B2.42
Exception Syndrome Register, EL2
The ESR_EL2 characteristics are:
Purpose
Holds syndrome information for an exception taken to EL2.
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
Configurations
ESR_EL2 is architecturally mapped to AArch32 register HSR. See
Attributes
ESR_EL2 is a 32-bit register.
ISS
31
26 25 24
0
EC
IL
Figure B2-17 ESR_EL2 bit assignments
EC, [31:26]
Exception Class. Indicates the reason for the exception that this register holds information
about.
IL, [25]
Instruction Length for synchronous exceptions. The possible values are:
0
16-bit.
1
32-bit.
ISS, [24:0]
Syndrome information.
When the EC field is
0x2F
, indicating an SError interrupt has occurred, the ISS field contents are
IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED
.
Table B2-34 ISS field contents for the Cortex-A35 processor
ISS[23:22] ISS[1:0] Description
0b00
0b00
DECERR on external access
0b00
0b01
Double-bit error detected on dirty line in L2 cache
0b00
0b10
SLVERR on external access
B2 AArch64 system registers
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