The CurrentEL characteristics are:
Holds the current Exception level.
This register is part of the Process state registers functional group.
There are no configuration notes.
CurrentEL is a 32-bit register.
The CurrentEL 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 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | EL | 0 | 0 |
Reserved, RES0.
Current Exception level. Possible values of this field are:
EL | Meaning |
---|---|
00 |
EL0 |
01 |
EL1 |
10 |
EL2 |
11 |
EL3 |
When this register has an architecturally-defined reset value, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.
Reserved, RES0.
This register can be read using MRS with the following syntax:
MRS <Xt>, <systemreg>
This syntax uses the following encoding in the System instruction encoding space:
<systemreg> | op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CurrentEL | 11 | 000 | 0100 | 0010 | 010 |
The register is accessible as follows:
Control | Accessibility | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E2H | TGE | NS | EL0 | EL1 | EL2 | EL3 |
x | x | 0 | - | RO | n/a | RO |
x | 0 | 1 | - | RO | RO | RO |
x | 1 | 1 | - | n/a | RO | RO |
This table applies to all instructions that can access this register.
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