1. 02 Apr, 2020 2 commits
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      linker_script: move bss section to bl_common.ld.h · a7739bc7
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      
      Move the bss section to the common header. This adds BAKERY_LOCK_NORMAL
      and PMF_TIMESTAMP, which previously existed only in BL31. This is not
      a big deal because unused data should not be compiled in the first
      place. I believe this should be controlled by BL*_SOURCES in Makefiles,
      not by linker scripts.
      
      I investigated BL1, BL2, BL2U, BL31 for plat=fvp, and BL2-AT-EL3,
      BL31, BL31 for plat=uniphier. I did not see any more  unexpected
      code addition.
      
      The bss section has bigger alignment. I added BSS_ALIGN for this.
      
      Currently, SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT() is missing in sp_min.ld.S, and with this
      change, the BSS symbols in SP_MIN will be sorted by the alignment.
      This is not a big deal (or, even better in terms of the image size).
      
      Change-Id: I680ee61f84067a559bac0757f9d03e73119beb33
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      a7739bc7
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      linker_script: replace common read-only data with RODATA_COMMON · 0a0a7a9a
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      The common section data are repeated in many linker scripts (often
      twice in each script to support SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA). When you
      add a new read-only data section, you end up with touching lots of
      places.
      
      After this commit, you will only need to touch bl_common.ld.h when
      you add a new section to RODATA_COMMON.
      
      Replace a series of RO section with RODATA_COMMON, which contains
      6 sections, some of which did not exist before.
      
      This is not a big deal because unneeded data should not be compiled
      in the first place. I believe this should be controlled by BL*_SOURCES
      in Makefiles, not by linker scripts.
      
      When I was working on this commit, the BL1 image size increased
      due to the fconf_populator. Commit c452ba15
      
       ("fconf: exclude
      fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c from BL1_SOURCES") fixed this issue.
      
      I investigated BL1, BL2, BL2U, BL31 for plat=fvp, and BL2-AT-EL3,
      BL31, BL31 for plat=uniphier. I did not see any more  unexpected
      code addition.
      
      Change-Id: I5d14d60dbe3c821765bce3ae538968ef266f1460
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      0a0a7a9a
  2. 11 Mar, 2020 1 commit
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      Factor xlat_table sections in linker scripts out into a header file · 665e71b8
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      
      
      TF-A has so many linker scripts, at least one linker script for each BL
      image, and some platforms have their own ones. They duplicate quite
      similar code (and comments).
      
      When we add some changes to linker scripts, we end up with touching
      so many files. This is not nice in the maintainability perspective.
      
      When you look at Linux kernel, the common code is macrofied in
      include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, which is included from each arch
      linker script, arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
      
      TF-A can follow this approach. Let's factor out the common code into
      include/common/bl_common.ld.h
      
      As a start point, this commit factors out the xlat_table section.
      
      Change-Id: Ifa369e9b48e8e12702535d721cc2a16d12397895
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      665e71b8
  3. 04 Dec, 2019 1 commit
    • Samuel Holland's avatar
      Reduce space lost to object alignment · ebd6efae
      Samuel Holland authored
      
      
      Currently, sections within .text/.rodata/.data/.bss are emitted in the
      order they are seen by the linker. This leads to wasted space, when a
      section with a larger alignment follows one with a smaller alignment.
      We can avoid this wasted space by sorting the sections.
      
      To take full advantage of this, we must disable generation of common
      symbols, so "common" data can be sorted along with the rest of .bss.
      
      An example of the improvement, from `make DEBUG=1 PLAT=sun50i_a64 bl31`:
        .text   => no change
        .rodata => 16 bytes saved
        .data   => 11 bytes saved
        .bss    => 576 bytes saved
      
      As a side effect, the addition of `-fno-common` in TF_CFLAGS makes it
      easier to spot bugs in header files.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
      Change-Id: I073630a9b0b84e7302a7a500d4bb4b547be01d51
      ebd6efae
  4. 03 Oct, 2019 1 commit
  5. 01 Aug, 2019 1 commit
    • Julius Werner's avatar
      Switch AARCH32/AARCH64 to __aarch64__ · 402b3cf8
      Julius Werner authored
      
      
      NOTE: AARCH32/AARCH64 macros are now deprecated in favor of __aarch64__.
      
