A maintenance interrupt is asserted if none, or only one, of the List register entries is marked as a valid interrupt.

[0] En Enable. Global enable bit for the virtual CPU interface: 0 Virtual CPU interface operation disabled. 1 Virtual CPU interface operation enabled. When this field is set to 0:

• the virtual CPU interface does not signal any maintenance interrupts • the virtual CPU interface does not signal any virtual interrupts • a read of GICV_IAR or GICV_AIAR returns a spurious interrupt ID.

Table 5-2 GICH_HCR bit assignments (continued)

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5.3.2 VGIC Type Register, GICH_VTR

The GICH_VTR characteristics are:

Purpose This is a read-only register that provides the following information about the implementation of the GIC Virtualization Extensions:

• number of priority levels supported • number of preemption levels supported • number of implemented List registers. Usage constraints There are no usage constraints.

Configurations This register is part of the GIC Virtualization Extensions. Attributes See the register summary in Table 5-1 on page 5-167.

Figure 5-4 shows the GICH_VTR bit assignments.

Figure 5-4 GICH_VTR bit assignments

Table 5-3 shows the GICH_VTR bit assignments.

PRIbits

31 29 28 26 25 6 5 0

PREbits Reserved ListRegs

Table 5-3 GICH_VTR bit assignments

Bit Name Description

[31:29] PRIbits The number of priority bits implemented, minus one. In GICv2, the only valid value is 5 bits: 100 32 priority levels.

[28:26] PREbits The number of preemption bits implemented, minus one. In GICv2, the only valid value is 5 bits:

100 32 preemption levels [25:6] - Reserved, RAZ

[5:0] ListRegs The number of implemented List registers, minus one. For example, a value of 0b111111 indicates that the maximum 64 List registers are implemented.

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5.3.3 Virtual Machine Control Register, GICH_VMCR

The GICH_VMCR characteristics are:

Purpose Enables the hypervisor to save and restore the virtual machine view of the GIC state. Usage constraints There are no usage constraints.

Configurations This register is part of the GIC Virtualization Extensions. Attributes See the register summary in Table 5-1 on page 5-167.

Figure 5-5 shows the GICH_VMCR bit assignments.

Figure 5-5 GICH_VMCR bit assignments

Table 5-2 on page 5-168 shows the GICH_VMCR bit assignments.

The GICH_VMCR is a control register that contains read and write aliases of architecture state in the virtual Reserved VMBP VMPriMask 31 27 26 9 5 0 Reserved 24 23 21 20 18 17 10 8 4 3 2 1 VMGrp0En VMGrp1En

Reserved VMABP VEM VMCBPR

VMAckCtl VMFIQEn

Table 5-4 GICH_VMCR bit assignments

Bit Name Description

[31:27] VMPriMask Alias of GICV_PMR.Priority. [26:24] - Reserved.

[23:21] VMBP Alias of GICV_BPR.Binary point.

On reset, this bit is set to the minimum supported value of GICV_BPR. [20:18] VMABPa

a. On reset, this is set to the minimum Group 1 binary point value, that is, the minimum of VMBP+1, saturated to 7.

Alias of GICV_ABPR.Binary point. [17:10] - Reserved.

[9] VEM Alias of GICV_CTLR.EOImode. [8:5] - Reserved.

[4] VMCBPR Alias of GICV_CTLR.CBPR. [3] VMFIQEn Alias of GICV_CTLR.FIQEn. [2] VMAckCtl Alias of GICV_CTLR.AckCtl. [1] VMGrp1En Alias of GICV_CTLR.EnableGrp1. [0] VMGrp0En Alias of GICV_CTLR.EnableGrp0.

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5.3.4 Maintenance Interrupt Status Register, GICH_MISR

The GICH_MISR characteristics are:

Purpose Indicates which maintenance interrupts are asserted.

Usage constraints A maintenance interrupt is asserted only if at least one bit is set in this register and if the global enable bit, GICH.HCR.En, is set to 1.

Configurations This register is part of the GIC Virtualization Extensions. Attributes See the register summary in Table 5-1 on page 5-167.

Figure 5-6 shows the GICH_MISR bit assignments.

Figure 5-6 GICH_MISR bit assignments

Table 5-5 shows the GICH_MISR bit assignments.

31 5 0 Reserved 7 8 4 3 2 1 NP VGrp0E VGrp1D VGrp0D VGrp1E EOI U LRENP 6

Table 5-5 GICH_MISR bit assignments

Bit Name Description

[31:8] - Reserved.

[7] VGrp1D Disabled Group 1 maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.VGrp1DIE is set and GICH_VMCR.VMGrp1En==0.

[6] VGrp1E Enabled Group 1 maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.VGrp1EIE is set and GICH_VMCR.VMGrp1En==1.

[5] VGrp0D Disabled Group 0 maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.VGrp0DIE is set and GICH_VMCR.VMGrp0En==0.

[4] VGrp0E Enabled Group 0 maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.VGrp0EIE is set and GICH_VMCR.VMGrp0En==1.

[3] NP No Pending maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.NPIE==1 and no List register is in pending state.

[2] LRENP List Register Entry Not Present maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever

GICH_HCR.LRENPIE==1 and GICH_HCR.EOICount is non-zero.

[1] U Underflow maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever GICH_HCR.UIE is set and if none, or only one, of the List register entries are marked as a valid interrupt, that is, if the corresponding GICH_LRn.State bits do not equal 0x0.

[0] EOI EOI maintenance interrupt. Asserted whenever at least one List register is asserting an EOI Interrupt. At least one bit in GICH_EISRn==1.

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5.3.5 End of Interrupt Status Registers, GICH_EISR0 and GICH_EISR1

The GICH_EISR characteristics are:

Purpose When a maintenance interrupt is received, these registers help determine which List registers have outstanding EOI interrupts that require servicing.

Usage constraints Bits corresponding to unimplemented List registers always RAZ.

Configurations These registers are part of the GIC Virtualization Extensions. The number of GICH_EISRs depends on the number of List registers implemented. GICH_EISR0 corresponds to List registers 0-31 and GICH_EISR1 corresponds to List registers 32-63.

Attributes See the register summary in Table 5-1 on page 5-167.

Figure 5-7 shows the GICH_EISR0 bit assignments.

Figure 5-7 GICH_EISR0 bit assignments

Table 5-6 shows the GICH_EISR0 bit assignments.

31 0

List register status bits

Table 5-6 GICH_EISR0 bit assignments

Bits Name Function

[31:0] List register EOI status bits 0-31 For each bit:

0 Corresponding List register does not have an EOI.