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At present, non-secure timer register contents are saved and restored as
part of world switch by BL3-1. This effectively means that the
non-secure timer stops, and non-secure timer interrupts are prevented
from asserting until BL3-1 switches back, introducing latency for
non-secure services. Often, secure world might depend on alternate
sources for secure interrupts (secure timer or platform timer) instead
of non-secure timers, in which case this save and restore is
unnecessary.

This patch introduces a boolean build-time configuration NS_TIMER_SWITCH
to choose whether or not to save and restore non-secure timer registers
upon world switch. The default choice is made not to save and restore
them.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#148

Change-Id: I1b9d623606acb9797c3e0b02fb5ec7c0a414f37e

Change-Id: I6bd077955bf3780168a874705974bbe72ea0f5f1

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#64

Change-Id: I4e56c25f9dc7f486fbf6fa2f7d8253874119b989

If a platform doesn't specify a BLx_SOURCE variable, then building
of the corresponding bootloader isn't attempted. Also allow BL3-3 to
be omitted from the FIP.

Note, this change also removes support for PLAT=all and the 'fip' target
from the 'all' recipe.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#30

Change-Id: Ibdfead0440256eaf364617ecff65290ca6fe6240
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>

Move the firmware design documentation out of user-guide.md
and into a new file - firmware-design.md. Reformat the
section headers.

Change-Id: I664815dd47011c7c1cf2202aa4472a8fd78ebb92

1. Update user-guide.md with the latest versions of dependent
components required by the tested configurations of ARM Trusted
Firmware. This includes the tested versions of Fixed Virtual
Platforms (FVPs), toolchain, EFI Development Kit 2(EDK2),
Linux kernel and Linux file system.

2. Remove the instructions to configure the Cortex Base FVP
with the legacy GICv2 memory map as this is no longer supported
since version 5.3 of the Base FVPs.

3. General tidyup of "Using the software" section.

Change-Id: If8264cd29036b59dc5ff435b5f8b1d072dd36ef0

This patch adds the following support to the BL3-1 stage:

1. BL3-1 allows runtime services to specify and determine the security
   state of the next image after BL3-1. This has been done by adding
   the `bl31_set_next_image_type()` & `bl31_get_next_image_type()`
   apis. The default security state is non-secure. The platform api
   `bl31_get_next_image_info()` has been modified to let the platform
   decide which is the next image in the desired security state.

2. BL3-1 exports the `bl31_prepare_next_image_entry()` function to
   program entry into the target security state. It uses the apis
   introduced in 1. to do so.

3. BL3-1 reads the information populated by BL2 about the BL3-2 image
   into its internal data structures.

4. BL3-1 introduces a weakly defined reference `bl32_init()` to allow
   initialisation of a BL3-2 image. A runtime service like the Secure
   payload dispatcher will define this function if present.

Change-Id: Icc46dcdb9e475ce6575dd3f9a5dc7a48a83d21d1

This patch adds support for loading a BL3-2 image in BL2. In case a
BL3-2 image is found, it also passes information to BL3-1 about where it
is located and the extents of memory available to it. Information about
memory extents is populated by platform specific code.

The documentation has also been updated to reflect the above changes.

Change-Id: I526b2efb80babebab1318f2b02e319a86d6758b0
Co-authored-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

This patch reworks BL2 to BL3-1 hand over interface by introducing a
composite structure (bl31_args) that holds the superset of information
that needs to be passed from BL2 to BL3-1.

  - The extents of secure memory available to BL3-1
  - The extents of memory available to BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and
    BL3-3
  - Information to execute BL3-2 (not yet implemented) and BL3-3 images

This patch also introduces a new platform API (bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr)
that needs to be implemented by the platform code to export reference to
bl31_args structure which has been allocated in platform-defined memory.

The platform will initialize the extents of memory available to BL3-3
during early platform setup in bl31_args structure. This obviates the
need for bl2_get_ns_mem_layout platform API.