      All common C compilers pre-define the same macros to signal which
      architecture the code is being compiled for: __arm__ for AArch32 (or
      earlier versions) and __aarch64__ for AArch64. There's no need for TF-A
      to define its own custom macros for this. In order to unify code with
      the export headers (which use __aarch64__ to avoid another dependency),
      let's deprecate the AARCH32 and AARCH64 macros and switch the code base
      over to the pre-defined standard macro. (Since it is somewhat
      unintuitive that __arm__ only means AArch32, let's standardize on only
      using __aarch64__.)
      
      Change-Id: Ic77de4b052297d77f38fc95f95f65a8ee70cf200
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
      402b3cf8
  6. 12 Mar, 2019 1 commit
    • John Tsichritzis's avatar
      Apply stricter speculative load restriction · 02b57943
      John Tsichritzis authored
      
      
      The SCTLR.DSSBS bit is zero by default thus disabling speculative loads.
      However, we also explicitly set it to zero for BL2 and TSP images when
      each image initialises its context. This is done to ensure that the
      image environment is initialised in a safe state, regardless of the
      reset value of the bit.
      
      Change-Id: If25a8396641edb640f7f298b8d3309d5cba3cd79
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Tsichritzis <john.tsichritzis@arm.com>
      02b57943
  7. 04 Jan, 2019 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Sanitise includes across codebase · 09d40e0e
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      Enforce full include path for includes. Deprecate old paths.
      
      The following folders inside include/lib have been left unchanged:
      
      - include/lib/cpus/${ARCH}
      - include/lib/el3_runtime/${ARCH}
      
      The reason for this change is that having a global namespace for
      includes isn't a good idea. It defeats one of the advantages of having
      folders and it introduces problems that are sometimes subtle (because
      you may not know the header you are actually including if there are two
      of them).
      
      For example, this patch had to be created because two headers were
      called the same way: e0ea0928 ("Fix gpio includes of mt8173 platform
      to avoid collision."). More recently, this patch has had similar
      problems: 46f9b2c3 ("drivers: add tzc380 support").
      
      This problem was introduced in commit 4ecca339
      
       ("Move include and
      source files to logical locations"). At that time, there weren't too
      many headers so it wasn't a real issue. However, time has shown that
      this creates problems.
      
      Platforms that want to preserve the way they include headers may add the
      removed paths to PLAT_INCLUDES, but this is discouraged.
      
      Change-Id: I39dc53ed98f9e297a5966e723d1936d6ccf2fc8f
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      09d40e0e
  8. 03 Aug, 2018 1 commit
    • Roberto Vargas's avatar
      Add atexit function to libc · 6c373345
      Roberto Vargas authored
      
      
      We had exit but we didn't have atexit, and we were calling panic and
      tf_printf from exit, which generated a dependency from exit to them.
      Having atexit allows to set a different function pointer in every image.
      
      Change-Id: I95b9556d680d96249ed3b14da159b6f417da7661
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
      6c373345
  9. 11 Jul, 2018 2 commits
  10. 28 Feb, 2018 1 commit
  11. 27 Feb, 2018 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Add comments about mismatched TCR_ELx and xlat tables · 883d1b5d
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      When the MMU is enabled and the translation tables are mapped, data
      read/writes to the translation tables are made using the attributes
      specified in the translation tables themselves. However, the MMU
      performs table walks with the attributes specified in TCR_ELx. They are
      completely independent, so special care has to be taken to make sure
      that they are the same.
      
      This has to be done manually because it is not practical to have a test
      in the code. Such a test would need to know the virtual memory region
      that contains the translation tables and check that for all of the
      tables the attributes match the ones in TCR_ELx. As the tables may not
      even be mapped at all, this isn't a test that can be made generic.
      
      The flags used by enable_mmu_xxx() have been moved to the same header
      where the functions are.
      
      Also, some comments in the linker scripts related to the translation
      tables have been fixed.
      
