The SP_EL1 characteristics are:
Holds the stack pointer associated with EL1. When executing at EL1, the value of SPSel.SP determines the current stack pointer:
SPSel.SP | current stack pointer |
---|---|
0 | SP_EL0 |
1 | SP_EL1 |
This register is part of the Special-purpose registers functional group.
There are no configuration notes.
SP_EL1 is a 64-bit register.
The SP_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 |
Stack pointer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stack pointer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
Stack pointer.
This register can be read using MRS with the following syntax:
MRS <Xt>, <systemreg>
This register can be written using MSR (register) with the following syntax:
MSR <systemreg>, <Xt>
This syntax uses the following encoding in the System instruction encoding space:
<systemreg> | op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SP_EL1 | 11 | 100 | 0100 | 0001 | 000 |
The register is accessible as follows:
Control | Accessibility | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E2H | TGE | NS | EL0 | EL1 | EL2 | EL3 |
x | x | 0 | - | - | n/a | RW |
x | 0 | 1 | - | - | RW | RW |
x | 1 | 1 | - | n/a | RW | RW |
This table applies to all instructions that can access this register.
This accessibility information only applies to accesses using the MRS or MSR instructions.
When the value of SPSel.SP is 1, this register is also accessible at EL1 as the current stack pointer.
When the value of SPSel.SP is 0, SP_EL0 is used as the current stack pointer at all Exception levels.
For a description of the prioritization of any generated exceptions, see section D1.13.2 (Synchronous exception prioritization) in the ARM® Architecture Reference Manual, ARMv8, for ARMv8-A architecture profile. 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 :
If HCR_EL2.NV==1, Non-secure accesses to this register from EL1 are trapped to EL2.
When EL2 is implemented and is using AArch64 and SCR_EL3.NS==1 && HCR_EL2.E2H==1 && HCR_EL2.TGE==0 :
If HCR_EL2.NV==1, Non-secure accesses to this register from EL1 are trapped to EL2.
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