PMBIDR_EL1, Profiling Buffer ID Register

Reserved, RES0.

External Abort handling. Describes how the PE manages External aborts on writes made by the Statistical Profiling Unit to the Profiling Buffer.

The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:

EA	Meaning
0b0000	Not described.
0b0001	The PE ignores External aborts on writes made by the Statistical Profiling Unit.
0b0010	An External abort on a write made by the Statistical Profiling Unit generates an asynchronous SError exception at the PE.

All other values are reserved.

From Armv8.8, the value 0b0000 is not permitted.

PMBIDR_EL1.EA describes only External aborts generated by the write to memory. External aborts on a translation table walk made by the Statistical Profiling Unit generate Profiling Buffer management events reported as MMU faults using PMBSR_EL1.

Access to this field is RO.

Reserved, RES0.

Flag updates. Describes how address translations performed by the Statistical Profiling Unit manage the Access flag and dirty state.

The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:

F	Meaning
0b0	Hardware management of the Access flag and dirty state for accesses made by the Statistical Profiling Unit is always disabled for all translation stages.
0b1	Hardware management of the Access flag and dirty state for accesses made by the Statistical Profiling Unit is controlled in the same way as explicit memory accesses in the Profiling Buffer owning translation regime.

From Armv8.8, the value 0 is not permitted.

Access to this field is RO.

Programming not allowed. When read at EL3, this field reads as zero. Otherwise, indicates that the Profiling Buffer is owned by a higher Exception level or another Security state.

P	Meaning
0b0	Programming is allowed.
0b1	Programming not allowed.

The value read from this field depends on the current Exception level and the Effective values of MDCR_EL3.NSPB, MDCR_EL3.NSPBE, and MDCR_EL2.E2PB:

• If EL3 is implemented, MDCR_EL3.NSPB is 0b0x, and either FEAT_RME is not implemented, or Secure state is implemented and MDCR_EL3.NSPBE is 0, then this field reads as one from:
  • Non-secure EL1 and Non-secure EL2.
  • If FEAT_RME is implemented, Realm EL1 and Realm EL2.
  • If Secure EL2 is implemented and enabled, and MDCR_EL2.E2PB is 0b00, Secure EL1.
• If EL3 is implemented, MDCR_EL3.NSPB is 0b1x and either FEAT_RME is not implemented or MDCR_EL3.NSPBE is 0, then this field reads as one from:
  • If Secure state is implemented, Secure EL1.
  • If Secure EL2 is implemented, Secure EL2.
  • If EL2 is implemented and MDCR_EL2.E2PB is 0b00, Non-secure EL1.
  • If FEAT_RME is implemented, Realm EL1 and Realm EL2.
• If FEAT_RME is implemented, and MDCR_EL3.{NSPB, NSPBE} is {0b1x, 1}, then this field reads as one from:
  • Non-secure EL1 and Non-secure EL2.
  • If Secure state is implemented, Secure EL1 and Secure EL2.
  • If MDCR_EL2.E2PB is 0b00, Realm EL1.
• If EL3 is not implemented, EL2 is implemented, and MDCR_EL2.E2PB is 0b00, then this field reads as one from EL1.

Otherwise, this field reads as zero.

Defines the minimum alignment constraint for writes to PMBPTR_EL1.

The value of this field is an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED choice of:

Align	Meaning
0b0000	Byte.
0b0001	Halfword.
0b0010	Word.
0b0011	Doubleword.
0b0100	16 bytes.
0b0101	32 bytes.
0b0110	64 bytes.
0b0111	128 bytes.
0b1000	256 bytes.
0b1001	512 bytes.
0b1010	1KB.
0b1011	2KB.

All other values are reserved.

For more information, see 'Restrictions on the current write pointer'.

If this field is nonzero, then every record is a multiple of this size.

Access to this field is RO.