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This patch optimizes the Cortex-A57 cluster power down sequence by not
flushing the Level1 data cache. The L1 data cache and the L2 unified
cache are inclusive. A flush of the L2 by set/way flushes any dirty
lines from the L1 as well. This is a known safe deviation from the
Cortex-A57 TRM defined power down sequence. This optimization can be
enabled by the platform through the 'SKIP_A57_L1_FLUSH_PWR_DWN' build
flag. Each Cortex-A57 based platform must make its own decision on
whether to use the optimization.

This patch also renames the cpu-errata-workarounds.md to
cpu-specific-build-macros.md as this facilitates documentation
of both CPU Specific errata and CPU Specific Optimization
build macros.

Change-Id: I299b9fe79e9a7e08e8a0dffb7d345f9a00a71480

Prior to this patch, the errata workarounds were applied for any version
of the CPU in the release build and in the debug build an assert
failure resulted when the revision did not match. This patch applies
errata workarounds in the Cortex-A57 reset handler only if the 'variant'
and 'revision' fields read from the MIDR_EL1 match. In the debug build,
a warning message is printed for each errata workaround which is not
applied.

The patch modifies the register usage in 'reset_handler` so
as to adhere to ARM procedure calling standards.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#242

Change-Id: I51b1f876474599db885afa03346e38a476f84c29

This patch gathers miscellaneous minor fixes to the documentation, and comments
in the source code.

Change-Id: I631e3dda5abafa2d90f464edaee069a1e58b751b
Co-Authored-By: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>

This patch adds documentation for CPU specific abstraction in the firmware-
design.md and adds a new document cpu-errata-workarounds.md to describe
the cpu errata workaround build flags.

Change-Id: Ia08c2fec0b868a0a107d0264e87a60182797a1bd