VTTBR, Virtualization Translation Table Base Register

The VTTBR characteristics are:

Purpose

Holds the base address of the translation table for the initial lookup for stage 2 of an address translation in the Non-secure PL1&0 translation regime, and other information for this translation regime.

Configuration

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

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

Some or all RW fields of this register have defined reset values. These apply only if the PE resets into EL2 with EL2 using AArch32, or into EL3 with EL3 using AArch32. Otherwise, RW fields in this register reset to architecturally UNKNOWN values.

Attributes

VTTBR is a 64-bit register.

Field descriptions

The VTTBR bit assignments are:

Bits [63:56]

Reserved, RES0.

VMID, bits [55:48]

The VMID for the translation table.

In a system where the PE resets into EL2 or EL3, this field resets to 0.

BADDR, bits [47:1]

Translation table base address, bits[47:x], Bits [x-1:1] are RES0, with the additional requirement that if bits[x-1:3] are not all zero, this is a misaligned translation table base address, with effects that are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE, and must be one of the following:

• Register bits [x-1:3] are treated as if all the bits are zero. The value read back from these bits is either the value written or zero.
• The result of the calculation of an address for a translation table walk using this register can be corrupted in those bits that are nonzero.

x is determined from the value of VTCR.SL0 and VTCR.T0SZ as follows:

• If VTCR.SL0 is 0b00, meaning that lookup starts at level 2, then x is 14 - VTCR.T0SZ.
• If VTCR.SL0 is 0b01, meaning that lookup starts at level 1, then x is 5 - VTCR.T0SZ.
• If VTCR.SL0 is either 0b10 or 0b11 then a stage 2 level 1 Translation fault is generated.

If bits[47:40] of the translation table base address are not zero, an Address size fault is generated.

In a system where the PE resets into EL2 or EL3, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

CnP, bit [0]

When ARMv8.2-TTCNP is implemented:

Common not Private. This bit indicates whether each entry that is pointed to by VTTBR 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.CnP is 1.

When a TLB combines entries from stage 1 translation and stage 2 translation into a single entry, that entry can only be shared between different PEs if the value of the CnP bit is 1 for both stage 1 and stage 2.

In a system where the PE resets into EL2 or EL3, this field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.

Otherwise:

Reserved, RES0.

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
    UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then
    if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T2 == '1' then
        AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x04);
    elsif EL2Enabled() && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T2 == '1' then
        AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x04);
    else
        UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then
    return VTTBR;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then
    if SCR.NS == '0' then
        UNDEFINED;
    else
        return VTTBR;
              

if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then
    UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then
    if EL2Enabled() && !ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR_EL2.T2 == '1' then
        AArch64.AArch32SystemAccessTrap(EL2, 0x04);
    elsif EL2Enabled() && ELUsingAArch32(EL2) && HSTR.T2 == '1' then
        AArch32.TakeHypTrapException(0x04);
    else
        UNDEFINED;
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then
    VTTBR = R[t2]:R[t];
elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then
    if SCR.NS == '0' then
        UNDEFINED;
    else
        VTTBR = R[t2]:R[t];