      Change-Id: I1754768bffdae75f53561b1c4a5baf043b45a304
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      883d1b5d
  12. 29 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Replace magic numbers in linkerscripts by PAGE_SIZE · a2aedac2
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      When defining different sections in linker scripts it is needed to align
      them to multiples of the page size. In most linker scripts this is done
      by aligning to the hardcoded value 4096 instead of PAGE_SIZE.
      
      This may be confusing when taking a look at all the codebase, as 4096
      is used in some parts that aren't meant to be a multiple of the page
      size.
      
      Change-Id: I36c6f461c7782437a58d13d37ec8b822a1663ec1
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      a2aedac2
  13. 02 Aug, 2017 1 commit
    • Douglas Raillard's avatar
      Fix BL2U entrypoint possible parameter corruption · 5c2c88b5
      Douglas Raillard authored
      
      
      Replace the use of r12 by r10 to save the value of a parameter of
      bl2u_entrypoint to pass it to bl2u_early_platform_setup at the end of
      the function. r10 is a callee saved register so it will not become
      corrupted by C code, whereas r12 is the The Intra-Procedure-call scratch
      register potentially used by veneers. See the ARM AAPCS document (ARM
      IHI 0042F).
      
      Change-Id: I4f37e54a6b550719edb40bb24cd8f498827e2749
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      5c2c88b5
  14. 12 Jul, 2017 1 commit
    • Isla Mitchell's avatar
      Fix order of #includes · 2a4b4b71
      Isla Mitchell authored
      
      
      This fix modifies the order of system includes to meet the ARM TF coding
      standard. There are some exceptions in order to retain header groupings,
      minimise changes to imported headers, and where there are headers within
      the #if and #ifndef statements.
      
      Change-Id: I65085a142ba6a83792b26efb47df1329153f1624
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIsla Mitchell <isla.mitchell@arm.com>
      2a4b4b71
  15. 15 May, 2017 1 commit
  16. 03 May, 2017 1 commit
  17. 31 Mar, 2017 2 commits
    • Douglas Raillard's avatar
      Add support for GCC stack protection · 51faada7
      Douglas Raillard authored
      
      
      Introduce new build option ENABLE_STACK_PROTECTOR. It enables
      compilation of all BL images with one of the GCC -fstack-protector-*
      options.
      
      A new platform function plat_get_stack_protector_canary() is introduced.
      It returns a value that is used to initialize the canary for stack
      corruption detection. Returning a random value will prevent an attacker
      from predicting the value and greatly increase the effectiveness of the
      protection.
      
      A message is printed at the ERROR level when a stack corruption is
      detected.
      
      To be effective, the global data must be stored at an address
      lower than the base of the stacks. Failure to do so would allow an
      attacker to overwrite the canary as part of an attack which would void
      the protection.
      
      FVP implementation of plat_get_stack_protector_canary is weak as
      there is no real source of entropy on the FVP. It therefore relies on a
      timer's value, which could be predictable.
      
      Change-Id: Icaaee96392733b721fa7c86a81d03660d3c1bc06
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      51faada7
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Flush console where necessary · 0b32628e
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      
      
      Call console_flush() before execution either terminates or leaves an
      exception level.
      
      Fixes: ARM-software/tf-issues#123
      
      Change-Id: I64eeb92effb039f76937ce89f877b68e355588e3
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
      0b32628e
  18. 20 Mar, 2017 1 commit
  19. 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
  20. 05 Dec, 2016 1 commit
    • Jeenu Viswambharan's avatar
      Define and use no_ret macro where no return is expected · a806dad5
      Jeenu Viswambharan authored
      
      
      There are many instances in ARM Trusted Firmware where control is
      transferred to functions from which return isn't expected. Such jumps
      are made using 'bl' instruction to provide the callee with the location
      from which it was jumped to. Additionally, debuggers infer the caller by
      examining where 'lr' register points to. If a 'bl' of the nature
      described above falls at the end of an assembly function, 'lr' will be
      left pointing to a location outside of the function range. This misleads
      the debugger back trace.
      
