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The ARMv8v.1 architecture extension has introduced support for far
atomics, which includes compare-and-swap. Compare and Swap instruction
is only available for AArch64.

Introduce build options to choose the architecture versions to target
ARM Trusted Firmware:

  - ARM_ARCH_MAJOR: selects the major version of target ARM
    Architecture. Default value is 8.

  - ARM_ARCH_MINOR: selects the minor version of target ARM
    Architecture. Default value is 0.

When:

  (ARM_ARCH_MAJOR > 8) || ((ARM_ARCH_MAJOR == 8) && (ARM_ARCH_MINOR >= 1)),

for AArch64, Compare and Swap instruction is used to implement spin
locks. Otherwise, the implementation falls back to using
load-/store-exclusive instructions.

Update user guide, and introduce a section in Firmware Design guide to
summarize support for features introduced in ARMv8 Architecture
Extensions.

Change-Id: I73096a0039502f7aef9ec6ab3ae36680da033f16
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

AEMv8-A Model release v8.2 has been made available and Trusted Firmware
has been tested against these versions as part of its CI system. This
patch updates the user guide documentation to reflect the version of AEM
and Cortex Models that Trusted Firmware has been tested against.

Also, the Linaro Release Notes link was broken and this patch updates the
link.

Change-Id: I88729cef909a69fff629036f480fd6168ad7dc9a
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

The current user guide mentions that Foundation model doesn't support
debugger interface. Clarify that all FVPs support --cadi-server option
such that a CADI-compliant debugger can connect to and control model
execution.

Also fix broken URL to FVP home page.

Change-Id: Ia14d618a4e0abb4b228eb1616040f9b51fb3f6f9
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Foundation Model release 10.2 has been made available and Trusted
Firmware has been tested against that it as part of its CI system.

This patch updates the user guide documentation to reflect the version
of Foundation Model that Trusted Firmware has been tested against.

Change-Id: I8571e1027b24892b41d04b93b24245a371ca2cae
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

Change-Id: I28b2790ff2f87b9fe3cf1020e59e1e0a00be6f97
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Add dependency information in the user guide for ARM_RECOM_STATE_ID_ENC
that needs to be set when using PSCI_EXTENDED_STATE_ID on ARM
platforms. Also clarify the build error message.

Change-Id: Id125a0299b179f5f222bca4e2503204bf89a3c59
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>

At present, build options in the user guide aren't listed in any
specific order. Ordering them alphabetically is a standard practice, and
is also easier on the reader.

Contents unchanged.

Change-Id: Ibc36f3a2a576edb86c1a402430d2ef5adcb2f144
Signed-off-by: Jeenu Viswambharan <jeenu.viswambharan@arm.com>

Change-Id: I8e50df67e860b9589834445761a7b9927690fdce
Signed-off-by: dp-arm <dimitris.papastamos@arm.com>

Updated the user guide to clarify building FIP for AArch32.
The instructions were previously specific to building a FIP for AArch64.

Change-Id: I7bd1a6b8e810cfda411f707e04f479006817858e
Signed-off-by: David Cunado <david.cunado@arm.com>

The user guide incorrectly claimed that it is possible to load a
bootwrapped kernel over JTAG on Juno in the same manner as an EL3
payload. In the EL3 payload boot flow, some of the platform
initialisations in BL2 are modified. In particular, the TZC settings
are modified to allow unrestricted access to DRAM. This in turn allows
the debugger to access the DRAM and therefore to load the image there.

In the BL33-preloaded boot flow though, BL2 uses the default TZC
programming, which prevent access to most of the DRAM from secure state.
When execution reaches the SPIN_ON_BL1_EXIT loop, the MMU is disabled
and thus DS-5 presumably issues secure access transactions while trying
to load the image, which fails.

One way around it is to stop execution at the end of BL2 instead. At
this point, the MMU is still enabled and the DRAM is mapped as
non-secure memory. Therefore, the debugger is allowed to access this
memory in this context and to sucessfully load the bootwrapped kernel in
DRAM. The user guide is updated to suggest this alternative method.
Co-Authored-By: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>

Change-Id: I537ea1c6d2f96edc06bc3f512e770c748bcabe94

This patch adds necessary updates for building and running Trusted
Firmware for AArch32 to user-guide.md. The instructions for running
on both `FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A` in AArch32 mode and
`FVP_Base_Cortex-A32x4` models are added. The device tree files for
AArch32 Linux kernel are also added in the `fdts` folder.

