GICV_ABPR: Virtual Machine Aliased Binary Point Register

Purpose

Defines the point at which the priority value fields split into two parts, the group priority field and the subpriority field. The group priority field determines Group 1 interrupt preemption.

This register corresponds to GICC_ABPR in the physical CPU interface.

Note

GICH_LR<n>.Group determines whether a virtual interrupt is Group 0 or Group 1.

Configuration

This register is present only when FEAT_GICv3_LEGACY is implemented and EL2 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to GICV_ABPR are RES0.

This register is available when the GIC implementation supports interrupt virtualization.

Attributes

GICV_ABPR is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
RES0																													Binary_Point

Bits [31:3]

Reserved, RES0.

Binary_Point, bits [2:0]

Controls how the 8-bit interrupt priority field is split into a group priority field, that determines interrupt preemption, and a subpriority field.

For information about how this field determines the interrupt priority bits assigned to the group priority field, see 'Priority grouping' in ARM® Generic Interrupt Controller Architecture Specification, GIC architecture version 3.0 and version 4.0 (ARM IHI 0069).

The reset behavior of this field is:

On a Warm reset, this field resets to '000'.

Additional information

The Binary_Point field of this register is aliased to GICH_VMCR.VBPR1.

Accessing GICV_ABPR

This register is used only when System register access is not enabled. When System register access is enabled:

For AArch32 implementations, ICC_BPR1 provides equivalent functionality.
For AArch64 implementations, ICC_BPR1_EL1 provides equivalent functionality.

The value contained in this register is one greater than the actual applied binary point value, as described in 'Priority grouping' in ARM® Generic Interrupt Controller Architecture Specification, GIC architecture version 3.0 and version 4.0 (ARM IHI 0069).

This register is used for Group 1 interrupts when GICV_CTLR.CBPR == 0. GICV_BPR provides equivalent functionality for Group 0 interrupts, and for Group 1 interrupts when GICV_CTLR.CBPR == 1.

GICV_ABPR can be accessed through the memory-mapped interfaces:

Component	Offset	Instance
GIC Virtual CPU interface	0x001C	GICV_ABPR

Accessible as follows:

When GICD_CTLR.DS == 0, accesses to this register are RW.
When an access is Secure, accesses to this register are RW.
When an access is Non-secure, accesses to this register are RW.