- 11 Jul, 2018 1 commit
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Roberto Vargas authored
Check_vector_size checks if the size of the vector fits in the size reserved for it. This check creates problems in the Clang assembler. A new macro, end_vector_entry, is added and check_vector_size is deprecated. This new macro fills the current exception vector until the next exception vector. If the size of the current vector is bigger than 32 instructions then it gives an error. Change-Id: Ie8545cf1003a1e31656a1018dd6b4c28a4eaf671 Signed-off-by: Roberto Vargas <roberto.vargas@arm.com>
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- 27 Jun, 2018 1 commit
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
Having an active stack while enabling MMU has shown coherency problems. This patch builds on top of translation library changes that introduces MMU-enabling without using stacks. Previously, with HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY, data caches were disabled while enabling MMU only because of active stack. Now that we can enable MMU without using stack, we can enable both MMU and data caches at the same time. NOTE: Since this feature depends on using translation table library v2, disallow using translation table library v1 with HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY. Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#566 Change-Id: Ie55aba0c23ee9c5109eb3454cb8fa45d74f8bbb2 Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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- 04 May, 2018 3 commits
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
RAS extensions are mandatory for ARMv8.2 CPUs, but are also optional extensions to base ARMv8.0 architecture. This patch adds build system support to enable RAS features in ARM Trusted Firmware. A boolean build option RAS_EXTENSION is introduced for this. With RAS_EXTENSION, an Exception Synchronization Barrier (ESB) is inserted at all EL3 vector entry and exit. ESBs will synchronize pending external aborts before entering EL3, and therefore will contain and attribute errors to lower EL execution. Any errors thus synchronized are detected via. DISR_EL1 register. When RAS_EXTENSION is set to 1, HANDLE_EL3_EA_FIRST must also be set to 1. Change-Id: I38a19d84014d4d8af688bd81d61ba582c039383a Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
At present, any External Abort routed to EL3 is reported as an unhandled exception and cause a panic. This patch enables ARM Trusted Firmware to handle External Aborts routed to EL3. With this patch, when an External Abort is received at EL3, its handling is delegated to plat_ea_handler() function. Platforms can provide their own implementation of this function. This patch adds a weak definition of the said function that prints out a message and just panics. In order to support handling External Aborts at EL3, the build option HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST must be set to 1. Before this patch, HANDLE_EA_EL3_FIRST wasn't passed down to compilation; this patch fixes that too. Change-Id: I4d07b7e65eb191ff72d63b909ae9512478cd01a1 Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
At present, the function that restores general purpose registers also does ERET. Refactor the restore code to restore general purpose registers without ERET to complement the save function. The macro save_x18_to_x29_sp_el0 was used only once, and is therefore removed, and its contents expanded inline for readability. No functional changes, but with this patch: - The SMC return path will incur an branch-return and an additional register load. - The unknown SMC path restores registers x0 to x3. Change-Id: I7a1a63e17f34f9cde810685d70a0ad13ca3b7c50 Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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- 23 Apr, 2018 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
Due to differences in the bitfields of the SMC IDs, it is not possible to support SMCCC 1.X and 2.0 at the same time. The behaviour of `SMCCC_MAJOR_VERSION` has changed. Now, it is a build option that specifies the major version of the SMCCC that the Trusted Firmware supports. The only two allowed values are 1 and 2, and it defaults to 1. The value of `SMCCC_MINOR_VERSION` is derived from it. Note: Support for SMCCC v2.0 is an experimental feature to enable prototyping of secure partition specifications. Support for this convention is disabled by default and could be removed without notice. Change-Id: I88abf9ccf08e9c66a13ce55c890edea54d9f16a7 Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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- 27 Feb, 2018 1 commit
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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: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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- 26 Feb, 2018 1 commit
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Soby Mathew authored
This patch introduces a new BL handover interface. It essentially allows passing 4 arguments between the different BL stages. Effort has been made so as to be compatible with the previous handover interface. The previous blx_early_platform_setup() platform API is now deprecated and the new blx_early_platform_setup2() variant is introduced. The weak compatiblity implementation for the new API is done in the `plat_bl_common.c` file. Some of the new arguments in the new API will be reserved for generic code use when dynamic configuration support is implemented. Otherwise the other registers are available for platform use. Change-Id: Ifddfe2ea8e32497fe1beb565cac155ad9d50d404 Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
