GCSPR_EL3

Guarded Control Stack Pointer Register (EL3)

Contains the Guarded Control Stack Pointer at EL3.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_GCS is implemented and EL3 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to GCSPR_EL3 are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

GCSPR_EL3 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

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PTR[63:3]
PTR[63:3]																													RES0

PTR[63:3], bits [63:3]:

EL3 Guarded Control Stack Pointer bits [63:3].

The reset behavior of this field is:

On a Warm reset, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

Bits [2:0]:

Reserved, RES0.

Access Instructions

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

MRS <Xt>, GCSPR_EL3

(op0 = 0b11, op1 = 0b110, CRn = 0b0010, CRm = 0b0101, op2 = 0b001)

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_GCS) && HaveEL(EL3)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X{64}(t) = GCSPR_EL3(); end;

MSR GCSPR_EL3, <Xt>

(op0 = 0b11, op1 = 0b110, CRn = 0b0010, CRm = 0b0101, op2 = 0b001)

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_GCS) && HaveEL(EL3)) then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGWTE3) && FGWTE3_EL3().GCSPR_EL3 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else GCSPR_EL3() = X{64}(t); end; end;

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