1. 17 Feb, 2014 1 commit
    • Achin Gupta's avatar
      Introduce new exception handling framework · 07f4e078
      Achin Gupta authored
      This patch introduces the reworked exception handling logic which lays
      the foundation for accessing runtime services in later patches. The
      type of an exception has a greater say in the way it is
      handled. SP_EL3 is used as the stack pointer for:
      
      1. Determining the type of exception and handling the unexpected ones
         on the exception stack
      
      2. Saving and restoring the essential general purpose and system
         register state after exception entry and prior to exception exit.
      
      SP_EL0 is used as the stack pointer for handling runtime service
      requests e.g. SMCs. A new structure for preserving general purpose
      register state has been added to the 'cpu_context' structure. All
      assembler ensures that it does not use callee saved registers
      (x19-x29). The C runtime preserves them across functions calls. Hence
      EL3 code does not have to save and restore them explicitly.
      
      Since the exception handling framework has undergone substantial change,
      the changes have been kept in separate files to aid readability. These
      files will replace the existing ones in subsequent patches.
      
      Change-Id: Ice418686592990ff7a4260771e8d6676e6c8c5ef
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