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    Preserve x19-x29 across world switch for exception handling · c3260f9b
    Soby Mathew authored
    Previously exception handlers in BL3-1, X19-X29 were not saved
    and restored on every SMC/trap into EL3. Instead these registers
    were 'saved as needed' as a side effect of the A64 ABI used by the C
    compiler.
    
    That approach failed when world switching but was not visible
    with the TSP/TSPD code because the TSP is 64-bit, did not
    clobber these registers when running and did not support pre-emption
    by normal world interrupts. These scenarios showed
    that the values in these registers can be passed through a world
    switch, which broke the normal and trusted world assumptions
    about these registers being preserved.
    
    The Ideal solution saves and restores these registers when a
    world switch occurs - but that type of implementation is more complex.
    So this patch always saves and restores these registers on entry and
    exit of EL3.
    
    Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#141
    
    Change-Id: I9a727167bbc594454e81cf78a97ca899dfb11c27
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