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- 15 Feb, 2018 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
According to the SMC Calling Convention (ARM DEN0028B): The Unknown SMC Function Identifier is a sign-extended value of (-1) that is returned in R0, W0 or X0 register. The value wasn't sign-extended because it was defined as a 32-bit unsigned value (0xFFFFFFFF). SMC_PREEMPT has been redefined as -2 for the same reason. NOTE: This might be a compatibility break for some AArch64 platforms that don't follow the previous version of the SMCCC (ARM DEN0028A) correctly. That document specifies that only the bottom 32 bits of the returned value must be checked. If a platform relies on the top 32 bits of the result being 0 (so that SMC_UNK is 0x00000000FFFFFFFF), it will have to fix its code to comply with the SMCCC. Change-Id: I7f7b109f6b30c114fe570aa0ead3c335383cb54d Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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- 29 Jan, 2018 1 commit
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Dimitris Papastamos authored
In preparation for SMCCC v1.1 support, save x4 to x29 unconditionally. Previously we expected callers coming from AArch64 mode to preserve x8-x17. This is no longer the case with SMCCC v1.1 as AArch64 callers only need to save x0-x3. Change-Id: Ie62d620776533969ff4a02c635422f1b9208be9c Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
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- 11 Jan, 2018 1 commit
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Dimitris Papastamos authored
Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by disabling and enabling the MMU. To achieve this without performing any branch instruction, a per-cpu vbar is installed which executes the workaround and then branches off to the corresponding vector entry in the main vector table. A side effect of this change is that the main vbar is configured before any reset handling. This is to allow the per-cpu reset function to override the vbar setting. This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs. Change-Id: I97788d38463a5840a410e3cea85ed297a1678265 Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
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- 12 Dec, 2017 1 commit
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Julius Werner authored
In assembly code it can be useful to have a constant for the width of a register in the current architecture, so this patch adds one to <utils_def.h> and replaces the existing custom one in crash_reporting.S with that. It also fixes up the BIT() macro in the same file so that it can be safely used in assembly code. Change-Id: I10513a311f3379e767396e6ddfbae8d2d8201464 Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
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- 15 Nov, 2017 1 commit
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David Cunado authored
The FPEXC32_EL2 register controls SIMD and FP functionality when the lower ELs are executing in AArch32 mode. It is architecturally mapped to AArch32 system register FPEXC. This patch removes FPEXC32_EL2 register from the System Register context and adds it to the floating-point context. EL3 only saves / restores the floating-point context if the build option CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 1. The rationale for this change is that if the Secure world is using FP functionality and EL3 is not managing the FP context, then the Secure world will save / restore the appropriate FP registers. NOTE - this is a break in behaviour in the unlikely case that CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS is set to 0 and the platform contains an AArch32 Secure Payload that modifies FPEXC, but does not save and restore this register Change-Id: Iab80abcbfe302752d52b323b4abcc334b585c184 Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
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- 21 Aug, 2017 1 commit
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Julius Werner authored
Some error paths that lead to a crash dump will overwrite the value in the x30 register by calling functions with the no_ret macro, which resolves to a BL instruction. This is not very useful and not what the reader would expect, since a crash dump should usually show all registers in the state they were in when the exception happened. This patch replaces the offending function calls with a B instruction to preserve the value in x30. Change-Id: I2a3636f2943f79bab0cd911f89d070012e697c2a Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
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- 21 Jun, 2017 1 commit
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David Cunado authored
This patch updates the el3_arch_init_common macro so that it fully initialises essential control registers rather then relying on hardware to set the reset values. The context management functions are also updated to fully initialise the appropriate control registers when initialising the non-secure and secure context structures and when preparing to leave EL3 for a lower EL. This gives better alignement with the ARM ARM which states that software must initialise RES0 and RES1 fields with 0 / 1. This patch also corrects the following typos: "NASCR definitions" -> "NSACR definitions" Change-Id: Ia8940b8351dc27bc09e2138b011e249655041cfc Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>
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- 03 May, 2017 1 commit
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dp-arm authored
