The PMLSR characteristics are:
Indicates the current status of the software lock for Performance Monitors registers.
The optional Software Lock provides a lock to prevent memory-mapped writes to the Performance Monitors registers. Use of this lock mechanism reduces the risk of accidental damage to the contents of the Performance Monitors registers. It does not, and cannot, prevent all accidental or malicious damage.
If FEAT_DoPD is implemented, Software Lock is not implemented by the architecturally-defined debug components of the PE in the Core power domain.
If FEAT_DoPD is not implemented, this register is in the Debug power domain.
Software uses PMLAR to set or clear the lock, and PMLSR to check the current status of the lock.
PMLSR is a 32-bit register.
The PMLSR bit assignments are:
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 | nTT | SLK | SLI |
Reserved, RES0.
Not thirty-two bit access required. RAZ.
Software Lock status for this component. For an access to LSR that is not a memory-mapped access, or when Software Lock is not implemented, this field is RES0.
For memory-mapped accesses when Software Lock is implemented, possible values of this field are:
SLK | Meaning |
---|---|
0b0 |
Lock clear. Writes are permitted to this component's registers. |
0b1 |
Lock set. Writes to this component's registers are ignored, and reads have no side effects. |
On a Cold reset, the value of this field is unchanged.
On an External debug reset, this field resets to 1.
On a Warm reset, the value of this field is unchanged.
Reserved, RAZ.
Software Lock implemented. For an access to LSR that is not a memory-mapped access, this field is RAZ. For memory-mapped accesses, the value of this field is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED. Permitted values are:
SLI | Meaning |
---|---|
0b0 |
Software Lock not implemented or not memory-mapped access. |
0b1 |
Software Lock implemented and memory-mapped access. |
Component | Offset | Instance |
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PMU | 0xFB4 | PMLSR |
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