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MECIDR_EL2

MEC Identification Register

MEC identification register.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_MEC is implemented and FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to MECIDR_EL2 are UNDEFINED.

If EL2 is not implemented, this register is RES0 from EL3.

Attributes

MECIDR_EL2 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

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RES0
RES0MECIDWidthm1

Bits [63:4]:

Reserved, RES0.

MECIDWidthm1, bits [3:0]:

MECID width minus 1.

The value of this field plus 1 is the MECID width in bits, that this PE supports.

For example, the value 0b1111 indicates that this PE supports a MECID width of 16 bits, and provides 216 possible MECID values.

MECIDWidth is defined as MECIDR_EL2.MECIDWidthm1 + 1.

This field has an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED value.

Access to this field is RO.

Access Instructions

For accesses from EL2 and EL3, this register is RO.

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

MRS <Xt>, MECIDR_EL2

(op0 = 0b11, op1 = 0b100, CRn = 0b1010, CRm = 0b1000, op2 = 0b111)

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_MEC) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then X[t, 64] = MECIDR_EL2; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = MECIDR_EL2;


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