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In order to quantify the overall time spent in the PSCI software
implementation, an initial collection of PMF instrumentation points
has been added.

Instrumentation has been added to the following code paths:

- Entry to PSCI SMC handler.  The timestamp is captured as early
  as possible during the runtime exception and stored in memory
  before entering the PSCI SMC handler.

- Exit from PSCI SMC handler.  The timestamp is captured after
  normal return from the PSCI SMC handler or if a low power state
  was requested it is captured in the bl31 warm boot path before
  return to normal world.

- Entry to low power state.  The timestamp is captured before entry
  to a low power state which implies either standby or power down.
  As these power states are mutually exclusive, only one timestamp
  is defined to describe both.  It is possible to differentiate between
  the two power states using the PSCI STAT interface.

- Exit from low power state.  The timestamp is captured after a standby
  or power up operation has completed.

To calculate the number of cycles spent running code in Trusted Firmware
one can perform the following calculation:

(exit_psci - enter_psci) - (exit_low_pwr - enter_low_pwr).

The resulting number of cycles can be converted to time given the
frequency of the counter.

Change-Id: Ie3b8f3d16409b6703747093b3a2d5c7429ad0166
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

When using more than a single service in PMF, it is necessary that the
per-service timestamps begin on a cache line boundary.  Previously it
was possible that two services shared a cache line for their
timestamps.  This made it difficult to reason about cache maintenance
operations within a single service and required a global understanding
of how all services operate.

Change-Id: Iacaae5154a7e19ad4107468e56df9ad082ee371c

Given the service name and timestamp id, this assembler macro
calculates the offset into a memory region where the per-cpu timestamp
value is located.

Change-Id: I47f6dfa2a17be182675e2ca0489d6eed42433209

More headers will be needed soon so better to move these to their own
directory to avoid cluttering include/lib.

Change-Id: I6a72dc5b602d6f51954cf60aadd1beb52a268670

This patch adds Performance Measurement Framework(PMF) in the
ARM Trusted Firmware. PMF is implemented as a library and the
SMC interface is provided through ARM SiP service.

The PMF provides capturing, storing, dumping and retrieving the
time-stamps, by enabling the development of services by different
providers, that can be easily integrated into ARM Trusted Firmware.
The PMF capture and retrieval APIs can also do appropriate cache
maintenance operations to the timestamp memory when the caller
indicates so.

`pmf_main.c` consists of core functions that implement service
registration, initialization, storing, dumping and retrieving
the time-stamp.
`pmf_smc.c` consists SMC handling for registered PMF services.
`pmf.h` consists of the macros that can be used by the PMF service
providers to register service and declare time-stamp functions.
`pmf_helpers.h` consists of internal macros that are used by `pmf.h`

By default this feature is disabled in the ARM trusted firmware.
To enable it set the boolean flag `ENABLE_PMF` to 1.

NOTE: The caller is responsible for specifying the appropriate cache
maintenance flags and for acquiring/releasing appropriate locks
before/after capturing/retrieving the time-stamps.

Change-Id: Ib45219ac07c2a81b9726ef6bd9c190cc55e81854