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  1. 29 Sep, 2020 7 commits
    • Andre Przywara's avatar
      arm_fpga: Add post-build linker script · 01301b11
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

For the Arm Ltd. FPGAs to run, we need to load several payloads into the
FPGA's memory:
- Some trampoline code at address 0x0, to jump to BL31's entry point.
- The actual BL31 binary at the beginning of DRAM.
- The (generic) DTB image to describe the hardware.
- The actual non-secure payloads (kernel, ramdisks, ...)

The latter is application specific, but the first three blobs are rather
generic.
Since the uploader tool supports ELF binaries, it seems helpful to
combine these three images into one .axf file, as this also simplifies
the command line.

Add a post-build linker script, that combines those three bits into one
ELF file, together with their specific load addresses.
Include a call to "ld" with this linker script in the platform Makefile,
so it will be build automatically. The result will be called "bl31.axf".

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      arm_fpga: Add ROM trampoline · f45c6d86
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

The application cores of the FPGAs used in Arm Ltd. start execution at
address 0x0. This is the location of some (emulated) ROM area (which can
be written to by the uploading tool).
Since the arm_fpga port is configured to run from DRAM, we load BL31 to
the beginning of DRAM (mapped at 2GB). This requires some small
trampoline code in the "ROM" to jump to the BL31 entry point.

To avoid some extra magic binary, add a tiny assembly file with that
trivial jump instruction to the tree, so this binary can be created
alongside BL31.

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      arm_fpga: Add devicetree file · b48883c7
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

The FPGA images used in Arm Ltd. focus on CPU cores, so they share a
common platform, with a minimal set of peripherals (interconnect, GIC,
UART).
This allows to support most platforms with a single devicetree file.
The topology and number of CPU cores differ, but those will added at
runtime, in BL31. Other adjustments (GICR size, SPE node, command line)
are also done at this point.

Add the common devicetree file to TF-A's build system, so it can be
build together with BL31. At runtime, the resulting .dtb file should be
uploaded to the address given with FPGA_PRELOADED_DTB_BASE at build time.

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      arm_fpga: Remove SPE PMU DT node if SPE is not available · 40a0de19
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

The Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE) is an architectural feature we
can safely detect at runtime. However it still relies on one piece of
platform-specific information: the interrupt line it is connected
to. This requires SPE to be described in a devicetree node.

Since SPE support varies with the CPU cores found on an FPGA image, we
should detect the presence of SPE at runtime, and remove a potentially
existing SPE PMU node from the DT.

This allows to always have the SPE node in a generic devicetree file,
without risking exposing it on a CPU without this feature.

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      arm_fpga: Adjust GICR size in DT to match number of cores · 283e5595
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

The size of a GICv3 redistributor region depends on the number of
cores in the system. For the ARM FPGA port, we detect the topology at
runtime, and adjust the CPU DT nodes accordingly.
Now the size of the GICR region must also be adjusted, or Linux will
fail to initialise the GICv3.

Use the newly introduced function to overwrite the GICR size entry in
the GICv3 reg property. We count the number of existing cores by
iterating over the GICR frames until we find the LAST bit set in TYPER.

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      fdt: Add function to adjust GICv3 redistributor size · 9f7bab42
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

We now have code to detect the CPU topology at runtime, and can also
populate the CPU nodes in a devicetree accordingly. This is used by the
ARM FPGA port, for instance.
But also a GICv3 compatible interrupt controller provides MMIO frames
per core, so the size of this region needs to be adjusted in the DT,
to match the number of cores as well.

Provide a generic function to find the GICv3 interrupt controller in
the DT, then adjust the "reg" entry to match the number of detected
cores. Since the size of the GICR frame per cores differs between
GICv4 and GICv3, this size is supplied as a parameter to the function.
The caller should determine the applicable value by either hardcoding
it or by observing GICR_TYPER.VLPIS.

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      drivers: arm: gicv3: Allow detecting number of cores · 79d89e3d
      Andre Przywara authored 
      

A GICv3 interrupt controller will be instantiated for a certain number
of cores. This will result in the respective number of GICR frames. The
last frame will have the "Last" bit set in its GICR_TYPER register.

For platforms with a topology unknown at build time (the Arm FPGAs, for
instance), we need to learn the number of used cores at runtime, to size
the GICR region in the devicetree accordingly.

Add a generic function that iterates over all GICR frames until it
encounters one with the "Last" bit set. It returns the number of cores
the GICv3 has been configured for.

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