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OSLAR_EL1

OS Lock Access Register

Used to lock or unlock the OS Lock.

Configuration

AArch64 System register OSLAR_EL1 bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to External register OSLAR_EL1[31:0].

This register is present only when FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to OSLAR_EL1 are UNDEFINED.

The OS Lock can also be locked or unlocked using DBGOSLAR.

Attributes

OSLAR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
RES0
RES0OSLK

Bits [63:1]:

Reserved, RES0.

OSLK, bit [0]:

On writes to OSLAR_EL1, bit[0] is copied to the OS Lock.

Use OSLSR_EL1.OSLK to check the current status of the lock.

Access Instructions

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

MSR OSLAR_EL1, <Xt>

(op0 = 0b10, op1 = 0b000, CRn = 0b0001, CRm = 0b0000, op2 = 0b100)

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64) then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !(EffectivelyAtEL0InHost() || EffectivelyAtEL0NotInHost() || PSTATE.EL == EL3) && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().TDOSA == '1' then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HDFGWTR_EL2().OSLAR_EL1 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2().[TDE,TDOSA] != '00' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().TDOSA == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else OSLAR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().TDOSA == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else OSLAR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then OSLAR_EL1() = X{64}(t); end;


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