CNTHCTL, Counter-timer Hyp Control register

The CNTHCTL characteristics are:

Purpose

Controls the generation of an event stream from the physical counter, and access from Non-secure EL1 modes to the physical counter and the Non-secure EL1 physical timer.

Configuration

AArch32 System register CNTHCTL bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register CNTHCTL_EL2[31:0] .

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

RW fields in this register reset to architecturally UNKNOWN values.

Attributes

CNTHCTL is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The CNTHCTL bit assignments are:

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000000000000000000000000EVNTIEVNTDIREVNTENPL1PCENPL1PCTEN

Bits [31:8]

Reserved, RES0.

EVNTI, bits [7:4]

Selects which bit (0 to 15) of the counter register CNTPCT is the trigger for the event stream generated from that counter, when that stream is enabled.

This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

EVNTDIR, bit [3]

Controls which transition of the counter register CNTPCT trigger bit, defined by EVNTI, generates an event when the event stream is enabled:

EVNTDIRMeaning
0b0

A 0 to 1 transition of the trigger bit triggers an event.

0b1

A 1 to 0 transition of the trigger bit triggers an event.

This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

EVNTEN, bit [2]

Enables the generation of an event stream from the counter register CNTPCT:

EVNTENMeaning
0b0

Disables the event stream.

0b1

Enables the event stream.

This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

PL1PCEN, bit [1]

Traps Non-secure EL0 and EL1 accesses to the physical timer registers to Hyp mode.

PL1PCENMeaning
0b0

Non-secure EL0 and EL1 accesses to the CNTP_CTL, CNTP_CVAL, and CNTP_TVAL are trapped to Hyp mode, unless the it is trapped by CNTKCTL.PL0PTEN.

0b1

This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped.

If EL3 is implemented and EL2 is not implemented, behavior is as if this bit is 1 other than for the purpose of a direct read.

This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

PL1PCTEN, bit [0]

Traps Non-secure EL0 and EL1 accesses to the physical counter register to Hyp mode.

PL1PCTENMeaning
0b0

Non-secure EL0 and EL1 accesses to the CNTPCT are trapped to Hyp mode, unless it is trapped by CNTKCTL.PL0PCTEN.

0b1

This control does not cause any instructions to be trapped.

If EL3 is implemented and EL2 is not implemented, behavior is as if this bit is 1 other than for the purpose of a direct read.

This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

Accessing the CNTHCTL

Accesses to this register use the following encodings:

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

opc1opc2CRncoprocCRm
0b1000b0000b11100b11110b0001

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then return CNTHCTL; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then return CNTHCTL;

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

opc1opc2CRncoprocCRm
0b1000b0000b11100b11110b0001

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then CNTHCTL = R[t]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then CNTHCTL = R[t];




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