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This buffer is where all the responses from Secure Partitions are stored
until they are requested.

Change-Id: Iafeb8f0848c5ff6f3e187060cd3a47702484dc45
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: If57ec9cc0791f49d9ade83dff9d24ef9047963a8
Co-authored-by: Jean-Paul Etienne <jean-paul.etienne@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Change-Id: I2ae9b3bb686c41b2e138132a7bed107925ac861e
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

This is done in order to make it easier to read the file spm_main.c.

Change-Id: I21e765154c1682a319a3bc47a19a42fd736e910e
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

Move all information related to a Secure Partition to the struct
secure_partition_context_t.

This requires an in-depth refactor because most of the previous code of
SPM relied on global information.

Change-Id: I0a23e93817dcc191ce1d7506b8bc671d376123c4
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>

A Secure Partition is a software execution environment instantiated in
S-EL0 that can be used to implement simple management and security
services. Since S-EL0 is an unprivileged exception level, a Secure
Partition relies on privileged firmware e.g. ARM Trusted Firmware to be
granted access to system and processor resources. Essentially, it is a
software sandbox that runs under the control of privileged software in
the Secure World and accesses the following system resources:

- Memory and device regions in the system address map.
- PE system registers.
- A range of asynchronous exceptions e.g. interrupts.
- A range of synchronous exceptions e.g. SMC function identifiers.

A Secure Partition enables privileged firmware to implement only the
absolutely essential secure services in EL3 and instantiate the rest in
a partition. Since the partition executes in S-EL0, its implementation
cannot be overly complex.

The component in ARM Trusted Firmware responsible for managing a Secure
Partition is called the Secure Partition Manager (SPM). The SPM is
responsible for the following:

- Validating and allocating resources requested by a Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used for initialising a
  Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by the normal world
  and other secure services for accessing the services exported by a
  Secure Partition.
- Implementing a well defined interface that is used by a Secure
  Partition to fulfil service requests.
- Instantiating the software execution environment required by a Secure
  Partition to fulfil a service request.

Change-Id: I6f7862d6bba8732db5b73f54e789d717a35e802f
Co-authored-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Achin Gupta <achin.gupta@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>