B2.85 Physical Address Register, EL1
The PAR_EL1 characteristics are:
Purpose
The Physical Address returned from an address translation.
Usage constraints
This register is accessible as follows:
EL0
EL1
(NS)
EL1
(S)
EL2
EL3
(SCR.NS = 1)
EL3
(SCR.NS = 0)
- RW RW RW RW RW
Configurations
PAR_EL1 is architecturally mapped to AArch32 register PAR(NS). See B1.100 Physical
Address Register on page B1-321.
Attributes
PAR_EL1 is a 64-bit register.
The following figure shows the PAR_EL1 bit assignments when the Virtual Address to Physical Address
conversion completes successfully.
RES0 F
56 55 48 475960 7 6
SHA
10 9 812 11
RES1 NS
AttrL RES0 PA
063
AttrH
RES0
Figure B2-55 PAR_EL1 pass bit assignments
The following list shows the PAR_EL1 bit assignments when the Virtual Address to Physical Address
conversion completes successfully.
AttrH, [63:60]
Defines Normal or Device memory and outer cacheability. Must be used in conjunction with
AttrL. The possible values are:
0b0000 Device memory, see Attr[3:0].
0b0100 Normal memory, Outer Non-cacheable.
0b1000 Normal memory, Outer Write-Through Cacheable.
0b1001 Normal memory, Outer Write-Through Cacheable, Outer Write-Allocate.
0b1010 Normal memory, Outer Write-Through Cacheable, Outer Read-Allocate.
0b1011 Normal memory, Outer Write-Through Cacheable, Outer WriteAllocate, Outer Read-
Allocate.
0b1100 Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Cacheable.
0b1101 Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Cacheable, Outer Write-Allocate.
0b1110 Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Cacheable, Outer Read-Allocate.
0b1111 Normal memory, Outer Write-Back Cacheable, Outer Write-Allocate, Outer Read-
Allocate.
All other values are reserved.
AttrL, [59:56]
B2 AArch64 system registers
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