1. 17 Jun, 2019 1 commit
  2. 24 May, 2019 1 commit
    • Alexei Fedorov's avatar
      Add support for Branch Target Identification · 9fc59639
      Alexei Fedorov authored
      
      
      This patch adds the functionality needed for platforms to provide
      Branch Target Identification (BTI) extension, introduced to AArch64
      in Armv8.5-A by adding BTI instruction used to mark valid targets
      for indirect branches. The patch sets new GP bit [50] to the stage 1
      Translation Table Block and Page entries to denote guarded EL3 code
      pages which will cause processor to trap instructions in protected
      pages trying to perform an indirect branch to any instruction other
      than BTI.
      BTI feature is selected by BRANCH_PROTECTION option which supersedes
      the previous ENABLE_PAUTH used for Armv8.3-A Pointer Authentication
      and is disabled by default. Enabling BTI requires compiler support
      and was tested with GCC versions 9.0.0, 9.0.1 and 10.0.0.
      The assembly macros and helpers are modified to accommodate the BTI
      instruction.
      This is an experimental feature.
      Note. The previous ENABLE_PAUTH build option to enable PAuth in EL3
      is now made as an internal flag and BRANCH_PROTECTION flag should be
      used instead to enable Pointer Authentication.
      Note. USE_LIBROM=1 option is currently not supported.
      
      Change-Id: Ifaf4438609b16647dc79468b70cd1f47a623362e
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>
      9fc59639
  3. 03 Apr, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      SPM: Move shim layer to TTBR1_EL1 · 6de6965b
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      This gives each Secure Partition complete freedom on its address space.
      Previously, the memory used by the exception vectors was reserved and
      couldn't be used. Also, it always had to be mapped, forcing SPM to
      generate translation tables that included the exception vectors as well
      as the Partition memory regions. With this change, partitions can reduce
      their address space size easily.
      
      Change-Id: I67fb5e9bdf2870b73347f23bff702fab0a8f8711
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      6de6965b
  4. 14 Mar, 2019 1 commit
  5. 28 Feb, 2019 2 commits
  6. 27 Feb, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Add ARMv8.3-PAuth registers to CPU context · 5283962e
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      ARMv8.3-PAuth adds functionality that supports address authentication of
      the contents of a register before that register is used as the target of
      an indirect branch, or as a load.
      
      This feature is supported only in AArch64 state.
      
      This feature is mandatory in ARMv8.3 implementations.
      
      This feature adds several registers to EL1. A new option called
      CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS has been added to select if the TF needs to save
      them during Non-secure <-> Secure world switches. This option must be
      enabled if the hardware has the registers or the values will be leaked
      during world switches.
      
      To prevent leaks, this patch also disables pointer authentication in the
      Secure world if CTX_INCLUDE_PAUTH_REGS is 0. Any attempt to use it will
      be trapped in EL3.
      
      Change-Id: I27beba9907b9a86c6df1d0c5bf6180c972830855
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      5283962e
  7. 26 Feb, 2019 1 commit
  8. 18 Feb, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Disable processor Cycle Counting in Secure state · ed4fc6f0
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      In a system with ARMv8.5-PMU implemented:
      
      - If EL3 is using AArch32, setting MDCR_EL3.SCCD to 1 disables counting
        in Secure state in PMCCNTR.
      
      - If EL3 is using AArch64, setting SDCR.SCCD to 1 disables counting in
        Secure state in PMCCNTR_EL0.
      
      So far this effect has been achieved by setting PMCR_EL0.DP (in AArch64)
      or PMCR.DP (in AArch32) to 1 instead, but this isn't considered secure
      as any EL can change that value.
      
      Change-Id: I82cbb3e48f2e5a55c44d9c4445683c5881ef1f6f
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      ed4fc6f0
  9. 30 Jan, 2019 1 commit
    • Sathees Balya's avatar
      lib/xlat_tables: Add support for ARMv8.4-TTST · cedfa04b
      Sathees Balya authored
      
      
      ARMv8.4-TTST (Small Translation tables) relaxes the lower limit on the
      size of translation tables by increasing the maximum permitted value
      of the T1SZ and T0SZ fields in TCR_EL1, TCR_EL2, TCR_EL3, VTCR_EL2 and
      VSTCR_EL2.
      
      This feature is supported in AArch64 state only.
      
      This patch adds support for this feature to both versions of the
      translation tables library. It also removes the static build time
      checks for virtual address space size checks to runtime assertions.
      