Change-Id: I0023b6b03e05f32637cb5765fdeda8c8df2d0d3e

This patch updates the User Guide to recommend the latest version
of some of the software dependencies of ARM Trusted Firmware.

 - Upgrade Linaro release:     16.02 -> 16.06

 - Upgrade FVPs
    - Foundation v8 FVP:       9.5 -> 10.1
    - Base FVPs:               7.6 -> 7.7

 - Upgrade mbed TLS library:   2.2.0 -> 2.2.1

Note that the latest release of mbed TLS as of today is 2.3.0 but it has
compilations issues with the set of library configuration options that
Trusted Firmware uses. 2.2.1 is the next most recent release known to
build with TF.

This patch also fixes the markdown formatting of a link in the
User Guide.

Change-Id: Ieb7dd336f4d3110fba060afec4ad580ae707a8f1

This patch adds capability to load BL images based on image
descriptors instead of hard coded way of loading BL images.
This framework is designed such that it can be readily adapted
by any BL stage that needs to load images.

In order to provide the above capability the following new
platform functions are introduced:

  bl_load_info_t *plat_get_bl_image_load_info(void);
    This function returns pointer to the list of images that the
    platform has populated to load.

  bl_params_t *plat_get_next_bl_params(void);
    This function returns a pointer to the shared memory that the
    platform has kept aside to pass trusted firmware related
    information that next BL image needs.

  void plat_flush_next_bl_params(void);
    This function flushes to main memory all the params that
    are passed to next image.

  int bl2_plat_handle_post_image_load(unsigned int image_id)
    This function can be used by the platforms to update/use
    image information for given `image_id`.

`desc_image_load.c` contains utility functions which can be used
by the platforms to generate, load and executable, image list
based on the registered image descriptors.

This patch also adds new version of `load_image/load_auth_image`
functions in-order to achieve the above capability.

Following are the changes for the new version as compared to old:
  - Refactor the signature and only keep image_id and image_info_t
    arguments. Removed image_base argument as it is already passed
    through image_info_t. Given that the BL image base addresses and
    limit/size are already provided by the platforms, the meminfo_t
    and entry_point_info arguments are not needed to provide/reserve
    the extent of free memory for the given BL image.

  - Added check for the image size against the defined max size.
    This is needed because the image size could come from an
    unauthenticated source (e.g. the FIP header).
    To make this check, new member is added to the image_info_t
    struct for identifying the image maximum size.

New flag `LOAD_IMAGE_V2` is added in the Makefile.
Default value is 0.

NOTE: `TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT` is currently not supported when
      `LOAD_IMAGE_V2` is enabled.

Change-Id: Ia7b643f4817a170d5a2fbf479b9bc12e63112e79

This feature allows one to quickly verify that the expected
image is contained in the FIP without extracting the image and
running sha256sum(1) on it.

The sha256 digest is only shown when the verbose flag is used.

This change requires libssl-dev to be installed in order to build
Trusted Firmware. Previously, libssl-dev was optionally needed only
to support Trusted Board Boot configurations.

Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#124

Change-Id: Ifb1408d17f483d482bb270a589ee74add25ec5a6

This patch updates the User Guide to move up from version 7.2 to 7.6
of the Base FVP.

Change-Id: I792b2250deb4836266e14b40992ae59a5ab5f729

This patch enables the AArch32 build including SP_MIN in the
top level Makefile. The build flag `ARCH` now can specify either
`aarch64`(default) or `aarch32`. Currently only FVP AEM model is
supported for AArch32 build. Another new build flag `AARCH32_SP`
is introduced to specify the AArch32 secure payload to be built.

Change-Id: Ie1198cb9e52d7da1b79b93243338fc3868b08faa

fiptool provides a more consistent and intuitive interface compared to
the fip_create program.  It serves as a better base to build on more
features in the future.

fiptool supports various subcommands.  Below are the currently
supported subcommands:

1) info   - List the images contained in a FIP file.
2) create - Create a new FIP file with the given images.
3) update - Update an existing FIP with the given images.
4) unpack - Extract a selected set or all the images from a FIP file.
5) remove - Remove images from a FIP file.  This is a new command that
   was not present in fip_create.

