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PMSWINC_EL0

Performance Monitors Software Increment Register

Increments a counter that is configured to count the Software increment event, event 0x00. For more information, see 'SW_INCR'.

Configuration

AArch64 System register PMSWINC_EL0 bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register PMSWINC[31:0].

AArch64 System register PMSWINC_EL0 bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to External register PMSWINC_EL0[31:0] when FEAT_PMUv3_EXT32 is implemented and FEAT_PMUv3p9 is not implemented.

This register is present only when FEAT_PMUv3 is implemented and FEAT_AA64 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to PMSWINC_EL0 are UNDEFINED.

Attributes

PMSWINC_EL0 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
RES0
RES0P30P29P28P27P26P25P24P23P22P21P20P19P18P17P16P15P14P13P12P11P10P9P8P7P6P5P4P3P2P1P0

Bits [63:31]:

Reserved, RES0.

P<m>, bit [m], for m = 30 to 0:

Software increment.

P<m>Meaning
0b0

Write is ignored.

0b1

Increment PMEVCNTR<m>_EL0, if PMEVCNTR<m>_EL0 is configured to count software increment events.

Accessing this field has the following behavior:

Access Instructions

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

MSR PMSWINC_EL0, <Xt>

(op0 = 0b11, op1 = 0b011, CRn = 0b1001, CRm = 0b1100, op2 = 0b100)

if !(IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_PMUv3) && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AA64)) then Undefined(); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && PSTATE.EL != EL3 && EL3SDDUndefPriority() && MDCR_EL3().TPM == '1' then Undefined(); elsif PSTATE.EL == EL0 then if (IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_PMUv3p9) && PMUSERENR_EL0().[UEN,SW,EN] == '000') || (!IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_PMUv3p9) && PMUSERENR_EL0().[SW,EN] == '00') then AArch64_SystemAccessTraptoEL1orEL2(0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && EffectivelyAtEL0NotInHost() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HDFGWTR_EL2().PMSWINC_EL0 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2().TPM == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().TPM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else PMSWINC_EL0() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_FGT) && (!HaveEL(EL3) || SCR_EL3().FGTEn == '1') && HDFGWTR_EL2().PMSWINC_EL0 == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && MDCR_EL2().TPM == '1' then AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().TPM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else PMSWINC_EL0() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if HaveEL(EL3) && MDCR_EL3().TPM == '1' then if EL3SDDUndef() then Undefined(); else AArch64_SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); end; else PMSWINC_EL0() = X{64}(t); end; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then PMSWINC_EL0() = X{64}(t); end;


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