TTBR0_EL3, Translation Table Base Register 0 (EL3)
The TTBR0_EL3 characteristics are:
Purpose
Holds the base address of the translation table for the initial lookup for stage 1 of an address translation in the EL3 translation regime, and other information for this translation regime.
Configuration
This register is present only when EL3 is implemented. Otherwise, direct accesses to TTBR0_EL3 are UNDEFINED.
Attributes
TTBR0_EL3 is a 64-bit register.
Field descriptions
The TTBR0_EL3 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 |
RES0 | BADDR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BADDR | CnP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
Bits [63:48]
Reserved, RES0.
BADDR, bits [47:1]
Translation table base address, A[47:x] or A[51:x].
- Translation table base addresses of 52 bits, A[51:x], are supported only in an implementation that includes FEAT_LPA and is using the 64KB translation granule.
- A translation table must be aligned to the size of the table, except that when using 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 TCR_EL3.PS is 0b110 then:
- Register bits[47:z] hold bits[47:z] of the stage 1 translation table base address, where z is determined as follows:
- If x >= 6 then z=x.
- Otherwise, z=6.
- Register bits[5:2] hold bits[51:48] of the stage 1 translation table base address.
- When z>x register bits[(z-1):x] are RES0, and bits[(z-1):x] of the translation table base address are zero.
- When x>6 register bits[(x-1):6] are RES0.
- Register bit[1] is RES0.
- Bits[5:2] of the stage 1 translation table base address are zero.
- In an implementation that includes FEAT_TTCNP bit[0] of the stage 1 translation table base address is zero.
- In an implementation that includes FEAT_LPA a TCR_EL3.PS value of 0b110, that selects a PA size of 52 bits, is permitted only when using the 64KB translation granule.
- 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 with the 64KB translation granule when the Effective value of TCR_EL3.PS is 0b110 and the value of register bits[5:2] is nonzero, an Address size fault is generated.
If the Effective value of TCR_EL3.PS is not 0b110 then:
- Register bits[47:x] hold bits[47:x] of the stage 1 translation table base address.
- Register bits[(x-1):1] are RES0.
- If the implementation supports 52-bit PAs and IPAs, then bits[51:48] of the translation table base addresses used in this stage of translation are 0b0000.
This definition applies:
- To an implementation that includes FEAT_LPA and is using a translation granule smaller than 64KB.
- To any implementation that does not include FEAT_LPA.
If any TTBR0_EL3[47:0] bit that is defined as RES0 has the value 1 when a translation table walk is performed using TTBR0_EL3, then the translation table base address might be misaligned, with effects that are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE, and must be one of the following:
- Bits[x-1:0] of the translation table base address are treated as if all the bits are zero. The value read back from the corresponding register bits is either the value written to the register 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.
The AArch64 Virtual Memory System Architecture chapter describes how x is calculated based on the value of TCR_EL3.T0SZ, the stage of translation, and the translation granule size.
This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.
CnP, bit [0]
When FEAT_TTCNP is implemented:
When FEAT_TTCNP is implemented:
Common not Private. This bit indicates whether each entry that is pointed to by TTBR0_EL3 is a member of a common set that can be used by every PE in the Inner Shareable domain for which the value of TTBR0_EL3.CnP is 1.
CnP | Meaning |
---|---|
0b0 |
The translation table entries pointed to by TTBR0_EL3, for the current translation regime, are permitted to differ from corresponding entries for TTBR0_EL3 for other PEs in the Inner Shareable domain. This is not affected by the value of TTBR0_EL3.CnP on those other PEs. |
0b1 |
The translation table entries pointed to by TTBR0_EL3 are the same as the translation table entries for every other PE in the Inner Shareable domain for which the value of TTBR0_EL3.CnP is 1 and the translation table entries are pointed to by TTBR0_EL3. |
This field is permitted to be cached in a TLB.
If the value of the TTBR0_EL3.CnP bit is 1 on multiple PEs in the same Inner Shareable domain and those TTBR0_EL3s do not point to the same translation table entries the results of translations using TTBR0_EL3 are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE, see 'CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviors due to caching of control or data values'.
This field resets to an architecturally UNKNOWN value.
Otherwise:
Otherwise:
Reserved, RES0.
Accessing the TTBR0_EL3
Accesses to this register use the following encodings:
MRS <Xt>, TTBR0_EL3
op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2 |
---|---|---|---|---|
0b11 | 0b110 | 0b0010 | 0b0000 | 0b000 |
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then return TTBR0_EL3;
MSR TTBR0_EL3, <Xt>
op0 | op1 | CRn | CRm | op2 |
---|---|---|---|---|
0b11 | 0b110 | 0b0010 | 0b0000 | 0b000 |
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL1 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL2 then UNDEFINED; elsif PSTATE.EL == EL3 then TTBR0_EL3 = X[t];