CurrentEL

Current Exception Level

Holds the current Exception level.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to CurrentEL are UNDEFINED.

This register is a Special-purpose register.

Attributes

CurrentEL is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

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RES0
RES0																												EL		RES0

Bits [63:4]:

Reserved, RES0.

EL, bits [3:2]:

Current Exception level.

EL	Meaning
0b00	EL0.
0b01	EL1.
0b10	EL2.
0b11	EL3.

When the Effective value of HCR_EL2.NV is 1, EL1 read accesses to the CurrentEL register return the value of 0b10 in this field.

The reset behavior of this field is:

On a Warm reset:
- When the highest implemented Exception level is EL1, this field resets to '01'.
- When the highest implemented Exception level is EL2, this field resets to '10'.
- Otherwise, this field resets to '11'.

Bits [1:0]:

Reserved, RES0.

Access Instructions

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

MRS <Xt>, CurrentEL

(op0 = 0b11, op1 = 0b000, CRn = 0b0100, CRm = 0b0010, op2 = 0b010)

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EffectiveHCR_EL2_NVx() IN {'xx1'} then X{64}(t) = Zeros{60} :: '10' :: Zeros{2}; else X{64}(t) = Zeros{60} :: PSTATE.EL :: Zeros{2}; end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{60} :: PSTATE.EL :: Zeros{2}; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = Zeros{60} :: PSTATE.EL :: Zeros{2}; end;

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