VTTBR_EL2, Virtualization Translation Table Base Register

The VTTBR_EL2 characteristics are:

Purpose

Holds the base address of the translation table for the initial lookup for stage 2 of an address translation in the EL1&0 translation regime, and other information for this translation regime.

Configuration

AArch64 System register VTTBR_EL2 bits [63:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch32 System register VTTBR[63:0].

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

This register has no effect if EL2 is not enabled in the current Security state.

Attributes

VTTBR_EL2 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
VMIDBADDR
BADDRCnP

VMID, bits [63:48]

VMID encoding when FEAT_VMID16 is implemented and VTCR_EL2.VS == 1

1514131211109876543210
VMID

VMID, bits [15:0]

The VMID for the translation table.

If the implementation has an 8-bit VMID, bits [15:8] of this field are RES0.

The reset behavior of this field is:

  • On a Warm reset, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

VMID encoding when FEAT_VMID16 is not implemented or VTCR_EL2.VS == 0

1514131211109876543210
RES0VMID

Bits [15:8]

Reserved, RES0.

VMID, bits [7:0]

The VMID for the translation table.

The VMID is 8 bits when any of the following are true:

  • EL2 is using AArch32.
  • VTCR_EL2.VS is 0.
  • FEAT_VMID16 is not implemented.

The reset behavior of this field is:

  • On a Warm reset, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

BADDR, bits [47:1]

Translation table base address, A[47:x] or A[51:x], bits[47:1].

Note

A translation table must be aligned to the size of the table, except that when using a translation table base address larger than 48 bits the minimum alignment of a table containing fewer than eight entries is 64 bytes.

In an implementation that includes FEAT_LPA, if the value of VTCR_EL2.PS is 0b110, then:

Note

When the value of ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.PARange indicates that the implementation does not support a 52 bit PA size, if a translation table lookup uses this register when the Effective value of VTCR_EL2.PS is 0b110 and the value of register bits[5:2] is nonzero, an Address size fault is generated.

If the Effective value of VTCR_EL2.PS is not 0b110 then:

If any VTTBR_EL2[47:0] bit that is defined as RES0 has the value 1 when a translation table walk is performed using VTTBR_EL2, then the translation table base address might be misaligned, with effects that are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE, and must be one of the following:

The AArch64 Virtual Memory System Architecture chapter describes how x is calculated based on the value of VTCR_EL2.T0SZ, the stage of translation, and the translation granule size.

The reset behavior of this field is:

CnP, bit [0]
When FEAT_TTCNP is implemented:

Common not Private. This bit indicates whether each entry that is pointed to by VTTBR_EL2 is a member of a common set that can be used by every PE in the Inner Shareable domain for which the value of VTTBR_EL2.CnP is 1.

CnPMeaning
0b0

The translation table entries pointed to by VTTBR_EL2 are permitted to differ from the entries for VTTBR_EL2 for other PEs in the Inner Shareable domain. This is not affected by the value of the current VMID.

0b1

The translation table entries pointed to by VTTBR_EL2 are the same as the translation table entries for every other PE in the Inner Shareable domain for which the value of VTTBR_EL2.CnP is 1 and the VMID is the same as the current VMID.

This bit is permitted to be cached in a TLB.

Note

If the value of VTTBR_EL2.CnP bit is 1 on multiple PEs in the same Inner Shareable domain and those VTTBR_EL2s do not point to the same translation table entries when using the current VMID then the results of translations using VTTBR_EL2 are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE, see 'CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviors due to caching of control or data values'.

The reset behavior of this field is:


Otherwise:

Reserved, RES0.

Accessing VTTBR_EL2

Accesses to this register use the following encodings in the System register encoding space:

MRS <Xt>, VTTBR_EL2

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b00100b00010b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.<NV2,NV> == '11' then X[t, 64] = NVMem[0x020]; elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.NV == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then X[t, 64] = VTTBR_EL2; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then X[t, 64] = VTTBR_EL2;

MSR VTTBR_EL2, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b1000b00100b00010b000

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then if EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.<NV2,NV> == '11' then NVMem[0x020] = X[t, 64]; elsif EL2Enabled() && HCR_EL2.NV == '1' then AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18); else UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then VTTBR_EL2 = X[t, 64]; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then VTTBR_EL2 = X[t, 64];


05/07/2022 17:08; b0421fa9a8865165f9b91af9b4a566111f866305

Copyright © 2010-2022 Arm Limited or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Non-Confidential.