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Volume 2, Part 1: System State and Programming Model
3.3
System State
The architecture provides a rich set of system register resources for process control,
interruptions handling, protection, debugging, and performance monitoring. This
section gives an overview of these resources.
3.3.1
System State Overview
shows the set of all defined privileged system register resources. Application
state as defined in
“Application Register State” on page 1:23
•
Processor Status Register (PSR)
– 64-bit register that maintains control
information for the currently running process. See
for complete details.
•
Control Registers (CR)
– This register name space contains several 64-bit
registers that capture the state of the processor on an interruption, enable
system-wide features, and specify global processor parameters for interruptions
and memory management. See
“Control Registers” on page 2:29
for complete
information.
•
Interrupt Registers
– These registers provide the capability of masking external
interrupts, reading external interrupt vector numbers, programming vector
numbers for internal processor asynchronous events and external interrupt
sources. For complete information, see
•
Interval Timer Facilities
– A 64-bit interval timer is provided for privileged and
non-privileged use and as a time base for performance measurements. Timing
facilities are defined in detail in
“Interval Time Counter and Match Register (ITC –
AR44 and ITM – CR1)” on page 2:32
•
Resource Utilization Facility
– A 64-bit resource utilization counter is provided
for privileged and non-privileged use. This counts the number of Interval Timer
cycles consumed by this logical processor. See
Utilization Counter (RUC – AR 45)” on page 1:31
.
•
Debug Breakpoint Registers (DBR/IBR)
– 64-bit Data and 64-bit Instruction
Breakpoint Register pairs (DBR, IBR) can be programmed to fault on reference to a
range of virtual and physical addresses generated by either Itanium or IA-32
instructions. See
for details. The minimum number of
DBR register pairs and IBR register pairs is 4 in any implementation. On some
implementations, a hardware debugger may use two or more of these register pairs
for its own use; see
“Data and Instruction Breakpoint Registers” on page 2:152
details.
•
Performance Monitor Configuration/Data Registers (PMC/PMD)
– Multiple
performance monitors can be programmed to measure a wide range of user,
operating system, or processor performance values. Performance monitors can be
programmed to measure performance values from either IA-32 or Itanium
instructions. Performance monitors are defined in
. The minimum number of generic PMC/PMD register pairs in any
implementation is 4.
•
Banked General Registers
– A set of 16 banked 64-bit general purpose registers,
GR 16-GR 31, are available as temporary storage and register context when
operating in low level interruption code. See
for complete details.
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