TRCEXTINSELR<n>, External Input Select Register <n>, n = 0 - 3

The TRCEXTINSELR<n> characteristics are:

Purpose

Use this to set, or read, which External Inputs are resources to the trace unit.

Configuration

External register TRCEXTINSELR<n> bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to AArch64 System register TRCEXTINSELR<n>[31:0] .

This register is present only when FEAT_ETE is implemented and TRCIDR5.NUMEXTINSEL > n. Otherwise, direct accesses to TRCEXTINSELR<n> are RES0.

Attributes

TRCEXTINSELR<n> is a 32-bit register.

Field descriptions

The TRCEXTINSELR<n> bit assignments are:

Bits [31:16]

Reserved, RES0.

evtCount, bits [15:0]

PMU event to select.

The event number as defined by the Arm ARM.

Software must program this field with a PMU event that is supported by the PE being programmed.

There are three ranges of PMU event numbers:

• PMU event numbers in the range 0x0000 to 0x003F are common architectural and microarchitectural events.
• PMU event numbers in the range 0x0040 to 0x00BF are Arm recommended common architectural and microarchitectural PMU events.
• PMU event numbers in the range 0x00C0 to 0x03FF are IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED PMU events.

If evtCount is programmed to a PMU event that is reserved or not supported by the PE, the behavior depends on the PMU event type:

• For the range 0x0000 to 0x003F, then the PMU event is not active, and the value returned by a direct or external read of the evtCount field is the value written to the field.
• For IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED PMU events, it is UNPREDICTABLE what PMU event, if any, is counted, and the value returned by a direct or external read of the evtCount field is UNKNOWN.

UNPREDICTABLE means the PMU event must not expose privileged information.

Arm recommends that the behavior across a family of implementations is defined such that if a given implementation does not include a PMU event from a set of common IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED PMU events, then no PMU event is counted and the value read back on evtCount is the value written.

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

Accessing the TRCEXTINSELR<n>

Must be programmed if any of the following is true: TRCRSCTLR<a>.GROUP == 0b0000 and TRCRSCTLR<a>.EXTIN[n] == 0b1.

Writes are CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE if the trace unit is not in the Idle state.

TRCEXTINSELR<n> can be accessed through the external debug interface:

This interface is accessible as follows:

• When OSLockStatus(), or !AllowExternalTraceAccess() or !IsTraceCorePowered() accesses to this register generate an error response.
• Otherwise accesses to this register are RW.