      This patch defines a 'no_ret' macro to be used when jumping to functions
      from which return isn't expected. The macro ensures to use 'bl'
      instruction for the jump, and also, for debug builds, places a 'nop'
      instruction immediately thereafter (unless instructed otherwise) so as
      to leave 'lr' pointing within the function range.
      
      Change-Id: Ib34c69fc09197cfd57bc06e147cc8252910e01b0
      Co-authored-by: default avatarDouglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
      a806dad5
  21. 08 Jul, 2016 1 commit
    • Sandrine Bailleux's avatar
      Introduce SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA build flag · 5d1c104f
      Sandrine Bailleux authored
      At the moment, all BL images share a similar memory layout: they start
      with their code section, followed by their read-only data section.
      The two sections are contiguous in memory. Therefore, the end of the
      code section and the beginning of the read-only data one might share
      a memory page. This forces both to be mapped with the same memory
      attributes. As the code needs to be executable, this means that the
      read-only data stored on the same memory page as the code are
      executable as well. This could potentially be exploited as part of
      a security attack.
      
      This patch introduces a new build flag called
      SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA, which isolates the code and read-only data
      on separate memory pages. This in turn allows independent control of
      the access permissions for the code and read-only data.
      
      This has an impact on memory footprint, as padding bytes need to be
      introduced between the code and read-only data to ensure the
      segragation of the two. To limit the memory cost, the memory layout
      of the read-only section has been changed in this case.
      
       - When SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA=0, the layout is unchanged, i.e.
         the read-only section still looks like this (padding omitted):
      
         |        ...        |
         +-------------------+
         | Exception vectors |
         +-------------------+
         |  Read-only data   |
         +-------------------+
         |       Code        |
         +-------------------+ BLx_BASE
      
         In this case, the linker script provides the limits of the whole
         read-only section.
      
       - When SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA=1, the exception vectors and
         read-only data are swapped, such that the code and exception
         vectors are contiguous, followed by the read-only data. This
         gives the following new layout (padding omitted):
      
         |        ...        |
         +-------------------+
         |  Read-only data   |
         +-------------------+
         | Exception vectors |
         +-------------------+
         |       Code        |
         +-------------------+ BLx_BASE
      
         In this case, the linker script now exports 2 sets of addresses
         instead: the limits of the code and the limits of the read-only
         data. Refer to the Firmware Design guide for more details. This
         provides platform code with a finer-grained view of the image
         layout and allows it to map these 2 regions with the appropriate
         access permissions.
      
      Note that SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA applies to all BL images.
      
      Change-Id: I936cf80164f6b66b6ad52b8edacadc532c935a49
      5d1c104f
  22. 14 Mar, 2016 1 commit
    • Antonio Nino Diaz's avatar
      Remove all non-configurable dead loops · 1c3ea103
      Antonio Nino Diaz authored
      Added a new platform porting function plat_panic_handler, to allow
      platforms to handle unexpected error situations. It must be
      implemented in assembly as it may be called before the C environment
      is initialized. A default implementation is provided, which simply
      spins.
      
      Corrected all dead loops in generic code to call this function
      instead. This includes the dead loop that occurs at the end of the
      call to panic().
      
      All unnecesary wfis from bl32/tsp/aarch64/tsp_exceptions.S have
      been removed.
      
      Change-Id: I67cb85f6112fa8e77bd62f5718efcef4173d8134
      1c3ea103
  23. 09 Dec, 2015 1 commit
    • Yatharth Kochar's avatar
      FWU: Add Generic BL2U FWU image support in BL2 · 9003fa0b
      Yatharth Kochar authored
      The Firmware Update (FWU) feature needs support for an optional
      secure world image, BL2U, to allow additional secure world
      initialization required by FWU, for example DDR initialization.
      
      This patch adds generic framework support to create BL2U.
      
      NOTE: A platform makefile must supply additional `BL2U_SOURCES`
            to build the bl2u target. A subsequent patch adds bl2u
            support for ARM platforms.
      
      Change-Id: If2ce036199bb40b39b7f91a9332106bcd4e25413
      9003fa0b