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For affected CPUs, this approach enables the mitigation during EL3
initialization, following every PE reset. No mechanism is provided to
disable the mitigation at runtime.

This approach permanently mitigates the entire software stack and no
additional mitigation code is required in other software components.

TF-A implements this approach for the following affected CPUs:

*   Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72, by setting bit 55 (Disable load pass store) of
    `CPUACTLR_EL1` (`S3_1_C15_C2_0`).

*   Cortex-A73, by setting bit 3 of `S3_0_C15_C0_0` (not documented in the
    Technical Reference Manual (TRM)).

*   Cortex-A75, by setting bit 35 (reserved in TRM) of `CPUACTLR_EL1`
    (`S3_0_C15_C1_0`).

Additionally, a new SMC interface is implemented to allow software
executing in lower ELs to discover whether the system is mitigated
against CVE-2018-3639.

Refer to "Firmware interfaces for mitigating cache speculation
vulnerabilities System Software on Arm Systems"[0] for more
information.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/cache-speculation-vulnerability-firmware-specification



Change-Id: I084aa7c3bc7c26bf2df2248301270f77bed22ceb
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

This patch renames symbols and files relating to CVE-2017-5715 to make
it easier to introduce new symbols and files for new CVE mitigations.

Change-Id: I24c23822862ca73648c772885f1690bed043dbc7
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

When querying `SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1` through `SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES`,
return either:
  * -1 to indicate the PE on which `SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES` is called
    requires firmware mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 but the mitigation
    is not compiled in.
  * 0 to indicate that firmware mitigation is required, or
  * 1 to indicate that no firmware mitigation is required.

This patch complies with v1.2 of the firmware interfaces
specification (ARM DEN 0070A).

Change-Id: Ibc32d6620efdac6c340758ec502d95554a55f02a
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

If the CSV2 field reads as 1 then branch targets trained in one
context cannot affect speculative execution in a different context.
In that case skip the workaround on Cortex A72 and A73.

Change-Id: Ide24fb6efc77c548e4296295adc38dca87d042ee
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

This patch also fixes the assumption that the counters are disabled on
the resume path.  This is incorrect as the AMU counters are enabled
early in the CPU reset function before `cpuamu_context_restore()`
runs.

Change-Id: I38a94eb166a523f00de18e86860434ffccff2131
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Even though the workaround for CVE-2017-5715 is not a CPU erratum, the
code is piggybacking on the errata framework to print whether the
workaround was applied, missing or not needed.

Change-Id: I821197a4b8560c73fd894cd7cd9ecf9503c72fa3
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Change-Id: I504d3f65ca5829bc1f4ebadb764931f8379ee81f
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

If the CSV2 field reads as 1 then branch targets trained in one
context cannot affect speculative execution in a different context.
In that case skip the workaround on Cortex A75.

Change-Id: I4d5504cba516a67311fb5f0657b08f72909cbd38
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Invalidate the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) on entry to EL3 by
temporarily dropping into AArch32 Secure-EL1 and executing the
`BPIALL` instruction.

This is achieved by using 3 vector tables.  There is the runtime
vector table which is used to handle exceptions and 2 additional
tables which are required to implement this workaround.  The
additional tables are `vbar0` and `vbar1`.

The sequence of events for handling a single exception is
as follows:

1) Install vector table `vbar0` which saves the CPU context on entry
   to EL3 and sets up the Secure-EL1 context to execute in AArch32 mode
   with the MMU disabled and I$ enabled.  This is the default vector table.

2) Before doing an ERET into Secure-EL1, switch vbar to point to
   another vector table `vbar1`.  This is required to restore EL3 state
   when returning from the workaround, before proceeding with normal EL3
   exception handling.

3) While in Secure-EL1, the `BPIALL` instruction is executed and an
   SMC call back to EL3 is performed.

4) On entry to EL3 from Secure-EL1, the saved context from step 1) is
   restored.  The vbar is switched to point to `vbar0` in preparation to
   handle further exceptions.  Finally a branch to the runtime vector
   table entry is taken to complete the handling of the original
   exception.

This workaround is enabled by default on the affected CPUs.

NOTE
====

There are 4 different stubs in Secure-EL1.  Each stub corresponds to
an exception type such as Sync/IRQ/FIQ/SError.  Each stub will move a
different value in `R0` before doing an SMC call back into EL3.
Without this piece of information it would not be possible to know
what the original exception type was as we cannot use `ESR_EL3` to
distinguish between IRQs and FIQs.

Change-Id: I90b32d14a3735290b48685d43c70c99daaa4b434
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

The Cortex A75 has 5 AMU counters.  The first three counters are fixed
and the remaining two are programmable.

A new build option is introduced, `ENABLE_AMU`.  When set, the fixed
counters will be enabled for use by lower ELs.  The programmable
counters are currently disabled.

Change-Id: I4bd5208799bb9ed7d2596e8b0bfc87abbbe18740
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Both Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 CPUs use the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit
(DSU). The power-down and power-up sequences are therefore mostly
managed in hardware, and required software operations are considerably
simpler.

Change-Id: I68b30e6e1ebe7c041d5e67f39c59f08575fc7ecc
Co-authored-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>