To make software license auditing simpler, use SPDX[0] license identifiers instead of duplicating the license text in every file. NOTE: Files that have been imported by FreeBSD have not been modified. [0]: https://spdx.org/ Change-Id: I80a00e1f641b8cc075ca5a95b10607ed9ed8761a Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>
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- 19 Apr, 2017 1 commit
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Soby Mathew authored
This patch introduces a build option to enable D-cache early on the CPU after warm boot. This is applicable for platforms which do not require interconnect programming to enable cache coherency (eg: single cluster platforms). If this option is enabled, then warm boot path enables D-caches immediately after enabling MMU. Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#456 Change-Id: I44c8787d116d7217837ced3bcf0b1d3441c8d80e Signed-off-by: Soby Mathew <soby.mathew@arm.com>
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- 31 Mar, 2017 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
This API makes sure that all the characters sent to the crash console are output before returning from it. Porting guide updated. Change-Id: I1785f970a40f6aacfbe592b6a911b1f249bb2735 Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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- 08 Mar, 2017 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
The files affected by this patch don't really depend on `xlat_tables.h`. By changing the included file it becomes easier to switch between the two versions of the translation tables library. Change-Id: Idae9171c490e0865cb55883b19eaf942457c4ccc Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
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- 02 Mar, 2017 1 commit
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Jeenu Viswambharan authored
At present, warm-booted CPUs keep their caches disabled when enabling MMU, and remains so until they enter coherency later. On systems with hardware-assisted coherency, for which HW_ASSISTED_COHERENCY build flag would be enabled, warm-booted CPUs can have both caches and MMU enabled at once. Change-Id: Icb0adb026e01aecf34beadf49c88faa9dd368327 Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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- 05 Dec, 2016 1 commit
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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: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>
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- 14 Nov, 2016 1 commit
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Douglas Raillard authored
* Move comments on unhandled exceptions at the right place. * Reformat the existing comments to highlight the start of each block of 4 entries in the exception table to ease navigation (lines of dash reserved for head comments). * Reflow comments to 80 columns. Change-Id: I5ab88a93d0628af8e151852cb5b597eb34437677 Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
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- 12 Oct, 2016 1 commit
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dp-arm authored
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>
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- 19 Jul, 2016 1 commit
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Soby Mathew authored
This patch introduces the PSCI Library interface. The major changes introduced are as follows: * Earlier BL31 was responsible for Architectural initialization during cold boot via bl31_arch_setup() whereas PSCI was responsible for the same during warm boot. This functionality is now consolidated by the PSCI library and it does Architectural initialization via psci_arch_setup() during both cold and warm boots. * Earlier the warm boot entry point was always `psci_entrypoint()`. This was not flexible enough as a library interface. Now PSCI expects the runtime firmware to provide the entry point via `psci_setup()`. A new function `bl31_warm_entrypoint` is introduced in BL31 and the previous `psci_entrypoint()` is deprecated. * The `smc_helpers.h` is reorganized to separate the SMC Calling Convention defines from the Trusted Firmware SMC helpers. The former is now in a new header file `smcc.h` and the SMC helpers are moved to Architecture specific header. * The CPU context is used by PSCI for context initialization and restoration after power down (PSCI Context). It is also used by BL31 for SMC handling and context management during Normal-Secure world switch (SMC Context). The `psci_smc_handler()` interface is redefined to not use SMC helper macros thus enabling to decouple the PSCI context from EL3 runtime firmware SMC context. This enables PSCI to be integrated with other runtime firmware using a different SMC context. NOTE: With this patch the architectural setup done in `bl31_arch_setup()` is done as part of `psci_setup()` and hence `bl31_platform_setup()` will be invoked prior to architectural setup. It is highly unlikely that the platform setup will depend on architectural setup and cause any failure. Please be be aware of this change in sequence. Change-Id: I7f497a08d33be234bbb822c28146250cb20dab73
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- 18 Jul, 2016 1 commit
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Soby Mathew authored
