System Control
ARM DDI 0500D
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Register access is encoded as follows:
4.3.74
Vector Base Address Register, EL3
The VBAR_EL3 characteristics are:
Purpose
Holds the exception base address for any exception that is taken to EL3.
Usage constraints
This register is accessible as follows:
Configurations
The VBAR_EL3[31:0] is mapped to the Secure AArch32 VBAR register.
See
Vector Base Address Register
on page 4-263
.
Attributes
VBAR_EL3 is a 64-bit register.
Figure 4-67
shows the VBAR_EL3 bit assignments.
Figure 4-67 VBAR_EL3 bit assignments
Table 4-111
shows the VBAR_EL3 bit assignments.
To access the VBAR_EL3:
MRS <Xt>, VBAR_EL3 ; Read EL3 Vector Base Address Register
MSR VBAR_EL3, <Xt> ; Write EL3 Vector Base Address Register
4.3.75
Reset Vector Base Address Register, EL3
The RVBAR_EL3 characteristics are:
Purpose
Contains the address that execution starts from after reset when executing
in the AArch64 state.
RVBAR_EL3 is part of the Reset management registers functional group.
Table 4-110 VBAR_EL2 access encoding
op0
op1
CRn
CRm
op2
11
100
1100
0000
000
EL0
EL1
(NS)
EL1
(S)
EL2
EL3
(SCR.NS = 1)
EL3
(SCR.NS = 0)
-
-
-
-
RW
RW
63
0
RES
0
11 10
Vector base address
Table 4-111 VBAR_EL3 bit assignments
Bits
Name
Function
[63:11]
Vector base address
Base address of the exception vectors for exceptions taken in this exception level.
[10:0]
-
Reserved,
RES
0.