1. 06 Feb, 2017 1 commit
    • Douglas Raillard's avatar
      Introduce unified API to zero memory · 308d359b
      Douglas Raillard authored
      
      
      Introduce zeromem_dczva function on AArch64 that can handle unaligned
      addresses and make use of DC ZVA instruction to zero a whole block at a
      time. This zeroing takes place directly in the cache to speed it up
      without doing external memory access.
      
      Remove the zeromem16 function on AArch64 and replace it with an alias to
      zeromem. This zeromem16 function is now deprecated.
      
      Remove the 16-bytes alignment constraint on __BSS_START__ in
      firmware-design.md as it is now not mandatory anymore (it used to comply
      with zeromem16 requirements).
      
      Change the 16-bytes alignment constraints in SP min's linker script to a
      8-bytes alignment constraint as the AArch32 zeromem implementation is now
      more efficient on 8-bytes aligned addresses.
      
      Introduce zero_normalmem and zeromem helpers in platform agnostic header
      that are implemented this way:
      * AArch32:
      	* zero_normalmem: zero using usual data access
      	* zeromem: alias for zero_normalmem
      * AArch64:
      	* zero_normalmem: zero normal memory  using DC ZVA instruction
      	                  (needs MMU enabled)
      	* zeromem: zero using usual data access
      
      Usage guidelines: in most cases, zero_normalmem should be preferred.
      
      There are 2 scenarios where zeromem (or memset) must be used instead:
      * Code that must run with MMU disabled (which means all memory is
        considered device memory for data accesses).
      * Code that fills device memory with null bytes.
      
      Optionally, the following rule can be applied if performance is
      important:
      * Code zeroing small areas (few bytes) that are not secrets should use
        memset to take advantage of compiler optimizations.
      
        Note: Code zeroing security-related critical information should use
        zero_normalmem/zeromem instead of memset to avoid removal by
        compilers' optimizations in some cases or misbehaving versions of GCC.
      
      Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#408
      
      Change-Id: Iafd9663fc1070413c3e1904e54091cf60effaa82
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      308d359b
  2. 28 Sep, 2016 1 commit
    • Yatharth Kochar's avatar
      AArch32: Add `memcpy4` function in assembly · 9c1dceb1
      Yatharth Kochar authored
      At present the `el3_entrypoint_common` macro uses `memcpy`
      function defined in lib/stdlib/mem.c file, to copy data
      from ROM to RAM for BL1. Depending on the compiler being
      used the stack could potentially be used, in `memcpy`,
      for storing the local variables. Since the stack is
      initialized much later in `el3_entrypoint_common` it
      may result in unknown behaviour.
      
      This patch adds `memcpy4` function definition in assembly so
      that it can be used before the stack is initialized and it
      also replaces `memcpy` by `memcpy4` in `el3_entrypoint_common`
      macro, to copy data from ROM to RAM for BL1.
      
      Change-Id: I3357a0e8095f05f71bbbf0b185585d9499bfd5e0
      9c1dceb1
  3. 21 Sep, 2016 1 commit
    • Yatharth Kochar's avatar
      AArch32: Common changes needed for BL1/BL2 · 1a0a3f06
      Yatharth Kochar authored
      This patch adds common changes to support AArch32 state in
      BL1 and BL2. Following are the changes:
      
      * Added functions for disabling MMU from Secure state.
      * Added AArch32 specific SMC function.
      * Added semihosting support.
      * Added reporting of unhandled exceptions.
      * Added uniprocessor stack support.
      * Added `el3_entrypoint_common` macro that can be
        shared by BL1 and BL32 (SP_MIN) BL stages. The
        `el3_entrypoint_common` is similar to the AArch64
        counterpart with the main difference in the assembly
        instructions and the registers that are relevant to
        AArch32 execution state.
      * Enabled `LOAD_IMAGE_V2` flag in Makefile for
        `ARCH=aarch32` and added check to make sure that
        platform has not overridden to disable it.
      
      Change-Id: I33c6d8dfefb2e5d142fdfd06a0f4a7332962e1a3
      1a0a3f06
  4. 10 Aug, 2016 1 commit
    • Soby Mathew's avatar
      AArch32: Add assembly helpers · f24307de
      Soby Mathew authored
      This patch adds various assembly helpers for AArch32 like :
      
      * cache management : Functions to flush, invalidate and clean
      cache by MVA. Also helpers to do cache operations by set-way
      are also added.
      
      * stack management: Macros to declare stack and get the current
      stack corresponding to current CPU.
      
      * Misc: Macros to access co processor registers in AArch32,
      macros to define functions in assembly, assert macros, generic
      `do_panic()` implementation and function to zero block of memory.
      
      Change-Id: I7b78ca3f922c0eda39beb9786b7150e9193425be
      f24307de