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This partially reverts commit d6b532b5

, keeping only the fixes to
the assertions. The changes related to the order of arguments passed
to the secure partition were not correct and violated the
specification of the SP_EVENT_COMPLETE SMC.

This patch also improves the MM_COMMUNICATE argument validation.  The
cookie argument, as it comes from normal world, can't be trusted and thus
needs to always be validated at run time rather than using an assertion.

Also validate the communication buffer address and return
INVALID_PARAMETER if it is zero, as per the MM specification.

Fix a few typos in comments and use the "secure partition" terminology
rather than "secure payload".

Change-Id: Ice6b7b5494b729dd44611f9a93d362c55ab244f7
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

Rename SP_COMMUNICATE_AARCH32/AARCH64 into MM_COMMUNICATE_AARCH32/AARCH64
to align with the MM specification [1].

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0060a/DEN0060A_ARM_MM_Interface_Specification.pdf



Change-Id: I478aa4024ace7507d14a5d366aa8e20681075b03
Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>

The defines have been renamed to match the names used in the
documentation.

Change-Id: I2f18b65112d2db040a89d5a8522e9790c3e21628
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

The parameters passed to the Secure world from the Secure Partition
Manager when invoking SP_COMMUNICATE_AARCH32/64 were incorrect, as well
as the checks done on them.

Change-Id: I26e8c80cad0b83437db7aaada3d0d9add1c53a78
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

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: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>