To create a new FIP file, replace "fip_create" with "fiptool create".

To update a FIP file, replace "fip_create" with "fiptool update".

To dump the contents of a FIP file, replace "fip_create --dump" with
"fiptool info".

A compatibility script that emulates the basic functionality of
fip_create is provided.  Existing scripts might or might not work with
the compatibility script.  Users are strongly encouraged to migrate to
fiptool.

Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#87
Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#108
Fixes ARM-Software/tf-issues#361

Change-Id: I7ee4da7ac60179cc83cf46af890fd8bc61a53330

This patch documents the effect, cost and benefits of the
SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA build flag.

Change-Id: Ic8daf0563fa6335930ad6c70b9c35f678e84d39d

Compile option `ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MMAP` has been renamed to
`ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MEM` because it now applies not only to defines
related to the translation tables but to the image size as well.

The defines `PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL1_RW_SIZE`, `PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL2_SIZE` and
`PLAT_ARM_MAX_BL31_SIZE` have been moved to the file board_arm_def.h.
This way, ARM platforms no longer have to set their own values if
`ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MEM=0` and they can specify optimized values
otherwise. The common sizes have been set to the highest values used
for any of the current build configurations.

This is needed because in some build configurations some images are
running out of space. This way there is a common set of values known
to work for all of them and it can be optimized for each particular
platform if needed.

The space reserved for BL2 when `TRUSTED_BOARD_BOOT=0` has been
increased. This is needed because when memory optimisations are
disabled the values for Juno of `PLAT_ARM_MMAP_ENTRIES` and
`MAX_XLAT_TABLES` are higher. If in this situation the code is
compiled in debug mode and with "-O0", the code won't fit.

Change-Id: I70a3d8d3a0b0cad1d6b602c01a7ea334776e718e

This patch adds following optional PSCI STAT functions:

- PSCI_STAT_RESIDENCY: This call returns the amount of time spent
  in power_state in microseconds, by the node represented by the
  `target_cpu` and the highest level of `power_state`.

- PSCI_STAT_COUNT: This call returns the number of times a
  `power_state` has been used by the node represented by the
  `target_cpu` and the highest power level of `power_state`.

These APIs provides residency statistics for power states that has
been used by the platform. They are implemented according to v1.0
of the PSCI specification.

By default this optional feature is disabled in the PSCI
implementation. To enable it, set the boolean flag
`ENABLE_PSCI_STAT` to 1. This also sets `ENABLE_PMF` to 1.

Change-Id: Ie62e9d37d6d416ccb1813acd7f616d1ddd3e8aff

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

The system registers that are saved and restored in CPU context include
AArch32 systems registers like SPSR_ABT, SPSR_UND, SPSR_IRQ, SPSR_FIQ,
DACR32_EL2, IFSR32_EL2 and FPEXC32_EL2. Accessing these registers on an
AArch64-only (i.e. on hardware that does not implement AArch32, or at
least not at EL1 and higher ELs) platform leads to an exception. This patch
introduces the build option `CTX_INCLUDE_AARCH32_REGS` to specify whether to
include these AArch32 systems registers in the cpu context or not. By default
this build option is set to 1 to ensure compatibility. AArch64-only platforms
must set it to 0. A runtime check is added in BL1 and BL31 cold boot path to
verify this.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#386

Change-Id: I720cdbd7ed7f7d8516635a2ec80d025f478b95ee

This patch adds support to select CCN driver for FVP during build.
A new build option `FVP_INTERCONNECT_DRIVER` is added to allow
selection between the CCI and CCN driver. Currently only the CCN-502
variant is supported on FVP.

The common ARM CCN platform helper file now verifies the cluster
count declared by platform is equal to the number of root node
masters exported by the ARM Standard platform.

Change-Id: I71d7b4785f8925ed499c153b2e9b9925fcefd57a

Added a build flag to select the generic delay timer on FVP instead
of the SP804 timer. By default, the generic one will be selected. The
user guide has been updated.

Change-Id: Ica34425c6d4ed95a187b529c612f6d3b26b78bc6

This patch changes the default driver for FVP platform from the deprecated
GICv3 legacy to the GICv3 only driver. This means that the default build of
Trusted Firmware will not be able boot Linux kernel with GICv2 FDT blob. The
user guide is also updated to reflect this change of default GIC driver for
FVP.