      Change-Id: I4e8cebc197ec1c2092dc7d307486616786e6c093
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSathees Balya <sathees.balya@arm.com>
      cedfa04b
  10. 11 Jan, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      xlat v2: Dynamically detect need for CnP bit · 2559b2c8
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      ARMv8.2-TTCNP is mandatory from ARMv8.2 onwards, but it can be implemented
      in CPUs that don't implement all mandatory 8.2 features (and so have to
      claim to be a lower version).
      
      This patch removes usage of the ARM_ARCH_AT_LEAST() macro and uses system
      ID registers to detect whether it is needed to set the bit or not.
      
      Change-Id: I7bcbf0c7c937590dfc2ca668cfd9267c50f7d52c
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      2559b2c8
  11. 04 Jan, 2019 2 commits
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Sanitise includes across codebase · 09d40e0e
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.
      
      The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:
      
      - include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
      - include/lib/el3_runtime/${ARCH}
      
      The reason for this change is that having a global namespace for
      includes isn't a good idea. It defeats one of the advantages of having
      folders and it introduces problems that are sometimes subtle (because
      you may not know the header you are actually including if there are two
      of them).
      
      For example, this patch had to be created because two headers were
      called the same way: e0ea0928 ("Fix gpio includes of mt8173 platform
      to avoid collision."). More recently, this patch has had similar
      problems: 46f9b2c3 ("drivers: add tzc380 support").
      
      This problem was introduced in commit 4ecca339
      
       ("Move include and
      source files to logical locations"). At that time, there weren't too
      many headers so it wasn't a real issue. However, time has shown that
      this creates problems.
      
      Platforms that want to preserve the way they include headers may add the
      removed paths to PLAT_INCLUDES, but this is discouraged.
      
      Change-Id: I39dc53ed98f9e297a5966e723d1936d6ccf2fc8f
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      09d40e0e
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Reorganize architecture-dependent header files · f5478ded
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      The architecture dependant header files in include/lib/${ARCH} and
      include/common/${ARCH} have been moved to /include/arch/${ARCH}.
      
      Change-Id: I96f30fdb80b191a51448ddf11b1d4a0624c03394
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      f5478ded
  12. 03 Jan, 2019 1 commit
  13. 18 Dec, 2018 1 commit
  14. 10 Dec, 2018 1 commit
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      AArch64: Use SSBS for CVE_2018_3639 mitigation · 48e1d350
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      The Armv8.5 extensions introduces PSTATE.SSBS (Speculation Store Bypass
      Safe) bit to mitigate against Variant 4 vulnerabilities. Although an
      Armv8.5 feature, this can be implemented by CPUs implementing earlier
      version of the architecture.
      
      With this patch, when both PSTATE.SSBS is implemented and
      DYNAMIC_WORKAROUND_CVE_2018_3639 is active, querying for
      SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 via. SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES call would return 1 to
      indicate that mitigation on the PE is either permanently enabled or not
      required.
      
      When SSBS is implemented, SCTLR_EL3.DSSBS is initialized to 0 at reset
      of every BL stage. This means that EL3 always executes with mitigation
      applied.
      
      For Cortex A76, if the PE implements SSBS, the existing mitigation (by
      using a different vector table, and tweaking CPU ACTLR2) is not used.
      
      Change-Id: Ib0386c5714184144d4747951751c2fc6ba4242b6
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      48e1d350
  15. 26 Nov, 2018 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Synchronise arch.h and arch_helpers.h with TF-A-Tests · 932b3ae2
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      The headers forked at some point in the past and have diverged a lot. In
      order to make it easier to share code between TF-A-Tests and TF-A, this
      patch synchronises most of the definitions in the mentioned headers.
      
      This is not a complete sync, it has to be followed by more cleanup.
      
      This patch also removes the read helpers for the AArch32 instructions
      ats1cpr and ats1hr (they are write-only).
      
      Change-Id: Id13ecd7aeb83bd2318cd47156d71a42f1c9f6ba2
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      932b3ae2
  16. 16 Oct, 2018 1 commit
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      AArch64: Enable lower ELs to use pointer authentication · 3ff4aaac
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      Pointer authentication is an Armv8.3 feature that introduces
      instructions that can be used to authenticate and verify pointers.
      
      Pointer authentication instructions are allowed to be accessed from all
      ELs but only when EL3 explicitly allows for it; otherwise, their usage
      will trap to EL3. Since EL3 doesn't have trap handling in place, this
      patch unconditionally disables all related traps to EL3 to avoid
      potential misconfiguration leading to an unhandled EL3 exception.
      
      Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#629
      
      Change-Id: I9bd2efe0dc714196f503713b721ffbf05672c14d
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      3ff4aaac
  17. 28 Sep, 2018 1 commit
  18. 30 Aug, 2018 1 commit
  19. 20 Aug, 2018 1 commit
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      AArch64: Enable MPAM for lower ELs · 5f835918
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      Memory Partitioning And Monitoring is an Armv8.4 feature that enables
      various memory system components and resources to define partitions.
      Software running at various ELs can then assign themselves to the
      desired partition to control their performance aspects.
      
      With this patch, when ENABLE_MPAM_FOR_LOWER_ELS is set to 1, EL3 allows
      lower ELs to access their own MPAM registers without trapping to EL3.
      This patch however doesn't make use of partitioning in EL3; platform
      initialisation code should configure and use partitions in EL3 if
      required.
      
      Change-Id: I5a55b6771ccaa0c1cffc05543d2116b60cbbcdcd
      Co-authored-by: default avatarJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      5f835918
  20. 10 Aug, 2018 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      xlat v2: Support the EL2 translation regime · 1a92a0e0
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      The translation library is useful elsewhere. Even though this repository
      doesn't exercise the EL2 support of the library, it is better to have it
      here as well to make it easier to maintain.
      
      enable_mmu_secure() and enable_mmu_direct() have been deprecated. The
      functions are still present, but they are behind ERROR_DEPRECATED and
      they call the new functions enable_mmu_svc_mon() and
      enable_mmu_direct_svc_mon().
      
      Change-Id: I13ad10cd048d9cc2d55e0fff9a5133671b67dcba
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      1a92a0e0
  21. 20 Jul, 2018 1 commit
  22. 18 Jul, 2018 2 commits
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Fix types of arch.h definitions · 30399885
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      Define the values as unsigned int or unsigned long long based on the
      actual size of the register. This prevents subtle issues caused by
      having a type that is too small. For example:
      
          #define OPTION_ENABLE 0x3
          #define OPTION_SHIFT  32
      
          uint64_t mask = OPTION_ENABLE << OPTION_SHIFT;
      
      Because OPTION_ENABLE fits in an int, the value is considered an int.
      This means that, after shifting it 32 places to the left, the final
      result is 0. The correct way to define the values is:
      
          #define OPTION_ENABLE ULL(0x3)
          #define OPTION_SHIFT  U(32)
      
      In this case, the compiler is forced to use a 64 bit value from the
      start, so shifting it 32 places to the left results in the expected
      value.
      
      Change-Id: Ieaf2ffc2d8caa48c622db011f2aef549e713e019
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      30399885
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Add missing parentheses to macros in arch.h · 0107aa49
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      Change-Id: Ifea46da46d1bfd01b341acfad75df5bcab48a204
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      0107aa49
  23. 20 Jun, 2018 1 commit
    • Soby Mathew's avatar
      ARM Platforms: Update CNTFRQ register in CNTCTLBase frame · 342d6220
      Soby Mathew authored
      
      
      Currently TF-A doesn't initialise CNTFRQ register in CNTCTLBase
      frame of the system timer. ARM ARM states that "The instance of
      the register in the CNTCTLBase frame must be programmed with this
      value as part of system initialization."
      
      The psci_arch_setup() updates the CNTFRQ system register but
      according to the ARM ARM, this instance of the register is
      independent of the memory mapped instance. This is only an issue
      for Normal world software which relies on the memory mapped
      instance rather than the system register one.
      
      This patch resolves the issue for ARM platforms.
      
      The patch also solves a related issue on Juno, wherein
      CNTBaseN.CNTFRQ can be written and does not reflect the value of
      the register in CNTCTLBase frame. Hence this patch additionally
      updates CNTFRQ register in the Non Secure frame of the CNTBaseN.
      
      Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#593
      
      Change-Id: I09cebb6633688b34d5b1bc349fbde4751025b350
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSoby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
      342d6220
  24. 04 May, 2018 4 commits
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      RAS: Add fault injection support · 1a7c1cfe
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      The ARMv8.4 RAS extensions introduce architectural support for software
      to inject faults into the system in order to test fault-handling
      software. This patch introduces the build option FAULT_HANDLING_SUPPORT
      to allow for lower ELs to use registers in the Standard Error Record to
      inject fault. The build option RAS_EXTENSIONS must also be enabled along
      with fault injection.
      
      This feature is intended for testing purposes only, and is advisable to
      keep disabled for production images.
      
