt-on-debug supported.
This feature must be supported, and so this bit is 1.
The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:
| HDBG | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
AMCR.HDBG is RES0. |
| 0b1 |
AMCR.HDBG is read/write. |
Access to this field is RO.
Reserved, RAZ.
Defines the size of the activity monitor event counters, minus one.
The counters are 64-bit, so the value of this field is 0b111111.
This field is used by software to determine the spacing of the counters in the memory-map. The counters are at doubleword-aligned addresses.
Reads as 0b111111.
Access to this field is RO.
Defines the number of activity monitor event counters implemented in all groups. One less than the sum of AMCGCR.CG1NC and AMCGCR.CG0NC.
This field has an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED value.
Access to this field is RO.
Accesses to this register use the following encodings in the System register encoding space:
MRC{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>}
(coproc = 0b1111, opc1 = 0b000, CRn = 0b1101, CRm = 0b0010, opc2 = 0b001)
if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AMUv1) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32)) then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && PSTATE.EL != EL3 && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && CPTR_EL3().TAM == '1' then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then if IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL1) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL1) && AMUSERENR_EL0().EN == '0' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTraptoEL1orEL2(0x03); elsif IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL1) && ELUsingAArch32(EL1) && AMUSERENR().EN == '0' then if EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && HCR_EL2().TGE == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && HCR().TGE == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x00); else Undefined(); end; elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && EffectivelyAtEL0NotInHost() && HSTR_EL2().T13 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && HSTR().T13 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && CPTR_EL2().TAM == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2)) && HCPTR().TAM == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && CPTR_EL3().TAM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x03); end; else R(t) = AMCFGR(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2().T13 == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR().T13 == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && CPTR_EL2().TAM == '1' then AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCPTR().TAM == '1' then AArch32_TakeHypTrapException(0x03); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && CPTR_EL3().TAM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x03); end; else R(t) = AMCFGR(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && CPTR_EL3().TAM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x03); end; else R(t) = AMCFGR(); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then R(t) = AMCFGR(); end;
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