This patch moves the PSCI services and BL31 frameworks like context management and per-cpu data into new library components `PSCI` and `el3_runtime` respectively. This enables PSCI to be built independently from BL31. A new `psci_lib.mk` makefile is introduced which adds the relevant PSCI library sources and gets included by `bl31.mk`. Other changes which are done as part of this patch are: * The runtime services framework is now moved to the `common/` folder to enable reuse. * The `asm_macros.S` and `assert_macros.S` helpers are moved to architecture specific folder. * The `plat_psci_common.c` is moved from the `plat/common/aarch64/` folder to `plat/common` folder. The original file location now has a stub which just includes the file from new location to maintain platform compatibility. Most of the changes wouldn't affect platform builds as they just involve changes to the generic bl1.mk and bl31.mk makefiles. NOTE: THE `plat_psci_common.c` FILE HAS MOVED LOCATION AND THE STUB FILE AT THE ORIGINAL LOCATION IS NOW DEPRECATED. PLATFORMS SHOULD MODIFY THEIR MAKEFILES TO INCLUDE THE FILE FROM THE NEW LOCATION. Change-Id: I6bd87d5b59424995c6a65ef8076d4fda91ad5e86
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- 26 May, 2016 1 commit
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Sandrine Bailleux authored
This patch introduces some assembler macros to simplify the declaration of the exception vectors. It abstracts the section the exception code is put into as well as the alignments constraints mandated by the ARMv8 architecture. For all TF images, the exception code has been updated to make use of these macros. This patch also updates some invalid comments in the exception vector code. Change-Id: I35737b8f1c8c24b6da89b0a954c8152a4096fa95
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- 20 May, 2016 1 commit
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Antonio Nino Diaz authored
Added plat_get_syscnt_freq2, which is a 32 bit variant of the 64 bit plat_get_syscnt_freq. The old one has been flagged as deprecated. Common code has been updated to use this new version. Porting guide has been updated. Change-Id: I9e913544926c418970972bfe7d81ee88b4da837e
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- 14 Apr, 2016 1 commit
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Gerald Lejeune authored
It is up to the platform to implement the new plat_crash_print_regs macro to report all relevant platform registers helpful for troubleshooting. plat_crash_print_regs merges or calls previously defined plat_print_gic_regs and plat_print_interconnect_regs macros for each existing platforms. NOTE: THIS COMMIT REQUIRES ALL PLATFORMS THAT ENABLE THE `CRASH_REPORTING` BUILD FLAG TO MIGRATE TO USE THE NEW `plat_crash_print_regs()` MACRO. BY DEFAULT, `CRASH_REPORTING` IS ENABLED IN DEBUG BUILDS FOR ALL PLATFORMS. Fixes: arm-software/tf-issues#373 Signed-off-by: Gerald Lejeune <gerald.lejeune@st.com>
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- 30 Mar, 2016 2 commits
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Gerald Lejeune authored
Bring ISR bits definition as a mnemonic for troublershooters as well. Signed-off-by: Gerald Lejeune <gerald.lejeune@st.com>
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Gerald Lejeune authored
Asynchronous abort exceptions generated by the platform during cold boot are not taken in EL3 unless SCR_EL3.EA is set. Therefore EA bit is set along with RES1 bits in early BL1 and BL31 architecture initialisation. Further write accesses to SCR_EL3 preserve these bits during cold boot. A build flag controls SCR_EL3.EA value to keep asynchronous abort exceptions being trapped by EL3 after cold boot or not. For further reference SError Interrupts are also known as asynchronous external aborts. On Cortex-A53 revisions below r0p2, asynchronous abort exceptions are taken in EL3 whatever the SCR_EL3.EA value is. Fixes arm-software/tf-issues#368 Signed-off-by: Gerald Lejeune <gerald.lejeune@st.com>
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- 14 Mar, 2016 1 commit
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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
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- 21 Dec, 2015 1 commit
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Sandrine Bailleux authored
Change-Id: I6f49bd779f2a4d577c6443dd160290656cdbc59b
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- 14 Dec, 2015 1 commit
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Juan Castillo authored
This patch removes the dash character from the image name, to follow the image terminology in the Trusted Firmware Wiki page: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/wiki Changes apply to output messages, comments and documentation. non-ARM platform files have been left unmodified. Change-Id: Ic2a99be4ed929d52afbeb27ac765ceffce46ed76
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- 09 Dec, 2015 2 commits
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Yatharth Kochar authored
The upcoming Firmware Update feature needs transitioning across Secure/Normal worlds to complete the FWU process and hence requires context management code to perform this task. Currently context management code is part of BL31 stage only. This patch moves the code from (include)/bl31 to (include)/common. Some function declarations/definitions and macros have also moved to different files to help code sharing. Change-Id: I3858b08aecdb76d390765ab2b099f457873f7b0c
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Soby Mathew authored
The `fpregs_context_restore()` function used to restore the floating point regsiter context had a typo error wherein it was doing `str` instead of `ldr` for a register. This issue remained undetected becuase none of the ARM Standard development platforms save and restore the floating point register context when a context switch is done. This patch corrects the issue. Change-Id: Id178e0ba254a5e0a4a844f54b39d71dc34e0f6ea