      Change-Id: I6f7a4454b15aec098f9505a10eb188c2f928f7ea
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      1a7c1cfe
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      RAS: Add helpers to access Standard Error Records · 30d81c36
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      The ARMv8 RAS Extensions introduced Standard Error Records which are a
      set of standard registers through which:
      
        - Platform can configure RAS node policy; e.g., notification
          mechanism;
      
        - RAS nodes can record and expose error information for error handling
          agents.
      
      Standard Error Records can either be accessed via. memory-mapped
      or System registers. This patch adds helper functions to access
      registers and fields within an error record.
      
      Change-Id: I6594ba799f4a1789d7b1e45b3e17fd40e7e0ba5c
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      30d81c36
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      AArch64: Introduce RAS handling · 14c6016a
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      RAS extensions are mandatory for ARMv8.2 CPUs, but are also optional
      extensions to base ARMv8.0 architecture.
      
      This patch adds build system support to enable RAS features in ARM
      Trusted Firmware. A boolean build option RAS_EXTENSION is introduced for
      this.
      
      With RAS_EXTENSION, an Exception Synchronization Barrier (ESB) is
      inserted at all EL3 vector entry and exit. ESBs will synchronize pending
      external aborts before entering EL3, and therefore will contain and
      attribute errors to lower EL execution. Any errors thus synchronized are
      detected via. DISR_EL1 register.
      
      When RAS_EXTENSION is set to 1, HANDLE_EL3_EA_FIRST must also be set to 1.
      
      Change-Id: I38a19d84014d4d8af688bd81d61ba582c039383a
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      14c6016a
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      AArch64: Introduce External Abort handling · 76454abf
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      At present, any External Abort routed to EL3 is reported as an unhandled
      exception and cause a panic. This patch enables ARM Trusted Firmware to
      handle External Aborts routed to EL3.
      
      With this patch, when an External Abort is received at EL3, its handling
      is delegated to plat_ea_handler() function. Platforms can provide their
      own implementation of this function. This patch adds a weak definition
      of the said function that prints out a message and just panics.
      
      In order to support handling External Aborts at EL3, the build option
      HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST must be set to 1.
      
      Before this patch, HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST wasn't passed down to
      compilation; this patch fixes that too.
      
      Change-Id: I4d07b7e65eb191ff72d63b909ae9512478cd01a1
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      76454abf
  25. 17 Apr, 2018 1 commit
  26. 11 Jan, 2018 3 commits
    • Dimitris Papastamos's avatar
      AMU: Add configuration helpers for aarch64 · 0767d50e
      Dimitris Papastamos authored
      
      
      Add some AMU helper functions to allow configuring, reading and
      writing of the Group 0 and Group 1 counters.  Documentation for these
      helpers will come in a separate patch.
      
      Change-Id: I656e070d2dae830c22414f694aa655341d4e2c40
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
      0767d50e
    • Dimitris Papastamos's avatar
      Use PFR0 to identify need for mitigation of CVE-2017-5915 · 780edd86
      Dimitris Papastamos authored
      
      
      If the CSV2 field reads as 1 then branch targets trained in one
      context cannot affect speculative execution in a different context.
      In that case skip the workaround on Cortex A75.
      
      Change-Id: I4d5504cba516a67311fb5f0657b08f72909cbd38
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
      780edd86
    • Dimitris Papastamos's avatar
      Workaround for CVE-2017-5715 on Cortex A73 and A75 · a1781a21
      Dimitris Papastamos authored
      
      
      Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by
      temporarily dropping into AArch32 Secure-EL1 and executing the
      `BPIALL` instruction.
      
      This is achieved by using 3 vector tables.  There is the runtime
      vector table which is used to handle exceptions and 2 additional
      tables which are required to implement this workaround.  The
      additional tables are `vbar0` and `vbar1`.
      
      The sequence of events for handling a single exception is
      as follows:
      
      1) Install vector table `vbar0` which saves the CPU context on entry
         to EL3 and sets up the Secure-EL1 context to execute in AArch32 mode
         with the MMU disabled and I$ enabled.  This is the default vector table.
      
      2) Before doing an ERET into Secure-EL1, switch vbar to point to
         another vector table `vbar1`.  This is required to restore EL3 state
         when returning from the workaround, before proceeding with normal EL3
         exception handling.
      
      3) While in Secure-EL1, the `BPIALL` instruction is executed and an
         SMC call back to EL3 is performed.
      
      4) On entry to EL3 from Secure-EL1, the saved context from step 1) is
         restored.  The vbar is switched to point to `vbar0` in preparation to
         handle further exceptions.  Finally a branch to the runtime vector
         table entry is taken to complete the handling of the original
         exception.
      
