ARM11 Interrupts
Interrupts
Interrupt priority is 0-0xF. A priority of 0xF means that the interrupt is disabled.
Private Interrupts
Each CPU core has 32 software interrupts that are private and belong to that core. These interrupts are numbers 0-0x1F for each core. The hardware interrupts are not core-specific and start at interrupt ID 0x20.
| IRQ | Listener | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0-0x3 | MPCore software-interrupt. Not configured. | |
| 0x4 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. Used to manage the performance counter. |
| 0x5 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. Does apparently nothing. |
| 0x6 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. Extensively used by KernelSetState (and contains most of the actual code of the latter). |
| 0x7 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. See KCacheMaintenanceInterruptEvent |
| 0x8 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. Used for scheduling. |
| 0x9 | Kernel | MPCore software-interrupt. Used when handling exceptions that require termination of a thread or a process, and in some cases by svcSetDebugThreadContext, to store VFP registers in the thread's register storage. |
| 0xA | Kernel | TLB operations interrupt, see KTLBOperationsInterruptEvent |
| 0xB-0xE | MPCore software-interrupt. Not configured. | |
| 0xF | dmnt/debugger | MPCore software-interrupt. Used to abstract FIQ (debug). This interrupt is never sent to core2 nor core3 on N3DS. |
| 0x1D | Kernel | MPCore timer. |
| 0x1E | Kernel | MPCore watchdog - set when the watchdog counter reaches 0 in timer mode, causes interrupt 30 to set as pending. Only set on core 1 as core 1's timer is used for everything. |
Hardware Interrupts
There are 0x60 hardware interrupts starting at 0x20 and continuing up to 0x7F. These are not private and are accessible from any core.
| IRQ | Listener | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x28 | gsp, TwlBg | PSC0 |
| 0x29 | gsp, TwlBg | PSC1 |
| 0x2A | gsp, TwlBg | PDC0 (VBlank0) |
| 0x2B | gsp, TwlBg | PDC1 (VBlank1) |
| 0x2C | gsp, TwlBg | PPF |
| 0x2D | gsp, TwlBg | P3D? |
| 0x30 | Kernel | ? |
| 0x39 | Kernel | DMA |
| 0x3A | Kernel | DMA |
| 0x3B | Kernel | DMA |
| 0x40 | nwm | WIFI SDIO Controller @ 0x10122000 |
| 0x41 | nwm | ? |
| 0x42 | nwm_dev? | WIFI SDIO Controller @ 0x10100000 |
| 0x45 | mvd (New3DS) | ? |
| 0x46 | mvd (New3DS) | ? |
| 0x48 | camera | ? |
| 0x49 | camera | ? |
| 0x4A | dsp | ? |
| 0x4B | camera | Y2R Conversion Finished |
| 0x4C | TwlBg | ? |
| 0x4D | TwlBg | ? |
| 0x4E | mvd (New3DS) | ? |
| 0x4F | mvd (New3DS) | ? |
| 0x50 | pxi, TwlBg | Sync |
| 0x51 | pxi, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x52 | pxi, TwlBg | Send Fifo Empty |
| 0x53 | pxi, TwlBg | Receive Fifo Not Empty |
| 0x54 | i2c, TwlBg | I2C Bus0 work done |
| 0x55 | i2c, TwlBg | I2C Bus1 work done |
| 0x56 | spi, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x57 | spi, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x58 | Kernel | PDN |
| 0x59 | TwlBg | ? |
| 0x5A | mic | ? |
| 0x5C | i2c, TwlBg | I2C Bus2 work done |
| 0x60 | gpio, TwlBg | Shell opened |
| 0x62 | gpio, TwlBg | Shell closed |
| 0x63 | gpio, TwlBg | Touchscreen |
| 0x64 | gpio, TwlBg | Headphone jack plugged in/out |
| 0x66 | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x68 | gpio, TwlBg | IR |
| 0x69 | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6A | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6B | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6C | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6D | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6E | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x6F | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x70 | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x71 | gpio, TwlBg | MCU (HOME/POWER pressed/released or WiFi switch pressed) |
| 0x72 | gpio, TwlBg | ? |
| 0x73 | TwlBg | ? |
| 0x74 | ? | Gamecard related |
| 0x75 | ? | Gamecard inserted |
| 0x78 to 0x7C | Kernel | Performance monitor-related |
| 0x7A to 0x82 (PDN_MPCORE_CFG bit2 set) or
0x7C to 0x84 (bit2 clear) |
Kernel | Performance monitor counter no. X overflowed |
(interrupts from 0x80 and up can't be mapped in available builds of the kernel)
There are 2 tables in the ARM11 kernel: the first has 32 * 2(or 32 * 4) 8-byte entries. This table is for the private interrupts that belong to each core. The data for each interrupt can be found by doing table_base + (core_num * 0x100) + (intr_num * 8). The second table is for public hardware interrupts and the data for each interrupt can be retrieved by doing table_base + (intr_num * 8).
InterruptData
| Offset | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | KBaseInterruptEvent * | Pointer to the KBaseInterruptEvent object for this interrupt |
| 0x4 | u8 | Interrupt will be disabled by the IRQ handler as soon as it is acknowledged.
Ignored for FIQ: the FIQ handler always sets bit2 of PDN_FIQ_CNT |
| 0x5 | u8 | Interrupt is disabled |
| 0x6 | u8 | Interrupt priority |
| 0x7 | u8 | Unused, alignment |
Interrupt Table (New3DS)
(0xFFF318F4 in 10.3)
| Offset | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | InterruptData[224] | Data for all hardware and software interrupts |
| 0x700 | KObjectMutex | Mutex |