HIFAR, Hyp Instruction Fault Address Register

The HIFAR characteristics are:

Purpose

Holds the virtual address of the faulting address that caused a synchronous Prefetch Abort exception that is taken to Hyp mode.

This register is part of:

Configuration

AArch32 System register HIFAR is architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register FAR_EL2[63:32] .

AArch32 System register HIFAR is architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register IFAR (S) when EL2 is implemented.

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

RW fields in this register reset to architecturally UNKNOWN values.

Attributes

HIFAR is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The HIFAR bit assignments are:

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
VA of faulting address of synchronous Prefetch Abort exception taken to Hyp mode

Bits [31:0]

VA of faulting address of synchronous Prefetch Abort exception taken to Hyp mode.

On a Data Abort exception, this register is UNKNOWN.

Any execution in a Non-secure EL1 or Non-secure EL0 mode makes this register UNKNOWN.

Accessing the HIFAR

This register can be read using MRC with the following syntax:

MRC <syntax>

This register can be written using MCR with the following syntax:

MCR <syntax>

This syntax uses the following encoding in the System instruction encoding space:

<syntax> opc1opc2CRncoprocCRm
p15, 4, <Rt>, c6, c0, 2100010011011110000

Accessibility

The register is accessible as follows:

Control Accessibility
E2HTGENSEL0EL1EL2EL3
xx0 - - n/a -
x01 - - RWRW
x11 - n/a RWRW

This table applies to all instructions that can access this register.

Traps and enables

For a description of the prioritization of any generated exceptions, see section G1.11.2 (Exception priority order) in the ARM® Architecture Reference Manual, ARMv8, for ARMv8-A architecture profile for exceptions taken to AArch32 state, and section D1.13.2 (Synchronous exception prioritization) for exceptions taken to AArch64 state. Subject to the prioritization rules, the following traps and enables are applicable when accessing this register.

When EL2 is implemented and is using AArch64 and SCR_EL3.NS==1 && HCR_EL2.E2H==0 :

When EL2 is implemented and is using AArch64 and SCR_EL3.NS==1 && HCR_EL2.E2H==1 && HCR_EL2.TGE==0 :

When EL2 is implemented and is using AArch32 and SCR_EL3.NS==1 :




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