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There are many instances in ARM Trusted Firmware where control is
transferred to functions from which return isn't expected. Such jumps
are made using 'bl' instruction to provide the callee with the location
from which it was jumped to. Additionally, debuggers infer the caller by
examining where 'lr' register points to. If a 'bl' of the nature
described above falls at the end of an assembly function, 'lr' will be
left pointing to a location outside of the function range. This misleads
the debugger back trace.

This patch defines a 'no_ret' macro to be used when jumping to functions
from which return isn't expected. The macro ensures to use 'bl'
instruction for the jump, and also, for debug builds, places a 'nop'
instruction immediately thereafter (unless instructed otherwise) so as
to leave 'lr' pointing within the function range.

Change-Id: Ib34c69fc09197cfd57bc06e147cc8252910e01b0
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

This patch removes the tight loop that calls `plat_report_exception`
in unhandled exceptions in AArch64 state.
The new behaviour is to call the `plat_report_exception` only
once followed by call to `plat_panic_handler`.
This allows platforms to take platform-specific action when
there is an unhandled exception, instead of always spinning
in a tight loop.

Note: This is a subtle break in behaviour for platforms that
      expect `plat_report_exception` to be continuously executed
      when there is an unhandled exception.

Change-Id: Ie2453804b9b7caf9b010ee73e1a90eeb8384e4e8

This patch introduces some assembler macros to simplify the
declaration of the exception vectors. It abstracts the section
the exception code is put into as well as the alignments
constraints mandated by the ARMv8 architecture. For all TF images,
the exception code has been updated to make use of these macros.

This patch also updates some invalid comments in the exception
vector code.

Change-Id: I35737b8f1c8c24b6da89b0a954c8152a4096fa95

This patch removes the dash character from the image name, to
follow the image terminology in the Trusted Firmware Wiki page:

    https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/wiki

Changes apply to output messages, comments and documentation.

non-ARM platform files have been left unmodified.

Change-Id: Ic2a99be4ed929d52afbeb27ac765ceffce46ed76

The upcoming Firmware Update feature needs transitioning across
Secure/Normal worlds to complete the FWU process and hence requires
context management code to perform this task.

Currently context management code is part of BL31 stage only.
This patch moves the code from (include)/bl31 to (include)/common.
Some function declarations/definitions and macros have also moved
to different files to help code sharing.

Change-Id: I3858b08aecdb76d390765ab2b099f457873f7b0c

Reduce the number of header files included from other header
files as much as possible without splitting the files. Use forward
declarations where possible. This allows removal of some unnecessary
"#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__" statements.

Also, review the .c and .S files for which header files really need
including and reorder the #include statements alphabetically.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#31

Change-Id: Iec92fb976334c77453e010b60bcf56f3be72bd3e

bl1/aarch64/early_exceptions.S used to be re-used by BL2, BL3-1 and
BL3-2.  There was some early SMC handling code in there that was not
required by the other bootloader stages.  Therefore this patch
introduces an even simpler exception vector source file for BL2,
BL3-1 and BL3-2.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#38

Change-Id: I0244b80e9930b0f8035156a0bf91cc3e9a8f995d

Each ARM Trusted Firmware image should know in which EL it is running
and it should use the corresponding register directly instead of reading
currentEL and knowing which asm register to read/write

Change-Id: Ief35630190b6f07c8fbb7ba6cb20db308f002945

This patch adds guards so that an exception vector exceeding 32
instructions will generate a compile-time error. This keeps the
exception handlers in check from spilling over.

Change-Id: I7aa56dd0071a333664e2814c656d3896032046fe

This patch ensures that VBAR_EL3 points to the simple stack-less
'early_exceptions' when the C runtime stack is not correctly setup to
use the more complex 'runtime_exceptions'. It is initialised to
'runtime_exceptions' once this is done.

This patch also moves all exception vectors into a '.vectors' section
and modifies linker scripts to place all such sections together. This
will minimize space wastage from alignment restrictions.

Change-Id: I8c3e596ea3412c8bd582af9e8d622bb1cb2e049d

The SynchronousExceptionA64 vector has gone beyond the 32-instruction
limit for individual exception vector. This patch splits and relocates
the exception handler so that it fits into the 32-instruction window.

Change-Id: Ic60c4fc3f09a1cb071d63ff0e58353ecaecbb62f

This patch replaces the empty definition of display_boot_progress() in
bl2_main.c with a weak definition. The former allowed bl2 to use the
early_exceptions(). It is possible to do that with a simple weak
definition as well.

Change-Id: Idb3f425a5e265f3579b638e3d26bd8c9bb78f80d

Change-Id: Ic7fb61aabae1d515b9e6baf3dd003807ff42da60

- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.

- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.

Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5