Commit 6027796f authored by Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar Jeenu Viswambharan
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TSPD: Require NS preemption along with EL3 exception handling



At present, the build option TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT controls how
Non-secure interrupt affects TSPs execution. When TSP is executing:

  1. When TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT=0, Non-secure interrupts are received
     at the TSP's exception vector, and TSP voluntarily preempts itself.

  2. When TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT=1, Non-secure interrupts causes a
     trap to EL3, which preempts TSP execution.

When EL3 exception handling is in place (i.e.,
EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1), FIQs are always trapped to EL3. On a system
with GICv3, pending NS interrupts while TSP is executing will be
signalled as FIQ (which traps to EL3). This situation necessitates the
same treatment applied to case (2) above.

Therefore, when EL3 exception handling is in place, additionally
require that TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT is set to one 1.

Strictly speaking, this is not required on a system with GICv2, but the
same model is uniformly followed regardless, for simplicity.

Relevant documentation updated.

Change-Id: I928a8ed081fb0ac96e8b1dfe9375c98384da1ccd
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
parent 1dd022ca
......@@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ runtime.
Test secure payload dispatcher behavior
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**Note:** where this document discusses ``TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT`` as being
``1``, the same results also apply when ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING`` is ``1``.
The TSPD only handles Secure-EL1 interrupts and is provided with the following
routing model at build time.
......@@ -813,9 +816,10 @@ Test secure payload dispatcher non-secure interrupt handling
The TSP in Secure-EL1 can be preempted by a non-secure interrupt during
``yielding`` SMC processing or by a higher priority EL3 interrupt during
Secure-EL1 interrupt processing. Currently only non-secure interrupts can
cause preemption of TSP since there are no EL3 interrupts in the
system.
Secure-EL1 interrupt processing. When ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING`` is ``0``, only
non-secure interrupts can cause preemption of TSP since there are no EL3
interrupts in the system. With ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1`` however, any EL3
interrupt may preempt Secure execution.
It should be noted that while TSP is preempted, the TSPD only allows entry into
the TSP either for Secure-EL1 interrupt handling or for resuming the preempted
......@@ -998,7 +1002,7 @@ TSP by returning ``SMC_UNK`` error.
--------------
*Copyright (c) 2014-2015, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
*Copyright (c) 2014-2018, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
.. _Porting Guide: ./porting-guide.rst
.. _SMC calling convention: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028a/index.html
......
......@@ -617,6 +617,9 @@ Common build options
interrupts to TSP allowing it to save its context and hand over
synchronously to EL3 via an SMC.
Note: when ``EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING`` is ``1``, ``TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT``
must also be set to ``1``.
- ``USE_COHERENT_MEM``: This flag determines whether to include the coherent
memory region in the BL memory map or not (see "Use of Coherent memory in
Trusted Firmware" section in `Firmware Design`_). It can take the value 1
......@@ -1867,7 +1870,7 @@ wakeup interrupt from RTC.
--------------
*Copyright (c) 2013-2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
*Copyright (c) 2013-2018, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.*
.. _Linaro: `Linaro Release Notes`_
.. _Linaro Release: `Linaro Release Notes`_
......
#
# Copyright (c) 2013-2014, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
# Copyright (c) 2013-2018, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
#
......@@ -43,5 +43,11 @@ $(warning "TSPD_ROUTE_IRQ_TO_EL3 is deprecated. Please use the new build flag TS
TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT := ${TSPD_ROUTE_IRQ_TO_EL3}
endif
ifeq ($(EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING),1)
ifeq ($(TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT),0)
$(error When EL3_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=1, TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT must also be 1)
endif
endif
$(eval $(call assert_boolean,TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT))
$(eval $(call add_define,TSP_NS_INTR_ASYNC_PREEMPT))
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