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# ICC_PMR_EL1, Interrupt Controller Interrupt Priority Mask Register

The ICC_PMR_EL1 characteristics are:

## Purpose

Provides an interrupt priority filter. Only interrupts with a higher priority than the value in this register are signaled to the PE.

Writes to this register must be high performance and must ensure that no interrupt of lower priority than the written value occurs after the write, without requiring an ISB or an exception boundary.

## Configuration

AArch64 System register ICC_PMR_EL1 bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register ICC_PMR[31:0] .

To allow software to ensure appropriate observability of actions initiated by GIC register accesses, the PE and CPU interface logic must ensure that writes to this register are self-synchronising. This ensures that no interrupts below the written PMR value will be taken after a write to this register is architecturally executed. See Observability of the effects of accesses to the GIC registers, for more information.

Some or all RW fields of this register have defined reset values. These apply only if the PE resets into an Exception level that is using AArch64. Otherwise, RW fields in this register reset to architecturally UNKNOWN values.

## Attributes

ICC_PMR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

## Field descriptions

The ICC_PMR_EL1 bit assignments are:

63 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32
RES0
RES0 | Priority
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

#### Bits [63:8]

Reserved, RES0.

#### Priority, bits [7:0]

The priority mask level for the CPU interface. If the priority of an interrupt is higher than the value indicated by this field, the interface signals the interrupt to the PE.

The possible priority field values are as follows:

Implemented priority bits | Possible priority field values | Number of priority levels
--- | --- | ---
[7:0] | 0x00-0xFF (0-255), all values | 256
[7:1] | 0x00-0xFE (0-254), even values only | 128
[7:2] | 0x00-0xFC (0-252), in steps of 4 | 64
[7:3] | 0x00-0xF8 (0-248), in steps of 8 | 32
[7:4] | 0x00-0xF0 (0-240), in steps of 16 | 16

Unimplemented priority bits are RAZ/WI.

This field resets to 0.

## Accessing the ICC_PMR_EL1

Accesses to this register use the following encodings:

#### MRS <Xt>, ICC_PMR_EL1

op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
0b11 | 0b000 | 0b0100 | 0b0110 | 0b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL1, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && ICH_HCR_EL2.TC == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.FMO == '1' then return ICV_PMR_EL1; elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.IMO == '1' then return ICV_PMR_EL1; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.<IRQ,FIQ> == '11' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else return ICC_PMR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.<IRQ,FIQ> == '11' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else return ICC_PMR_EL1; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else return ICC_PMR_EL1;

#### MSR ICC_PMR_EL1, <Xt>

op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
0b11 | 0b000 | 0b0100 | 0b0110 | 0b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL1, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && ICH_HCR_EL2.TC == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.FMO == '1' then ICV_PMR_EL1 = X[t]; elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.IMO == '1' then ICV_PMR_EL1 = X[t]; elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.<IRQ,FIQ> == '11' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else ICC_PMR_EL1 = X[t]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then if ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.<IRQ,FIQ> == '11' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else ICC_PMR_EL1 = X[t]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then if ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE == '0' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18); else ICC_PMR_EL1 = X[t];

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