Hypervisor Call causes an exception to EL2. Software executing at EL1 can use this instruction to call the hypervisor to request a service.
The HVC instruction is UNDEFINED:
On executing an HVC instruction, the PE records the exception as a Hypervisor Call exception in ESR_ELx, using the EC value 0x16, and the value of the immediate argument.
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| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | imm16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
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HVC #<imm>
if !HaveEL(EL2) then UNDEFINED; bits(16) imm = imm16;
if PSTATE.EL == EL0 then UNDEFINED; if PSTATE.EL == EL1 && !EL2Enabled() then UNDEFINED; if !HaveEL(EL3) && HCR_EL2.HCD == '1' then UNDEFINED; if HaveEL(EL3) && SCR_EL3.HCE == '0' then UNDEFINED; AArch64.CallHypervisor(imm);
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