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RISC-V pmpaddr8 CSR Register

Address 0x3B8Privilege MachineAccess RW / MXLEN: RV32 encodes PA[33:2]; RV64 [53:0] encodes PA[55:2] and [63:54] is zeroMachine physical memory protection CSRs

pmpaddr8 (0x3B8) is the WARL address register for machine PMP entry 8; it encodes physical address bits 33:2 on RV32 and 55:2 on RV64.

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pmpaddr8 CSRpmpaddr8 0x3B8pmpaddr8 TORpmpaddr8 NAPOTpmpaddr8 grainpmp8cfg 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 pmpaddr8 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

pmpaddr8 is the MXLEN-bit WARL address encoding for PMP entry 8. pmp8cfg.A determines its meaning; TOR uses pmpaddr7 as the lower bound.

RV32 pmpaddr encodes PA[33:2]; RV64 [53:0] encodes PA[55:2], with [63:54] zero.
TOR entry 8 uses pmpaddr7 as its lower bound and pmpaddr8 as its upper bound; NAPOT uses low pmpaddr8 bits to encode a naturally aligned power-of-two region of at least 8 bytes.
Platform grain changes low-bit readback; pmp8cfg.L or a locked TOR entry 9 can cause writes to pmpaddr8 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.
  • - pmpaddr8 is accessible only to M-mode. Its readback depends on pmp8cfg.A and the platform-wide PMP grain G.
  • - With G>=2 and A=NAPOT, pmpaddr8[G-2:0] reads as ones; with G>=1 and A=OFF/TOR, pmpaddr8[G-1:0] reads as zeros, but those bits do not affect TOR matching. Changing pmp8cfg.A[1] changes readback, not the underlying stored value.
  • - Reset specifies defaults only for writable PMP A/L fields (subject to platform overrides); pmpaddr8's reset value is unspecified, but no WARL field contains an illegal value.

Risk Checks Before Writing

  • - Writes to pmpaddr8 are ignored when pmp8cfg.L=1; pmpaddr8 is also unwritable as entry 9's lower bound when that entry is locked with pmp9cfg.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.
  • - pmpaddr8 is WARL; read it back after writing and interpret the masked value using the current pmp8cfg.A and grain.
  • - With pmp8cfg.A=TOR, entry 8 matches pmpaddr7 <= y < pmpaddr8; 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 pmp8cfg.A to determine whether entry 8 uses OFF, TOR, NA4, or NAPOT.

2

Write pmpaddr8 for the selected mode; TOR also requires lower bound pmpaddr7, while NAPOT encodes range size in low bits.

3

Read back pmpaddr8 and the corresponding pmpcfg CSR to confirm the effective WARL/grain encoding; set pmp8cfg.L only after final verification.

FAQ

Where do pmpaddr8's TOR bounds come from?

With pmp8cfg.A=TOR, pmpaddr7 supplies the lower bound and pmpaddr8 the upper bound, so entry 8 matches the half-open range pmpaddr7 <= y < pmpaddr8; it matches no addresses when the lower bound is not less than the upper bound.

Why can pmpaddr8 read back differently from the written value?

pmpaddr8 is WARL, and platform grain plus pmp8cfg.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.