Virtualization Translation Control Register
The control register for stage 2 of the Non-secure PL1&0 translation regime.
This stage of translation always uses the Long-descriptor translation table format.
AArch32 System register VTCR bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register VTCR_EL2[31:0].
This register is present only when FEAT_AA32EL2 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to VTCR are UNDEFINED.
If EL2 is not implemented, this register is RES0 from EL3.
VTCR 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 |
| RES1 | RES0 | HWU62 | HWU61 | HWU60 | HWU59 | RES0 | SH0 | ORGN0 | IRGN0 | SL0 | RES0 | S | T0SZ | ||||||||||||||||||
Reserved, RES1.
Reserved, RES0.
Hardware Use. Indicates IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED hardware use of bit[62] of the stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry.
| HWU62 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Bit[62] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry cannot be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
| 0b1 |
Bit[62] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry can be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Reserved, RES0.
Hardware Use. Indicates IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED hardware use of bit[61] of the stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry.
| HWU61 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Bit[61] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry cannot be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
| 0b1 |
Bit[61] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry can be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Reserved, RES0.
Hardware Use. Indicates IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED hardware use of bit[60] of the stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry.
| HWU60 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Bit[60] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry cannot be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
| 0b1 |
Bit[60] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry can be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Reserved, RES0.
Hardware Use. Indicates IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED hardware use of bit[59] of the stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry.
| HWU59 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b0 |
Bit[59] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry cannot be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
| 0b1 |
Bit[59] of each stage 2 translation table Block or Page entry can be used by hardware for an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED purpose. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Reserved, RES0.
Reserved, RES0.
Shareability attribute for memory associated with translation table walks using VTTBR.
| SH0 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b00 |
Non-shareable. |
| 0b10 |
Outer Shareable. |
| 0b11 |
Inner Shareable. |
Other values are reserved. The effect of programming this field to a Reserved value is that behavior is CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE.
The reset behavior of this field is:
Outer cacheability attribute for memory associated with translation table walks using VTTBR.
| ORGN0 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b00 |
Normal memory, Outer Non-cacheable. |
| 0b01 |
Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Read-Allocate Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
| 0b10 |
Normal memory, Outer Write-Through Read-Allocate No Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
| 0b11 |
Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Read-Allocate No Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Inner cacheability attribute for memory associated with translation table walks using VTTBR.
| IRGN0 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b00 |
Normal memory, Inner Non-cacheable. |
| 0b01 |
Normal memory, Inner Write-Back Read-Allocate Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
| 0b10 |
Normal memory, Inner Write-Through Read-Allocate No Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
| 0b11 |
Normal memory, Inner Write-Back Read-Allocate No Write-Allocate Cacheable. |
The reset behavior of this field is:
Starting level for translation table walks using VTTBR.
| SL0 | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0b00 |
Start at level 2 |
| 0b01 |
Start at level 1 |
All other values are reserved. If this field is programmed to a reserved value, or to a value that is not consistent with the programming of T0SZ, then a stage 2 level 1 Translation fault is generated.
The reset behavior of this field is:
Reserved, RES0.
Sign extension bit. This bit must be programmed to the value of T0SZ[3]. If it is not, then the stage 2 T0SZ value is treated as an UNKNOWN value
The reset behavior of this field is:
The size offset of the memory region addressed by VTTBR. The region size is 2(32-T0SZ) bytes.
This field holds a four-bit signed integer value, meaning it supports values from -8 to 7.
This is different from the other translation control registers, where TnSZ holds a three-bit unsigned integer, supporting values from 0 to 7.
If this field is programmed to a value that is not consistent with the programming of SL0 then a stage 2 level 1 Translation fault is generated.
The reset behavior of this field is:
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 = 0b100, CRn = 0b0010, CRm = 0b0001, opc2 = 0b010)
if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T2 == '1' then AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T2 == '1' then AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then R[t] = VTCR; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR.NS == '0' then UNDEFINED; else R[t] = VTCR;
MCR{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>}
(coproc = 0b1111, opc1 = 0b100, CRn = 0b0010, CRm = 0b0001, opc2 = 0b010)
if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64EL2) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T2 == '1' then AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA32EL2) && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T2 == '1' then AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then VTCR = R[t]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR.NS == '0' then UNDEFINED; else VTCR = R[t];
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