Change-Id: Id6fc8c1ac16ad633dabb3cd189b690415a047764

This patch removes support for legacy Versatile Express memory map for the
GIC peripheral in the FVP platform. The user guide is also updated for the
same.

Change-Id: Ib8cfb819083aca359e5b46b5757cb56cb0ea6533

This patch updates the TF User Guide, simplifying some of the steps
to build and run TF and trying to avoid duplicated information that
is already available on the ARM Connected Community or the Linaro
website.

The recommended Linaro release is now 16.02.

Change-Id: I21db486d56a07bb10f5ee9a33014ccc59ca12986

To avoid confusion the build option BL33_BASE has been renamed to
PRELOADED_BL33_BASE, which is more descriptive of what it does and
doesn't get mistaken by similar names like BL32_BASE that work in a
completely different way.

NOTE: PLATFORMS USING BUILD OPTION `BL33_BASE` MUST CHANGE TO THE NEW
BUILD OPTION `PRELOADED_BL33_BASE`.

Change-Id: I658925ebe95406edf0325f15aa1752e1782aa45b

To get round problems encountered when building in a DOS build
environment the generation of the .o file containing build identifier
strings is modified.
The problems encounterred were:
   1. DOS echo doesn't strip ' characters from the output text.
   2. git is not available from CMD.EXE so the BUILD_STRING value needs
      some other origin.

A BUILD_STRING value of "development build" is used for now.

MAKE_BUILD_STRINGS is used to customise build string generation in a DOS
environment. This variable is not defined in the UNIX build environment
make file helper, and so the existing build string generation behaviour
is retained in these build environments.

NOTE: This commit completes a cumulative series aimed at improving
      build portability across development environments.
      This enables the build to run on several new build environments,
      if the relevant tools are available.
      At this point the build is tested on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1,
      using CMD.EXE, Cygwin and Msys (MinGW),as well as a native
      Linux envionment".  The Windows platform builds used
      aarch64-none-elf-gcc.exe 4.9.1.  CMD.EXE and Msys used Gnu
      Make 3.81, cygwin used Gnu Make 4.1.

CAVEAT: The cert_create tool build is not tested on the Windows
        platforms (openssl-for-windows has a GPL license).

Change-Id: Iaa4fc89dbe2a9ebae87e2600c9eef10a6af30251

This patch adds an option to the ARM common platforms to load BL31 in the
TZC secured DRAM instead of the default secure SRAM.

To enable this feature, set `ARM_BL31_IN_DRAM` to 1 in build options.
If TSP is present, then setting this option also sets the TSP location
to DRAM and ignores the `ARM_TSP_RAM_LOCATION` build flag.

To use this feature, BL2 platform code must map in the DRAM used by
BL31. The macro ARM_MAP_BL31_SEC_DRAM is provided for this purpose.
Currently, only the FVP BL2 platform code maps in this DRAM.

Change-Id: If5f7cc9deb569cfe68353a174d4caa48acd78d67

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>

Enable alternative boot flow where BL2 does not load BL33 from
non-volatile storage, and BL31 hands execution over to a preloaded
BL33.

The flag used to enable this bootflow is BL33_BASE, which must hold
the entrypoint address of the BL33 image. The User Guide has been
updated with an example of how to use this option with a bootwrapped
kernel.

Change-Id: I48087421a7b0636ac40dca7d457d745129da474f

`board_arm_def.h` contains multiple definitions of
`PLAT_ARM_MMAP_ENTRIES` and `MAX_XLAT_TABLES` that are optimised for
memory usage depending upon the chosen build configuration. To ease
maintenance of these constants, this patch replaces their multiple
definitions with a single set of definitions that will work on all ARM
platforms.

Platforms can override the defaults with optimal values by enabling the
`ARM_BOARD_OPTIMISE_MMAP` build option. An example has been provided in
the Juno ADP port.

Additionally, `PLAT_ARM_MMAP_ENTRIES` is increased by one to accomodate
future ARM platforms.

