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PMBSR_EL1, Profiling Buffer Status/syndrome Register

The PMBSR_EL1 characteristics are:

Purpose

Provides syndrome information to software when the buffer is disabled because the management interrupt has been raised.

Configuration

This register is present only when SPE is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to PMBSR_EL1 are UNDEFINED.

RW fields in this register reset to architecturally UNKNOWN values.

Attributes

PMBSR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

The PMBSR_EL1 bit assignments are:

6362616059585756555453525150494847464544434241403938373635343332
RES0
ECRES0DLEASCOLLMSS

Bits [63:32]

Reserved, RES0.

EC, bits [31:26]

Exception class

Top-level description of the cause of the buffer management event

ECMeaningMSS
0b100100

Stage 1 Data Abort on write to Profiling Buffer.

MSS encoding for a data Abort or stage 2 Data Abort on write to buffer.
0b100101

Stage 2 Data Abort on write to Profiling Buffer.

MSS encoding for a data Abort or stage 2 Data Abort on write to buffer.
0b000000

Other buffer management event. All buffer management events other than those described by other defined Exception class codes.

MSS encoding for an other buffer management event.

All other values are reserved. Reserved values might be defined in a future version of the architecture.

Writing a reserved value to this field will make the value of this field UNKNOWN. Values that are not supported act as reserved values when writing to this register.

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

Bits [25:20]

Reserved, RES0.

DL, bit [19]

Partial record lost.

Following a buffer management event other than an asynchronous External abort, indicates whether the last record written to the Profiling Buffer is complete.

DLMeaning
0b0

PMBPTR_EL1 points to the first byte after the last complete record written to the Profiling Buffer.

0b1

Part of a record was lost because of a buffer management event or synchronous External abort. PMBPTR_EL1 might not point to the first byte after the last complete record written to the buffer, and so restarting collection might result in a data record stream that software cannot parse. All records prior to the last record have been written to the buffer.

When the buffer management event was because of an asynchronous external abort, this bit is set to 1 and software must not assume that any valid data has been written to the Profiling Buffer.

This bit is RES0 if the PE never sets this bit as a result of a buffer management event caused by an asynchronous External abort.

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

EA, bit [18]

External abort.

EAMeaning
0b0

An external abort has not been asserted.

0b1

An external abort has been asserted and detected by the Statistical Profiling Extension.

This bit is RES0 if the PE never sets this bit as the result of an External abort.

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

S, bit [17]

Service

SMeaning
0b0

PMBIRQ is not asserted.

0b1

PMBIRQ is asserted. All profiling data has either been written to the buffer or discarded.

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

COLL, bit [16]

Collision detected.

COLLMeaning
0b0

No collision events detected.

0b1

At least one collision event was recorded.

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

MSS, bits [15:0]

Management Event Specific Syndrome.

Contains syndrome specific to the management event.

The syndrome contents for each management event are described in the following sections.

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

MSS encoding for a data Abort or stage 2 Data Abort on write to buffer.

Bits [15:6]

Reserved, RES0.

FSC, bits [5:0]

Fault status code

FSCMeaning
0b0000xx

Address Size fault. Bits [1:0] encode the level.

0b0001xx

Translation fault. Bits [1:0] encode the level.

0b0010xx

Access Flag fault. Bits [1:0] encode the level.

0b0011xx

Permission fault. Bits [1:0] encode the level.

0b010000

Synchronous External abort on write.

0b0101xx

Synchronous External abort on translation table walk or hardware update of translation table. Bits [1:0] encode the level.

0b010001

Asynchronous External abort on write.

0b100001

Alignment fault.

0b110000

TLB Conflict fault.

All other values are reserved. Reserved values might be defined in a future version of the architecture.

Writing a reserved value to this field will make the value of this field UNKNOWN. Values that are not supported act as reserved values when writing to this register.

It is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED whether each of the Access Flag fault, asynchronous External abort and synchronous External abort, Alignment fault, and TLB Conflict abort values can be generated by the PE. For more information see Faults and Watchpoints.

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

MSS encoding for an other buffer management event.

    1514131211109876543210
    RES0BSC
    313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210

Bits [15:6]

Reserved, RES0.

BSC, bits [5:0]

Buffer status code

BSCMeaning
0b000000

Buffer not filled

0b000001

Buffer filled

All other values are reserved. Reserved values might be defined in a future version of the architecture.

Writing a reserved value to this field will make the value of this field UNKNOWN. Values that are not supported act as reserved values when writing to this register.

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

Accessing the PMBSR_EL1

Accesses to this register use the following encodings:

MRS <Xt>, PMBSR_EL1

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10010b10100b011
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
    UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then
    if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && MDCR_EL2.E2PB == 'x0' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '0' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '01' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '1' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '11' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.<NV2,NV1,NV> == '1x1' then
        return NVMem[0x820];
    else
        return PMBSR_EL1;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then
    if HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '0' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '01' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '1' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '11' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    else
        return PMBSR_EL1;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then
    return PMBSR_EL1;

MSR PMBSR_EL1, <Xt>

op0op1CRnCRmop2
0b110b0000b10010b10100b011
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
    UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then
    if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && MDCR_EL2.E2PB == 'x0' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '0' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '01' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '1' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '11' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HCR_EL2.<NV2,NV1,NV> == '1x1' then
        NVMem[0x820] = X[t];
    else
        PMBSR_EL1 = X[t];
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then
    if HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '0' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '01' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    elsif HaveEL(EL3) && !ELUsingAArch32(EL3) && SCR_EL3.NS == '1' && MDCR_EL3.NSPB != '11' then
        AArch64.SystemAccessTrap(EL3, 0x18);
    else
        PMBSR_EL1 = X[t];
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then
    PMBSR_EL1 = X[t];


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