Register 5 is the Fault Status Register (FSR). The FSR contains the source of the last data fault, indicating the domain and type of access being attempted when the Data Abort occurred. Table 2.14 shows bit allocations for the FSR.

The fault type encoding is shown in Fault address and fault status registers.

The data FSR is defined in ARMv4T. Additionally, a pipelined prefetch FSR is available, for debug purposes only. The pipeline matches that of the ARM9TDMI.

You can use the following instructions to access the data and prefetch FSR:

MRC p15, 0, Rd, c5, c0, 0       ;read data FSR value

MCR p15, 0, Rd, c5, c0, 0       ;write data FSR value

MRC p15, 0, Rd, c5, c0, 1       ;read prefetch FSR value

MCR p15, 0, Rd, c5, c0, 1       ;write prefetch FSR value

The ability to write to the FSR is useful for a debugger to restore the value of the FSR. You must write to the register using the read-modify-write method. Bits[31:8] should be zero.