PMLSR, Performance Monitors Lock Status Register

The PMLSR characteristics are:

Purpose

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.

Configuration

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.

Attributes

PMLSR is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The PMLSR bit assignments are:

Bits [31:3]

Reserved, RES0.

nTT, bit [2]

Not thirty-two bit access required. RAZ.

SLK, bit [1]

When Software Lock is implemented and FEAT_DoPD is not implemented:

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:

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.

Otherwise:

Reserved, RAZ.

SLI, bit [0]

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:

Accessing the PMLSR

PMLSR can be accessed through the memory-mapped interfaces:

This interface is accessible as follows:

• When FEAT_DoPD is not implemented or IsCorePowered() accesses to this register are RO.
• Otherwise accesses to this register generate an error response.