- 17 Feb, 2014 1 commit
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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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