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RISC-V pmpaddr12 CSR Register

Address 0x3BCPrivilege MachineAccess RW / MXLEN: RV32 encodes PA[33:2]; RV64 [53:0] encodes PA[55:2] and [63:54] is zeroMachine physical memory protection CSRs

pmpaddr12 (0x3BC) is the WARL address register for machine PMP entry 12; it encodes physical address bits 33:2 on RV32 and 55:2 on RV64.

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pmpaddr12 CSRpmpaddr12 0x3BCpmpaddr12 TORpmpaddr12 NAPOTpmpaddr12 grainpmp12cfg A
Bit Overview
bit 3 = only bit 3; bits 12..11 = bits 12 down to 11
MSBLSB
063:54WARL/reads zeroaddress[55:2]53:0WARL/may be RO0
Field Map

Understand pmpaddr12 By Bit Fields

2 key fields
63:54

0

WARL/reads zero

RV64: the upper ten bits are zero in the standard pmpaddr format; this segment is part of the WARL format.

0 (bits 63:54) — RV64: the upper ten bits are zero in the standard pmpaddr format; this segment is part of the WARL format.

What This Field Controls

  • - RV64: the upper ten bits are zero in the standard pmpaddr format; this segment is part of the WARL format.

Common Values

This field is better understood together with surrounding context than as a fixed memorized enumeration.

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53:0

address[55:2]

WARL/may be RO0

RV64: encodes bits 55:2 of a 56-bit physical address. Unimplemented physical-address bits make the field WARL; every PMP CSR field may be implemented as read-only zero.

address[55:2] (bits 53:0) — RV64: encodes bits 55:2 of a 56-bit physical address. Unimplemented physical-address bits make the field WARL; every PMP CSR field may be implemented as read-only zero.

What This Field Controls

  • - RV64: encodes bits 55:2 of a 56-bit physical address. Unimplemented physical-address bits make the field WARL; every PMP CSR field may be implemented as read-only zero.

Common Values

This field is better understood together with surrounding context than as a fixed memorized enumeration.

↗Open Official Manual
Official Basis & Search Notes

pmpaddr12 is the MXLEN-bit WARL address encoding for PMP entry 12. pmp12cfg.A determines its meaning; TOR uses pmpaddr11 as the lower bound.

RV32 pmpaddr encodes PA[33:2]; RV64 [53:0] encodes PA[55:2], with [63:54] zero.
TOR entry 12 uses pmpaddr11 as its lower bound and pmpaddr12 as its upper bound; NAPOT uses low pmpaddr12 bits to encode a naturally aligned power-of-two region of at least 8 bytes.
Platform grain changes low-bit readback; pmp12cfg.L or a locked TOR entry 13 can cause writes to pmpaddr12 to be ignored. Smepmp MML=1 changes L's permission meaning, but the relevant L=1 rules remain locked unless RLB=1 temporarily bypasses locking.
RISC-V ISA Manual 2026-07-09 release - Machine ISA PMPRISC-V Privileged Architecture - Physical Memory ProtectionRISC-V Privileged Architecture - Smepmp Physical Memory Protection Rules

What To Check First When Reading This CSR

  • - PMP is optional; implementations may provide 0, 16, or 64 entries, with the lowest-numbered entries implemented first. Every PMP CSR field is WARL and may be read-only zero.
  • - pmpaddr12 is accessible only to M-mode. Its readback depends on pmp12cfg.A and the platform-wide PMP grain G.
  • - With G>=2 and A=NAPOT, pmpaddr12[G-2:0] reads as ones; with G>=1 and A=OFF/TOR, pmpaddr12[G-1:0] reads as zeros, but those bits do not affect TOR matching. Changing pmp12cfg.A[1] changes readback, not the underlying stored value.
  • - Reset specifies defaults only for writable PMP A/L fields (subject to platform overrides); pmpaddr12's reset value is unspecified, but no WARL field contains an illegal value.

Risk Checks Before Writing

  • - Writes to pmpaddr12 are ignored when pmp12cfg.L=1; pmpaddr12 is also unwritable as entry 13's lower bound when that entry is locked with pmp13cfg.A=TOR. Without Smepmp, locking persists until hart reset. With Smepmp MML=1, L changes permission meaning, but the L=1 M-mode-only or locked Shared-Region rules it defines remain locked unless mseccfg.RLB=1 temporarily bypasses locking.
  • - pmpaddr12 is WARL; read it back after writing and interpret the masked value using the current pmp12cfg.A and grain.
  • - With pmp12cfg.A=TOR, entry 12 matches pmpaddr11 <= y < pmpaddr12; if the lower bound is not less than the upper bound, it matches no addresses. NA4 is not selectable when G>=1.

Put It Back Into A Real Flow

1

Read pmp12cfg.A to determine whether entry 12 uses OFF, TOR, NA4, or NAPOT.

2

Write pmpaddr12 for the selected mode; TOR also requires lower bound pmpaddr11, while NAPOT encodes range size in low bits.

3

Read back pmpaddr12 and the corresponding pmpcfg CSR to confirm the effective WARL/grain encoding; set pmp12cfg.L only after final verification.

FAQ

Where do pmpaddr12's TOR bounds come from?

With pmp12cfg.A=TOR, pmpaddr11 supplies the lower bound and pmpaddr12 the upper bound, so entry 12 matches the half-open range pmpaddr11 <= y < pmpaddr12; it matches no addresses when the lower bound is not less than the upper bound.

Why can pmpaddr12 read back differently from the written value?

pmpaddr12 is WARL, and platform grain plus pmp12cfg.A[1] masks low-bit readback: NAPOT can read ones while OFF/TOR reads zeros. Changing A[1] does not alter the underlying stored value.