Change-Id: I5ba6490fdd1e118cc9cc2d988ad7e9c38492b6f0

The common topology description helper funtions and macros for
ARM Standard platforms assumed a dual cluster system. This is not
flexible enough to scale to multi cluster platforms. This patch does
the following changes for more flexibility in defining topology:

1. The `plat_get_power_domain_tree_desc()` definition is moved from
   `arm_topology.c` to platform specific files, that is `fvp_topology.c`
   and `juno_topology.c`. Similarly the common definition of the porting
   macro `PLATFORM_CORE_COUNT` in `arm_def.h` is moved to platform
   specific `platform_def.h` header.

2. The ARM common layer porting macros which were dual cluster specific
   are now removed and a new macro PLAT_ARM_CLUSTER_COUNT is introduced
   which must be defined by each ARM standard platform.

3. A new mandatory ARM common layer porting API
   `plat_arm_get_cluster_core_count()` is introduced to enable the common
   implementation of `arm_check_mpidr()` to validate MPIDR.

4. For the FVP platforms, a new build option `FVP_NUM_CLUSTERS` has been
   introduced which allows the user to specify the cluster count to be
   used to build the topology tree within Trusted Firmare. This enables
   Trusted Firmware to be built for multi cluster FVP models.

Change-Id: Ie7a2e38e5661fe2fdb2c8fdf5641d2b2614c2b6b

The folowing build options were missing from the User Guide and have been
documented:

 - CTX_INCLUDE_FPREGS
 - DISABLE_PEDANTIC
 - BUILD_STRING
 - VERSION_STRING
 - BUILD_MESSAGE_TIMESTAMP

Change-Id: I6a9c39ff52cad8ff04deff3ac197af84d437b8b7

Current code mandates loading of SCP_BL2/SCP_BL2U images for all
CSS platforms. On future ARM CSS platforms, the Application
Processor (AP) might not need to load these images. So, these
items can be removed from the FIP on those platforms.

BL2 tries to load  SCP_BL2/SCP_BL2U images if their base
addresses are defined causing boot error if the images are not
found in FIP.

This change adds a make flag `CSS_LOAD_SCP_IMAGES` which if set
to `1` does:
1. Adds SCP_BL2, SCP_BL2U images to FIP.
2. Defines the base addresses of these images so that AP loads
   them.

And vice-versa if it is set to `0`. The default value is set to
`1`.

Change-Id: I5abfe22d5dc1e9d80d7809acefc87b42a462204a

Move up to Base FVP version 7.2 (build 0.8/7202) and Foundation FVP version
9.5 (build 9.5.41) in the user guide.

Change-Id: Ie9900596216808cadf45f042eec639d906e497b2

This patch reworks the section about booting an EL3 payload in the
User Guide:

 - Centralize all EL3 payload related information in the same
   section.

 - Mention the possibility to program the EL3 payload in flash memory
   and execute it in place.

 - Provide model parameters for both the Base and Foundation FVPs.

 - Provide some guidance to boot an EL3 payload on Juno.

Change-Id: I975c8de6b9b54ff4de01a1154cba63271d709912

Currently, Trusted Firmware on ARM platforms unlocks access to the
timer frame registers that will be used by the Non-Secure world. This
unlock operation should be done by the Non-Secure software itself,
instead of relying on secure firmware settings.

This patch adds a new ARM specific build option 'ARM_CONFIG_CNTACR'
to unlock access to the timer frame by setting the corresponding
bits in the CNTACR<N> register. The frame id <N> is defined by
'PLAT_ARM_NSTIMER_FRAME_ID'. Default value is true (unlock timer
access).

Documentation updated accordingly.

Fixes ARM-software/tf-issues#170

Change-Id: Id9d606efd781e43bc581868cd2e5f9c8905bdbf6

The fip_create tool specifies images in the command line using the
ARM TF naming convention (--bl2, --bl31, etc), while the cert_create
tool uses the TBBR convention (--tb-fw, --soc-fw, etc). This double
convention is confusing and should be aligned.

This patch updates the fip_create command line options to follow the
TBBR naming convention. Usage examples in the User Guide have been
also updated.

NOTE: users that build the FIP by calling the fip_create tool directly
from the command line must update the command line options in their
scripts. Users that build the FIP by invoking the main ARM TF Makefile
should not notice any difference.

Change-Id: I84d602630a2585e558d927b50dfde4dd2112496f