BL2 calls the bl2_get_bl31_args_ptr function to get a reference to
bl31_args structure. It uses the 'bl33_meminfo' field of this structure
to load the BL3-3 image. It sets the entry point information for the
BL3-3 image in the 'bl33_image_info' field of this structure. The
reference to this structure is passed to the BL3-1 image.

Also fixes issue ARM-software/tf-issues#25

Change-Id: Ic36426196dd5ebf89e60ff42643bed01b3500517

This fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#9

Change-Id: Id57037115b8762efc9eaf5ff41887b71d6494c5d

New phony Makefile targets have been added:

 * checkcodebase
 * checkpatch

The checkcodebase target will run a Linux style compliance check over the
entire codebase, and honours the V=1 Makefile verbose setting and so will
show more information when this is enabled.

If the local directory is a git checkout then the output of git ls-files is
used to decide which files to test for compliance.  If the local directory
is not under git control then a 'best attempt' is made, but in this case it
should be noted that it is possible for additional non-codebase files to be
tested, so care should be taken when parsing the output.

The checkpatch target will compare local changes against the git origin/master
to allow issues with the last set of changes to be identified.  To override
the change comparision location, set the BASE_COMMIT variable to your
desired git branch.

Both targets rely on the Linux source tree script checkpatch.pl to do the
syntax checking, and expects that the CHECKPATCH environment variable points
to the location of this file.

Notes on the usage of these targets have been added to the contributing.md
and docs/user-guide.md text files.

Change-Id: I6d73c97af578e24a34226d972afadab9d30f1d8d

Move all explicit platform or architecture specific references
into a new platform.mk file that is defined for each platform.

Change-Id: I9d6320d1ba957e0cc8d9b316b3578132331fa428
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>

Traps when accessing architectural features are disabled by clearing bits
in CPTR_EL3 during early boot, including accesses to floating point
registers. The value of this register was previously undetermined, causing
unwanted traps to EL3. Future EL3 code (for example, context save/restore
code) may use floating point registers, although they are not used by current
code.

Also, the '-mgeneral-regs-only' flag is enabled in the GCC settings to
prevent generation of code that uses floating point registers.

Change-Id: I9a03675f6387bbbee81a6f2c9ccf81150db03747

Change-Id: Ic7fb61aabae1d515b9e6baf3dd003807ff42da60

This patch makes changes to the documents to reflect the current
state of play of the psci cpu_suspend function.

Change-Id: I086509fb75111b6e9f93b7f6dbcd33cc4591b9f3

- Add instructions for contributing to ARM Trusted Firmware.

- Update copyright text in all files to acknowledge contributors.

Change-Id: I9311aac81b00c6c167d2f8c889aea403b84450e5

This patch updates the user guide section about the memory layout.
  - Explain the verifications that the linker scripts does on the
    global memory layout.
  - Refer to the new linker symbols.
  - Describe the linker symbols exported to the trusted firmware code.

Change-Id: I033ab2b867e8b9776deb4185b9986bcb8218f286

A single binary can be compiled using a command such as:
  make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-none-elf- bl1

Also make use of brackets consistent in the Makefile.

Change-Id: I2180fdb473411ef7cffe39670a7b2de82def812e

- Large RAM-disks may have trouble starting with 2GB of memory.
- Increase from 2GB to 4GB in FDT.

Change-Id: I12c1b8e5db41114b88c69c48621cb21247a6a6a7

Any asynchronous exception caused by the firmware should be handled
in the firmware itself.  For this reason, unmask SError exceptions
(and Debug ones as well) on all boot paths.  Also route external
abort and SError interrupts to EL3, otherwise they will target EL1.

Change-Id: I9c191d2d0dcfef85f265641c8460dfbb4d112092

Change-Id: I4e2a9daa97e3be3d2f53894f2ec7947ba6bb3a16

Change-Id: I5e47ba96e128d3a793517441f5a6c9f2ccbdfc66