      This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.
      
      NOTE
      ====
      
      There are 4 different stubs in Secure-EL1.  Each stub corresponds to
      an exception type such as Sync/IRQ/FIQ/SError.  Each stub will move a
      different value in `R0` before doing an SMC call back into EL3.
      Without this piece of information it would not be possible to know
      what the original exception type was as we cannot use `ESR_EL3` to
      distinguish between IRQs and FIQs.
      
      Change-Id: I90b32d14a3735290b48685d43c70c99daaa4b434
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
      a1781a21
  27. 30 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • David Cunado's avatar
      Enable SVE for Non-secure world · 1a853370
      David Cunado authored
      
      
      This patch adds a new build option, ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS, which when set
      to one EL3 will check to see if the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) is
      implemented when entering and exiting the Non-secure world.
      
      If SVE is implemented, EL3 will do the following:
      
      - Entry to Non-secure world: SIMD, FP and SVE functionality is enabled.
      
      - Exit from Non-secure world: SIMD, FP and SVE functionality is
        disabled. As SIMD and FP registers are part of the SVE Z-registers
        then any use of SIMD / FP functionality would corrupt the SVE
        registers.
      
      The build option default is 1. The SVE functionality is only supported
      on AArch64 and so the build option is set to zero when the target
      archiecture is AArch32.
      
      This build option is not compatible with the CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS - an
      assert will be raised on platforms where SVE is implemented and both
      ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS and CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS are set to 1.
      
      Also note this change prevents secure world use of FP&SIMD registers on
      SVE-enabled platforms. Existing Secure-EL1 Payloads will not work on
      such platforms unless ENABLE_SVE_FOR_NS is set to 0.
      
      Additionally, on the first entry into the Non-secure world the SVE
      functionality is enabled and the SVE Z-register length is set to the
      maximum size allowed by the architecture. This includes the use case
      where EL2 is implemented but not used.
      
      Change-Id: Ie2d733ddaba0b9bef1d7c9765503155188fe7dae
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
      1a853370
  28. 29 Nov, 2017 1 commit
  29. 20 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • Dimitris Papastamos's avatar
      Refactor Statistical Profiling Extensions implementation · 281a08cc
      Dimitris Papastamos authored
      
      
      Factor out SPE operations in a separate file.  Use the publish
      subscribe framework to drain the SPE buffers before entering secure
      world.  Additionally, enable SPE before entering normal world.
      
      A side effect of this change is that the profiling buffers are now
      only drained when a transition from normal world to secure world
      happens.  Previously they were drained also on return from secure
      world, which is unnecessary as SPE is not supported in S-EL1.
      
      Change-Id: I17582c689b4b525770dbb6db098b3a0b5777b70a
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
      281a08cc
  30. 17 Nov, 2017 1 commit
  31. 13 Nov, 2017 1 commit
  32. 08 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      SPM: Introduce Secure Partition Manager · 2fccb228
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      A Secure Partition is a software execution environment instantiated in
      S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple management and security
      services. Since S-EL0 is an unprivileged exception level, a Secure
      Partition relies on privileged firmware e.g. ARM Trusted Firmware to be
      granted access to system and processor resources. Essentially, it is a
      software sandbox that runs under the control of privileged software in
      the Secure World and accesses the following system resources:
      
      - Memory and device regions in the system address map.
      - PE system registers.
      - A range of asynchronous exceptions e.g. interrupts.
      - A range of synchronous exceptions e.g. SMC function identifiers.
      
      A Secure Partition enables privileged firmware to implement only the
      absolutely essential secure services in EL3 and instantiate the rest in
      a partition. Since the partition executes in S-EL0, its implementation
      cannot be overly complex.
      
      The component in ARM Trusted Firmware responsible for managing a Secure
      Partition is called the Secure Partition Manager (SPM). The SPM is
      responsible for the following:
      
      - Validating and allocating resources requested by a Secure Partition.
      - Implementing a well defined interface that is used for initialising a
        Secure Partition.
      - Implementing a well defined interface that is used by the normal world
        and other secure services for accessing the services exported by a
        Secure Partition.
      - Implementing a well defined interface that is used by a Secure
        Partition to fulfil service requests.
      - Instantiating the software execution environment required by a Secure
        Partition to fulfil a service request.
      
      Change-Id: I6f7862d6bba8732db5b73f54e789d717a35e802f
      Co-authored-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      Co-authored-by: default avatarSandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
      Co-authored-by: default avatarAchin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
      Co-authored-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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