HVBAR, Hyp Vector Base Address Register

The HVBAR characteristics are:

Purpose

Holds the vector base address for any exception that is taken to Hyp mode.

Configuration

AArch32 System register HVBAR bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register VBAR_EL2[31:0].

This register is present only when AArch32 is supported at any Exception level. Otherwise, direct accesses to HVBAR are UNDEFINED.

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

Attributes

HVBAR is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The HVBAR bit assignments are:

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
Vector Base AddressRES0

Bits [31:5]

Vector Base Address. Bits[31:5] of the base address of the exception vectors for exceptions taken to this Exception level. Bits[4:0] of an exception vector are the exception offset.

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

Bits [4:0]

Reserved, RES0.

Accessing the HVBAR

Accesses to this register use the following encodings:

MRC{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>}

coprocopc1CRnCRmopc2
0b11110b1000b11000b00000b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T12 == '1' then AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T12 == '1' then AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then return HVBAR; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR.NS == '0' then UNDEFINED; else return HVBAR;

MCR{<c>}{<q>} <coproc>, {#}<opc1>, <Rt>, <CRn>, <CRm>{, {#}<opc2>}

coprocopc1CRnCRmopc2
0b11110b1000b11000b00000b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T12 == '1' then AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x03); elsif EL2Enabled() && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T12 == '1' then AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x03); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then HVBAR = R[t]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if SCR.NS == '0' then UNDEFINED; else HVBAR = R[t];


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