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- 26 Nov, 2015 2 commits
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Sandrine Bailleux authored
This patch introduces a new build option named COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU, which allows platforms that only release a single CPU out of reset to slightly optimise their cold boot code, both in terms of code size and performance. COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU defaults to 0, which assumes that the platform may release several CPUs out of reset. In this case, the cold reset code needs to coordinate all CPUs via the usual primary/secondary CPU distinction. If a platform guarantees that only a single CPU will ever be released out of reset, there is no need to arbitrate execution ; the notion of primary and secondary CPUs itself no longer exists. Such platforms may set COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU to 1 in order to compile out the primary/secondary CPU identification in the cold reset code. All ARM standard platforms can release several CPUs out of reset so they use COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU=0. However, on CSS platforms like Juno, bringing up more than one CPU at reset should only be attempted when booting an EL3 payload, as it is not fully supported in the normal boot flow. For platforms using COLD_BOOT_SINGLE_CPU=1, the following 2 platform APIs become optional: - plat_secondary_cold_boot_setup(); - plat_is_my_cpu_primary(). The Porting Guide has been updated to reflect that. User Guide updated as well. Change-Id: Ic5b474e61b7aec1377d1e0b6925d17dfc376c46b
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Soby Mathew authored
The IMF_READ_INTERRUPT_ID build option enables a feature where the interrupt ID of the highest priority pending interrupt is passed as a parameter to the interrupt handler registered for that type of interrupt. This additional read of highest pending interrupt id from GIC is problematic as it is possible that the original interrupt may get deasserted and another interrupt of different type maybe become the highest pending interrupt. Hence it is safer to prevent such behaviour by removing the IMF_READ_INTERRUPT_ID build option. The `id` parameter of the interrupt handler `interrupt_type_handler_t` is now made a reserved parameter with this patch. It will always contain INTR_ID_UNAVAILABLE. Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#307 Change-Id: I2173aae1dd37edad7ba6bdfb1a99868635fa34de
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- 14 Sep, 2015 1 commit
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Achin Gupta authored
On the ARMv8 architecture, cache maintenance operations by set/way on the last level of integrated cache do not affect the system cache. This means that such a flush or clean operation could result in the data being pushed out to the system cache rather than main memory. Another CPU could access this data before it enables its data cache or MMU. Such accesses could be serviced from the main memory instead of the system cache. If the data in the sysem cache has not yet been flushed or evicted to main memory then there could be a loss of coherency. The only mechanism to guarantee that the main memory will be updated is to use cache maintenance operations to the PoC by MVA(See section D3.4.11 (System level caches) of ARMv8-A Reference Manual (Issue A.g/ARM DDI0487A.G). This patch removes the reliance of Trusted Firmware on the flush by set/way operation to ensure visibility of data in the main memory. Cache maintenance operations by MVA are now used instead. The following are the broad category of changes: 1. The RW areas of BL2/BL31/BL32 are invalidated by MVA before the C runtime is initialised. This ensures that any stale cache lines at any level of cache are removed. 2. Updates to global data in runtime firmware (BL31) by the primary CPU are made visible to secondary CPUs using a cache clean operation by MVA. 3. Cache maintenance by set/way operations are only used prior to power down. NOTE: NON-UPSTREAM TRUSTED FIRMWARE CODE SHOULD MAKE EQUIVALENT CHANGES IN ORDER TO FUNCTION CORRECTLY ON PLATFORMS WITH SUPPORT FOR SYSTEM CACHES. Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#205 Change-Id: I64f1b398de0432813a0e0881d70f8337681f6e9a
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- 13 Aug, 2015 1 commit
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Soby Mathew authored
This patch migrates the rest of Trusted Firmware excluding Secure Payload and the dispatchers to the new platform and context management API. The per-cpu data framework APIs which took MPIDRs as their arguments are deleted and only the ones which take core index as parameter are retained. Change-Id: I839d05ad995df34d2163a1cfed6baa768a5a595d
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- 04 Jun, 2015 1 commit
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Sandrine Bailleux authored
This patch introduces a new platform build option, called PROGRAMMABLE_RESET_ADDRESS, which tells whether the platform has a programmable or fixed reset vector address. If the reset vector address is fixed then the code relies on the platform_get_entrypoint() mailbox mechanism to figure out where it is supposed to jump. On the other hand, if it is programmable then it is assumed that the platform code will program directly the right address into the RVBAR register (instead of using the mailbox redirection) so the mailbox is ignored in this case. Change-Id: If59c3b11fb1f692976e1d8b96c7e2da0ebfba308
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